Show NEW MEXICO Points ot Interest from the New Country Visiting Mormon Settlements and Talking to Indians A Description of Muddy AlbuquerQue Albu-querQue MANABSA COLORADO October 22d 18SO Editors Herald I intended to have written to you from Albuquerque but the weather was so very unfavorable that I could not find time to do i Albuquerque is not a pretty town Its mud houses narrow and crooked and dirty street are not very inviting Sidewaiki are only in front of some bouse and they 10 bad that it is i preferable t walk in the middlo of the street The valley is very level the banks of the Rio Grande scarcely two feet above the water All ditches are taken out t > y merely tapping the liver Tfie fences of the fields are made of mud the garden and bouse fences are mud everlhing i made of muJ and everything looks liko mud Notwithstanding this muddy appearance ap-pearance the place is alive with bus ness that the A T E F and be A P Railroads have brought to the place At the depot about one and a half miles from the old place I new town is laid out and being built up very fast Many of the buildings are substantial and in good taste and the place has straight and wide streets From Albuquerque we traveled up the Rio Grande Del Norte Valley tisiting and talking with the people in every settlement Every available nook is taken up by ileiicans or by Indians We found all their mud houses decorated with chile Colorado hanging down from the roofs in long strings till they nearly touch the ground The soil is light and in many places very sandy nevertheless neverthe-less it is fruitful and yields good corn and chile and frijoles beans in abundance I ablndaoce We found many people that never hoard of the Mormons or of Utah Some thought we came from the Ute Peck here in Colorado or from the Ute Indians and wanted to know if the Ute hid received the indemnity promised them by the American government As we could not give them information on these points we talked Mormonism and Utah to them and wero listened to with attention On ontaring thie SI Lewis Valley at tho Mexican tillage of San Anionic we found wheat oats and barley still in tho field badly frost bitten and began to be afraid as the crops of our people are hereOn here-On arriving here we found that all the wheat bad been harvested without suffering from thefrost Those wahvd siren till now are satisfied with the location though I hear that many have not taken very great pains with their field preferring t work for the 0 D R R Omaha aud Denver narrow gauge making from 4 to 7 a day in cutting ties A company from Utah is expected here and another one from the southern states The settlement settle-ment numbers about 500 coals Next week I return eouih to the Rio Grande from settlement to settlement I any thing of interet happens I will writeAUG AUG WI |