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LINCOLN COUNTY, NEW
MEXICO
Village of Capitan
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| CAPITAN, 22.3 m.
(6,500 alt., 926 pop.), was named for the Capitan Mountains (R) to the
northeast. When the old El Paso and Northeastern Railway ran its line up
from El Paso in 1897 to the coal deposits here, the village, named Gray
for a homesteader in the cattle business (1887), was established, and
while it was on the main line it flourished. Later the route was changed,
and is now a branch line of the Southern Pacific, successor to the El Paso
and Northeastern. Capitan is
in the center of mining, stock raising, and farming areas, has excellent
hunting and fishing and a reputation as a health
resort.
Source: Federal Writer's Project WPA, 1940 - Transcribed by C. Anthony |
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