Smyrna times., 1886-07-07
Across Uncle Sans Farm.
ROUGH NOTES OF A TRANS s-CONTINEN.
tai TRIP.
No. H.-From the Rio Graade to III,
Pacific.

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At Albuquerque l was made ac-
quainted with many kind and pleasant
people whom I hope to meet again.
There was no vigilance committee or
anything else to mar my pleasure dur
ing my stay.
A cattle man, who had come to town
to have some fun, amused himself by
shooting the glass out of the windows
at the San Felipe Hotel, while l was
there, but as he didn't kill anybody.
Captain Friend, of the EUeninq Demo-
crat, thought it was a very tame af-
fair and only made a six-line para
graph out of it. l heard afterwards
that the amusement seeker was arrest
ed and fined SO. I left the room
while he was shooting, as 1 did not
have time to stay and see the thing
out.
While going from the hotel to the
depot at $50 A. NJ, was surprised to
learn that the only occupant of the
bus, besides myself was a Delawarean.
had never met him before, but he
had heard of me somewhere, or had
seen my name in The Christian at
Work, he did not explain which, and
he introduced himself. He was a Mr..
Carrow, native of Smyrna, and the
travelling man of q well-known New
York firm.
Westward from Albuquerque | will
take the reader over the Atlantic and
Pacific, finely equipped and we'll
managed railroad that no reasonable
person can ever regret having travelled
on. slept on it as soundly, up hill
down, as l can sleep in my bed at
home, and, though it crosses some
desert, was annoyed less by dust
while going over it's 744 miles of track
to BarstOw than l have been during a
single trip between Philadelphia and
New York. The employees of the At
lantic and Pacific, like those of the
Santa Fe road, are, without exception.
Kind, courteous and attentive to pas.
sengers. The conductors will tell Won
anything you ask, from the time Won
will reach the next eating.station to
the cause of the formation of the Can
yon DiabOlO or the site of the ancient
Seven Cities of Cibola, and, after the
twenty-five minutes for dinner are up.
will hold the train while you eat u
third piece of pie. Conductor l.. B.
Nation, with whom l went out from
Albuquerque to Winslow, showed me
so many kindnesses that I am going to
make him Superintendent of the first
railroad buy. shall hate to rob the
A. and P. of so good a man, but when
buy railroad I shall try to do it.
Mr.. Nation showed me many points of
interest, including an extinct volcano.
He also told me how long it had been
extinct, and probably would have held
the train while ran across the coun-
try ten or fifteen miles to look in its
mouth if | had expressed such de-
sire; but / did not mention it. lido
not like to impose on good nature
when l travel, and l did not want to
look in the volcanoes mouth anyway.
The Atlantic and Pacific road passes
near many extinct volcanoes. One of
them has scattered lava in very
reckless manner for two or three hum
dred miles around. It evidently has
had a bad case of eruption, from
which it recovered, according to a bald
headed geOlogist who recently looked
in its mouth. about 1000 years ago. 1t
is exceedingly quiet now and is sup
posed to be out of danger. If it ever
relapses to state of eruption the A.
and P. road will probably run excur-
sion trains aad have line of 'busses or
a cable car to haul you right up to the
rim of the crater. That's the sort of
accommodating corporation the A. and
p. is.
Ten miles beyond Albuquerque YOU
reach Isleta, an Indian peublo. Lag
una, little farther on, is another viii
lage of the same sort. These Pueblos
are older than the jokes in 1.-THE
Drawer" of Harper's Magazine. Be-
yond the memory of the oldest inhab.
itants the PueblOs have lived in pretty
much the style in which they are liv.
ng now. They are the original and
only successful communists. They
cultivate the land and have herds and
hocks in common. They grow fine
grapes, peaches and other fruits. They
are perhaps the earliest peach growers
in the country. asked an aged
copper-cOlOred horticulturist if the ont
look for the peach crop was encour-
aging, but he answered me in Toltos
and did not catch the drift of his re-
marks. / regret that 1 did not. as n
representative of the Peninsular peach
growers, ask him if he knew a remedy
for the yellows," but as all the Pueb-
los peach trees seemed to be green.
the query would probably have been
fruitless.
The Pueblos came to the cars to sell
pottery and trinkets oftheir own nol,o