Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-05-19
Seeing the Sights.
THE EXECUTING EDITORS NEAR
ING SAN FRANCISCO ON
THEIR JOURNEY.
Missourians In Every Town Visited
Who Hanker After H0me-Au.
drain Horses In Colorado.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Ledger.

New Mexico, May 13.-6rand old
Missouri" There is nc State like
her. There is fine scenery and ele-
CANT climate out here but no soil
nor society and water is scarce.
Horace Greeley, we believe it was,
eace said that CHI only lacked
water and good society"
We have been sup in the world
for a day or so. The air is raw and
the snow plenty on the tops OF the
Rocky Mountains.
Most of the people out here came
for their health; those who did not
die could not get back.
There are springs throughout the
country guaranteed to cure all kinds
of diseases, but funerals are as thick
and fast as the sand storms.
We find Missourians in every
towr. we visit and all of them would
like to get back home. We have
had several queries in regard to
Mexico and her institutions.
The best horse we have seen since
leaving home was at Colorado
Springs. He was in the big parade
and attracted a great deal of atten-
ton. He was bought at Clark &
Potts combination sale in Mexico
a few days since.
Louis Nelson, President of the
National Bank in st. Louis, told
me at the Southern Hotel last week
that he had been offered $4,000 for
his park horse he bought OF. T. S.
and j. Harrison for $1150.
Pueblo, Colo, is a great manu-
featuring city and we noticed the
town was dark with smoke from
factories. On inquiry we found that
the people did not object but "want
all the factories they can get, smoke
or no smoke"
There are thousands of cattle on
thousands of hills, but as there is
not rauch else on the hills we don't
see where the tttenderloins" are to
come from.
Mountain trout are plenty and the
fishing is fine. Capt. Buckner and
Billie Morris would be in their glory
and after an hours sport would on
ly have to tell the truth to surprise
their friends in two ways.
Burro are plenty and resemble
nothing we. ever saw except the
writers dog, "Budge." Burro and
ljack rabbits and prairie dogs are the
principal products of New Mexico.
These animals live on climate and
scenery and are correspondingly fat.
Our party met Jay Gould to-day
on his special car. Jay looked as
though he was afraid we we're broke
and wanted to borrow fifty.
Twenty or thirty days on a sleep
ing car is almost like being in jail
for that length of time, as far as
hearing from the world at large is
concerned. We just heard from the
Sedalia Convention this afternoon
and the Missourians appear to be
gratified at theTesults. The Demo.
cratic party in Missouri cannot af-
ford to make any mistakes this year.
The enemy is well organized and is
going to put its best men forward.
If every county in the State would
put up a strong local tickets as
Audrain, Missouri would go fifty
thousand Democratic majority.
We hear the move to build new
Baptist and Presbyterian churches
has been abandoned. Surely this
is a mistake. There is no reason
why Mexico should not have these
new churches n BOARD of Trade and
paved streets.
Have the boys all returned from
their rip up Salt River? 1t is no
too late to put in a crop. Sure
enough farming pays better thar
farming in politics, anyway. The
political farmer who works the farm
er who works the soil has abou'
played out in Missouri.