The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-07-19

Intsrs. & Correspondence from New
MexIeo by Mr.. 5. Is. Riggs.


Inssrs. e Correspondence from New
Mexico by AIr. 5. Is. Riggs.
Las YEGAs, n. ~, JuiY7, 1888.
EDIrnRs NRws: It was my good for
tune Oh the ip out To this section of
couhtrY 20 meet and make the acqualn.
lance of two gentlemen commissioned
by the Canadian government as repre-
seu 8tives of that government at the Ter
tic aillennIal at Santa Fe Il was their
fir visit to the west and the impression
made upon them by the magnificent
wheat and corn fields contiguous to the
a, T. S S. F. railroad was one of won,
der as well as admiration, and continual
exclamations of surprise escaped them.
And it was no wonder, for Kansas was
st her prettiest, and in fourteen years
residence in the state had never seen
the country between Emporia and Great
Bend looking so we'll Passing on
through the western part of the state,
whose praises it is not mine 10 sing, we
enter Colorado IN the evening twilight,
and the next morning at 4 o'clock
dropped of at Trinidad, near the south
ern border of the state.
This young city is situated in valley
bet ween the fo,.t hills of the Rockies,
aud u peak on the south. which is SAID
Ia he the end of the Ration mountains
aud in lis location and surroundings is
quite pictuiesque if not beautiful As
in most cases where towns here had
All existence before the rail
.oad was built there is a
new town as we'll as the old one, the
railroad having been located So as 10
skip the old one as much as possible.
The new part of Trinidad gives evidence
of degree ofprosperity not fully shared
lay the older part, and many and good
reasons can he found for the belicf that
the new will outslrip the old. and in
"a few years become the more desirable
for either business or residence A
great number of Mexican adobe huts
scattered indiscriminately throughout
the older settlement, and Inhabited by
u class OF citizens that are no improve
ment on the Kaw Indians who formerly
circulated around Emporia, either in in
lelligence, cleanliness or decency, is not
the least of the reasons that might be
given for the opinion above expressed
Trinidad claims population variOusly
estimated from 5000 to 5000. would
guess, not exceeding the smaller num-
ber-of whom two-t thirds or more are
Mexlcans. II has waterworks, gas and
street railroad track-I saw no cars OF
it. Many of the business houses are
very good, and it has hotel, the Grand
Uniop, that in building, equipment and
cuisine, would be credit u any city
west of the Mississippi. II also ha'
smallpox, measles, mumbs, chicken
pox and diptherIa in epidemic form.
had the pleasure of meeting here
DIR. Wiley, known to many Emporium,
as former resident of Quenemo, in
Usage county, always prominen
in our Ottawa s. Emporia railroad en-
terprisc, who has been located here
about FIVE years DIR. s. G. Delap and hi
good wife, and w. ID. Kennedy, thu
former two of whom were connected
with the faculty of the State Normal q
Emporia. The doctor is of the homeo
pathic school of medicine, has beer
located here about two years and half
and has very large and lucrative prac
tice. met also ] S. Stubs, the eide
son of our esteemed citizen MabloI
, Stuhhs, who has recently been transfer
J red to this place as agent of the Wells
Fargo 81 Co.'S express. Had l time ant
space would speak of the coal depOs
! its, and the interests connected there
with centerIng here, but will be com
J PEELED to pass that by, for the present
In my next will give you my lmpres
Sons nt the country between trinidad
D and Las Vegas, and of this city itself
now the home of our former townsmei
Chaplain LutZ. Yours, Il.