The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-01

Cexs DaMron AGAIN IN Tdn HInLD.
G STgssr. July 26. 1858.
GnrLnns-I ssnd you letter juA received from
superntendent Besle. on his way to hts saperinten
dency 10 California, and which shows that he had
made bali the distance In twenty days nom the
frontier OF Missouri. and that himself and party
were ready to enter upon the ether half. (the un
tried part ~ the by) With their animals refreshed
ano themselves In good heart He took three days.
while his mules were laxuriatns in that former
rice three bundled miles, going and coming, to
put letters into the Santa Fe post office for his
,amhy and friends, aud to find = guide in place ~
Leroux, who had been left sick at st on the Ar
kansas The Timpa creek, at the mouth Of which
btaIe and his rarty crossed the Arkansas, Is just
ABOVE bents Fort, in west longitude about 1854
ano north latitude So, and is one Of eight small
rivers tr cree ks coming from the southwest, and IL
one OF the eight streams, counting from Purgatotre
to Wet Mountain Valley creek which fall into the
arkansas on that side, drawing their waters from
space, rich in SOIL wood and grass good for cattle,
Indian corn, and vegetables all Of which have been
raised at the pueblos, and where there are as well
beaten wagon roads as in the frontier counties of
States. So that, to the extent Of one half the dis.
lance on the central route, and nearly straight
e, there the best country Of any Of equal extent
that my geographical knowledge embraces, for set
Element and roads OF all kinds, for rootmen horse
men. wagons, carriages. steam cars, and anything
else that can be invented to go upon land.
Hmrfuno, pronounced W~.tan-o, Spanish word
serifyiug orphan; Bune, pronounced butte, French
mountain, or face or end OF q hill Or mountain.
The valley of San Luis, one hundred miles long
BY fifty or sixty broad, and at tho head Of the Del
Noite.
Fort Massachusetts,, new fort, established two
years ago at the creek Trinchera, in the valley OF
SAN Luis, nearly opposite the Pass of FL Sangre dc
Christie and near the place where Fremont was led
out OF the valley by his guide In the winter OF
aid burie in the Of FL Sierra del Juan. What
an idea it gives Of the expansion OF our people COM
municating even to the quiescent Mexicans, that
there Is now settlement OF some hundreds OF fami-
lies, and an American fort in sight Of the mountain
in which Fremont was overwhelmed, and In the
very valley In which some Of his men persisted, and
others ate their dead bodies-places then felt to be
the abode Of dissolution now within the pale Of cul.
tNation ana civilization.
There was scientific" man who published
book to demonstrate that steam power could mover
drive vessel across the Atlantic ocean and just
steaming along at the rate Of three hundred miles
day, and others have been at it at the same rate
ever since; and the scientific" book has gone to
the bottom Of the oblivious stream
But that Hues fGnO Butte!-solid rock three hun
dred feet high sugar loaf form visible twelve miles:
that column built by the hands Of Nature to receive
statue of Columbus pointing to the west and saying
to the magic it flies along, That Is the road
to India" Respectfully, &c. THOMAS H. BENTON.
SANTA FEE. IN. NJ June 9, 1853.
Ny DEAR SIR.-I shall write but hurried letter.
Harris Heap is keeping minute Journal | arrived
at Fort Massachusetts on the twentieth day from
West Port; rested en- route two days and half. l
came here to hunt up guide and to ensure my let
tiers reaching home. | came from the Fort In little
over day and half, and shall mount my horse to
return in the same time as soon as this letter Is
finished. 1t is hundred and fifty miles, The three
days rest will do my mules great good, as the grass
in the valley OF San Luis very fine. came up the
Arkansas to the mouth of the Timpa crossed it, and
struck diagonaly over to the Hnerfano. The Huer-
fano is the finest stream in all that region tho bot
tom and hills full of the finest grass and wood abun-
lav% 80 bah fnA
kansas. The plain between the TiDpa and Huerfauo
Is filed with fine grass, and game abounds on II.
We have not eaten a single meal without game snce
leaving up 10 this time.
struck the Huerfano few miles above its mouth
and made ieqnent and beautiful camps upon it.
About twenty miles from the mouth the river makes
canon. THIS is easily avoided by an easy road, by
which you leave the river and do come to it again
for some fifteen miles. When you come upon it
again. you at about twelve miles distance on the
river, the Huerano Butte, curious pillar sugarloaf
in shape Of solid rock and about three hundred feet
in height. The road all along the river is very leye
The Pass Sangre de Christie is an excellent One,
though there is ono about mile or probably
three miles higher up, (north) very much lower,
Luis is the best land have seen in New Mexico
and ! have seen the whole Of it. You know
its size, and have only to say that bslieve
on an average there is stream Of water for every
1t is rapidly settling up and, II protection is con
tnued will soon show to great advantage. find
here all the country the railroad the prevailing
subject Of conversation. Heap is taking very minute
notes and sketches We are all well, and progress
Ing tremendously.
have it on my mind to so due west from Las
Vegas de Santa Clara and make . road If there is
none, but am not yet determined about it. l shall
miss Leroux very much, but shall not fail for want
OF Elm. The Indians are very troublesome, and q
force Of soldiers about marching against them un-
der Col Sumner beg you feel no anxiety about
us. l will take good care Of the men. With great
respect your friend, L. T. BEALH.