POSTCARD

"Hello Stanley: I am writing to let you know that I am feeling fine and hoping you are the same. Well how is it back home--can you get a job, how is the work are they working any. Well did you hear from the boys that went home with you. Are you coming back to the CCC. This is all for today. I hope you answer--Sid"
 

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Winter on the McMillen ranch in Mangas Valley covers the ground with snow. The horses have come down to the water hole near the corrals for drink. Through this ranch runs the Continental Divide. Down these slopes water goes through the McMillen land toward the Pacific. Down the far slopes it runs through McMillen land to the Gulf of Mexico.

Picture Sent by Bill and Sid

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The White Sands National Monument, a unique Federal playground. A 275 sq-mi dazzling desert, its sand is not ordinary silica or quartz, but crystallized gypsum. The southwest wind piles the sand up in 60-ft-high dunes, pushes it along a 30-mi front towards Alamogordo at the rate of eight inches a year.

Picture Sent by the "GANG"

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The Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns looks curiously like the belly of the whale in Walt Disney's Pinocchio. Elaborate chandeliers of limestone stalactites drip from the ceilings. Tapering stalagmites rise from the floors. Much of these vast underground caves is still unexplored. The temperature throughout the caverns is an even 56 degrees the year round.

Picture Sent by Bill Sharpe 

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Elephant Butte Dam backs up the lower Rio Grande to form a 60-sq.-mi lake, largest body of water in the State. New Mexico has only 131 sq. mi. of natural water surface, less than any other State Water impounded by this dam irrigates farms for miles around.

Picture Sent by Bill Sharpe