Show NOTES BY THE WAY at grand junction I 1 noticed on every side wt well 4 kept orchards of young that the trees trees and am informed are all of extra nursery stock it is attil striking ging to contrast these orchards with those thaise of utah it if utah fruit growers do not plant young trees soon the supply for its markets will be shipped from the valleys close around here passing along the rio grande western one sees many places where the winding track of the narrow gauge road has been straightened when hen the ae standard gauge was laid how gratify could he like the railroader ing to man go over lifes track and straight en it making it better as he goes the building just passed is large and stately but windows are broken out here bere and there and the capital spent in its hs erection is to a great extent wasted the towns ot of colorado look worse for wear than the towns of utah do because the towns of colorado were not put up tto to here as in kansas the build wear ites fences ditches of the small holders were not substantially built many of the large buildings are capitalists must most learn that the best surrounding sur tor for it a business location is a population that has ha come to stay gentleman of medium an intelligent height beight rode in on train across thi the benver denver rio grande western V railroad it was antonio joseph formerly delegate to congress from new mexico he is now glow proprietor of the caliento Cali enta in the at ojo warm springs digs mexico and northern part of new a number member ol of the next territorial legislature new mexico has suffered from legislative muddles a gre great at deal the legislature to meet here in a lew few days i probably be no 4 exception mc eption there and six democrats republicans are am six ix in the council and twelve from each assembly and it t will be party pam in the bw bard to agree on terms tor for an organization t the last legislature spent all allot of its fe time on election contests or qua quarrel session assion may be as bad r and this se I 1 chave have just talked with amado clavez the territorial superintendent ot of public instruction he says that it was pitiful to sop see the sacrifices 11 made kade by many of the high taxes of the tee ifie poor to pay territory I 1 what hat would statehood do for or now hew mexico e i ca mr clam is a mexican but he speaks peaks english with fluency speaking ot of education in new mexico maico he has hopes bopes of the territorial system being bettered from this on the mexican mf luence which has been against the expenditure ot of money for this purpose is fast undergoing a change governor thornton has been in mexico tor or sometime some time the object being the betterment of his health being now nearly well he will be home to look alter after matters while the legislature is in session several I 1 heard talking were discussing ca wis th the probability of the legislatures batur la tures es making appropriation for re building buildt the cal capitol pitol new mexico had a good do log capitol building but it was wa burned five years ago and the territorial offices have been in the old governors palace since this palace was built when spain owned new mexico santa fe is is a quiet never changing town with many good residences and little business As I 1 slept late the town was all stir ring before I 1 awoke and it is a stirring town too with its seven thousand people there seems to be more ex pressmen employed here than in salt lake city with its fifty thon thousand sand albuquerque is is quite a modern modem town but the old mixes wilh wih the new in strange combinations at one view can be seen on the street a modern dray an old style mexican wagon drawn by a burro a jack and a spanish pony a carriage drawn by a pair of sleek blacks a horse street car two indians three mexicans and two stylish american ladies albuquerque has been over estimated too A hotel as large as the knutsford with an erection date of 1884 stands idle such a hotel would accommodate the hotel trade of albuquerque santa fe and las vegas combined I 1 went over to old albuquerque today walked most of the way and paid ten cents fare for the remainder you pay ay higher for most everything here xan than you do in utah we were charged two dollars for room without breakfast or supper old albuquerque was one of the first towns settled in the southwest but was unimportant in the early eighties it was selected as a junction tor the santa fe with the southern pacific and atlanta and pacific railroads its growth for a few years was phenomenal and it was the coqueen queen city of the southwest while it has held its own pretty well since the proud title is now the prop erty of phoenix arizona yet albuquerque is a good business town and next to socorro the county seat of socorro county will be among the first towns of new mexico to arow row if the prosperous times expected come while I 1 will take up the subject lor hiller fuller consideration in a future letter it the want of free silver that has brought on the hard times here as much as the want of more rain the territories of arizona and new mexico need abundant rain and free silver to nourish flourish but they need abundant rain the most and it if the precipitation tor for a few summers to come is plentiful as it now is there will be lots of range tor for the cattle and she sheep ep of over stocked ranges range in neighboring states H CROSBY JR |