The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-06-25

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Al ano'Aer stopping place there
we're onis tiBv adobe houses ssrenpied
BY Mexlcans A nusnaer a. he
tourists rushed ont to explore and
gained access to one which was ex-
quisitely neat inside with its white
bed, white washed walls and cheap
wood cuts. A woman was making
tortillas Of which she gave US some.
They are made of maize and baked
somewhat like the ash cake of the
southern negro. A sick child lying
in one corner raised the cry of "Small-
pox'' and the whites stampeded even
more wildly than the Indians had
done just before.
Albuquerque was reached in the
afternoon and stop of couple of
hours made. 1t is now chiefly inter
esting from its Spanish origin. 1t
was named for the Duke of Albu-
querque who probably colonized it.
The old Mission a few miles out, the
Preside and the ancient looking
adobe houses of the numerous Mexi-
can residents are the chief points of
interest. The adobe house in which
Gen'l Sheridan's wife was born while
her father was commandment at this
place is still standing on the Plaza.
While awaiting the start two typical
Mexicans came into town and halted
at the depot TO view the long line of
Puliman's gaily placarded with their
various notices.
One had rickety old wagon with
a dirty ragged cover beneath which
he sat and gazed with as much I'M
moved sang froid as if he had been
the Duke Of Albuquerque. Two
miserable mules were harnessed to
the pole by bits of rope and pieces
of leather. The bed of the wagon
was filed with all sorts of odds and
ends, bits of iron, rags, bottles, &c.
In reply to question he said he did
not wish to sell, but considered the
whole outfit worth $40. The other
had convoy of four, little burrows,
or Mexican jacks, loaded with 2 foot
lengths of mesquite wood. Nothing
but their ears and tails were visible.
He wanted 20 cts. per load and had
cut and brought it from the noun
tains ten miles away.
AT Williams 35 dead cattle were
scattered along the track. There
are saline and alkaline formations in
this part of the country of which
they are very fond. They often gath
err in great numbers along the road
about here to lick this salt and the
trains frequently run into them and
knock them in all directions Inter
esting villages of Pueblo Indians
were passed, along the line of the Rio
Grande river. They live by stock
raising and agriculture and are self
supporting. Their valley looked fer
tile and well titled. Crops are rails
ed by irrigation, the fields are laid
off like garden beds with ditch ev-
cry few feet to carry the life giving
fluid. They were busy planting, wat
ering, and driving their horses here
and there. They looked neat and
cool in their loose suits of white cot.
ton and their houses though hnddled
close together had certain pictur-
esque attempt at ornamental archi
lecture visible. The house of the
chief WAS of adobe with two towers
and an open white washed gallery. or
court connecting them.
Those people live just as they did
centuries before the advent Of the
whites in this country and are one of
the most interesting of the aborigi-
nal races. They are higher up in
the scale of intelligence than the av-
erage Indian and are undoubtedly
related to the earlier Aztec civiliza-
ton. They hold their lands by
Spanish grant which dates back long
prior to the occupancy of this part
of America ny the Americans.
How long will the Government re
spect that title? Till some cattle
baron needs the land for his stock.
probably. The famous Zuni and
Moqui reservations are not far from
this point. Frank Gushing an Amer
lean has spent many years of his life
there studying the habits, legends
and literature of these remarkable
tribes. The cliff dwellings of some
prehistoric people of Arizona were
not far from here, but were not visi
BILE from the road much to our re-
greet. AT Ashfork a band of Cow
boys were lassoing cattle A young
lady in our car from New Mexico
looked seornfully upon their rather
awkward performance. She could
ride bucking bronco, lasso a steer or
fire apistol equal to the best of them.
She was also graduate of young
lady $ seminary and wore handsome
gold medal received for being the
most graceful waltzer at a recent
contest in the Territory She rather
shocked the elite young men of the
East by her cavalier ways and the
names she called them-"Y GU gander
shank" being one of her favorite ex-
pressions.
OF to the north beyond our ken
few miles lay Death Valley" and
the Colorado basin region now so |
well known from it's having filled |
with water so mysteriously last sum-
mer and formed great lake. The
bottom is 300 feet below sea level.
We now entered upon the broad |
eXpanse Of the beautiful HuaIapi val
ley in N. W. Arizona. For hours we
ran through region of enchantmcnt.
On beth sides of the Santa Fe route
extended miles and miles OF wild ge-
raniums in full bloom. The very
earth seemed to flash and blaze with
their vivid splendor. No human hab-
itation, no living thing was seen ex-
cept jack rabbits, and from every
bunch ofsage brush seemed TO spring
one of those long cared denizens of
the plain as our train flashed by and
reused them from their evening ST.
estas to scurry away few feet and
then tuln and gaze after US with
wild eyed establishment. The deer
frequently gather along the road in
considerable numbers after night at
tracted by the head lights of the
moving trains. Away to the left was
the canon down which the fierce
Apache hordes dashed when they
made their last bloody incursion into
this territory. Night after night
trains wound their way through this