The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . dow^s of the great mountains, and occupying bothsides of a clear bright river, is the Pueblo of Taos, undoubt-edly the most interesting Indian settlement on all the WesternContinent. Scores of tourists come to visit it annually,especially on its annual feast day, San Geronimo, September30. The Jicarilla Apache Indians, the Navajoes, as well as thepueblos from the south, send delegations to this festival, andthe settlers from scores of miles around gather at the puebloon that day. The population
The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . dow^s of the great mountains, and occupying bothsides of a clear bright river, is the Pueblo of Taos, undoubt-edly the most interesting Indian settlement on all the WesternContinent. Scores of tourists come to visit it annually,especially on its annual feast day, San Geronimo, September30. The Jicarilla Apache Indians, the Navajoes, as well as thepueblos from the south, send delegations to this festival, andthe settlers from scores of miles around gather at the puebloon that day. The population of the pueblo has decreasedin numbers the past few decades, and is but few over 400 atpresent. The Indians cling tenaciously to their primitivecustoms. Ranchos de Taos is four miles south of Fernandezde Taos and is the largest settlement. It has two flouringmills and is surrounded by orchards. It is the center of60,000 acres of fertile land, of which one-sixth is undercultivation. It has a public school and is the headquarters ofthe Presbyterian missions of this section. The populationis 1, THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 281 ^.^ Red River is a romantically situated mining camp with about 300population, a good public school, and a weekly newspaper, theRed River Prospector. Tres Piedras is a railroad, mining and lumber town on the Denver and RioGrande Railroad andadistributingpoint for the Bromide andGood Hope mining districts in Rio Arriba county, and theterminus of a daily stage line from Taos. A newspaper, theMining Reporter, is pubhshed here. Embudo is a prosperous agricultural settlement on the Rio Grande,situated at the foot of high mountains. It has a railroadstation several miles south of it, from where a daily stageline for Taos, Twining and other points starts. It has a pubhcschool and a mission school. Twining, formerly Amizett, is a mining camp, with several hundredinhabitants. It is the headquarters of the Fraser MountainMining Company. The mill, smelter, electric power
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