The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . MINING AND OTHER SCENES IN LINCOLN COUNTY. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 189 Bonito, Ruidoso, Picacho, Hondo and other points. Capitan,while progressing rapidly along commercial lines, has notneglected to keep fully abreast of the times in educationalmatters. No sooner had the town been established than aschool district was platted and bonds to the extent of $12,000were voted to erect a suitable school building, and as a resultCapitan today has a fine public school building. It has sev-eral churches and
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . MINING AND OTHER SCENES IN LINCOLN COUNTY. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 189 Bonito, Ruidoso, Picacho, Hondo and other points. Capitan,while progressing rapidly along commercial lines, has notneglected to keep fully abreast of the times in educationalmatters. No sooner had the town been established than aschool district was platted and bonds to the extent of $12,000were voted to erect a suitable school building, and as a resultCapitan today has a fine public school building. It has sev-eral churches and a weekly newspaper, the Capitan News. Itis but a few miles from the sanitarium for consumptives atFort Stanton. White Oaks is the best known town of Lincoln county, with a population,according to the census, of 804. It was located in 1880, andits fame rests upon its gold mines, principally the Old Abeand North and South Homestake. It is six miles from the ElPaso and Rock Island Railway and twelve miles from Cari-zozo on the El Paso and Northeastern Railway, from where,once a day, a stage coach
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