The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-24
NV NEXIC0'S WONDERS.
.o,rsEs TO BECoMs THE
J T-oRrD'S SANITARIUM.

-. =. Y NJ, March 16.-Itis the good
De- hast of the westerner. both the
Z 81 W. and the exotic, that man having
nali' 80 of the Independence, the free
oacs -. =. ,nconyentionalism of the life Of
DOE - viIl never again be satisfied with
the .-..oIlized habits and customs of the
We - hat he may promise himself few
cas-, n hard work and harder living on
.-,,tisr. and then return to enjoy the
- ~ his toll in the beloved haunt Of his
ll- --b. but that he invariably finds himself
w. for the old life, and the east-and
h'', ~ term westeruers include every
On the sunrise side of the Rocky
"s+oins-too cramped and penny saving,
nNIof+er brief trial he comes back, bag
- baggage, to the plains or the sunny sea
80 If the Pacific and ever afterward
Ives himself up to laudations OF the west.
AID this is true in large measure.
citizen of this territory some six
n.bs 400 returned to his old home in
rp,ansvlvsnis. A few avs ago he
80 mn among his former townsmen at
IA nlsce of business. 81 couldn't stand
~ C cast again" he said, 81 want the sun
Sgbt instead Of murky, winter darkness; L
-srt srace air, elbow room and breathing
,,or. and SO I've come back to stay.
EVERYTHING SEEMS SMALL
.,d narrow beyond the Rockies; salaries
~ small work is more unremunerative,
snJ : man is old and gray before his own
nJretrv has accumulated home and a
Tvino business.n So it is that the rank and
| file of the east comes out 10 make the Done
and sinew of the west.
If we look at the maps Of ten or fifteen
7sars ago we see here and there, sparsely
catered. a dot of town for New Mexico
and Arizona; nothing is told of them; they
are in a trackless wilderness, unknown save
10 a troop of Uncle Sans blue-coats sour
rvinp over the plains, or TO the Indians,
who lit their signal fires in the businesses of
the mountains. To-day those towns are pros
porous little cities, grown up as western
towns do in the night, like the
scriptural gourd, filled with a busy, enter
nrising population which is continually
hatcbiDg new schemes of Improvement and
progress and setting great enterprises on
foot. 1t is all as different as possible from
the dear, old-fashioned. sleepy little ham,
let's back on the other side of the continent
tai divide, where every one lives like one
family, has grown up and married and died
together and birth and death mark the only
changes. Here there is
ALWAYS RUSH AND BUsTLE
and vague suspicion Of wonderful improve
ments going on. A town out here does not
grow into a city by slow gradations, but
by leaps and bounds, as becomes the young
giants of the Occident. In the center Of the
New Mexican farming lands, with the in
estmabe advantages Of the fine irrigation
of the Rio Grande district, is Albuquerque.
the old town and the new-the former q
hudde of Mexican adobe structures, the lat
ter vigorous young offshoot which over
shadows the old nucleus and is full of
American grit and go; built up with fine
churches and schools and public and private
structures of handsome stone and brick
and Boosting that distinctive feature of civ
ilzation--street cars. Los Cruces, in the
MeSilla valley, is buried in the spring in the
dappled bloom of its teeming orchards, for
it is one Of the most successful fruit grow
ing sections Of the entire southwest.
DEMING, ON THE HIGH. BROAD PLATEAU
as level as the palm of ones hand,
IS tie city with a future" pre-emi-
nently. 1t is at the junction of
several important railroads and is
building another. 1t is also in the heart of
the cattle ranges. aud Ieing on the borders
Of Old Mexico commands q thriving trade
from that quarter. Silver City, the county
seat OF Grant county, is picturesque town
hanging on the mountain sides like an air
pa t; it is really an overgrown mining
camp, for its rich mineral surroundings
have made it the prosperous little city it is
t0.1aV vino inf tho 5rNa II
capital city and the famous town of the Hot
springs, Los Vegas-those mentioned are
tue representative towns of the territory,
SURFING, active, brisk in business and begin-
nlng to speak for themselves in the busy
enters of the east.
Inc climate OF the southwest uplands, like
le climate of California, is the strong
point OF the country. In a fair sense. lit.
ue OF IL goes long way, and there is a
great deal OF 1t, especially in the spring.
! ne winter, for the most part, is an intensi-
NED autumn, so to speak; q long, lingering.
oalmy October, with only now and then a
spurt of bad weather to emphasize the gem
eral smoothness of the winter. These brill
laht skies are seldom clouded. The sun
pours down perpetual glare of light until
one signs for an overcast day, and then
wneh IL comes signs more impatiently for
,le sunshine again. Now and then, between
november and March, a wintry storm
sweeps down from the north with a rafting
lash OF nail and scurry of snow, blotting
1uU Ihe Scared mountains and working
havoc with the drifting cattle on the open
p-aInS; OUT 1t is soon over and gone, and
ven y tne cowboys who ri1e the ranges in
! 10 storm soon forget its severity. But it
THE OPENING OF THE SPRING
eason that the souls of man ara tried
Yllnln Them, for then the spring winds set
u ana blow. with hardly one days inter
MSS from the latter end of February
N.Y. lItn Nay. To blow is nothing in itself.
~ ' ne whole surface of the country is a fine
i ~ n'Cerlng sand, and this shifts Places
i lI. ny Inc entire spring season. 1t rises
i bo ~, ms the atmosphere, and rolls across
no ianu IKE dense waves of smoke; it pene-
,o liz Vne stancheSt houses, and floats in a
,n t,om Glouo, filling the eyes, nose and ears,
r., cH HC 1ne air passages; it does every
ming Tor three months that can exasnerate
no nuLhan temper and make profaue the
tulhan tongue. Then it uuiets down to-
= alq June and becomes the mildest and
neeKest OF climates. About july, in a we'll
IS IS ",aOeu season, the summer-rains set in,
20 80. pe IL remembered. there are no rains
b oi Jul "a mentio ling the year round except in
: is ~ w. OF three months of summer. Then
3 iift va Cne anxious heart of the cattle man
-rasseo up In rejoicing, for the rich native
,is co+,i sprlng up luxuriantly, and he sees
i hoe CaIIle growing fat for the market. But
80 a. are many times when the rains held off
-. 22epIember, and the land parches with
fuenC; the whole surface of the country
a. aun, gray hue to the feet of the
bir rocky mountains The cattle die of
bai rs and starvation on the ranges, and
= ~ owners wiring heir hands in dismay
ace Tue Tg nost of famine staring them in the
iii Eli nen, perhaps, the long delayed rains