San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-07

could not decend he wrote his
name in a memorandum book,
where he was from, when he reach
ed there and cautioned other
against climbing that horn. This
memorandum book was found,
two years after by other gold hunt
erS, and the bones were gathered
and buried and the book sent to his
people. But before the tourists
get through reading this narrative
and viewing the grand scenery
they are notified by the engineer
that they are approaching the
BuStamante station, and they will
pop their heads out of the Win
dOWS to get glimpse of the city.
The station is there, but three
miles away is the romantic and
picturesque city of BuStamante
nestled at the foot Of lofty noun
tain, at the mouth of a canon, and
hidden in groves of NueceS, (pe-
cans, nOgalS (walnutS), aguacates
Clutter fruit oranges and tropical
fruits, and only the church tower
and the smoke stacks of the sugar
mills are in sight. The scenery
from the depot is one of the most
picturesque to be seen this
far on the line Of the road.
Three miles further south is the
Guadalupe station and Smelter,
the property of Philadelphia capt.
taliStS. They also own a narrow
gage railroad to their mines thir-
ty miles away. Two miles further
south and the iron horse will
stop in front OF fine Nillaldama
station; buf there is no city there ;
for it is two miles away hidden be-
tween small hills and only little
church on top of one of them, and
the church steepl" is in sight,
There is not anything Of interest to
be seen from the station.
Soon after leaving the depot, the
train rushes through groves of
palmas, many Of them from three
to five feet in diameter and from
thirty to forty feet high, and
when in bloom, in March, April
and May they look picturesque in
white plumagc.
But the iron horse pays no at
tcntiOn to them as he ruShcS past
them, for he has steep grade to
climb until he reaches FL Puerto
the highest point between the Rio
Grande and Monterey. There it
PUSHES through a deep cut and be-
tween small mountains. As the
train energies from them tn" tour
lists will see for the first time off to
the left the
SIERRA Ia SiLLA
or Saddle mountains, forty miles
away; then the Sierra Madrc, Sirr-
RI ObispadO, Sierra la Mira and
the lesser. SicrraS, while the
tourists are admiring the noun
tain scenery the engineer calls for
brakes as he approaches the Nor
alcS bridge and water tank, but
the town is three miles away, sur
rounded by Il dense forest Of tim
Der. While the engine is laying in
a supply of water, the tourists will
for the first time have an OppOr-
tunity Of seeing groves Of bananas,
fig, peach, pOmcgranatcS, orang"
and aguacatU trees, and sparkling
waters which mprrilY sing as they
skip and jump over the polished
stones. But by the time tn" tour
list gets through admiring this
tropical garden the iron horse is
up and away and in about thirty
minutes they land at Salinas,
This is the first city on the line OF
the road that is close to the sta
ton. All the principal buildings
as well as the churches can be seen
from the cars. The city is built on
the north bank of mountain river
whose waters are as clear as cryS-
tails. But the tourists care nothing
about them, because they know
that they are now close to MOnter-
ely and they are anxious to see it,
hence they take but little interest
in the surrounding scenery. But
if they would keep sharp look
out to the right they would see
twenty miles away "Sierra FL Area
de Noe" or NOah's Ark, which is
now a petrified mountain of lime
stone.
1t was in this wonderland that
Noah built his ark, and when the
rainy season set in he took his
family abroad and while sailing
among the islands (the mountains
in this vicinity in those days
were sure unded by water) he
concluded to sample some of the
kentucky hardware that he had