The National tribune., 1886-02-25
NATIONAL MENT.
Information for Comrades in Regard TO that Event.
AN INVITATION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF
NEM MEXICO.

AN INVITATION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF
NEW MEXICo.
The Department Of New Mexico has issued
the following Circular:
HEADQRs DEPARTMENT OF New Mexico GAR,
EAST Las VEGAS, y. NJ, Feb. IL, 1856.
To ute Comrades throughout the q. s., greeting.
COMRADES: The near approach of the meeting of
the National Encampment, at San Francisco, Cal,
has induced me to lay before you the following
gestions as 10 the arrangements route and plans Tor
the trip.
write you in my Official capacity, asking you to
lay the subject matter OF this letter before all the
comrades who may contemplate going to san Fran
cisco.
| would respectfully represent that we have
eleven Posts in the Department OF New Mexico.
Being on the frontier, We are necessarily weak In
numbers. The Posts are located at Las Vegas,
Ration, Santa Fe, Wallace, Albuquerque. Deming.
Silver City White Oaks UiiISborO and Kingston.
All but three of these Posts are on the line of the
great Trans Continental route, the Atchison, To-
peka ~ Santa Fe Railroad. White Oaks Is reached
from Socorro, while Iiisboro and Kingston are
reached from Lake Valley. All these places are
mining camps with rich mines of gold, silver and
other valuable minerals
You will find an open-hearted lot of comrades in
this Department, who cordially invite you TO come
and visit them. Committees will be appointed to
meet and welcome you on all your incoming trains,
and whose duty it shall be to care for your COM
fort and who will that hotel and other expenses
shall be reduced to the minimum. and give you full
and reliable information on ali subjects desired
You are invited to remain In the department OF
New Mexico as long possible, both going and
coming from San Francisco.
L would respectfully represent to you, and be-
leve with truth that there is country under the
with greater resources, developed and uude-
yelOped, than New Mexico in her agricultural,
horticultural, grazing and mineral wealth. Lying
south of the 37tii parallel of latitude ut an eeva-
ton of from 5000 to II 900 feet above the and
basling in the glorious sunlight all the year round.
with pure air and malaria, this climate is the
finest and healthiest the carth-the home of the
invalid suffering from pulmonary and other dis
eases incident to the soldiers life
The resources of this Territory are certainly mar
yeous and worthy of your consideration. There
grand opportunities for the poor man well as
tine capitalist. Our comrades Will show you this
wonderful country, rich with the civilization OF
the old Aztec in contrast with the new, giving
you all the information possible.
In personal interview with that friend of the
old soldier. W. +. White esq, the General Passen-
ger and Ticket Agent of the Atchison. Topeka 4
Santa Fe RaiiFOadat Topeka, Kan, am assured that
the great TransCOntinentai route Will do all 1t can
to make the trip across the continent pleasant and
desirable for our comrades, and viii extend every
possible favor.
This great Trans Continental route the Atchison
Topeka and santa Fe invite you to pass over their
line and see the vast, rich, undeyeioped country
traversed by it. needing only the magic touch oi
intelligent labor and capital to reward the comrade
an hundred and in many cases a thousand-fold-
The open hearted comrades of the Department oi
New Mexico invite you TO come and visit them
They will make your STAY pleasant possible
in their new homes the home OF the beautiful sun
shine, in the finest climate on earth IN country
containing untold wealth and with vast undeyel-
oped resources. | feel when you return to your
homes you will tell your waiting comrades, when
speaking of your visit Ill New Mexico, The hall
has never been told u.s.
Come and pitch your tents with u.s. we will give
you soldiers welcome.
am, yours, liz F., {. and L.,
J. J. FITZGERRELL,
Department Commander.