Mohave County miner., 1883-06-10
Albuquerque.

Combining business wiSh pleasure the writer recently took a trip over the line o1 the atlantic Pacific railroad as far east as Albuquerque. The trip. as far as relates to the beautiful and varied scenery on the way, the gr eat engineering features of the
 road in the shape of tie Canon Diablo anC
 other bridges, the immense pine forests and snow clad peaks of the great San Francisco mountains, all these have been described sc often III both eastern and western piperS
 that repetition thereof would be monot- onOGs. Hence we propose to tell our road CTS something of the new city of the east
 ern terminus of the A. < F. railroad, city which Is scarcely three years old, and yet numbers already .G0C inhabitdnts; citE which is the offspring and pride of the Az lantic and P!cific railroad and which d4- rives its main support therefrom. Albu querque is essentially 8 city of young mel md tine entet prise and activity of youth are everywhere apparent. Perambulatini though its busy streets one clnu0t fan {
 be surprised at the large number Of sub stantial business houses in every branch oj trade. all Of whom appe IT to be doing good bu3iness. The stores IS e rule are large and splendidlY fitted up with Elate glass windows. handsome fixtures and mag
 Iifcent showcases, and one and all of them cranIned from floor to ceiling with stock of goods varying from 8 coo to $250OO0, and in,some instances, we believe, more than that. And right here we desire to cor
 rect a wrong impression that seems to have gained credence here, and wish our readers to distinctly understand that the merchants of Albuquerque are ;.b!e to fill any order sent them in any line of business, whether it be by the carload or less. and prices are as low as in Chicago and St. Louis, with freight added. That Albuquerque is a great business centre one can see at glance from the enormous amount of freight received and shipped daily. Wells, Fargo < Co.'s express office is doing a business second only to Denver among western cities and the business of the banks, more especially the Central Bank, is something enormous for city the size of Albuquerque. We doubt if there is another city ill existence with fhe same population where as much business is dOne in ons day and where the facilities for doing business are as good. The city possesses all the modern improve ments of gas, telephones-of which there are some eighty in use-street cars, etc.
 and in less than three weeks will have the electric light in use Albuquerque is now the great commercial center of the territory of New Mexico and if it continues it's pres ent rapid growth bids fair to be the future metropolis of the southwestern portion of the United States. Outside of being a great railroad center it has 8 vast homo trade from the rich mining districts of the terri tory, it's immense grazing counties covered with countless herds of cattle, sheep and coats, and now in addition to 2ll this it is T p;diy acquiring all the trade of Northern Arizona and particularly that portion tra- versed by the Atlantic and Pacific railroad. It already has the great bulk of the trade If this county, trade which cannot fail to increase tenfgld with the opening up of our wonderful mineral res0a9ccs consequent upon tLe advent of the railroad among us. Wi ith all these advantages and many others is there ahy cagse to wonder that Aibuqutr que has become what t ;s in the short splce of two years and half. During our visit we noticed but one thing wanting in i've city of this size and that was fire de'