The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-22

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that appears to be operated upor
the principle that the right thing t.
do is to be civil, courteous anC
obiiging to patrons. the impulse is
to state the fact and emphasize the
discovery. II may be cOmpeti ion
or something else, but whatever The
cause or incentive, the Atchison
Topeka 81 Sanla Fe seems to appre.
ciaUe the fact that the travelling
public have rights that railroads
should respect and protect, and the
consequence is well-ordered
tinely-equipped and commercially
m anaged line, where cars are kept
clean, employees are civil and
obliging, and what is of inestlmable
importance, meals are pro
vided and served with some
knowledge of and regard
for the human stomach and the
capabilities and posslbiliti Of the
digestive Organs. If so much could
be said OF all our railroads we be-
lieVS The howl about land grants
and subsidies and heartless monop-
oIes would at OHc6 weaken into a
whisper. 1t is the downright mean
ness of the roads that subj 1ets them
to popular censure ard xcttes tire
ill-Will of the public. The AtchlSon,
Topeka and Santa Fe now runs
trains through to Denver, having
laid a third rail on the Denver and
Rio Grande grade from Pueblo, at
which latter point one branch of the
Santa Fe line terminates. Pueblo
is one Of the most populous and
thriving cities of the state: that is
to say, South Pueblo is, the old or
north town being q Mexican and
Indian village, and retain ng much
of its priInltivenekS both as to ar
chiteeture and the characteristics
of the people, while the new city is
thoroughly American i'll cOnstruc-
ton and in the enterprise
of its inhabitants South Pueblo
is the direct and immediate
outgrOwth Of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railway, corporation that
seems to be operated upon the
original theory that it is
better to build up country to sup
port the railway than to suck the
of the ter tory through
which it runs. But of this, on some
future occasion. At Pueblo we see
of ancient Mexican
and these multiply
upon us as we run south, there being
a considerable sprinkling OF dark
skins among the population, the
towns bearing Spanish names; here
and there IS seen burro, and the
low, fat.Toofed adobe houses are
quite frequent all through southern
Colorado. From La Junta going
south there is a gradual and quite
perceptible ascent. the read wind
ing up into the mountains. East
Trinidad. the elevation of which is
5000 feet, and so on over into New
Mexico, the first town Of note
across tie line icing the
somewhat famous Ration, way up
here among the Rockies, nearly
5000 feet above sea level. The
scenery along the line is Of that
grand and awful kind peculiar TO the
southern range of the Rocky
Mountains, and which is more pro-
in the Black and Arkansas
Canyons of Colorado. From Trini-
dad to Santa Fe the mean elevation
of the line is above 5000 feet-so
high that the SURE undlng noun
talns appear short and squattY as
compared with the Wasatches as
viewed from Salt Lake Valley. The
country is moderately we'll timbered
with an inferior pune, cedar and a
scrub mahogany, that is less valu-
able as hardwood than the noun
tain variety that grows in Utah
and Nevada. as remarked hereto
fore, only occasional evidences Of
the Mexican and Pueblo Indians
have been encountered, but now
things have been reversed,
and only here and there are
seen evidences of the white
man, and these at or adjacent
to the railway depots. Numerous
Mexican villages are passed, the
little black men, women and chill
dren Iazily lifting their eyes to
watch the train go by, or as they
move along the side Of She road be-
hind their shaggy burros, casting
scOrnful, or Indifferent chances at the
locomotive that shrieks terribly of
their early destruction There is
a want of energy, enterprise end
even cleanliness about their villages
and their ancient inhabitants that
Wearies one, just as much as it an
noys a fellow to find the Chinese
always at werk, whether it be night
or day. The church or chapel Of
these towns is a prominent feature
Of the miserably mud strutures, just
as that horribly-forlorn looking lit
tie animal, the jackass, Is feature
among the people. You will Oftener
see a Mexican minus his cigarette
than separated from his burro. Los
Vegas is the most populous and
prosperous city in the territory, the
majority Of its 5000 people being
Americans who have been drawn
kither by the famous hot springs
and the opportunities presented foI
money-making, not only from the
springs but from collaborating and
mining, the Vegas being central
point. South of Los Vegas We
come into the Glorieta range OF
mountains, which are no less famous
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