Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-05-28
INGERSOLL'S PALACE.
The Cabin Home I'm New Mexico-The Enemy
of Orthodoxy and His Forty-five Thous-
and Head IF Grade Cattle.

mary to a description of Ingersoll's
log cabin in New Mexico, which Dor
sey is building for him. The situation
is one of the most beautiful in nature.
Colfax county, northeastern New Mex
leo, is an elevated plateau almost iden-
tical in area with the state of Massa-
chusetts. The Palo-Alto estate (com-
monty called Dorsey's ranch) is stu
ated almost exactly in the middle of it,
The whole country is one boundleSs
and unbroken meadow. The estate
proper consists of about twenty-four
thousand acres, in more than hundred
locations covering the springs that con-
troll the pasturage of more than a mil
lion acres. Dorsev's home ranch (his
private property and not included in
the Palo Alto estate) called Ojo del
Monte-mountain spring-is situated
on an elevation commanding view of
almost the whole country. 1t is next
to impossible to convey the proper no.
ton of western scenery to people un-
familiar with the optical effects of our
rarifed atmosphere. To say that when
the air is warmed by the sun, between
the hours of 9 and 4 cow four miles
distant will look larger. though the out
one ten PAGES off, is to assert that the
eastern people (save perhaps few on
the coast) have not the data in their
experience to verify. 1t seems impos-
sible. To state that one can stand up
on the veranda of Dorsey's residence
in the balmy morning and gaze across
endless meadows, upon mountain ran
ges 150 miles away and see the peaks
towering into the clouds is to endanger
your credibility by an assertion that
almost makes Imagination faint In
such a country, in the midst of such
scenes, in an elevated position, yet
sheltered by solemn pines and gnarled
and twisted cedars, will be situated the
summer home of Ingersoll. He has
lately become part owner OF the Palo
Alto estate, which, with its $1,000 head
of grade cattle, is valued at - ,OOO,O 900.
The house will be near Ojo del Monte
that is, few miles away. Every
thing is ''near" in n country where the
natural roads are as smooth as race
tracks and horses are rs plentiful a
chickens.
The building-or let us say build
ings. for it is a great cluster-will bC
something unique in architecture, anC
| shall be greatly disappointed if the
general plan is not soon extensivel,
copied in New England, where the ma
terial abounds in prOfusion and wher'
fanciful things in architecture are nov
the rage. Nothing more perfectly de
liphtful for a seaside residence could b.
devised, especially for spots wher
land is cheap. Its size will be com
mensurate with the generous proper
tions of the man and the boundles
hospitality for which his hearth ha
always been famous.
Ingersoll's immediate family con
sists of but four persons, a wife an
two daughters; but | am told that h
rarely sits down to meal with les
than dozen about his table, and fire
quently that number is doubled. Hi
New Mexico residence will accommC
date thirty persons, exclusive of serV
ants, without crOwding. He expects
as | understand, to occupy it fror
June to November of each year, and
is his purpose to Withdraw himself 5
far from legal practice as to be able t
devote that much of each year to tn
preparation of some books on religion
and philosophical topics which he ha
long contemplated.
Learning that Mr. y. II. Young, {
Ration, was the architect in charge,
called on him to obtain some facts fo
publication, and was permitted to tax
draft of the plan, which | send fo
reproduction in opinion. To get tn
proportions right, make the distanc
around the veranda $40 feet. Formc
into one rectangular building, tn
would make a house 300 feet LONG b