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Raton

Town and administrative headquarters of Colfax County, northeast New Mexico; population (1990) 7,400. It is situated in the Raton Mountains, to the south of the Colorado border and 193 km/120 mi northeast of Santa Fe. In the early 20th century coal mining and the railway provided the town's economic base. Now it is a resort, highway town, and trade centre for grain and wood producers. Coal and molybdenum are mined nearby.

Raton Pass (2,388 m/7,834 ft), to the north of the town, was the most imposing physical barrier on the Santa Fe Trail; in 1879 the Santa Fe Railroad built through it. Capulin Mountain is to the east-southeast of Raton.



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Three bold and experienced men - cool, confident, and dry when they began; white, quivering, and wet when they finished their trick at those terrible wheels - swung her over the great lift from Albuquerque to Glorietta and beyond Springer, up and up to the Raton Tunnel on the State line, whence they dropped rocking into La Junta, had sight of the Arkansaw, and tore down the long slope to Dodge City, where Cheyne took comfort once again from setting his watch an hour ahead.
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