| Show TRIP IN OLD MEXICO A Ride On Horseback Ore Its Sierra Madre Hoonlalns ISa or In terra erlb1h telebraled Ire a buo ttree On 1 Dtniluc OAXAOA Honor Meiles April II 1 189 hllJr iertt Kevn In company with Eliot I Robert H Vance who was calM ounpeolal nliilon tjf llltkop Mmllli of the la chew ward to Allot me or the Blerra Madre mountain Into Honors and l young Martin MarUuten I loll Cats Valley uu IiortUok early on the morning of Ih Dili ult bound for Honors Alter traveling two uillei we arrived at WlllUrui raiicti illuatid lu a mug JUIIe Tiller through which a tntall tributary flndi IU way to the Silo IVaJrea Verde Another two tone ride brought in to the CHIT ranch white Elder Helinian 1ritt Mllti I1 Jlornney and otlura Milled 1 teTeral year ago mil made same lin ptsremanlr which are tllll itandlue One or more Imlll resided here till September 19 IVli wheo she lndlana male a raid ups the only family Tlumien who then tMliieJ there and killed Hitter Karen riiomtcn sail l n Illlle boy and severely wounded another boy bolheoneof IheTormeoi A little Kill who bill In tliecnloken won ecapod unhurt filcher rnonnen WM lInt hot an I allerwardi Uaten lo deatln with rocks the bay was killed about hundred yards from the house whileeniingud InleeJInf the lire From Ihu CIII1 ranch we continued our ride eight tonea eta Dry Valley to the Ilia Hiu 1edro a tributary 01 the e1OU Urandet Till li not the lame Ban Pedro river whloli It fannui for the Mormon lUlUlluu bull light that took t 1Ie ooltbuh lu IM4IJ On the cailwalrri thle ilrcini live H Kenu IB llrltliti lord Lord Hertitord wltn OUI n lerne I ranch knelt a black litreen leieral large dote and 1 employ em-ploy a numUrot men to Ilk car or lila tock UI I said to Lu wall abed by hli uelublwr rauchrueu and drum talks and Iris the same at other irou lleriraeu Pienaenlly he livlilled by Irleiitti from acruM ho water A story is I toM ol one of Ihteo Tlillort who on hit return to KtiRUnJ l tried to portray to bi ojuntryui bli hair r1I1I1 > apes and 1 extraordlniry J mlurci In I the wild of Mexirw Why aijre he on OliO occailon I traveled I on it hot summer day twenty fire mllci up the Han 1radran clear eroding that attest mm thirty odd times and came 0 cast ramlihluK for a drink of water that my file woe nearly dtiialrdoll Still oald one of the company who hunt slu traTeled In Americawhy didnt you drink out of the river whluli you tav you created otteu Haw In the world could 1 do that u without a tin 7 HOI Hie proinpl reply re-ply Up to Lord llernfordi ranch wo bI followed l n rough wagon road but 5t the croeilng of the Itlo Han 1edrn 1 retell thli and itruok out for Ihu top of the mountain on a trail Winding our way up through narrow canyone crtniliie a number of Cory chest bllli md xrolng our way through the heavy ituibere we at length reachtd the lop of the Htrra Madrei which In I tlm boundary Hue Lotweou tbe stales of Cblliuihuaand Honora and which M this polot te herbal louse f1 shove the lord of Ibeaea If the aicent on the east slits of the grand old mouu talus iwaillerptbedeicenloQthe west all seas Hill more eo For the first mile or 10 we could not think of rldlug our anlmili and It woe OTUD with oonilderable dillloully that we luccveded In leading 1 our hones down the awful steel muunlalu aide I At length wo rrtoheJ a small spring In which one of the tributaries or lee IlaTlijie rlrer flee > nnd after watering our anlmali we continued our descent cruxlng eeveral mountain IloIl aed 1Iul down oauol1l as narrow that we had to ride l along the sleep mountain stain t > keep out of the seater Wetoon reached the celebrated 1 > oe Calwxui rro bed mince from which the preclout ore li I eblpped over he mcuriUlna on the hack of burro a nude or feel > hlliiK which ota the owners 30 Ir toll And IhU It only fOI a Ulttince of about twentyflve mllM from the mine to Carrntu a ranoh iitutted near the fool of the uountalni on the Uhlhuahua tide From there to Uemluj the nearest railway tlallon a dl Unce of ISOmllee another JJ > I per tun In 1 paid p to hare he ors laten In wagon And then I taJded the ex Dtrauf freighting rail to Denier Colo or other point whtre the oro rrcelvte the Irolr i > < treatment Of coups the mine It I avery a-very rich one or It would norer payit ohll thor at ttioh an tuorruout tx prow The InmMUealon of tuch a valuable valu-able mice hat oat tbu Ion of crural IVM Aewocroewd the lax bill lw I fore arrlrlna at the mine we uotloeil a liraru on the mountain tlui > e wluoli wu nppireully only a few days t11 and KOIUE a thortdUtanoe ease Mil another new grave Thli woe enough tualOu OUt Iut rest and artlouUrly that til liJtr Vance our guide Who had beet luroulli here on lurmerooo4 alan wnen no luiili grate were call Uu unklnjt InqulfUa alter reaching tin mine we 10 m learned that a low day bcforuour arrival a Mr Harper one ol two hrothert who uwu Ihn Los Ca total mint and Jackson IteJdluic the owuor of an adjolulngulalm quarreled aid I lhatafier indulglnelu the me 01 f foul and abuitvo lanu > e both run draw their pletolt and l tired almoil tlmullaneouily with fatal l l died Hall fell to the ground and In tbll helpltn I condition coniluutd te Ira upon each other with deathly clToct until they were dead Une Mexican laborer wai alia leverely wouuded lu time Hllalr Boiuoof the Mexlcani telling the story d r the ilioolluK aiierled emphal Ically that the men uoullnued lo ihnol alter they were dead l 10 desperate and madileneJ wore they tianioyean ago a partner of the Hirer brotherewai killed wblle bating uonilderable money about Ill ivrion Ihu crime was laid lo lima Mexlcani but luiplclou reeled upon the two Harferi who by I that death became iheiole I ovrnen of the mine there li I now only ono of limo original arlnerinr owners of Ihli murllnarlly rloh II I > aLabtz > iraluo loll ant bell I at present abwut ou a vlilt lo liuroiet Weencamied for the night 10 this lllayou about three miles below Ibe uluee having traveled during the day about fully mile In criming the Hlerra Madre I hind occailon to ad > mile tome of the lluwt and tallml lu1 tree that I nr saw fines oa hundred feel high and ai pretty nod ilralgbl ii anything lu the shale of a Ire could poiilbly be were ireuon very hand j and down lu Sims canyon 011 the Houora tide of the mountain beautiful cedar Tarring In height from 75 to lot fret abounded they wore nearly u itralght and perfect u the pier Continuing our Journey on the nib we soon reached H lower latltudewhere the vigvlatlou and natural fealureeot the country were alutrtlur dinerenl to tlit which we had wltiiCHed at the higher altlludo All the planli and KUtHM i barauterlillo lemltrjploal eon Ibuilihrd 1 here Iho ensue loibuai iniwkil i the prickly pear uud nearly all other er clt i of thorny plantain their dillnruut hUM and varletlri covered Ihe grand mountain tlox4 At length wu dtioendtd an uuuiually ittep IID found our r itro I iclvte on a river of which I Brother Vance bad forgotten the name but It u one of the main Irlhutarlei of the HavUpo rrver Following Ihli ilrwim through a canyon whloh out througb a chain of mouulalni we beheld Ihe uNoor valley of Ihe llavupv where there are throe quit Important MmU am Insets The prlucllxrl l cno of tiles llavliiw waialmotl totally destroyed iy an eartbiiuakn H low yearingo When the ihockiaornmeuced nearly the entire poj ulatlon ought I refuse In tk the Catuolla church Ihluklng I they would bo tale lutlae flee edifice whlon hey oouildered inored Slut while hundredi of people were muted la lbs building and otuert were inlvlng hard to gain an admittance aiiofllcer the outelile pleading with the penpb rot to enter the church fell and cruititd under IU oollottal adobe wall the In ruitiw killing nearly all of them Tlili cata tropbo bauwned early In May MlJ 1887 won alter our people hall Killed In Meiluo llavlijw It ono of I tIm es liolatud < Mixloan towns whose Inbatiltanti get solace In the clvlllullon of Ihu lilth century Until quite reotnlly no vtiuo ol any tle < crlpllou had I teen Ken In the old 10wII and I was told that when our brethren that brought wagon through their couulry men women awl children would taro out lu large nuin tt lo we the cunoui lgUl I bcfuro them They would Kilo upon time revolution of in ordinary wagon wheel with ai iiiiioh Interest ai tome of un perhaps > would WIIUIM a clrcui pv I a IP 1 or auj thing of that kind Until quite rally all the ftDllilln < ha Leon dun on tho LriU of burnt tau the farmlui carried ou tn ibo lol raUili rga Hylo Ilorlns with n forded Mick It tllll Ttry c miiion among the Mexlcant though tome of hem even Itll focliM ed valley bOY edollsd UbU of toe American plow and other modern farmlcit Imi ie irnli TwiulyHvo mlln below HID Mrxl can town of lljyto li the lulant Mor monooliny known ni Oixaca which was founded two years ego hy Drugs C William familiarly known U Irgn Wllllamt and 1 others Wo rescued our frleudtln IliU colony Ito lu the evening havliiK flowed fl-owed the canyon of the Jlnlle the ail fifteen outer and ord the river twmlyilx limes Hluoo leaving Cave Valley wu had traveled alwut eighty 1 miler Ihudlninie by wagon road li I bout thirty mllri further Oixaon It uaintd after Oxica a Meilain town In Ibo Mixlcau stale of that name It li i the birthplace ol 1r eels DIe the preeldent I of Ihe Mexican or wIu f r Ir can republic The placoWM formerly known an lhellorcoueilurcbMet > lng 5 oonoeMluu laCKmellolCMierllUky B colonel I I lu tho Mexican army who told the claim to George C Wlllltmi and others In ISO The grant contain con-tain about 200 square miles of land indlng north and louth about twenty rehIre and It I about leu miles wide Tho llavlipe which li eueol Ihe meta Irlbularlei of the Yaquli river lIf et through It front touthoiit to ourtu HL Moil of Iho grant IHI slat of a mountain country pollening only urnliiK aclllllei and only narrow lUll 01 laud or a tuccitntijii of river bollomi lu Irlanglo shapes along the Ircitu are adapted l for farinl n g pu rporn Thli Valley III whloli our people are la oallnc li about nine mllei lon wllli an oversee wldlh of hilt a milt but Ihe river In lie meandering oourietbrough the valley or canyon cute up the lbUO arras of farming laud Into thirteen fragment none of wbloh uonlalni more thou 100 acre In ono body A towrope hit been lurveyed i a Uat ou thu nnrlbeait aide of the river Imme diately above the point wuera tho eo called 1ulplt null putt Into the river from the rurtheail The altltuila of tbo river laude It I about 8900 Stet abjve tho lea level and Ihe neighbor Ing mountain rlto perhapi to an sill tutu of 7010 test or mote though lathe al 0l7 lr WIU the Immediate t vlolnlly of the fiver limy are much lower Many itrange and curlout formitloui are found and there li eoma pretty natural icunery along the river along which Iho toll livery li-very rich and productive Mtiqulle ohluo oottouwood l tyoamore ah walnut etc abound lu the low land and the heavy timber hat to Lo removed re-moved lu order to make farnit The llavlipe river flees lu the dlerra IIh drr about ISO mllei lontb east of Ouo auh takes a norlhiiil erly courtr thence well and thencu louthaudiouthrHluulll It falls Into the Vanuli rlvr In Its m 4ndrlnffB ot general course through dlQereut mountain ohalni rlt reiemblet the Shear I flyer In Utah very much The mums of limo ilrcaru ai marked l ou matt of the matt of Mexico ti rubllihed + In the fH IQr male j Htatei It 1 abiomttly i I t ll wrong and mlileadlug rIme rulMl nay to reach Oaxaca from the United Htatei It bll way of jllibe mining town iltualoJ In a mountain about savers mllre north of the bounday line between Uncle Him domain and Mexico Illibe li I lame terminus of a local railway of which the other vud It I at lralrbauki bout M mllei dlitnnt Another railway uonnect the Houtheru Falrbanki 1aolflo with railroad lltnion From ou llliby by way of la Morlla Ihe ales lean cuilom houie town which 116 miles from lllihy to Uaxaca there li I a land wagon road about tlghly rallu long llermoclllo the capital otiS oua ora li I about 800 mllei from buses The future of our new Ho now tclllt men will depend upon the surges Iho people may have In controlling Static of the Ilavlipe river which In dry brook leaiou but which It limply In tlmei nu ordinary of flood carrlei water over twenty feet deep toward to-ward the oroau At such limp tits people who have settled at the dlDtr enl polnli of the river aro nearly cut oil from all communication with each other sa It would seat he I dugrous W attempt i to crttt the river In a boat In a former communication 1 noted that JJdert llrlghim Young John Henry Hmltn I and Ueorgo 1eaidale vUlted Uaxaca March last t and that on the l lllh I I of that mouth they organ land the Halntt I on the Jlivliiw river Into a Hard l with IVanUIn Hoott ni jllihop and ion C Wllllamt and Jamei H Jyjui lit lili oouniebrt Hines that lime Ihe Halnte have taken fresh courage and thoy are now billy at work extending Improving thilr water dltchet and caualt clearing lands DIIII Olharwlw preparing lu put In crabs They are very hopeful ai to tne fulur but need more ilrtnzth Molt of them are quite uttlifled with Ihelrlacatlon and tntnk that thelrlltllo colony li the commencement of tome thing greater to come ll will lie remembered re-membered tint Honorn wag the land lint thought of when It Ill decided a few year ago to plant a colony of H t nAl Inr Halnlt In Mexlou Theru I ore at present pres-ent ill I famllle of Matnti or 141 acute ou the llovlipa river Juo 0 WIN Kami It t building the tint houio on the new towiuite ANDHRW Jiweov |
