New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-14

chihuahua distance Of 225 miles is owned by about
half q dozen men. Don Innocente Ochra owns most on
the land from III Paso south to samalayucca, Dr. sam
ienego owns Candelaria TO Ojo Caliente ana Gov
ernor Terazas and Henry Miller, together hod al ,s
land from Chvalito to sauz distance OF about 10
miles From Sauz 20 Sacramento the land belongs 10
the curae dc In Luz Corral and then come several
small owners Laborsa and Satire belonging Ing 10 o STR
and the land lust above Chihuahua being owned py
Henry Miller In regard to the srpGd or 12 f tn ng h
OF sorrowul This formerly belonged 10 me
of Don Martinez del Rio who unTseX lomed te
French Empire and cast in his lot with the ll-lated
Macmillan In return his estates were cOn1schleu, ~
claim Illegally and through political inehGS az" dei
Rio, failing to win back his property has so,Ied uV wv
in the city of Mexico to pass dsapp1ned C,a deyctpe
themselves to the attempt to have their fathers MINUS
restored. ., 1, r ,r,osv
sketch the and yet old country when sh1 of W
Ps ir norbons thirty miles are the sand hills The
surface OF the land Is broken into Irregular the
nso Wn thorn bushes and cac with which they are
scantily covered. Sometimes inc a." 1,I,n% among
bn dunes toward the Rio Grande. These are smuggel
whom the railroad has certainly benefited IN one
~ o' Rnt IL is only short time since the engineer,
and contractors the true pioneers or o and even met
tn for the conrse of the Mexican Central has been
marked by bloody tragedies
INDIAN TRAGEDIES.
Just Mt the Southern limit of the sand NILS ABOUT
fortv-four miles below this town. and not far from
condeIora four crosses can be from the car WIN
dows standing on a low hill to the east They mark the
spot where in June OF last year four engineers Forh
Grew Leavitt and George, made desperate nut ul.
attacked while driving along the trail In wagon Grew
and the driver were probably killed ut me IrsI n %
others sheltered themselves best they cold on me
hill and fought until their ammunition gave ouo O2
their horribly mutiated bodies surrounded Dy GpA a
cartridge shells remained when resculnS party arrived
too late. Wallace, after receiving MS hist Wounu'
scooped hole in the sand and concealed ms none
hum po1l
and time checks. and when his corpse was raised I0r
burial the idea of instituting search Teyeaea 1
moncy hidden lust underneath his body. NotnnS was
known his family, and no friends nor relatives nave
appeared to lay claim to s,redd E Hardly
mile below this spot four contractors BLACK BEL Si
hers and Lewis, met a similar fate in November aSt
They were on horseback and kept up running night
with the Indians for some ten miles lhel inc gIo,l
became . sen l d Of tte hi shot their horses and
living behind the bodies fought as men only leI WItn
their lives depend on G had been shot away and the
bushes and cact along the hill top were literally nowc
down by the ieaden hail. 1t was the same gang or
Apaches that struck the stage just below killing me
driver and taking off young Plg son OF eN
for helm which was found mesquite bush hut when
he troops arrived they discovered his body half mile
70 dcoth with the most dreadful fortunes. All these
savaces were probably Apachcs from the Mescnerq
nfpunished after their bloody work, and the agent
excused them by the claims that ihese Ior q I
had first attacked the Indians, who numbered large
party. $500 ,.ho ,,o,,o,+s recolled beforc the
sand hills and the frOwning peaks OF Candclalla ana
R9nchcria are left behind Then comes rather rough
grazing country. At Oio Caient,hot spIlhgsml1 tn9
rancho OF Dr. Samicnogo. where there Is
spring the sides and bottom studded win r
mastodons teeth and fossil bones; NIar Ct th
the trail most frequented by the Apaches on ther way
from the Sierra Madre range across 10 inc Ease ass
stone hidng-plaoes where their scouts lay and watched
up and down the valley LagIna takes It's name from
lake some five miles long near the railroad slat9h.
Fellow CALICO the plain becomes wider more level IKE
fine DraiTies in Eastern Kansas, ana aJ lhls seS1
covered with luXuiant growth OF ganma graSs Inht
the value of this grass Is appreciated Is SHOWN ny tho
great herds of cattle that scattered along the plains
All fhe way from GallegO to Sauz On the Encinas ana
Sauz ranches belonging 10 Governor Icrazls ana MI
MILLER are 1875 600 head. Below Sauz the railroad passes
close underneath the Sacramento pun, as the MeAcNls
exnpctcd the American sOldery to do when they built
ne ear+hworks which still remain in the Mexican War,
hut they were greatly diScOmlOed When thc AIneIlcts
on ~ IN aonl. and take them in the Then the
Main becomes wider hut less fertile and mesquite. thorn
bushes and cac substituted Tor the graa gihss,
although the east line OF trees anu green nea3ws
mark, The course of the Sacramento River continuing
several miles further comes across tne bOarus ~
where the wOrmcn eat and sleep and few miles below
is construction train unloading railsand Ties, the ater
of which are carcd ahead and put III place along lnc
dump. To the south apparently at me emu OF me N,y,
east are two little villages of unknown age. Every
afternoon the wOrkmenare surrounded by Mexican can
time and who when the train starts back, race Wildly
alongside like the anelopes above Sacramento III Is
curious fact that the railroad does not actually pass
through single town in its whole course through tne
state of Chihuahua. The stately haciendas OF various
sides of the valley, and there are several small villages
some distance from the line OF the soad Inc nearest
believe is Sacramento, three miles away where
heheld one morning almost the entire population
mounted the fiat roofs OF the ADOBE houses t hec Ilo
construction train puff its way southwark Ana thc
nearest approach to village actually on the line Is te
rancho at Encinas. which Is one Immense square auOc
buildng surrounding courtyard and cOrldls, ana III
vded into multiplicity of rooms IKE the ho.l7es III "a
tenement block which furnish shelter Tor colony Oh
hcrdcrs and their children, WHO arc aS huoiou' d.
rabbits In warren