The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . onstruction is so ideal for the purpose that it permitsof a comfortable life in the open air during the entire scenery, constant sunshine, pure water from moun-tain springs, a generous cuisine, competent medical super-vision, trees with health-giving properties, like the spruce,cedar, pine and the Austrahan red gum oreucal3ptus, togeth-er with the altitude of 7,000 feet, and the pure mountain airform an ideal combination of health and life giving-elementsnot to be found elsewhere, per
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . onstruction is so ideal for the purpose that it permitsof a comfortable life in the open air during the entire scenery, constant sunshine, pure water from moun-tain springs, a generous cuisine, competent medical super-vision, trees with health-giving properties, like the spruce,cedar, pine and the Austrahan red gum oreucal3ptus, togeth-er with the altitude of 7,000 feet, and the pure mountain airform an ideal combination of health and life giving-elementsnot to be found elsewhere, perhaps, on the continent. Sun-mount is surely destined to become the most noted healthand pleasure resort in the entire southwestern country, Acommon mistake about this country is that it is a very expen-sive place to live in. At Sunmounf excellent tents comfort-ably furnished are to be had at $10 and $15 per month. Charles E. Linney, director of the United States WeatherBureau at Santa Fe, speaks as follows of the New Mexicoclimate: It is easy to say that the climate of this or that place is the. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 113 finest in the world; it is less easy to show rehable facts andfigures to bear out the statement, and it is least easy to con-vince the self satisfied public that some other spot can be, oris the more favored; facts, however, if they are facts, shouldbe given credence. It is with these barriers in view that a few facts (and sim-ple figures) regarding the climate of central and northern NewMexico are presented, this vast empire being in many respectsnicely typified by Santa Fe, local contour, latitude and altitudebeing considered. Discarding fractional finesse, the annual mean tempera-ture of Santa Fe (obtained from 31 years of carefully compiledrecords by the United States Weather Bureau) is 40^, a de-gree higher than that of Chicago, the same as that of Boston,a degree lower than Denver, six degrees cooler than Asheville,North Carolina, (which has the same lati
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