St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-23
The EDITORS JUNK EFT
interesting Story Of Their
Long Journey Across the
Continent.
Some Of the Strange Sights
Witnessed by the Pencil
PuSheps.
Talk Of a Great Wool Mark ct
in New Mexico Terri
tory.
How Moquis "Work" Travel
erS for Their Loose
Change.

road, as it leads rugged, tortiouS way
among the San Francisco mountains.
All is sand and sunshine in this cOnn-
try, and yet man and beast, existing on
equal terms. seem to thrive with the
merest sanction of a god. After a
stinted entertainment at Colorado
Springs, that wOnderously weird and
attractive region-the three special
trains bearing the junketing party re-
turned South to Pueblo. Here the edit
ors were welcomed in a spirit truly
characteristic of Western prosperity.
Public and private vehicles of every
description were in waiting as the three
great specials steamed into the prettiest
depot in the West. Pueblo was driven
over from center to suburb, from Its
gigantic steel works, around
Beautiful Lake Minnekwau
to the high plateaus from which the
visitors sighted the glistening snow
capped peaks of the Spanish mountains
erect, austere, sublime. From any of
the broad streets of Pueblo may be seen.
on clear day, Pixies Peak, Old Chey-
enne. Cheyenne gorge and the Spanish
and Colorado peaks.
Pueblo. aside from its great and
growing industries, its pretty brick cot
tages and its enterprising city council,
maintains what is probably the most
costly and Interesting mineral exhibit
in the United States-the mineral pal
ace. The palace is structure OF ar
tlstic design. Within it the precious
metals of the Colorado mines are eX-
posed to view in nugget, crude and
finished form. 1t was here where the
independence of successful miner was
recently expressed by the act of a
seedy-looking jack-i n-quartz who re-
fused the pittance of $4,000 cash for a
lump" which he has placed in the
exhibit. Pueblo is an interesting city,
but it smells bad. The sulphur from the
steel smelters was loudly obnoxious to
the sensitive OlfactOry nerves of the Wis
iting scribes. Breathing becomes task
when the barometer is low. While such
is the difficulty with persons whose stay
in the city is only temporary, the ''fXed
people" of the place declare that moth
ing, not even whisky, is so exhilarating
as Pueblo ozone. A potent substantial
ton OF this assertion is observed in the
robustness Of the average Puebloan.
Truly, of these people, it may be said,
tIfCy 0lO oOCiully anu .POAApASAAAs AOO
ppeblo. ~. 5a-..-...
j When the editors shook the dust of
Pueblo it was night, and when they fell
out of their shuffie-box berths on the
morning of the 18th. the homely, greasy
little city of
syC. Las Vegas
greeted us smiling. During the night
we had stormed over the barren wastes
of South Eastern Colorado, where no
man llyeth and dogs do bark at strang-
ers. We were glad that night shut out
from view the deSolatiOn of this district.
But New Mexico! Ye gods: what a
land. The domain of the lamented
MOntezuma is certainly the most inter-
esting part of greaser land.
Brushing the foot of the Rockies from
Trinidad southwest to Las Vegas,
which thrives just south of Hot Springs
"a healing cup in. natures generous
hand-one is carried in fact and fancy
over the most pictured part Of the land
of suns and drOuth, of adobe hutS and
religio-dementia, of fiat, bushy, scrub
pine and evergreens. the roaming realm
of the bleeding pententee, the stamping
ground of newer, nObler civilization,
where tomales and chilli-c On-caInie
stuff the Mexican belly, while a mad
dened religious fervor and native idol
airy feeds the spiritual nature of the
dusky greaser. Here lies, almost hid
den in the dust of ages, the ancient city
of Santa Fee, the capital of New Mexico.
Burned and brown, with its primitive
features, it still stands in the shrunken
forms of crumbled homes and missions
the oldest city in the United States.
It's settlement antedates that OF st.
Augustine, Fla, by. twelve years.
From Las Vegas, where we searched
and talked in manner becoming the
purposes of all observation tour, we be-
gan the ascent of the GlOrieta mount
aims. Las Vegas Gin Spanish, The
MeadOws) is composed of two distinct
parts-the old and the new Las Vegas.
1t was to the ancient quarter of the city
to which your servant and small party
of friends directed their attention.. To
the fraternal grasp of the Elks we owe
a comprehensive view of old Las Vegas;
for Just as we greeted the Mexican city
our party was approached by sunny
faced young man, who, recognizing OH
the coat lapel of one of our party the
emblem of the order of the Elks, eX-
tended to us kindness as unusual as
it was welcome. His kindly nature,
beaming with bonded regard of his
brother Elks, fairly poured itself upon
us. We were posthaste bundled into
his wagon and conveyed through every
narrow sun baked street of the
Old and Ruined,
Tricky people city, where the burrO and
the Mexican boy are chumS, where
pretty, dark evil-eyed senoritas curse
and threaten, and where the men
lounge around the pulques hops looking
for beer and encounter. In this ancient
site of Spanish presumption the people
are picturesque, ignorant-bad.
. They do not know that New Mexico
has become possession of Uncle Sam.
They practice their old Spanish Gus
toms, diSregarding with contempt the
newer habits induced by modern civil.
iZation. As the men are bad and lazy,
so are the women lewd and faithless.
These conditions, however, only apply
to the old portion of the cty-that Sec
ton lying to the north and west of the
plot, and reared i'll mud and cacti;
where these swarthy individuals live in
low flat-rOofed hutS built of adobe,
composition of mud and water baked in
the sun.
The home of the Mexican is peculiar.
It is always square or of oblong form
and seldom over ten feet high. When
in fit of luxurious extravaganza he
builds more than single door IN his
house, it is an exception warranted only
by some sudden streak of good luck.
The bricks vary in size from foot
square down to SKA inches. These are
placed against a frame made of natural
timber trunks. Where side of the hut
is planked and dry edges of the adobe
bricks are cemented with fresh mud,
until the bricks are securely imbedded in
a wall whose inner and outer surface is
perfectly smooth. The roof, floor and
partitions are built in the same manner
of the same material. In the new gravel
.huts the walls are whitewaShed. FIRE.
quently it is observed that the walls are
profusely
Hung With Chromos
of the Savior, of Mary Magdalen and:the
saints Where there is religion the faith
is that of the Church of Rome. And
right here in the Grabbed little mud
huts, we have the paradoxical parallel
of vice thriving beside the intensest
religious fervor. The women absolve
their foul practices of the night by rev.
oraud irlvoaatiOD and fnenanca during