The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . SCENES NEAR AND AT PORTALES. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 231 houses, three dry goods stores, two saddlery stores andshops, four grocery stores, three drug stores, two grain andfeed stores, two livery barns, four lumber yards, two meatmarkets, three blacksmith shops, one tin shop, two newspa-pers. The Portales Herald and The Portales Times, threedoctors, three churches, a plant for the manufacture ofartificial stone for building purposes, a cold storage plant,two millinery stores and a telephone exchan
The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . SCENES NEAR AND AT PORTALES. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 231 houses, three dry goods stores, two saddlery stores andshops, four grocery stores, three drug stores, two grain andfeed stores, two livery barns, four lumber yards, two meatmarkets, three blacksmith shops, one tin shop, two newspa-pers. The Portales Herald and The Portales Times, threedoctors, three churches, a plant for the manufacture ofartificial stone for building purposes, a cold storage plant,two millinery stores and a telephone exchange. Farming andstock raising are the industries that contribute mostly to thetowns prosperity. Pure water free from alkali is obtainedon the townsite from wells at a depth of eighteen feet. Astone court house was built this year. Elida is situated near the southwestern boundary. It is twenty-fivemiles from the county seat, and is a station on the PecosValley and Northeastern Railway. The land in its neighbor-hood is rolling prairie and covered with a luxuriant growth ofmesquite and gramma grass
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