The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . as an electric light plant and a telephone system thatreaches out to all the important towns and mining camps sur-rounding it. There are several substantial church buildingsof various denominations. There is one national bank and onesavings bank here. There are also good hotels. The city hadtwo smelters built during the present year. The industriesof the surrounding country are stock raising and miles to the south is the Burro mountain mining dis-trict containing principally copper
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . as an electric light plant and a telephone system thatreaches out to all the important towns and mining camps sur-rounding it. There are several substantial church buildingsof various denominations. There is one national bank and onesavings bank here. There are also good hotels. The city hadtwo smelters built during the present year. The industriesof the surrounding country are stock raising and miles to the south is the Burro mountain mining dis-trict containing principally copper ores and having a smelter,and also producing much of the turquoise sold in the UnitedStates. Nine miles north is located Pinos Altos, one of theoldest gold mining camps of the Territory. Nine miles eastare Fort Bayard and the town of Central, while sixteen mileseast are located the mining camps of Santa Rita, Hanover andFierro, in the center of big copper and iron ore climate of this section makes it practicable to carry onmining every day in the year, both on top and THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 179 St. Josephs sanitarium undej the care and direction of theSisters of Mercy, is situated on a high elevation in the west-ern part of tlie town, and consists of two large brick build-ings, containing about thirty rooms. There is also locatedhere a county hospital. Lordsburg it situated at the junction of the Southern Pacific, the Arizonaand New Mexico, and the Lordsburg and Hachita surroundings it now has a population of about 1,200. Thetown was founded when the Southern Pacific Railroad wasbuilt through southern New Mexico, and was made a divisionpoint by the railroad. It has a large round house, machineshops, an extensive yard of side tracks, coal bunkers, and twolarge oil tanks with a capacity of more than 3,000,000 gallons,as the Southern Pacific is using oil in most of its are several business houses, two of which do a jobbingtra
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