The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-12-24
BULL FIGHTING.
A Trip Through sew Mexico---what
Mess. Lock and Murray Saw.

Major Lock and Bernard Murray,
Esq, have returned from a two
weeks trip through New Mexico.
They visited Las Vegas, Santa Fe,
Soccoro, Albuquerque, Ell Paso and Ell
Paso Del Norte in old Mexico. AT
the latter place they were present at
the Fiesta, or Mexican carnival, W he re
they saw the wild bulls of Durango
turned loose in the arena. The five
railroads centering in Ell Paso brought
in thousands of Mexicans, miners,
cattle men, highwaymen, thieves and
gamblers to witness the bull fight. 1t
was one of the most remarkable and
picturesque crowds ever assembled
in the wild west The dignified Al
calde and numerous senoritas with
dark and flashing eyes, were there
as well as the greasers and half-breeds
negroes and Cinnamon The bull
fight was horrible affair. The first
bull, magnificent white animal, had
his horns sawed off so short that the
blood spurted up in streams out of
each. He was goaded to madness
i, with darts stuck into his neck and
shoulders by the matadors, who
lodged into convenient alcoves to
avoid his charges. la his fierce
charges he would strike the timbers
of the enclosure with terrific force to
get at his tornientors. There he
would stasger back as If stunned,
when he would be charged upon bv a
picaslor, ON horse hack. and eoaded
afresh with a large spear or pike
Then he would charge upon the horse
and tumble him over and gore him
with his stubs of horns while the
rider would scramble off to place of
safety. This thing was kept up until
the bull became exhausted from loss
of blood when he was lassoed, thrown
down and dragged from the arena
and fresh bull brought in. The ex-
citement and alleged amusement
seems to consist in witnessing the
hair breadth escapes of the bull fight
i ers and the streams of blood flowing
from the goaded brutes. Such is .
bull fight as witnessed and described
by Mess. Lock and Murray. Forum
ately such brutalizing scenes are con-
fined to the very farthest borders of
our civilization. They cannot long
exist under the focus of the pulpit,
the press, the telegraph and the cleo
trio light and the sooner they are
obliterated the better.
Mess. Lock and Murray report great
business activity throughout the
districts they travelled. In fact the
whole country seems to be enjoying
the benefits of a first-class railroad
and mining boom. All business is
done on a strictly cash basis and no
one will trust another farther than
the range of his forty-five calibre
revolver. or trusty Winchester. Al
buquerque, n. NJ, and Ell Paso. Tex,
are the most prosperous business
points they visited. They owe their
prosperity to the numerous branches
of railroads centering in them; while
Soccoro is growing rapidly on its
mining interests. They report the
weather most charming during their
trip and very much, in every respect,
like the climate we enjoy in Canon
City. They tell numerous jokes on
each other about their adventures
among the senoritas but for full par
ticulsrs of these incidents of their trip
the reader is referred to them. They
are at present the heroes of the day
in these parts, having witnessed a
real bull fight, numerous chicken dis
putes and other exciting adventures.