The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1880-02-05
LEAVES FROM NEW MEXICAN TRAVEL.
LAS VEGAS, New Mexico.
January 30th, 1889.


EDITORS JOURNAL:-I thought at
first that one letter would do about
Las Vegas, bat ask your readers to
bear with me. / will in my next give
New Mexico in general, including eli
mate, her great cattle and sheep ranch
es, and to what extent stock raising Is
carried on; also, some of her mining
resources.
Allow me to state to the subscribers
of the JOURNAL who have written to
me for information about the country,
caused ny reading my letters already
published in the JOURNAL, that | will
answer their questions in due course
of time through my correspondence in
your paper One of these letters came
from one of your subscribers ut Caw-
ker City, Kansas, which speaks well
for Your circulation. Soon after my
arrival here several remarked that !
should go to the top Of a range OF very
high foot hills, running north and
south, about two miles west OF Las
Vegas, and | would have 4 full view
of the surrounding country. | was
afraid to take the trip until stronger.
Being impatient to take the difficult
trip, few days ago | started for the
promised land. We don't have any
mountains near Salina, and, being
somewhat green i'm mountain travel,
looked at the top and thought it was
Il short distance and would soon be
reached, and kept climbing one steep
cliff and knoll, thinking that when
the next one was reached we would be
AT the top. but was disappointed each
time, until the last. When arrived
at the top the scenery before me was
grand. will not attempt to describe
il, for it would surely be 4 failure.
Looking 20 the west about forty miles
were the grand old Rocky Mountains,
with their high peaks covered with
snow, almost reaching the clouds, and
between us were hills and beautiful
CANYONS. From where | stood To the
bottom of the canyon it was almost
perpendicular, and looking down you
could see many hundred feet below.
The Rocky Mountains looked so close
that a person not knowing how far
away they were, would believe he
could walk there in an hours time.
While there thought of Moses when
he was up in the high mountain aud
viewed the Promised Land, but was
not permitted to go. Moses dii not
reach the Promised Land, nor did
20 To the mountains. Turning Ia the
east, there WAY below us lay Las We
gas. How small the houses looked.
People moving in the streets looked
like small moving specks. 1t put me
i'm mind of miniature Paris we saw at
the Centennial, only on another scale.
Last week the last coach of the
Barlow 4 Sander>on line went out OF
Las Vegas. The railroad puts an end
10 this great and ancient institution.
Ii came in after Gen. kearney's army
in 1916, being then a route almost one
thousand miles long, from the Mis-
souri, river To Santa Fee. At first . mail
once in six months was brought through
afterwards once a month,
and finally daily. Gradually the irsn
horse has driven the stage before il |
iown the Santa Fe trail until il diSap- |
pears forever. Farewell, Santa Fe !
stage line. thy day has passed!
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