El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-13
THF LOBBY LOUNGER.
Wonders of the Head of Delaware
Creek.

| tlOn OF FL PaSO county bordering on the
! New Mexico line.
Take this seat. 1 am just from the
head o. Delaware Gre add L have II
tale 10 unfold. Here is an imported
cigar. rot from the tobacco regions OF
the c ctus repu bic, but from the war
cursed queen of the Antilles"
Are the Delaware Creekians in war
paint for the independence of the Is
land?' ventured the Lounger as he
less the promised tale to be unfoldcd
was some plot to snatch the que, n
from the royal holdiog of Spain.
'NO, SIR. n party OF capitalists, &C
O. mpani' d by q surveyor, an expert
chemist and d phys C an haVe Speht
nearly all OF the past month in exam :
ng the country between the head OF
| Delaware creek and the GuaCa!upe
mountains The whole party lief. for
has leaked out hat the vast sulphur
deposits. a few miles west OF here. were
| the principal d TRACTION, and tt at the T.
| development on d large scale Will be
undertaken before long.
"The d velOpments are to consist OF
Il sulphuric acid factory and sublimat-
ing works and also the construction of
q short ra lruad to the head of Della
ware creek. This point is close o
| y
mag n ticent scenery and enjo most
| delightful china {. 1t Is the place
| where the dyspcptic regaius MS apeti-
lite and digestion and TIE ccnsun ptlve
funs the risk of reaching the age OF
| four score and ten.
No spot on earth has greater va
rety of mineral waters than has tn
little nook on the Inc OF Texas and
New Mexico. No two springs are
alike in their properties, some are bit
! ter as qulnine. some sweet. some salty,
| others sour and some pure as rain wa
ter. Nearly all famous springs of the
world have their counterpart here and
a man eau have his setter, Carlsbad,
Mineral Wells, Hunyadi or sulphur,
| chalybeute. soda or salt on demand.
About forty square miles of land are
covered with sulphur, the country
| along Delaware creek having under
me most violent volcanic disturb
anCe.
"Some of the springs have been 10
| cally famous for years, nearly all are
IL edicinal and some are of great COM
mercial value. Out of a raviue, in
which have lodged for centuries the
foliage Of the jumper and cedar trees,
! flows u small stream OF water highly
charged with tannin: q few yards below
! it Joins the flow from a chaly beate
| spring, and becomes black. Boiled
down and filtered it makes the ink with
which this letter is writ en-. Within
| fifty feet is a spring OF sulphurous acid
ana coming from small cavern. in
! feS;ed by bats, Is Il stream strongly I'M
pregna ed with saltpetre, the two form
ing good foundation for a dynamite
| factory. The kind OF Dhur spring
| that reminds one OF ancient hen fruit
is much in evidence in certain places.
"A famous spring issues from a bed
| Of rotten slate, sOapstOne or fire clay
standing on edge. The liquid is hot,
colorless. but has decided flavor re-
! sem bling cOrsomme with Just enough
seasoning 10 whet an appetite. Tee
! spring is well knOwn to the residents
OF this coontry and is considered a true
soup, though all admit tbat the soup
stock is of TIE antique order, IS it was
pr, baby formed in the reptilian age of
! the carbonif9rous period. 1t would
easily pass for Pullman buffet soup. ard
with little additional seasoning mi 2
cut a.fgure in the market.
! The NEST valuable spring is on tn
ranch Of Mr.. Ander5. 1t Is dec dedly
sour, but is free from the OdOr of sui
| phur. 1t has been used for years by
Mr.. Anders by irrigatiug his cucuu,-
| bers and onions, which become most
excellent pickles by this process and
find a ready sale in all parts of west
Texas. He ships Annually from 100 10
| 500 barrels of pickles and about 1000
valley beet sugar with this natural
vinegar and immersiog his annual
crop of pOrkers therein for a time, and
then smoking them, he turns olt an
| nUally several carloads Of sugar cured
hams and shoulders and about one
| hundred barrels of picked pigs feet.
! The sides are Immersed in a salt spri @
hn a,h Ie
ket a prime bacon.
THE synd cate have secured an OPP
ton On Mr.. An1ers' ranch and propose
in connection with their other develop
meat to estab i5h a packing-h house and
| picking works, and also to manufac-
ture aCetic acid for the white lead
factories. Fine hogs can be produced
IN the Pee IS valley more cheaply than
anywhere else and ample inducements
will be offered the farmers to go into
! this business extensively. The pas
turage in the Guadalupe mount aims is
unexceled and range beef fattened on
beet pulp can be produced econ omi, al
ly in any desired quantity. The syu-
dicate's visit has distilled new life
Into our community. Tbey are regard
ed as the advance agent Of prosperity
and our people feel richer now than
they have for several years past. Town
|
cent in the last twenty-four hours.
The station on the PecOs Valley
railway, north and south of us have
fine irriga,e ed farms around them, our
section being too hilly for that pur-
pose. With the new railroad, the
health resort close Oy, the sulphur
works and packing-house, we hope in a
short time to out-trip any town in
western Texas CT New Mexico. Work
| n il To az
the bunds can be placed and a preli-
minary survey is to be made during
| the coming month";
The Delaware Creekian became very
ugly when the Lounger asked him if
the details of his recital were suscep-
tible OF veriication and left the lobby
| in hutf.-DaIlas News.
Healthy. Happy Babies
are generally the offspring of healthy,
| happy mothers. 1t would hardly be