Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-03
GREAT SOUTHWEST.
he MEETS FRIENDS FROM WHEELING.
A Country that Grows More Cattle Thieves
Than Products Of the Soil
Visiting the Birth Place
Of Monte1uma.
Special 10 the Registtr.

LAS VEGAS. n. NJ, June 25.-This coun.
try should be heaven to . man who fesrs
food. They have had no rain in this Rio
Grande Valley to amount to anything for
nearly year. After being detained sev.
eral days in the drowned States Of lows
Missouri and Illinois, it is feeling Of relief
that one gets into country where floods
are unknown. We passed out OF the vet
belt about the centre Of Kansas. but do not
get to the other extreme until We reach
New Mexico. say about Las Vegas. Itis .
wonder how any vegetation Is living. but
We remember We are in . wonderful coun.
try.
Springer. in the northern part OF the Ter
ritory, 80 miles from here and fifty from
the Colorado line. is the centre OF what 10
called the last
RanehisE sestisa
OF the Territory. But il seems to be already
overstocked, and the cattle that Ne saW
looked bad. Fourteen miles north Of
Springer is Dorsey, named after the star.
route" man, who owns ranch some TWEEN.
ty.fve or thirty miles east Of the station
bearing his name. The Maxwell land grant
lies in here, comprising thousanos Of scres
VI SUNNI Ot thC bo9h ieALhb Ae4e ~ e&sO
Territory.
The country after We cross the Ration
mountain into New Mexico opens out into
q wide plain. which extends eastward 70
the panhandle OF Texas, and Is nearly oil
good grazing country. This 10 the heal
waters Of the Canadian river, called here
the Rio Colorado, or Red River county. Be-
fore We cross the GloTuttA mountains this
grazing country ceases until We get on tho
Rio Grsnde. Here grazing is . little mixed.
There is too much OF the Mexican elemenl
in the population and too much "rustlery"
' THis Tsi.,l.s 81 xss-k
by indiyiduals and bands organized for the
purpose 10 very much against Southern
New Mexico as grazing country. This.
with the uncertainty OF titles, keeps many
people away. This will all come right In
time, when New Mexico will stand among
the frst O. grazing country. A farming
State IL cannot be, a. lack OF water will pre-.
vent II, although the small strips Of land
along living streams of water which can bs
irrigated produce pcodigiouAy. aud oil
kinds OF fruit are raised In places along
the Rio Grsnde river by Indians and Mex
leans
ANY one sdmiriDg the picturesque, the
grand, and the sublime In scenery can
here feast on natures beauty. The old
civilization and the new are coming TO-
eslher, the old is c,rumblins; With !. an an.
cient buildings and gods. How suddenly
| this idea strikes one a the train
Raahes Out Of thS 0ssGe
known NJ the Gloriella Canon. In sight Of
The ruins OF the old Pecos church, which
| stands on the reputed birth place OF Moa.
tezuma. The forked stick and the crooked
| bough, are giving way to the American
| plow, and the Mexican and Pueblo must
either adopt American ways or step down
and out.
This is the home OF the herdsmsn, as he
was called IN Bible days, or ranchmsn In
| these latter days. As he wanders over the
land looking after the welfare Of his nocks,
his mind 70 led TO admire the wonderful
| scenery, natures works, and through them
he In led up TO Natures God. This coun.
! try, we are told, looks much like the coun.
try Of Palestine and surroundings from
whence springs the gem OF our present
day civilization.
The tiller OF the soil has no time 10 ID,
uire or contemplate Natures works and
wonders, as he stOops down over his crop,
sud Iowa, Illinois and the great prairie
| states Of tbs west
are made for him. II is money he IL aher
and the boundless prairie Of rich soil satis.
fies him, and he Is left by his God 70 plod
| or. Such n country never produces re.
ligion. or God, although It may an InEsr.
| soil.
This Is sentimental, may be, but In thess
latter days the two extremes seotn 70 have
come together. for in no place ha. ever
more money been honestly male than 10
ranching In the West, and out OF which
have grown the Cow boy" in which are
some OF the elements Of Abraham, IAaAc
and Jacob. ,
This town 10 just now having o little
boom. Il u the railroad point for th1 ce'-
| ebrated White Oak country In which some
Wheeling people are intere,tsd. Rev. Rich.
| ard Carson IL located here - . Presbyts.
| ran minister. lie is Q son OF Joseph Car
sor, OF Ohio county. We met Whceltng
people In all parts Of the West, from kan.
sss City to this place, at nearly every point,
and a. take the train tonight II 10 With
the expectation OF meeting With camp Of
Wheeling bows before tomorrow night
| still farther west,