Show STEVENSON IN 1 MEXICO albuquerque N M dec 6 1895 leaving doming deming we traveled southeast forty miles aud and crossed the lm line into old mexico to colemo coli mo the M x can custom bouse he american cut cu torn tom house being at deming dealing our ou fit being rattier rather late we were under the necessity of camping before crossing the lioe line as the law here la Is very nirh IL sint gent regarding melling crossing after sunset my y sleeping apartment was in a store start at columbus only a very lew few houses ate are here aai awi on the american side aide three persons were murdered in my boo beu room about tour lour years ago one mat man and son and the afe aw ani mother it il was supposed SU that tb at ab a b u I 1 1000 was wan the booty afterwards was found w a the coroners coroner a inquest deposited among the household goo is there being liu heirs half to lo the pru property perty it was sold sola by the sheriff we drove before breakfast to the custom house bouse and passed through the slow alow ordeal having there at I 1 p m the customs art very high at this print a good bor bort borse t 40 wares ware 15 saddles 1 I 1 per gouni used ones 70 cents per pound carringto oar a luxury very high duty disere is one good building at the balance bals itice are very inferior flat fiat affa affairs irr while using up sometime some time and patience as papers etc were being maui mau out at the cultum house we vu oui sino and saw some mexicans making mud fences they buy had bad a wooden box six leei feet long twenty inches wide and about twenty idionea deep the 1118 mud wat war made by mixing mud water and a little straw two mexicans caos caus 1 I belaev they wire human himman beino beings for they had bad some oma appearance appe aranie arante of being po BO wen barefooted and barel barelegged eggel as well they trawl ej the mud and once in a while struik struck it with a alir ir hoes hoe suca a as the degres used in missouri Misa ouri alter tramping the mud and busing it a ill tie luey luef filled up the box otie one of the two who were making macinn tim fence toulu tramp the mud par ly mixed into tue box smooth it over with anh his banus bands anu move the box on another six leet anu so go repeat minding to break pints jante these theae were the largest 1 ever saw flaw being six ix feet feel by twenty by twenty inches we waited long enough fur fr the abe a ow operation of passing the customs to learn the trade of mud fouce making maRin jt 2 won then we went to abed abe flit 4 rooted custom bouse to see progress learning that wf might be detained for over two one man waiting for his 1118 turn to a come said the custom him be would not got get away until and be asked him why he be should have to towai wait tso no lorig why baij they ibey saws must em that means with the eat sleep suel aud rest in lb warm part of the day two hours hour then if they did not get quite through 11 that means tomorrow learning this we my gaius ana iwho I 1 who spoke poke some looked alter after a j ib b but the mexican in would not have ab we stripped off as they y were and it Is was too loo cold lor for us to do so we took a look over another fence made of a sort of cactus which grows lowb la in bunches bun chee six elx to eight i teel high and soine twice as aa large as a big walking cans cane tomes these like everything which grows 1 to this climate cil maie are tun full of brief ers and theme sharp as ai needles are gathered gatner ed ani an J set in the ground and two iw little slim elim poles one on each side bide tied together with rawhide ac rings makes what they call a fence too toe devil would go around it before lie he would go through uKU anti and I 1 do not noi believe even a mexican L would try ibe latter now comes the word we could pass ie luto into ol 01 olvi mexico soon we aurnou southwest making a V and then turned again into a Z hueu tue came up I 1 was waa so au completely around that the me maou came up iu in the west we camped on a small adall stream called the buca boon abe only out ou we davd keea been fora fur a linic jurley ju j ruey we were lorty jorty miles frum diaz and sixty miles milea irom from deming Dem and no cass casa as aa the mexicans say bay som qu quilis the were spread down our coats alt ur a pillow some blankets blun keta to cover ut uc up and a handkerchief tied over oui we said prayers pray eia anti and listened U IL the be howling alves to lu aenis us ui off tt ti sleep if that caud do so this pu put I 1 me in maud ut of lony forty yeara ago bug buc it it many bearg 1 I cannot remember jua us auw many since I 1 laju laiu my body to iu sleep lu in tole way 0 bow giac wt we were lu see gee the peep of day once more about 2 a m my companion and I 1 ceara what anat we was waa a bruser reser ati oLber sort of mexican wai kiLik aown the road toward oui ou horses which were gr zing on lb ibi uil lalue houe we him uy the cigut ligui 1 i I too moun moon he turned camp until lie be came apparently tu to liet et a rup v steal one of our tour four borses we could but lily illy spare in our lonely condition liu cadue very beai bawal our all outdoor bed I 1 thought su au and cluse bluee when I 1 balled him with chati dodou do you want f fhe he reply wat wab your muey mey or your wile wife we knew the voice it if was waa no other than blit ot of our cju rlena Willi william atu W formerly of 01 our abage driver who so du came buo milt miles to tj u over lne rough ruail road to the coi coronies onies we let our caroill watchman oft off b bj making up a gaoa fire niter alter which wt wi tok louk a litile nap DAP bod up at ai break fast ast pray re and at 7 a uj lu gaited aai sai ted arave twenty four by 11 a m and took dinner with c aou 11 our mordou boys boya who art are r up their stock one bunch uj ui w which bich of peurly 1500 heau beau lu bonarge of J M N smith ajro their baj wa ti daming to brother taylor who Is ib were telling or them teem for the orel breu abis being one of the sources ut of revenue us of 01 the durmo colonial here we met some home arienda J N smith elder book beck and oeners ajun drove past ordeal ol of mexican libee sixteen m lue les to diaz a mormon colony in the matist of a great plateau of millions mit ilona of acred acrea ot of excellent scarce ot 01 water of which we will have more wore to aay berea flor there we e met mei elders lynn aud wilo Intel laie laal sat night with two WEIS auleb ard a buggy alter a sixty drive of diaz said bald it was wan hard to tiny aay which was waa the ibe most tired the ibe brethren or the mule out our big bl stage binge corob in which I 1 rode miless lid did remarkably well for or it rocked me fret to the then left jelt again forward then back so BO that it kept us on i ibe be and aad we bad not time to vet got tired but we eoj the ibe trip very well and gained some iome more ex E |