Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-08-23
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for the past two years and the conse-
quence is that her population is very
heterogeneous. and believe one can sec
as many (or more) nationalities than in
Castle Garden.
Every country in Europe, from the
sunny slopes of Italy and Spain, to the
ice-locked fountains of Norway, has O
representative here. The Orient fur
nishes share in the almond eyed
celestial. Add to these the aboriginal in
habi,ants, the Indians, in their glory of
paint, with the modern addition OF the
"pale face" habihments, the Mexicans
with their burros, dogs and adobe huts
and you have a conglomeration seldom
equaled. Have any of you ever seen or
heard the musical burrop He is the
nightingale of Colorado; Its range of
voice Is limited, consisting only of two
the superb quality, the deep resonance,
and flexible sinuosity which can he
thrown by this natural musician into
such small compass are tremendous.
He is used by tho Mexicans as a beast
of burden and in the fullest sense of the
word for the amount they are made
to carry In proportion to their size, is
enormous. When a man has two or
three burros, half dozen dogs, per-
haps cart, he is considered "a way
up Merican."
This town has long been center for
cattle kings, men who came here to
spend there money or gain more at the
gaming houses, and these combining
with the Mexicans, managed for great
many years to mislead Eastern capital
lists rs to the amount of wealth stored
in these mountains and foothills.
Some, more adventurous than others,
discovering that vast mine OF coal lay
beneath all this sand and scrub oak, that
the mountains were full of 1t, invested
cautiously and soon the news spread.
For two years previous to last Fall
there has been steady stream of work.
men, speculators and gentlemen C0 from
all the other states east of here.
Before came to Trinidad had but
little respect for Southerner and my
feeling of irreverence has been intensi-
fed by having some Texans for our
next-door neighbors. Ugh these hot
biscuit kind How almost detest
them. have learned how lazy, trifling,
worthless and thievish they are. One
woman took my Cook Book and "Hid
den Sweetness" present given me
Commencement Day, besides clothing
and other articles.
TO one living out West, the idea of
common brotherhood becomes almost
mythical, but If there is a common
Father, then the other must be true.
Oh, the crime and wickedness, the total
disregard for the value of human life,
the misery and shame that walks the
streets in open day with brazen faces,
are facts to stir the heart of man who
has at all the thought OF eternity.
A good opening for Missionary some
of you will suggest. Yes, but am not
Judson or a Robert Morris and l am
mands faith and perseverance. No sane
man could expect to have any influence
with the natives, for in addition to their
natural stupidity, are centuries of gross
teachings.
Easter Sunday they focked in droves
into town to place appointed, and with
naked bodies, beat themselves with
scourges specially constructed for this
self.torture. In some places they go up
on the mountain-side and barring their
bodies, roll over and over on the hard
thorny cactus. Penance with a veng-
ance
The coal mines are supposed with q
good reason, TO be inexhanstible and are
the principle source of wealth. The
coal is made into coke, good share of
it +; some is shipped to other towns for
smelters and rolling mills and now that
the cowboy is fast fading from the
sight of civilization, the wealthy coal
merchants are coming to the front.
The climate is worth boasting of,
for during the winter the sun shines al.
most every day and IN the warm after
moons one hardly thinks it winter, but
the altitude and immediate presence of
snow make the nights quite cool in the
winter and very pleasant in the summer
The town is built on both sides of the
Las Anilhas river, in narrow valley,
hemmed in on two sides by hills and
one mountain peak to the south. Just
behind our house rises bluff over four
hundred feet high from which can be
| seen the crests of the Snowy or Sangre
DE Cristo mountains, sixty miles away
and Spanish Peaks about forty miles
distant. AS these glisten in the pure
sunlight it makes ones pulse leap to see
these sublime objects. could gaze for
hours at them and yet remain lost in
wonder and admiration. Such beautiful
colors, such lights and shadows, that
one cannot help being up-lifted with
the sights.
Moonlight in this clear air is some
thing wonderful. When it is full moon
we can see Fishers Peak, fifteen miles
distant, 30 distinctly that it seems
scarcely night at all.
We are at an elevation of ak thousand
seven hundred feet, and Fishers Peak
lacks few feet of being ten thousand.
Yet we are not in the mountains, only
among the foothills.
1t is very dry. l saw no rain for four
months and the SHOWS are so light tina
there is not enough moisture in an acre
for tub of water. The storms in sum-
mer are fearful. The electrical displays
are magnificent or appalling according
to the temperament of the observer.
hope to be able to tell you more
about this inexhanstible state in sub
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