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Show AV;MS;i iui,ittt.l. Glimuing to the Clouds ou iho Narrow-KUHo. Amors Uih GnusfiVH of Hie Cen-tyuuial Cen-tyuuial iiiiiUi A Colorado r.!al. Gakland City, Col., March lltih, 187S. fclitura I, raid: Ytwlarday at 3 p. m. your eorrus-pondeut eorrus-pondeut stepped aboard the narrnw-goaRe narrnw-goaRe railroad train headed from I Puthlo to this point, the preuent irminu of tbo Denver and Km Urande railway, 1'uoblo, the tartinn point of thin trip, is a plane of some iuinortance aa a railway centre and bimiiieea point in eoii'hern Colorado. U is the present tarminus ot th Atcliindii, 'lup"eka and Santa Fd r.mifi, and ban rolling niiiisjuat starting up. hmudnes in proceaol erection; about ll.UtKJ iuhabilMUts. tbe rHmitatinn nf bting tbe warmeHt place iu Colorado, aa well as one of the b-nlthiertt. Tu--Aikutmae river runs bdlAueu the two towua of north and touth Pueblo, furnishing an excellent auppty uf drinking water, which is furninbed to the cuizl'ub by means of water works. U only needs street cars and to make it a first class city. Several good, substantial scbool buildings give taken ol the educational ideas of the people, many extensive wholesale uouxea have branches at thi point and other localities in the mining districts went. So much lor Paablo, and no fir the trip. The little pony engine carried ua rapidly out. of the basin where the city is located, up to tbe plateau that skirls the bnee of the Rockies od the east, and turning iouth, headed lor the far faoud Spanish pettka whusje snow capped summits viwd with Mouut Blnucoand I'lko's IVak in attracting the eyes ifthe traveler. We could leel that e wore gradually ascending, up aud up, taoh mile revealing that our course waa upward. Tbe little engine puffed aud snorted at times, as though resiive under the power ttit held him back, but maintained a sten ly sjait until we come to the town oi La Veta, where a halt was called aud i !bw moments' time allowed to look at the settlement of .Georgians, who nave recently left the sunny south auu cast their lots in this far oil laud. The town itself is neatly built, and surrounded sur-rounded by lauds, intU with careful I'Ulture cau be made very productive. On (he trip down we bad passed numerous huts and hovels that warmed with dirty specimen of tmruauiiy, rightly called greasers. In ny innocence, in tunes gone by, I "ti l often rt-id i f Mexican Plazas, and il 1 reniL-tiihfr rightly the hook men them encii.flwl with rich wite ji'mi rete iv:ills. w th Dunderoua uatef. v'.-.crson ibe ourners, aud Mexican nuritaa looking out from behind .UH-; scarfs artistically turned about thu head and shoulders. Imagine my disgust when a travelling companion pointed out a lot of co lion wood loca set on end, tbe crevices daubed with reddtsh-yeiow clay and straw; the roofs of tbe building range I along either .ida of this eucloBure covered with dirt and poles; the door eo squatty that even a medium bized ru in wjuld have to make a low obeisance to enter, and an old, dried up, swarthy Mexican Mexi-can female, with a greasy government govern-ment blanket thrown over her bead, peering around tbe door. "That," said my companion, "is a Mexican plaza." Whether it was the roga, the dogs lying arouud loose, the houses or tbe female be alluded too 1 did not stop to enquire, but preferrtd to turn my attention to the course our little engine was heading, which was directly at the great range of mountains moun-tains ttiat tower into euternal snow, and almost cuuttnununly cioud . capped. Plunging into a dark defile 1 we soon commeuctd un aBcent of 270 fet to the mile. Up the aide of the mountains we went, a yawning abyss on the one hand aud the dizzy bights of Blanco on tbo other. Up, up we eo, until on the opposite aide of the canon we saw a dark line that looked like th blackened cde ol a ledge of granite high up on the moun tain. Soon the whirr of the car wheels tells us that we are making a audden curve, wnen lol and wonder, ware running aloug on top of the identical supposed ledge of reck that now proves to be the grade ol the narrow gusge railroad. Still up and up we go, until in the dim distance we can aee the narrow thread of road that makes the route wh have come over, thousands of feet below. Tug cars swing and sway to and fro, at places where it seems ns though the least displacement ol equilibrium would topple us over tbe aide of tbe mountains iito the top of the tall piuei, so far below that they assume the look of mere shrubbery. The suow increaaas in depth, huge bnks are piled on either bide of the road that readily extinguishes tbo sparks " that our iron shod steed flings on bis upward up-ward track. The glare of his head light, as it baa now grown to be night, glint and glutens ahead on the sparkling spark-ling diamonds of snow, olteu in plain view from the rear enr, bo short and abrupt are tbe curves; but all this while we are climbing until at last with a sudden jtrk as if the lead had struck a level road, we com to a stand bUII nine thousand three hundred hun-dred and thirty-atccn feet above the level ct tbe sea the highest railroad post in the known world; and here while the wind Bwecps the oaniiB oi snow into ediJiof, and whirls them into the tourist's f.tce, sighs through the; knotted, gnarled bong ha of the pinion pine, we Btop to rest, aud pro-pare pro-pare for the descent, which is much more gradual than tbe ascent, aud at twenty minutes to nine we r.ome to the temporary end of the track at Garland, find a bed and retire to lay awake half the night, listening to the clatter of feet on tbe plank side walk, aid the uaual noise and con fusion Httendant upon a border city. Uarlai d is emphatically a raihoad town. It has noturroundiug r-gricul-tural ccuniry, bu; is dependent entirely en-tirely for support upon tbo businees i done at a terminus; consequently as Alamosa, forty-five milea further . west, huB been selected for the next terminus, Garland .begms to move forward, and on every hand we see men leering down the hail wooden Biructuns with which it is built, nd ntarting weetwurd with them. Soon Garland will be a thing of the past and only battered oyster cans, cast-oil clothing, old shoes, and debris genor ally will mark the site oi where once ptond a flourishing city, with its hotels, its elorcs, its theatro conrqne, etc. The citiwna appear to take it ns matter of muiee, and are getting mitly to vaoii- tnc pninis". -veu Uio n-tol: to is getting ready lo nu ve mu. Wh. n wh Hike into con uhra tiun the nature and chiMnrr of Ha surroundirga Garland ha hern mesa urahiy quiet. Sevnral violent deaths have occurred and the umal amount ol cutting and shooting; but G-u land hasdotib p etty well. A murder ut a most aigrataiiDg character took place last week. A young man, wen ......mm. i.f . kill" 1 uuly a fi.-v paci-i f. .un ivui i i 1 writ-), and while "uspKiiun wan abroad the ollicera wero at a kfPH ait to who the perpetratnr wua. Tlii.i morning's paper contains an account of thn hoarding of the out hound train by a number of men heavily marked, whn look a minnici'Mis ohaifti lor oil and deliberately awiing hint over n limit, in the iiihaii time inMruetiiiK the conductor io move on with hid "wnOIs," which, nolhiiiu loth, he readily did, and left, pour Johnson In his late AftT bandog him four tiiu" he conoludml to iHl what he knew, and ihe remilt wan that with a badly didcoloreit and iwollen nock be lives lo tell the adventure, ad-venture, or whatever he prt I'tirs to call it. One thing seems very aupar nit his diHclO'tir.'B hive hurt an efleet to render very uneisv several parties here. This ia the rough md of Garlanil. Wo met a number of gen tl' men here who trumcil up courteously, aud were anxious tn giv in all the informali u they could, and dnuhtlpiB it Garland wrs rid of a f-w npeotal characters, the balance of '.he people would be a qiint and industrious industri-ous community. Hut no it i; a few had men give a place a bad uiiiiir, The probabilities are that the road will ruach Alamosa by the middle of ! iM vy, and from that point 'urn south ' toward Wimrate nrSama Fe, as there appears to be a race between thin and the A. T. and St. F roail as io which ball got into New Mexico tir.t. Mure anon, J. M. |