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Show "'OX TUB M'l.NO. rider rdirard Slerraon's Interesting Trip lhtMii;u Old Mextro. OorreponJoeaof tU t-KiK-.tr Nswi J Today we concluded a trade for 100,000 acre? of land ninety miles southwtti of Chihuahua, for a raucli aud colony of au organlxed company. After a aojoilri. of elghtoou das we looked over au ancient city over three hundred years ol J, with a church of more than two hnodred, and a teautl-ful teautl-ful cathedral little less than two hundred, hun-dred, the Utter ctntlng$SUO,OOd, It It recorded that It was built with the savlugs of a very rich sliver mine tu close proximity to thlt olfy, by au arrangement ar-rangement of saving twelve cents, lna retorvo fund fromuvery eight ouuoca of sllvor taken froai tbe mine, and eight yoara of such savings erected the calhodral, which stands w 1th Its dome and two towering spires Jutt south of a magnlflcout plain. We next pasted tho mint, soldiers' barracka, Hidalgo's monument and phuxt, tho old aqueduct aque-duct with forty arcbts in one span,aut a promauade down tho Alamada. llrother Ueutlar anJ I parted at thu dupot, and leaving behind mo the city of Chihuahua, the capital of this Hlalc, with no ordinary reilsctloni of my tUhteeu days' sty In tbl quiet Mvxl cau city. We soon sped onward towards old Mexico City, paulnCerro-del-Corou-1 1, s j called from tbo execution of a revolutionist colouvl at thla point. Wo I-aneJ through aotiio lovely valleys, Tlfly miles outi)Ortli Is abroad valley val-ley of mauy fioldr, but very dry. It la said that the rains begin In tba latter part of .May and June, wheuuvtry-Ihtug wheuuvtry-Ihtug puts on ft Huudsy Ureas. Krom Ortiz to Hania Jtoaalla, fifty milts, we come to one of the moat lovoly valleys Win eye could desire to rustuuou. l)own most of the way to I to -at I a wo ran agaluit a largoatuam or water. Ills no mora nor lets than the river Concho, which heads In tbe Hlerra-Malra mouutalns In tbo di. Ulctsof llldarg Abasola and (Juer-ruro. (Juer-ruro. Ituunlug southeast to ItbsulU, ouo hundred anil fifty mile?, It turus In a serpentine course, going In a northeasterly direction for abtut ouo hundred aud fifty rallts, where It forma stjunttlon wllh the iflo Uraude Itlver, this latter finds l(a way Into Jhu Oulf of Mexico, nn J U a (Jod loud to this part of tho tountry, I.aJln,r up In tlio raltiy belt of Mexloo la n sure supply to the most iitedfuloi dry Mexhvi. Atltoialla station I was met by l-lder a, J. Btewart, who captured me for two days. Mr. H uwart Wlbcatlng a city for colonlilug purposes atthls place, He haa beeu flvu jtars eugaged luar ranging with the Maxloin government govern-ment for a osiK-essIoa, and It apptars to me that he hae succeeded In obtaining obtain-ing an excellent concession with the government, having obtained many privileges lu Iho direction of Importing Import-ing iree of duty such matsrlals and goads aa are required for rolonltatlon purposes for a term of fifteen years. Air. me war I clalmt ;that what be hat donu Unit tilt own account, and ou hl own responsibility. The government gov-ernment has granted, he says, QOuO acres nf land .'. this place for a city, Mr. Htewart Is lu poaaenaloTi of a deed from the mayor of riauta Hosalla, Mr. Juan Orlit, and signed by tbe governor of Chlnuahua, Mr. Honor l.auro Corrtllo. The former Is quite In favor of colonisation, and iut only Is ho anxious to aid lu a clly plot but lu other lands, evoti to exceed the AUOO acres Water privileges here are more than an average lu this place, and thu climate Is very favorable. I Ig tree llourUu,a far as they have boen proveu, very well, auJ some fine trm that we examlued were heavily laden wllh flirt. Homo of them were half grown alreidy,aliot iiiugratiats, some of Hum as large a a small egg, while at Chihuahua, one hunJred milts north, the poruegtnuat were only lu bloom, anl tho tig tret s In many tales had been Injured by frut Quinces grow well anJ are showing for a good crop, We had beets for dinner oer three Inches lu diameter. The first crop if peas Is over, sweet (rtlators thrive excellently, and cotton lo also fa Led hi this belt. The altltu le hero Is ft.O)0 feat. The trade winds pata near thla city, aud snow and froat are rare. iSodeubt with proper cultivation and judicious Irrigation, Irriga-tion, HiaattawlII prove a tnostabunl-ant tnostabunl-ant fruit Mt. c Improvement Is gt'r required In agricultural pure ills In MmxIcj giuor-ally. giuor-ally. Much of tho soli Is very productive, produc-tive, and tho climate generally favor able, although It varies In UhTereat localities. Wo vhlted sjmo gardena, where I never aaw grao vlnei so heavily lalan boforelu any climate. Three miles aouthwrt of Hauta KjiSi Ua we link of Z caut hot aprlug bath. The water was quite as hot ai my ten-di ten-di r eUth could stand. There ara six of these noted springs Imulng from a rocky mountain. An oval lu feet by fi Is cut out of thettone and clay plasterod up,and a ronttaut stream runt through, A temporary room surrounds each bath. A swtatbuukof boards la also an appendix, where a few blaaketa are wrapped about tbe Invalid and If he dees not sweat he will aoon find It out. The hatha are strongly charged with a variety of minerals Gut no analysis hat been gtvn. There Is a sort of bote) near by, i iter day Is the rale, with 25 cents for bath and oOieuta for a ride of three mllet. An American Ameri-can wat chsrgtd $1 for his ride, for ho made no bargain beforehand. Do Lot think Mexico la all rotes, for there are thorns on every rote. How-over, How-over, I balleve with "Mormon" skill it nity be made a very deiirable home for there are tens of thousands of the remnants of tbe fathers who entered thla Isui hundreds ot )rara before Christ. Two days of this exhttiratlug air and rest as a change front my arJuous labors In Chihuahua brace I m up ag that I am ou my way to the Oil City of Mexico, The Mexican Central railroad has good accommodations lit the tlril clans. Theweathar la hot now, but aotue times cool wlnda bring consolation. KdhakdHtm E.MWS. HA NT A ItovAUA. Chlbuaha, Mexl-co, Mexl-co, Mayllh, HW. |