The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . HO H > I—I7} f-H^ o O « w HSI THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 93 Timber. New Mexico is rich in timber, about 5,000,000 acres beingcovered with merchantable timber. Extensive lumberingoperations are at present being carried on in the Sacramentomountains in Otero county, there being extensive saw mills,tie preserving and planing mills at Alamogordo; in RioArriba county where a railroad is being built into the timberdistrict; in Valencia and McKinley counties, where the Ameri-can Lumber Company is carryin
The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . HO H > I—I7} f-H^ o O « w HSI THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 93 Timber. New Mexico is rich in timber, about 5,000,000 acres beingcovered with merchantable timber. Extensive lumberingoperations are at present being carried on in the Sacramentomountains in Otero county, there being extensive saw mills,tie preserving and planing mills at Alamogordo; in RioArriba county where a railroad is being built into the timberdistrict; in Valencia and McKinley counties, where the Ameri-can Lumber Company is carrying on operations upon a largescale, the lumber being sent to a large mill at Albuquerque;and upon a lesser scale in Taos, Santa Fe, Lincoln, Colfax, SanMiguel, Mora and other counties. New Mexico timber, whichis mostly pine, is used in building operations and for bridgesand railroad purposes. Hundreds of thousands of pine andspruce railroad ties are also made annually. Mining. Mining will be treated in detail in a companion volume tothis. It is one of the oldest and most import
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