Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-07
ESpANOLA TO TRES PIEDRAS
Kaleidoscope Changes and Effects on
This Trip Down the Valley of
the Rio Grande.
IMPORTANT SHIPPING & TRADING POINT
The Developments of the Hopewell Min
ing District Means a Return of
Prosperous Times to Tres
Piedras.

Tres Piedras, A. NJ, July This place
is well named the Three Rocks, but the
man who did the naming could as well
have called it the Dozen Rocks, and then
would have had a few score of outcrop-
pings to 60 on. However, there happen
to be three rocks which are larger than
the rest, and Tres Piedras it is. These
three rocks are not of the two-by-six va
riety, but full grown, well matured
specimens, their submits towering above
the tallest pines, and from one of them a
magnificent view of the surrounding
mesa is had, and Of the mountains on the
north and east, which are outlined in bold
relief in the distance.
The ride from Espanola to this place
over the Denver & Rio Grande road is
one of peculiar experience. Through the
valley and canon of the Rio Grande the
passenger leans back in his seat and
thoroughly enjoys the Kaleidoscope
effect, but when the ascent of the noun
tain begins feeling of "will the engine
succeed" comes over him, and that soon
gives way to one that suggests the adj
visibility of getting out and pushing be-
hind. For seven miles the road goes up
hill at the rate of four feet in every 100,
winding in and out around the mountains
and ravines. and when the top is reached
sigh of relief involuntarily escapes one.
The mesa is over 5000 feet above sea
level, and stretches away on every side
as far as the eye can see. On account of
the unusual rains this year this great
plain is covered with green and bnt for
the absence of streams presents the ap-
| pearance of an endless park.
Tres Piedras is the shipping and trad
ing point for large lumber and timber in
terests. Some IL miles west is located
the numbering camp belonging to Mr.. e..
s. Buchanan, where 10000 feet of lumber
are manufactured daily by one sawmlll.
Around the mill smart little village,
with it's store, has sprung up, which will
thrive until it is necessary to move the
mill into new timber lands, and then the
abandoned houses will furnish some vote
soliciting office seeker with an example
of what the policy of the party in power
is doing to wreck the prosperity of the
great territory of New Mexico, and how
the people have been driven from their
homes by the lncompetency of the rascals
in Office. A first-class, two hours stump
speech could be written on this theme,
but everyone has already listened to the
same kind by the score, and the time re-
quired for the writing would be wasted.
The Bachelor Brothers carry on large
timber business, with headquarters in
Tres Piedras, furnishing ties and other
material for the d. & R. g., and employ a
large force of men in the work.
Some years ago large saw mill was
operated in this little town, but fire
burned down the plant and closed up the
business, and the glory of Tres Piedras
has been OF the wane since that day. But
better times are again returning. Twenty
miles to the west the Hopewell mining
camp is rapidly coming to the front and
the success of that camp means new life
to the town among the rocks. Wonderful
are the accounts of the finds and strikes
that have been and are being made in
Hopewell. Gold, silver, lead, and cop
per are said to exist in large and rich
veins, and many prospectors and miners
are making their way into the district.
In few days hope will be able to tell
the outside world something of this Ell Do,
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