The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-06-02

New Mexico.
The PaIatiaI Cars and Excellent Eating
Houses of the Santa Fe Road
EDITORS EMPoRIA NEWS: At your
suggestion 1 pen some "Jottings and
Thoughts" by the way of our somewhat
hurried trip, first into the west, thence
into the sunny fields of the New South
west
While Colorado is most imposing in
her high mountains and deep canons,
with great depths, and greater heights,
as though ambitious to gain for herself
the proud title of "Queen of the Crest"
yet her territory has been occupied by
men of enterprise and skill, of force and
genius, until, as surely as ever Romans
were worthy of their Rome, so do these
men show themselves worthy to occu-
pY this land of wonders.
These men are unloading the treasure
vaults of nature which thread her
matchless mountains, greatly enriching
the current of our national business life.
Here, in close proximity, are TO be found
the wild Businesses of deep shadows, and
unscaled heights, the retreat of the bear
and mountain lion, with chamois and
deer, in q region as wild rs the deep re-
cesscs of an untraveled continent, while
but few miles away-just over the
range-is a new world of beautiful cities
and thriving villages, with all the activ-
tiles of our proud civilization. For
they may now well disdain the name of
"froniier towns" as they have railways
and telegraphs, daily newspapers, street
cars, we'll paved streets, and ornate bus
ness fronts, illumated with gas, such no
tells as the "Grand Central" and wind
sor,' of Denver, as resting places
Colorado, the red state, as her name
signifies, has changed her colors," but
is still true to her Utmost thoughts treas
ures and CLOVIS with silver hue) 1t is
the land of kaleidoscope. Turn your
eye as you will, if but degree on your
compass, and something now falls upon
ycur view; go where you will and new
picture spans your vision. Now wild
and romantic, and now unique and pic
turesuqe. At one time broad and meas
ureless plains with cloudless skies, and
burning sands, and the next deep recesses
where the very shadows seem phantom
like and crouch forever away from the
face of the sun; or beautiful parks with
carpet verdure of green and trees from
pca-grecn color to a foliage almost blue,
and sky that would vie with Italy and
such rs we never see in these low alti-
tudes. Bot one gathers no idea of The
extent Of her resources and bust
ness enterprise, by railway. All her
local railways are narrow guage, which
rush as with sudden furry from one
scene 10 another, over bridges and
around montains, aud through eanons,
until the traveller is compelled to wonder
where this strange fight will land him,
through region where few years ago
Z only the sturdy miner, the wild goat
or the wilder red man, found attractions
but you will hear the wild shrek of the
locomotive that rings out in very cries
of fear, and you wonder what can be
within half mile away but soon you
stop in rich mining town where is cen
tering so much interest, or in an active
growing real city.
| Colorado is -smphatically based on 8
broad gauge. Everything here move:
in grand proportion and with great dis
patch. It is no world for drones. Moth
ing sluggish furnishes under these skies
This people in high altitude march I'm
der the stimulant of eternal SHOWS and
move under an inspiration such as they
would scarcely be capable of elsewhere
As you turn to thesouth at LaJunta lths
Mexican name for Junction. other scenes
are soon to greet you Soon sitter pass
ing the northern boundary line Of New
Mexico You begin to leave the grea
mountains behind you
Once in New Mexico and you are II
an older country. Here is the counter
part of Colorado. There everything
looks new and bears the mark of recen
Idate. Here is is quite Otherwise, bn
many things bear the unInistakeabll
marks of decay. Il is another, foreign
: C4tlllLdtAD1. h tulo Actu bNO RcOp1c<
meet as different as can well be imag
/ med, different In habits, IN taste, ia faifi
! in language and even temperament
Two civilizations, one youthful, aaser
a tive, vigorous, the other ancient, timiE
. and decaying. The one used TO com
/ mand, the other TO obey. They are !
, subdued, crushed and deluded people
|. It is sickening 10 have the mortimer
recite the torture and almost unparei
2 lelled selfpunishment inflicted in tn
. name Of religion They are used 10 foe
/ as their fathers were, aud when the,
j, are met only by differences they seen
| glad 10 be LEFT unm0lested. In the town
E is found the hest grades Of this cigilizs
. lion- In . crude and primitive wa
E may be found artificers and fradesmeI
: Tie schools are all Under the direcsiol