San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-11-17
SCENES IN WONDERLAND.

Fruit and the Noun
Iains their Minerals
Climate Health
Personals.
Special Correspondence to the LIGHT.
LINAREs, Nov. 10, 1892:
In our last letter from here we gave
sketch Of the city, population,
schools, products, price of land and
factories. This letter we will devote
to the country out side of the city,
the mines, the scenery and the eli
mate. Through the courtesies of
Hon. Francisco de Ia Fuente, we took
ride out into the country over
q mecadamized road that the Mexican
government is building from Linales
to Matahuala and San Luis Potosi
They have about eighty miles of it
built. Mr.. Francisco B. Leal is.the En-
glneer in charge sf the works.
We went out about six miles to q
point where we overlooked the city.
On both sides of the road were fields
of corn and sugar cane with acagu-
yiss or irrigating bitches whose wa
ters sparkled as they rushed over the
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and orange groves.
We also saw immense cypress trees
on their banks; some OF which would
measure and 10 feet In diameter.
We also passed three piloncillo
mills which were run by waterpower.
AS we assembled from the valley, We
saw spread out before US one of the
richest agricultural valleys that we
ever laid eyes on. AS far IS the eye
could reach there was field after field
OF corn, sugar cane, and sugar facto.
ries. We counted fifteen of them;
while of to the northwest and west
hundred miles away, We could see
the Sierra la Mitre. the mountain
south of Monterey; the Saddle
mountains, and all that chain Of
mountains laying south and east
of US to Victoria and beyond another
hundred miles or more. AS the morn
ing was clear, there was not cloud
to obstruct the view, the scene was
one of SURPRISING beauty. On the
way back we visited DR.. Dario's gar
den. This garden is situated on the
bank of the Rio Pablo outside OF the
city limits. This garden contains
several acres, and is full of orange,
lemons, aquacste, fig and peach trees;
bananas, grapes, tropical plants,
rose bushes, flowers, ferns OLE
anders forest trees, spruss CO.
ders, Japanese ash, and great
variety of vines, morning glories
and mantos in full bloom. The
ivy, the rose and the honey suckle
entwine around each other and
mingle their sweetness with the
mounta air. The whole scene was
the most picturesque and enchanting
that We ever beheld. After inhaleing
the odor of the roses we were 10th to
leave them. There is in the middle
of the garden 3 dancing pavilion
which is inclosed by rows of bananas,
whose every stalk is bent over by the
weight of the green and golden fruit,
while the walks leading to it are
lined also with bananas and
the sweetest of roses; the walks are
csrpeted with Bermuda grass. There
are also in this garden bathing houses
and swimming tanks, all of them
hidden In groves OF orange and ba-
nsnas, while the sparkling waters
sing merrily as they skip and jump
over the polished stones, while the
hooking birds, larks, canary, red
birds and parrots made the garden
ring with their merry songs and
laughter. Tourists who come to
the city of Linares should make
note of this and pay q
visit to this garden.
From there we drove through the
principle streets, and passed some of
the loveliest of gardens where the
trees are all ever green and the roses
bloom.
We also drove to the "Cerrito," q
small mountain that rises up out of
the valley In front OF the depot. There
we left the judge and assembled to the
top of it. When we reach the tall
cross that is erected on the highest
point, we got a grand view of the
valley and the country for hundred
miles away-To the east, south, west
and north the rivers referred to in our
last letter spread out before US, wind
ing their way through fields of corn
and sugar cane, on their way 10 join
the blue waters of the gulf. From
this corrito, we counted twenty-five
pslonciTlo mills, whose smokestacks
lowered above the fields OF growing
grain, while to the south of it lay the
Mon terey & Mexican Gulf r. r. with
their freight trains rushing through
fields of corn, sugar cane and orange
groves and orchards which hid them
from view, and only the white steam
could be seen when the engineer
blew the whistle as they approached
the crossings. But time will not per-
init us to do justice to the scenery
that spread out before us.