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426 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY reached Las Vegas, July 1, 1879, and was formally opened to passengers and traffic on July 7th. The line was extended to Santa Fé, February 9, 1880; to Alburquerque, April 22, at both of which places great demonstrations were made by the people. Following down the Rio Grande valley it was completed to Deming, March 10, 1881, where a connection with the Southern Pacific Railroad was made, thus forming the first all-rail route across New Mexico to San Francisco. In June, 1879, the territory was visited by Lieutenant-General Philip H. Sheridan; public receptions and balls were held at Santa Fé in his honor; later the commanding general of the department, Major-General John Pope, also visited Santa Fé where a reception was tendered him by the citizens of the capital. The entrance of the railroad marked a new era in the annals of the territory. In advance of and accompanying its construction and completion came an army of energetic American citizens who immediately began the building of towns, the purchase and stocking of immense cattle ranches, the prospecting and development of mines, and the establishment of many industrial enterprises an account of which appears in another chapter devoted to the growth and progress of the country from the advent of the railways to the present time. The population, according to the tenth census, was 109,793, exclusive of Indians. Of this number 91,271 were natives of New Mexico, 9,471 born in other parts of the United States, 5,173 Mexicans, and BIBLIOGRAPHY Bancroft, H. H. Browne, J. Ross Canby, Col. E. R. 8. Greeley, Horace Hayes, A. A. Hollister, O. G. Lossing, B. J. Patterson, Thomas M. Read, B. M. War of the Rebellion History of Arizona and New Mexico, San 1888. Adventures in the Apache Country, New 187, Official Reports, War of the Rebellion, vol. iv. American Conflict, Hartford, 1866. Unwritten Episode of the Late War, London, 1st Reg. Col. Volunteers, Denver, 1863. Pictorial History of the Civil War, Hartford, Rocky Mountain News, Denver. Illustrated History of New Mexico, Santa Fé, Ser. i, vol. iv, Washington. 2,873 other foreigners. NavaJ06 CHIEF Santa Rita Copper Mine, 1850 Fran., York, ser. i? 1881. 1868. 1911.