The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-24

ces. Entering the state of Texas, we
have found the AourishIng city Of FL
Paso standing At tine gate OF Mexico,
and destined, IS We believe, 10 be one of
the great commercial centers OF the
country.
Crossing into Mexico, we have found
an ancient county awakening from the
sleep OF centuries. possessing boundless
resources in its mountains and plains
the former filled with mines rs rich as
those which awakened the enterprise OF
Cortez; the latter covered with sheep
and cattle, which roam undistuTbed
through the year, knowing nothing OF
the cold and the storms of winter. We
have visited the famous CITY Of Chihua-
hua, and have met an orderly, refined,
gallant and hospitable people. and have
| passed with them a'day as bright as if
| spent in the gardens OF Andalusia or the
/ courts OF the Alhambra- We have tx
1 perienced in q foreign land a. welcome
/ es hearty as could have bees expected
from our own countrymen, and well
come which we can assure our friends Is
extended to every orderly and law-Abid-
| ing American. We have been impressed
l as never before with the existence of a
| stable government, and q brilliant posi-
BILE future for the republic OF Mexico
On our homeward journey We were but
the more thoroughly c0nYinced OF the
correctness of the impressions which we
formed on our journey southwark.
| 10 consideration of the vast fund of
instruction, comfort and enjoyment af-
fOrded us by this jour ley, covering such
vast distances with celebrity and safety
journey such as we have never made
before, and which the experience of no
future pilgrimages can obllteratel
through lands opened To the traveller by
the A. T. & s. F. r r. company, and
largely developed by il, we would return
our sincere thanks to the officers and
} management Of this great corporation
and would cordially recommend oui
countrymen and countrYwOmen TO avail
themselves Of the same great highway
and go and see what we have seen.
While the members of the excursion
have been treated with uniform kindness
everywhere. the committee wish TO ex
press in their behalf special sense o
, obligation 70 the brave and hOspltablt
people, and especially to the ladies o
Garden City, for an entertainment pre-
, pared in the face of seeming impossible
| tiles, yet worthy of any city in the coun
try. A kind recollection will be pre-
served of Mr.. r. j. Hinton, formerly o
Kansas" and other citizens OF FL Paso
Texas, for facilities afforded for in7esti
| eating the ancient city Of Paso de
Norte. The members of the excursion viii
entertain q sentiment of lasting graft
tude to and admiration for the people
OF chihuahua, who, though speaking
foreign tongue gave them to under
stand that the language of kindness II
everywhere the same, and the reception
given in Mexican homes, and at the ele
, CANT Casino of chihuahua will remain {
bright and perpetual recollection. 4
stay ct Albuquerque, where we exper
fenced for = longer period than at any
one point the seemingly boundless hos
pitalIty of the people, was full of inter
est, and henceforth the editors Of Kan
sas will endeavcr to remember that "on(
, good turn deserves another" Finally
J our stay at Trinidad, though shOrt
, | was crowded with the evidences OF the
energy, courtesy and tact of the people
The visit 10 the wonderful coal mines
the elegant words of greeting, the stump
tuous banquet, and the brilliant ball a
, the opera house, frightened the closing
hours of q delightful journey In ex
tending thanks to whole communities
j we trust il will be understood that the
kindnesses extended by hundreds of in
dividuais is included and remembered
Through the kindness of the officers
of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad W.
were furnished special train to visit
the Grand Canon or Royal Gorge of the
Arkansas, which furnishes Rocky Noun
tain scenery rarely equalled on the con
tinent for beauty and grandeur; to pas
through the narrow defile eleven mile
in extent, where the waters of thu
Arkansas pour along at the foo
of mountains that rise perpsndicularlY
above the river bed to a heIgh
of $500; to pass at the base OF thu
mountain ranges, and look upon thu
lofty summit OF Pixies Peak in the dis
lance, afforded pleasure for which w
|, tender our thanks to the Denver & RiC
Grsnde railway, and especially to Capt
Tibbits, the very gentlemanly manager
of the excursion on behalf of that road
H. B. KELLEY,
N. L. PRENTIs,
r 8 TURNER,
E. M SHELTON,
j. LANE,
A. d. BROWN,
G. w. SwERsY,
w. D. GLEASON,
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