The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-06-22

Impressions aud observations
by Iw %. waco Visitors.

Impressions nud observations
by Two. Waco Visitors.
Major Wiley Jones and Mr.. J. ".
Smith bring back VIVID and favorable
impressions of the great future railroad
city OF the continent, I'll Paso. They
Left the excur.ion at Fort Worth on
wednesday night week ago, at IL, and
reached I'll Paso at 1870 Oh Ffida, morn.
ing being 29l9 hours out The only
town on the route Of which NJ ior Jones
! speaks favorably is Colorado CIV, which
g becoming great shipping Ioint.
The country Tor three hundred
miles after leaving that place
IS desert; only one stream Of watcrthe
Pcoos, Is crossed and on the plains moth.
ing grows but the sparse and scattered
bunch grass. Water for the engines
the road Ii IN many places secured from
mountain springs, from which the wnter
Is led down to the road through pipes,
sometimes two or three inches IN length.
The Texas Pacific whore it strikes the
Southern PHcihc, runs about seventy
miles mp the valley II the Rio Grande to
FL Paso, valley which Oh the American
side IL very marrow The new III Pnso
ON the Am rlcau side i- growing rapidly 4
many new buildings ure going nj IT
wood, brick and adobe Most Of the
lumber is the Galifurui red wood -imi.
lar to cedar, and it liz dressed for $50
per Nj. Brick sells for $40 in the yard,
sl3 in the wall Lots ARE very high,
business lots bringing 300 rcr front
foot, and residence To $50. Board at
the best hoto Is So yer day. The OILY
livery stable man there, Major Jones
reports, Is making fortune They paid
81 an hour for IL hack, and une man paid
$3.50 per day for team. He heard two
hackmen at night foot up receipts, and
each hGd made from Sl3 to Sl5. There
are live or six uewspn ors in he place.
\ grand new hotel il building The
population Is from every purt Ut the
country, with mixture of Chinese,
negroes, and some Mcxicnus Mining
is brisk and splendid forests OF ualS and
pine are found within "a hundred and
twenty miles. The cars run IA huud ed
and sixty miles into Mexico, and the
pass niger atiic ia large. Major Jones
saw one day fifteen cars NJ mining ma.
chinery cross the river going south The
streets are thrnngvd every day ns NRco
IL on Saturdays. lie saw no drunken.
ness, heard no pistol shots, and saw only
one iist fight The people nrc hospitn.
BILE. and welcome strangers
Major Jones' spent only two days Ia
old or Mexican III pnso, and was d.
lighted with the great Rio Grunde valley
Oh that side, which IL from five to ten
miles wide, all irrigat Il, covered with
ne crcp aud the roads shaded with
cottOnwoUJa.
; The crops are splendid. Fine fruits
abound, apples, peaches, grapes, apri.
, cots aud others. Grape vines grow II
, foot IL diameter, and wine aclls Tor 81
barrel. The town IL built " adobe, tn,
houses set ut ali angles tu the street and
70 every house Is Is fort with loop holes
The people are pc tie tO every one
yO ing and old snlutug strungcr The
young women ARE handsome, lighter
! complicated than the men. and dress
: neatly. LHud in the valley IL not b ught
and sold but pussrs from father to son,
nd iniuitum. Havana cigars sell FOR
seven cents, ordinary cigars, ten for
twenty-five cents. Labor ~ iitiy cents u
day and boards itself The Mexican
sold or gets his clothes and siX cents u
day and boards himself While in
old FL Pa,o, our cNCur,ionists followed
Il crowd one murul 4 to an old church
ON q hill The church seemed to bc
several hundred years old. Males and
females separated IN the church, the
! llifu bil4iH VIC |lklil HlNA't Wv Nbllltl
the left They were shown an old mar
riage record book, dating back to 1907.
There are only sixteen saloons IN new
Ell Paso. There is u dam across the Rio
Gronde, Tor ,irrigtti < purposes, aud
above the dam Il stream tT water ls
thrown into the valley as big ns Waco
creek in freshet. The tourists saw
sew raj Waco men in new III Pa4o. Mr.
Zach White Ii running Il store and doing
a h & business. his three brothers
began there short time ngo, and are
now running stores with $1,000 to $1,000
stocks, a. paid for Frank Hogan is in
the real estate business, ind is DONG
well. Charlie Glen is running on the
Texas Pacific, and his family is in lei
Paso. Mr. Larmour and doing IL big
architectural business, with $4,000
worth OF contracts ON hand, Dick Hi.
debrund IL running Il saloon
Major Jones speaks with enthusiasm
of the place, and seems to have seen Hs
much and Ms many things III two days
ar would require an ordinary observer IL
year to see.