| Show FROM BOWIE TO 1 votes notes from new mexico by an M 1 I missionary the first place olace of interest to us on our trip from bowie to holbrook was wag the san pedro river interesting because on this river liver the mormon battal ion had their lamous famous bull fight decem her ber alth 1846 at separ estatio 2 the old trail passes directly under the depot this whole country is a fine range for cattle except when drousth cornea comes on I 1 wu wb arrived at deming at I 1 wiehl with old mexico only 30 10 miles away there I 1 are about 1200 inhabitants inh abitanta in ia the town and there are nino nine salo saloon ond next day dav at 11 sm am we took the santa fe train lor for albuquerque a we noon passed beyond the grazing gra grounds and came to a very barren strip of country caled des desolation ola tion passing pailine this we wa came in view of the mighty rio eio grande nearly half a mild wide and d flowing as smooth and silent as to 1 louk almost ao though it wera still th tb a wa water ter is so brown and muddy it looks look more smore likes like a sand bar than a stream of levinz water there aro are very verv few inhabitants in these p 1 I r ts except mexicans they have rude do looking dwellings and mound soaped bake babe ovens there are no animals except and donkeys to so be been en tha corrals are built of barricade fashion ind and their style oi of farming is a as a ancient as aa any thing in the bible they thay use a crooked stick for a plow drawn bv by a donkey and when the soil is thus than prepared they arrange it in squares of about six or eight feet and leave it about a loot deep around the border then the ft 60 call arasin is eown in the squares and they aro arc flooded when water is need d corn grapes crapes etc a ae e planted in the ridges scores of these little eat squares are seen in each yard or farm the he water is taken from one to another by breaking the levees remind ing us of making the principal reason for farming thus is so 30 that the water will seep to the grain through the soil and thus avoil mineral as much as possible ane railroad follows tho the we arrived at albuquerque at 1030 p in there was no chance to see much of the city as it was night we were here for four hours owing to delava belavs caused by wasL waa Louia outs in ia kansas at 2 a m we fook the train for holbrook Holb root yia the atlantic and a n d pacific we next ree the ancient villia go of laguna built on a large rock by the indians it is approached by ladders which are also used to gain access to tho the rooms as they are so BO built as not to have entrances from the tha broune about the scarcest article here is water and this tue ludian i worship as their god the next view were some ancient volcanic eruptions then thea came fort wingate and cathedral rock the latter with its bare reddish brown spiral al shaped aped surface looking as though it were an old ancient ruin after passing here we came to a very fine lorest dorest of cedars irom from eight to twenty tyrenty feet in length straight and smooth it would ebern as aa if the rail road had bad picked the he moat barren parts of the country as a rule for as aa we eberg d from the tha cedars we again come to one 0 n a continuous ti of babien ban en coun country try several eral cral mines are seen with railroad swi switches iches running there now we arrived it t halbrook and were met by bv saka stake superintendent K F T hatch batch we visited ajoseph a joseph and woodruff also tile the dam in the little J ittle colorado river river the ath one that those good people have placed there the others were 8 went swept away by floods this dam is ia about 30 foet feet hi high gh 60 63 feet wide and 12 05 feet long we left herd bera and crossed the river to M 1 I A |
