Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-05-17
A LETTER FROM SIN DIEGO.
SAN D1EGo. CAL,
April %, 1897
MR. EplToR:

MIR. EDITOR:
just before crossing the bridge to go
into Mexico you will notice the American
Custom House a very nnassuming stnlct-
IRE about twelve feet square, and just
across the bridge is the Mexican custom
house about the same siZ9, The. fare to
cross the bridge is three cents. II YOU
do nof.wish to cross the bridge you can
ford The river on a buiroN for two cents
or a Mexican will carry yog across on
his back Tor lt1ame amouAt. intend
eli 10 come back thar way for the novel
t., OF it, but the river had raised when !
IVES ready to come; SO had to come back
che same way went, it may be that it
was better. that / came. back rs did Tor
| hey might have mjstiu4,ed ne and
searched ma f9r the Opas that had
wtlsm4 Everybody brings back sou
veni.s that 80 into Mexiro 81 followed
-. - rue
Oae Thing that VAS very Dofcaab12 as
Il !,eisoi reached thr other side, WAS the
qnitrnpss. Everybody seemed to b.
moving around attending right to their
own work suuntered down The main
street occasionally stopping IN u cu',io
+ t r; Q parc!a = q few inexpensive SOU
viii.s, OF y hich !; person cam get a great
variety and pay as much as he wishes
TO- At the farther end of the. main street
is the Market ii Mexican has anything
/! to sell in The way OF vegetables 1t is
spread out on the ground and you pick
out just what. you want.
Probably the greatest place OF interest
is the old Dolby church which is about
four hundred years old and in good re-
pair. | saw them making Tortillas and
should I get back to Eagle River | can
| tell how they are made but shall not
Iattempt to write it as | could not GO
it Justice After looking around Juarez
and spending all the time could there
came bacl, to FL Paso, but the greatest
time had was trying to find out the
right time and what time ii really was.
You see they have three kinds OF time
| there; the Central time, Mountain time
or local time as they called it, and Pacific
time SO you can see what time l had
| trying to find out which was the right
time. But by the time YOU have looked
around any great length OF time YOU
will find you had the right time, at least
/ did. but another kind Of time, "a good
time" so you see I1l Paso is the place
where YOU can get amy kind OF time you
want.
! Soon after dinner got into the S. 7.
train and pulled away up the hill, wind
| ilg around the mountains. There was
mo place Of interest and in fact no place
] at all-mOre than five or six Mexican
families that work on the section, and
occasionally IL postoficp, hotel store,
| depot. freight Office and anything else
/ YOU want all combined in one-until we
reached Dening at All altitude Of about
1900 feet and still going up, it is de
FIightful climate There the nights are
cool SO a person can steep with covering
! over them and not exceedingly warm III
/ the day time The next day ! started on
up the. hill. It was not long before we
reached the summit at al altitude OF
about one mile, then began a steep de-
cent. The first place reached Of any size
was Tucson, Ariz., t, typica! Mexican city
as regards the houses which are nearly
all made OF Dolby, OF course there are
I,some very nice frame houses and build
in&s. Some OF the streets are very mar
row; so much SO that a team could not
/ pass Il load OF loose hay III some OF the
streets. 1t is said to be among the old
! est towns in the United States. The
atmosphere is very dry but not so dry
us Deming, but the people are pictures OF
! heaIty,in both places It Is quite 4 pct