Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1897-12-28

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Newsy and Interesting Letter.
Folsom, New MEXICO, Dec "a, '97.
From this little New Mexico town I
send to you and your force my very best
wishes for merry Christmas and hap.
py New Year.
Folsom is about seventy miles SOUTH
east of Trinidad, on the Union Pacific,
Denver and Gulf railroad. 1t has an
elevation of six thousand four hundred
feet, or nearly one and one-fourth miles
higher than Morgantown,
There are lofty mountains on every
side among the highest peaks are Cap
itoline and Sierra Grande. The scenery
on the road from Denver to this place is
very similar to that which one sees in
travelling into Colorado from the East.
Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Trini-
dad are the chief towns on the road from
Denver TO Folsom. The area of New
Mexico is more than twice as great as
the area of New York; the population
is composed principally of Mexicans,
who speak the Mexican language,
The people are principally engaged in
raising sheep and cattle; the herds and
droyes are pastured on government land
at small expense, consequently the
amount received for sheep and cattle is
principally clear gain.
Some herds of sheep contain thirty
thousand head, and cattle are sometimes
in droves of an equal number where the
ranchmen bave control of immense
tracts of land.
The Mexican population, as a general
rule, is not well educated, although the
territory has good schools and ample
provision for their support.
The western cowboy is not as he is
often pictured by writer's with prolific
imaginations and no experience the
cowboy is perfectly tame, and eats bread
the same as citizen of the effete East.
Sometimes they grow little reckless
and handle their six-shooters in a seem
ingly dangerous manner, but they have
their redeeming qualities.
There is some DEMONSTRATING and train
robbing transacted here occasionally to
break the monotony of ranch life
The houses of the Mexican and also
of many Americans are "adobes," built
of sun-dried brick, and often plastered
both inside and outside; a kind of
spruce wood is burnt, which makes
fire almost equal to gas.
| spent week with Mr.. G. G. Myers,
who, a few years ago, was working for
his uncle, Alfred Yeager Mr. Myers
now has many head of cattle on pro-
Randall, is staying with her daughter,
Mrs. Myers. felt very much at home
among my old acquaintaces.
Thara ORC fhraa Mooopua1iopc nm az
Trinidad, J. M. John, S. Fl. Stevens and
Marion Carlow. All three are doing
we'll in their various lines of business.
Some of them have cattle interests in
this territory
If the people of this territory have any
real marked characteristic, it is their
doing things on a large scale. On one
occasion the government was sending a
saw-mill to some Indians, and as it was
being hauled across the plains it was
stolen, the entire outfit. A few months
later an officer was sent to locate the
stolen saw mill, and as he wandered
along the stream, he saw where dam
had been built to hold water for mill
supply, bnt no mill was visible. He
gave up the vain search and wrote the
department, 81 found dam by mill
site, but did not find the mill by dam
site.
Some OF the residents want statehood,
others are opposed II we're resilient
OF the territory | would not want state
hood, from the simple fact that the Mex
leans, being very largely in the major
ity, would control the state to the utter
exclusion of white men. A it is, the
territory has some good officers who
we're appointed by the Federal authori-
ty, still the present governor. NJ A.
Otero is halfbreed or ''greaser'
But the area and resources of New
Mexico are great, and it will in the flu
ture become very important state.
Very truly,
w. L. WHARTON.
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