The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-01

the same material are added AIiscel-
laneous use soon balls up the cotton
or, equally as bad, leaves it in ridges
and burrows, in which condition the
to remain. The bed rooms unless quite
small contain two cots and if the house
is full they must be paid for or room
mate accepted
Your correspondent had been led to
expect high prices in Mexico, but finds
the reverse to be the rule and appends
some figures for the convenience of
such Of your readers as may eontem
plate sooner or later visiting their in
teresting neighborhood. For the sake
of clearness the prices are reduced to
American money, that being at a large
premium here, as Mexican silver is
not redeemable in gold.
All hotels in the City Of Mexico are
run on the European plan, restaurants
are attached and one may eat on the
premises or not as they please. Rooms
at the hotel Iturbide, the largest estab-
lishment of its kind in the Republic,
are so cents to $1.75 per day. A regu-
lar dinner consisting of soup, fish,
three meats, vegetables fruit and cof-
fee for dessert can be had at the Mai
son Doree, Concordia or similar first
class restaurants for so cents. Wine,
liquor beer and cigars, cents. no good
apples are grown but oranges, lemons,
bananas, grenaditaS-a specie of POM
egranate. 8 cents dozen all round.
Any where in the interior, away from
the capital, hotels are run on the
American plan and the best ones
charge 81 to $3.50 for room and board
per day. Should q prolonged stay be
made, lower rates can be obtained.
Carriages 80 to so cents an hour, street
car fares from 8 cents upward, accord
ing to distance travelled.
Railways now reach nearly every
point of interest in the Republic and
their mileage is constantly though not
rapidly increasing. Their fares are rea-
sonable, the accommodations good and
the management excellent. In short,
those wishing to escape the rigors OF
northern winter or TO visit a foreign
country without leaving the continent
cannot do better than spend a, few
months among the descendants of Mon
tezuma. If they cannot accustom them
selves to Mexican cooking, house rent
is low and girl help Of all kinds plen
tiful at So or 81 a month, the latter,
naturally, understand more Spanish
than English and are said to know
more deviltry than either.
AS the hand Of the dial has been set
back 200 years in Mexico, the writer
may be pardoned for briefly reverting
here to some opening incidents con-
the SUM- ] left Salt Lake in mid-Oc-
tober to witness the closing days of
the fair and while away fortnight on
the eastern sea board. In New York,
when the winds coming up the bay
were beginning TO have the chill me-
mace of coming winter, an irritant
cough was added to bronchial troubles
already in stock, so concluding that
Ga ay-haired December and his shivar-
ing kindred were not proper restora-
tives for 1.-The lost chord vocal chord
the vertical line of travel was chang
ed. / wheeled to the southwest and
reached the southern border at Ell Paso
resolved to pass the winter in Mexico
and possibly in South America as we'll
Our little Texan town was in a local
fernent about the so-called revolution
in Mexico. Every stranger arriving
was regarded with curiosity if not sus-
picion.
Hand bills flooded the streets and
alleys offering So day for men equipp-
ed with horse, rifle and ammunition
and 81 a day to men enlisting for in
fantry service with the revolutionists
but where, oh where, were the revo-
lutionists? Some gangs of marauding
Mexican thieves had banded together
for revenue only-were having exciting
adventures in the chapparel of northern
Chihuahua and Sonora. They are said
to have numbered among them some
of the worst desperadoeS between the
North Fork and the most southerly
sweep of the Rio Grande The popu-
lation on either side of that ever-chang-
ing stream is largely of pie-bsld par
entage. Mexicans, Indians. half-breeds,
lcowboys and assorted deSperadoes and
evii-doers of every shade and variety
thrive apace. And, like the ever-shift-
| ing sands of the river bed, they veer
from side to side as the approach of
the sheriff or any other emergency may
suggest.
Coming to FL Paso by way of Rio
Grande Western, Denver & Rio Grande
and Santa Fe with their usual luxuriant
comforts of modern travel I had some
nisgivings about the, till then. untried
and supposedly antiquated equipment
of Mexican railways, but the writer S
broader experience has taught him
country are equally as well equipped
and the management in no wise in
ferior to our own At Juarez custom
officers go indifferently through the
baggage. Your valise, umbrella and
travelling shawl are thrown at the bonn
bastic, kindly-hearted niger standing
expectant on the Pullman platform-he
waves you into lower three, where
sinking into the cushions with a weary
haf-hearted sigh, you wonder after all
whether the game is really worth the
candle?" The depressing effects of that
Hast leaden meal at the leading FL Pasc
hosiery where everything on the table
] was sour except the vinegar, constrains
/ a negative reply to your mental cues
ton, The other passengers in the
sleeper, all apparently from long dis
tances retire early, but next morning
rise expectantly and with long looks
at the low-lying hills and barren, ster-
lie waste of rock and sandy desert
wonder if they are really in Mexico and
have been travelling through it al
night long. Giant lizards, the thorny
hopal tree, organ cactus and other wild
and fantastic variants of the prickIS
pear family furnish scant compensa-
ton to those half-informed travellers
who expect the train to cross the divid.
Ing line with a large sized jolt and
lplunge at once from midwinter to mid.
lscummer- For all such inexperienced
tourists much of the pleasure of z
journey here will be lost in the shuttle
THE scenery and tropical features OF
Mexico lie far to the south. Straggling
tourists who may feel disconnected with
the face of the country lying between
the tropic Of cancer and the Rio Grande
Isheuld follow the example set by trav
telling theatrical companies and take
their scenery with them.
Coming from the north, the first tovr
lcf Importance reached by the Mexican
central is Chihuahua, from whence par
ties wishing to reach the Mormon set
Elements in that state, travel inland
continuing south with slight trend
20 the east, the train makes brief stops
lat most Of the wayside stations. Al
leach of these we are received by the
usual deputation of depot loafers, eacf
of the adobe huts in the neighborhooC
furnishing it's quota This connar-coy
Iored race appear to have run entirely
to hat Hat in large capitals is theil
greatest and only fad. Remove Tho
lsOnbrero and blankets or earar1, es