| Show IN OLD MEXICO colonia juarez mexico jan ath 1898 2898 I 1 left salt lake on the 0 na hk G W train dec bound tor for M mexico on the train I 1 fell in with a madr from arkansas who although he haa only one eye sald said utah was the best beat country he had ever seen he was aa 6 his way home to sell his hia farm am adf move to utah he said he was tired qt OF being burned up all summer and blow aloi away in winter so taken up with lutat uta was he that he went to fiovo aaa through utah county four ames it 16 seemed so good to him when we left salt lake it was cod coal and stormy and as we went up SPOT 1 ish pork fork canyon we also went to 24 zero W and I 1 guess more so for the car wis dows froze up and it was bitter cola next morning at we arrived at grand junction where we took the colorado midland went up the gra valley where the mesa and aad gra gradx canal co have a canal 99 90 feflie ak through a very rough and wild caw try on this road we go ver over 06 tin divide said to be the ingham over which any road goes feet high on the top we had a funny bt blot unpleasant incident tle the t 1 into a long loft tunnel and wizen when as at way through we h heard aad a ft fee breff i coming in at the other t hei end nd the passengers became trig frig t an others began to grumble ati tn le lemeness siness les eness of af the train idab betl then 1 began bedah to back out and haa whale fo so soma some hitch occurred occurred to tae I 1 da time the engine kept on 44 si galin ae all f the fe fear of some ol 01 of tho hassu passu passengers crea creased y A woman from the front of the car ran to where ms myself f companion were sitting and wai help we told her we could riot not her well she he said it if we wb have hav collision she would stay by anyway as she would rather die aie by man than die alone How however eVerl backed out safely onto the siding t other train passed and on we e we 6 down to leadville the famous manto camp where we e stopped vo for luniw prom from there we went up the river then over the mountains I 1 latar sooth park colo through the park which is no park dark at MI all but a widd desolate coubry with hardly a tree to M seen over onto the head of the platte down it through eleven mile canyon banyon by lake george a large yond pond up to cripple creek junction to supper then on to colorado springs at p m we changed cars here for IA junta where we arrived at 1250 am sunday at we took train for IV pago at trinidad the last town in colorado we left our disabled engine sad and got two to pull us up the range into new mexico on the top of the mountains our engine broke loose and left us but was brought back and latched on again and on we went to a btttle town raton the mouse where over to repair an express car there to el paso we went without incident of note and from there to dibtan the terminus of the Coral litas rAM railroad road the night we arrived in juarez it snowed owed about an an inch but all is fine ltd abd warm at this writing the people saints sainta here are hippy happy and prosper tu work Is plenty money is freer liere here than in utah the holidays ased oft off with the usual entertain intents except that I 1 saw no drunken di t men not one and in their dancing there mere was no round dancing the young youn 9 peo people ale themselves vote to keep all these evils down the sunday school heieie graded and in good running or der the stake academy Is roofed and the floors are being put down the V work is being pushed and when fin ched it will 11 be the finest building I 1 kave have seen in these parts the town had a little excitement yesterday san jan ath when eleven marshals md and deputies rode in with the famous colonel and eleven of his men on inquiry your correspondent found that they were looking for slack clack If jack and his robber band who held up the train at sterns stems pass me me time ago there was a young ma man ft here who had been boasting that lie waa a member of the band that he khew black jack etc he was ar and was to be taken to sonora seine miles to answer for his fool lahners lah but was later released after I 1 t wag ehg under guard for about 48 hours colonel is a great friend of the people here and elder ivins made 41 UM while here a present of a very fine 1 defte the colonel left this morning f sonora L S H |
