The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-08-14

!, day found Juan fresco
- 49, .,I;shsd with a yellow sash
KY en- sS@ around his waist, securing a
ds.uy tsHpooa) in its folds: Every
t1lis nee the knife with skill
s.i'J q. ~ seu dsY it becomes a dreadful
in ns u as can cast it with exact aim
ngA ~ certainty into a post or
4 unenut II an enemy, at a consid-
p Be n es.,a e away. and wherever
w. a ss"sn;sh blood the navdgais the
bee : srou not always concealed
ndiss e r ''s4son. Our muleteer took
VI " , Ps' sadly as any Englishman;
Plsssu .aoess Is only for strangers.
dhe saau' = The band which goes
b. lssas' - y house playing under the
~ hOas. he sweet Spanish invitation
i't's IN. rsyly thrums the guitar at
y g. Pa Is,usSsngo; and can dance till
y w. ' = veil as hold his own in any
pss'9 ~ : NAV grow out of the wild
20 q the ba'is; ..or, HE seot
+o...s;onally be leapeu rum ne SO
ss.letful Of stones, gathering
b 4. racon moved on and throw
e .1 : y, i the heads Of the mules; at
= ps.a 4 lime muttering, on the ledger
= ~ s'l.s sacred words mixed with
E'c 80 = ss;uts The Mexican insists
''pa y he made to understand
=, e. ss' snch urging and they have a
vsnOus ' = An ass ears are made long
.sssr to catch oaths."
R-There is no reason to beiieve
= i;te superstition attaches to the
=, # III the United States
Az! !, !, the venerable city of the Pueb-
49, = crossed the Santa Fe River,
"a !, Indiana would be called
~. 49, bnnch. | have often gone over
~ - had. But the poverty OF the
,;.h language allows only one word
Y r,uiug water Rio, translated river.
s..,s Fe Mountains round about us
: !. osrt ofthe great Rocky Mountain
.r connecting on the north with
Z. Sosuish Peaks and Ration Mountains,
..S5ng many whose SUBMITS are sill
III Tith perpetual snow. A series
I Sish, picturesque chains, in the
.sni1g.giow robed with a transparent
~ 6s5e. Of such exquisite tint one
4, hardly realize those airy pyramids
! fir borderland between US and
I,,rsn are, indeed, upheavals OF earth.
med with quartz and based on coarse
Rsrds csnnot picture aught so fair.
N iaiutest violet, the softest hello
M are coarse and hard beside the
lrsny poetic color, which appeals to
Al ere IS dim aolian sounding touch
M -. charming the fancy with vague
Is,s Il . viewless beauty within the
isinf veil.
Iunnot make you understand. Come
~ N the TRANSPORTATION which makes
|n4nbbed hills appear like tents OF
LIT lovely enough for angels to rest in
! tsir upward fight.
The plain was smooth as a prairie
sd Cur road free of ston,. The reader
nnx not imagine it lay among the AL
yR scenery, with huge peaks tower
X to the SKY, forbidding our advance
ysldng 1t last to reveal smiling valleys
nd hidden hamlets, nesting close tc
he hllhides in narrow glens. Here al
] "a Ne SAME magnificent scale. The
Dkm are broad as the SUBMITS are
ksh therefned atmosphere so intense
dear the light is like a reflection
hun nov. No such extensive view.
m bad IN Europe or any country wher,
ne III holds moisture and sometime
" landscapes seem absolutely limit
In.
The Sieras are short, uneven spurs
hn tie main line. They have dis
'Ebcd the everything strata in the shap
dnsu (tables) Of solid rock, whicl
ma distinguishing feature of Rock,
!nntain scenery, giving it u grotesqu
nlsstic beauty. The process Of erosion
= iosmed IN colossal size copies of tn
pndest structures Of mans art an
tsfing columns, temples with shar
raaeles, scattered pillars rise ali
ig'y from the center Of plains desc
= Nd iosaken as the wilderness Q
del- strange and solemn sights
me Painted Desert are snow-whit
sna the raie blanche composition G
eaalk cliffs on the south coast G
sgsnd which dazzle the eye, reflect
ne sunlight like palaces of alabas
r@a ice The stone corridors c
WINK md Philac are the work of pig
e compared with this noble architeS
maghf BY slow processes in secre
Aade BY Nature for herself.n
~neumes the mesa shapes into
sa VAL, with tluted columns tn:
aa ne sly. Again it isa group
E wnmids, q thousand or twelv
e9sd ieet high; or an isolated, brt
9ne' worn smooth by the weatl
re'esque in the extreme.
seang sdords such changes of co
ne variegated marls, lying
- oaods Of red, orange, gree
ninbow hue, striped and il
~ sanusd With belts of purple, blui.
49, ND notified veins of exceedir
siy enough. the traveller occ,
Ss,s. lnos himself riding above the
Painted Rocks"
neer sides of q mesa of or,
s,.S 49,, mixed with blue clay an
NH . rim of pillared basal