New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-08
AROUND ALBUQUERQUE.
or ,rrREs OF NEW MEXICAN LIFE AND
INDUSTRY.

x,,,y,r, 1T RuNs-THE INDIAN QUESTION
s,vc,., CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUsE.l
,,nrorrRor,r. n. NJ, Oct. 20.-A new raIivau
.o,,A into existence and Albuquerque is its
-s.r,,n0 no,ut. From this town the Atlantic aud
p.cisc Railroad begins its journey westward to
california Properly speaking this is only tho west
-. 5,vison of a greater system. In 1866 charter
.as bestowed upon tie company for the cOnstruc-
no, of a road from Springfield, Missouri, to San
Francisco. On the eastern division, slsnown as the
ii Louis and San Francisco Railroad the track has
t,.sr laid west of Tulsa in Indian Territory. The
western division is now finished by the completion
If the bridge across tie Colorado River at the
Needles. This is the thirty-ffth parallel route
veich has existed pager for many years. III
passes by lava beds and the pueblos of the Isletas
gagunas, Acomas and Zunis; climbs the Continental
divide at an easy grade Of hftveight feet 10 the
mile; crosses into Arizona through vast coal neids
i,ist south Of the great Navajo reservation; IRA
verses the barren valley of the Rio Puerco with the
Mcaui reservation on the north and Fort Apache
ninety miles TO the south within haling ais
lance OF the Mortified forest: enters an eRcelehs
gazing country near HOlbrook; passes ocheath the
shadow of the San Francisco Mountains through
forests Of giant pines bridges canons ana ascenuS
the second or Arizona Divide at " grade oil l3''ZS
feet 10 the nile; leaves Prescott, the capital OF tho
Territory, fifty miles TO the touth; runs withn
twenty miles OF Tue Oidhu NoiA"h VI '-'S ONNN'"'N'
approaches the homes OF the Supas and Hualapas;
ma finally descends to the Colorado River at the
Needless where dwell the cOtheless Mojaves, COO
miles from Albuquerque.
AS this itinerary shows, the thrty-ffth parallel
baE chiefly counted red men. and plentiful number
at that among it's tenants in the part There were
no towns along the immediate route of the railroad
hen its construction was begun three years ago.
II has opened section new and comparatively
unknown. But now the herdsman, the miner and
the lumberman are beginning to make the land
their own and in their wake will follow the
through" traveller aud the inevitable tourist
STUDY OF BooMs.
Meantime the town from which write has waxed
fat upon the nutriment afforded by its position as
RAILROAD centre. There are bOoms and hooms 10
Western life. There is the boom OF the town at the
temporary end Of railroad. where scores OF shan
tics spring up over night, and town lots which the
week before went begging at two bits an acrb are
reckoned cheap at hundreds OF dollars lot Ihere
II she boom OF the mining town started on the
strength of some extraordinary strike" and for u
tin, crowded with enthusiastic prospectors. The
Palace of Glory" the Hollis Delight" the Good
-~So, Bet" the Miners Church." the Rustlers
Retreat" and the other grOggeries do prosperous
business while the excitement lasts Then the
future metropolis laDRuishes, and soon the place
Shat once knew it knows only piles Of tin cans and
..ounds of empty bottles.
There is also the healthy boom, based upon
natural evolution from water tank and a railroad
siding into town. Albuquerque has proved her
l,oou to be genuine. Three years ago the listless
Mexican led his team about her streets and
s.retched the Qlebe with his crooked stick. There
ysre wheat fields where brick blocks now roar
themselves with bold assumption of age and dig
pity The horse car las replaced the Mexican bull
team and the OF substantial business blocks
show gas lets behind their plate-glass windows
There arc nearly 10000 Inhabitants there are man
ufactures and railroad shops, and the town In ac-
tive prosperity appears to lead all others in the
Territory. Meantime the old Mexican village OF
The name. which was left two miles to one side by
the railroad, is rapidly fading away, scorched by
the brilliaucy of Its successor lie rOi est mort
V,re le rOi.
THE LAND OF FIRE AND FLOOD.
BIT the railroad leads away from Albuquerque
down tho valley of the Rio Grande TO the pueblo OF
the fsletas. of local repute for WINE making. and
thence westward through various ancient Spanish
grants while the country becomes more mountain
o0s and broken. The many-stOried pueblo OF the
lagunas on high rock Just above the track is
hardly left behind when lofty peak comes into
view 10 the north. This is Mt. Taylor the highest
point in New Mexico, rising 10000 feet above the
sea 1t is clad with pine forests nearly 70 the sum
nit but showing the scars of volcanic fires Near
by are extinct craters The road now enters the
yeg,on OF lava beds From the car windows at
Bluewater Station you look out upon river VI ia'a
sOme four miles wide which stretches back for
twenty-five miles. The black surface Is gashed
with assures aud bristles with points hard aud
.harp as glass. Vegetation such as there IS APP
proacbes it but coYy. The lava beds are useful
only to the Pueblos who appear at tho stations
with silent Offering of bits of lava and Turquoise TO
the traveller.
The age of fire is succeeded by that of water, de-
spte the theories of the Indian, who holds that the
two should always be comuingled into one throat
raspipg whole. After the lava beds, sandstone
castles and obehsKs thrust their fantastic outlines
fto sight There are cliffs followed out into dark
caves and supported by flying Mattresses there are
uirArets and grotesQue sculptures, and strange
rock a. asses liae the "NavaiO Church carved by
nature into the likeness OF human edlhces. Inc
sights are much the same as on the rlde from fheDo
ar % Denver, and here, TOO is " Oardtn OF the
Coca not far from Chaves Station, a mesa some
lltS acres in extent, guarded by GINS eno hlIe1
with sandstone towers and arches IN the fashion or
liz prototype at MantOu. But 1t is a sOiTy COM
rIasnt to the gods to bestOw upon these muse
mas u eccentncities such a name. Between ChayeS
GnS Wingate the Continental Divide Is crossed
through natural p.ss at Grade so easy as TO be
lady notioeabIc: The next station IS GALLUP.
ear the Arizona line and some 90 miles west of
.lbuguerque aud this is the chief shipping point
81 coal. wv
VAST COAL DEPOSITS
From Utah nearly to Mexico there run vast coal
IDS extending down through Eastern Arizona a1d
ssscrn New-Mexico. Their extent has remained
-etreciated In Arizona it's estimated that
ss4re over $4,000 square miles OF coal lands
Ff Mexico there are immense deposits near
,'ar IL the extreme north. at Los Cerllos near
Pe, and at White Oaks near the Mescalero
don, In addition to the coal fields In the
-'.k part near Gallup and further south All
rio ara a
80 vcev small extent as compared with their mag
strds The search for gold and silver has so long
r'oD5poAzed Southwestern miners that humble
nal end evan nnnner liz We nnLil within the last FEY