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RATON , a See also:city and the See also:county seat of See also:Colfax county, New See also:Mexico, U.S.A., in the N.E. See also:part of the See also:state, and about 193 M. by See also:rail N.E. of See also:Santa Fe. Pop. (189o) 1255; (1900) 3540 (337 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910 See also:census) 4539. Raton is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & Santa Fe, the See also:Saint See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, Rocky See also:Mountain & Pacific, and the Santa Fe, Raton & Eastern See also:railways. The city lies immediately W. of the Raton Mountains, from which it derives its name, and has an See also:elevation of 6400-6650 ft. above the See also:sea. Among its institutions are a miners' See also:hospital, maintained by the state, and a picturesque public See also:park. The city lies within the Raton See also:coal See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, a See also:southern continuation of the field of the same name in See also:Colorado, and the richest coal-producing See also:area in New Mexico. In 1907 70% of the See also:total coal product of New Mexico came from Colfax county, in which this field is situated. Ores of See also:gold, See also:silver and See also:lead have been See also:mined in Colfax county. See also:South and See also:east of the city there is See also:good farming See also:land. Raton is a See also:place of railway origin, and owes its development to its extensive railway shops, as well as to the proximity of mines. It was incorporated in 1891.
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