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Title: The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration Frost, Max., 1873- , comp Walter, Paul A. F New Mexico. Board of managers for the Louisiana purchase exposition, 1904
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: Sante Fe, N.M., New Mexican printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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1879,$100,000; San Miguel National Bank, Las Vegas, 1880, $100,000;First National Bank, Portales, 1902, $25,000; First NationalBank, Raton, 1902,$75,000; First National Bank, Roswell, 1892,$50,000; Citizens National Bank, Roswell, 1902, $50,000: Ros-well National Bank, 1903, $50,000; First National Bank, SantaFe, 1870, $150,000; First National Bank, Santa Rosa, 1902, $25,-000; Silver City National Bank, Silver City, 1886, $50,000; FirstNational Bank, Tucumcari, 1902, $25,000. The following w^ere the state banks doing business in theTerritory on July 1,1904, and their capital stock: Andrew Mor-ton & Company, Springer, $5,000; Bank of Deming, Deming,$30,000; Bank of Commerce, Albuquerque, $82,400; ExchangeBank, White Oaks, $30,000; Bank of Portales, Portales, $30,-000; Plaza Trust & Savings Bank, Las Vegas, $15,000: SierraCounty Bank, Hillsboro, $30,000; J. N. Broyles, San Marcial,$20,000; Las Vegas Savings Bank, Las Vegas, $30,000; SilverCity Savings Bank, Silver City, $15,000.
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CHAPTER III. THE LAND OF HEALTH AND SUNSHINE. nEW MEXICO invites metaphors, it compels superla-tives. Bathed in sunshine, sv^^ept by the cool windsof the mountains, endowed with untold mineralwealth, colored with the hues of the sunset and hal-lowed by the romance of the Conquistadores and the Francis-cans, it stands unique among the commonwealths of theUnion. The Land of Sunshine, one talented author calls it;the Land of Poco Tiempo, the Land of Sunshine, Silence andAdobe; the Land of the Turquoise Sky; the Land of the Con-quistadores; the Land of the Pueblos; the Land of the SunKing, and many more have been the attempts to coin a dis-tinctive phrase that would characterize the vivid impressionthat New Mexicos climatological, physical and ethnologicalcharacteristics make upon the visitor. The Land of Healthand Sunshine, comes, perhaps, closest in summarizing whatgives the Territory its distinctive atmosphere. But there arevolumes of romance, of history, of scenic beauties, of climate

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