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

The committee appointed at the eigh-
tenth annual meeting of the Kansas
state editorial association, held at Win
field, Kansas, Mays and 10, 1888, sub
init the following:
Through the courtesy of the ALchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe railroed COM
pany, this body, with their wives, sis
ters, daughters and invited guests, num-
berInH In q all $50 persons, were gather
ed at Winfield, and from thence was
transported to and from the ancient city
of chihuahua, q distance exceeding
1900 miles, without accident, dalay or
unnecessary stoppage and always on
time, the journey lying through portions
ut the states OF Kansas, Colorado and
Texas, the territory of New Mexico,
and into the land of the MOntaZun.as in
OLD Mexico-than which Q more magnI-
ficent excursion both in scope and de
tail was never before offered by any cor
poration In the history of railroad man.
agement
BY reason of this excursion we have
been accorded the opportunity to wit
ness the introduction of a system of ir-
rigation at Garden City and adjacent
points, which bids fair 20 transform the
western portion of the great Arkansas
valley into fertile and fruitful fields, gar
dens ana orchards. We have witnessed
with our own eyes the vastness of the
stock growing regions OF western Kan
sas, eastern Colorado and New Mexico,
and we confess that every tradition and
all published reports have so far failed
to correctly mirror the grand possIbili.
ties of that region for maintaining its
now countless herds 81 cattle, horses and
sheep, and which must for all time to
come furnish the meat products OF the
world
In Colorad" and New and Old Mexi.
CO, we have seen the wealth of mines OF
gold, silver, iron, copper aud other prec-
ious ores and stones, the total wealth
and extent Of which seems past human
belief.
We have followed the steel rail over
the tops of high mountains, almost into
the regious of perpeEual snow, and have
threaded our circuitous way through
gorge and canon and valley. We have
witnessed 9 civilization quaint, curious
and more ancient than hist Iry, standing
side by side with the growth an6 devel-
opment of the nineteenth century.
Enabled by one of the bOldest. efforts
Of modern railroad engineering to scale
the mountains and descend into the
/ RloAu8 Vi &NCW 10CAlCO, We nave IOU10 IN
what was but recently the lonely canon
of the Gallinas, standing among the
wonderful springs, Veritable palace
the Northumberland as q home and
resting place for the pleasure seeker. the
| tourist and the invalid.
We have visited the ancient CITY of
Santa Fee, now about TO celebrate the
three hundred and thirtY-third Anniver.
sAry of its settlement, and have stood
under the venerable roof of the oldest
church IN the United States, and have
found the City Of the Holy Faith an OBJ.
ject Of perpetnal and fadeless interest.
Journeyiug through New Mexico we
have discovered land of Yondsrs: the
remains Of . people whose history dates
back 20 the dawn Of time, existing amid
the triumphs and inventions of . new
| and intense civilization, the creation al
yesterday. We have seen The Puehl,
Indian standing amidst telegraphs, teie
phones, street cars, gas works. water
| works, and all the evidences of refine
ment and progress. We have seen not
only gold, silver. copper, but every rar,
and precious thing man has learned tC
dig from the earth, and have seen q
house literally constructed Of preciOns
stones. We have sean 2ncks add herds
such Is exist nowhere else, the SINGLE
county of BernallNo containing two
million sheep. We have seen the trI
umps Of the gardener and agTicnltuEisl
along the banks Of the Rio Grande e
the Vineyards and orchards OF Las Cru