St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-06

presume every one OF the New Eng
land and Middle states are represent
ed here. There are many nice peo-
pie from "way down East" who have
some how or other wandered ont to
this far-away place.
Although not an incorporated city,
Albuquerque has its police and fire
departments, which are paid by sub
scription by the business men, sa-
looms, and gambling houses. | ex-
pect that a stroll along Railroad ave
nue., of Sunday evening especially.
would be apt to shock the good peO-
pie of st. JOhnsbury. Every other
door for blocks, opened wide and in
viting (?), discloses either faro table,
roulette, or the great western game of
"stud- horse poker" in full blast, and
crowded around with players stalking
all the way from ''two bits" (25 centS)
to hundreds of dollars. Gin mills,
saloons, variety theatres, opium Joints,
v 1
assure you, and every now and then
Just for fun, somebody "'turns loose"
his ''forty- fve" and shoots the ali
full of holes, so to speak. Only hast
week the editor of one CT the daily
papers published here emptied his
revolver at a saloon keeper who in
suited him, but his forte evidently
did not lay in that line, as he most
miserably failed in doing the least
damage to anything except the plas-
teTing. But talk what you will, | dc
not consider that a person is in as
much danger for his life or hi:
valuables in this rough frontier tow
as he is in Chicago, where | have LIVED
for the last eight years, and where
"hOlding up" sand bagging an(
murder is of ten times more common
occurrence, even taking the ditferenc,
in population into consideration.
The climate is delightful, or would
be if it was not quite so hot in the af
ternOons the nights are cool anC
the air seems so pure and light III,
catarrh, that has troubled me for :,
long while living in Chicago, along
side of Lake Michigan, is of very littl,
annoyance to me here. | think tina
with the thermometer mt 100 degree
here one does not suffer from tina
overpOwering sense of suffOcatiOn o
feel the heat us much as at eighty tiv
or ninety degrees in Il lower altitude
There is one thing, at least, however
that | must say dc detest in thi
country, and that is the sand storms
which come up every day and some
times, but rarely, for days at time
during which time | advise one t
keep off the street.
We have the electric light, gas
telephone and other .'modrrn improve
ments' of the day here. Two railroad
at present, and two more building
SHELTERS, mills, the workshops of tn
Atlantic and Pacific railroads an
other manufacturing establishment.
furnish employment to quite a mum
Der of men.
Albuquerque is right in the mid>
of as rich a mineral country as can h
found in the United States gold. si
yer, copper, iron, mica, and other min
erals are here and only await til
coming of capital and muscle to max
New Mexico one of the greatest min
ing countries i'll the world. Petrolt
, um, too, has been struck, and coal
} plenty and to spare. There is fol
tune awaiting the company or ma
who will first undertake the manufac
ture of soap from the native soa
weed which grows here in great album
dance. As for agriculture, there
no better land in the world for al
most everything that grows than tn
Rio Grande valley the only thin
needed being irrigation, which ca
be had very easily and at little cos
On some accounts irrigation is niue
better than trusting to Providence fo
rain, as many farmer knows to hi
cost. One can have his water wher
he wants it, and just as much or a
little as he wants, and it beats wait
ing for rain "all to pieces" Tn
Mexicans are too Ignorant and to
lazy to raise anything except barrel
enough to live on, and what we wan
is few thousand of good, sensibl
farmers to come into this rich an
fertile valley, and it would soon bu
and blossom in a manner to surpris
the present inhabitants. | do thin
that for perfect example of lazines
and shiftlessness, dirt and grease,
Mexican ''takes the cake" and when
ever you hear anybody talk abOu
beautiful senOritaS, you can just tur
up your nose in great shape, for
more disgusting, filthy, mortal hOmel
set of women, | never saw. Honestly
saw some Pueblo Indian squaw
the other day that for cleanliness an
good looks beat any Mexican woma
l have yet run across.
have not yet made up my min
that l like this country over an
above much, and | shall not be SUI
prised at myself if | jumped the tow
hefnre lonr | cannot saN flat