El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-28
A CHIHUAHUA CHAT.
A Herald Correspondent Tells of the
Things He saw.

Things He saw.
Special correspondence to the HEBALD
CHIHUAHUA, June 25.--When a
stranger strols out TO the plaza" on
Thursday night and sees the sloucby-
looking characters that comprise the
band, he expects little in the way of
music from them, but after they COM
mence to play he is carried away on
the strains of passionately sweet
sounds The chivalrous, courteous,
sensual character of the Spaniard, COM
bined with the wildness of nature
breathes through the instruments.
You may rave about the supremest
efforts of Paderewski, or the grandest
compositions of Mozart, but give me
the simple and heart-touching SYM
phony of southern music.
Yesterday morning q party of gen.
tlemen and the HERALD correspondent
left Chihuahua in the gray of early
dawn for the Chihuahua Mining COM
papy's smelter, to take ride over
their narrow-guage railroad to the
mines of Santa Eulalia, close by the
town of the same name, which was
established in the early year of 1907.
1t has the honor of being the oldest
settlement in the state of chihuahua.
| said it is narrow guage railroad-it
| is but 80 inches wide Although the
train resembles a play thing it has
serious business of its own. conveying
all the ore from the numerous mines
above Santa Eulala to the smelter, a
distance of some fifteen miles.
| We got aboard the Pullman and
were soon rafting along at speed that
sent Mr.. DenisOn into spasms of terror.
1t was with difficulty that the HERALD
hombre remained calm and collected
We were assured repeatedly that the
train was as safe on its rails as Mark
Twain's coyote, and in fact resembled
| it, for it just seemed to crack its tail
| and vanish down the bill after we had
alighted at Gabe's casa, way up near
| the summit of the mountain.
| For the first eight miles the road
runs over a comparatively level plain.
| After three miles more the little train
| is way off on the mountain side and you
can see Santa Eulal!a Nesting at the
foot of the mou tain in a picturesque
From there to the summit the ascent is
rapid. At one point you can see the
track in five different tacks below.
! Long before the mail-clad knights of
Spain surprised the natives in their
lofty glen the mines of Santa Eulalia
were giving up their abundant treas
ure, worked in a manner that causes
out after it was lOOsened, so small and
irregular are the passages that lead
from one ore chamber to another. The
depth of the workings are astonishing.
In one working there are twenty-eight
ladders one below another. These are
the mines that are now Interesting
Americans, for the early miners
secured only a fraction of their wealth ,
and according to the expectations OF
capitalists, they are yet to produce IA
bilious fortunes.
We were half mile more or less
down in one of these old crooked shafts
when Casey said he heard M! S. Gates
Isay dinner was ready. We were in no
condition to doubt him In another
hour we reached sunlight and sat down
to dinner that brought tears of Joy
to our eyes.
The Wis. tor to Chihuahua can find no
more interesting trip than that over
the narrow-gauge to the mines of Santa
Eulalia.
encountered rather startling re-
mark today while walking through a
grove of cottonwoods. l spoke to a
pleasant looking Old gentleman in a
carriage, who said he had to Ike r
constant lookout to prevent people from
mutilating the trees. l then asked il
he were supervisor of the place.
"Well," he replied, "yes, the park
belongs to me. own a little strip Of
land through here, from these hills to
that range of mountains you see there
And he pointed to the distant blue
; hills about two hundreds miles away
The CAIN assertion mad rather de
bilitating effect upon me, but | pulled
myself together and said if hadn't such
good job with the HERALD 1 would
like to put in a bid for fencing his lit
tie stripe of land. He said he had
often heard of the HERALD and was
saving up to subscribe for it. 1 have
been told since he can draw his check
for five million.
There is nothing like a trip to Mex
, leo for person no desires to learn the
Spanish language. l have learned i
and for the benefit of the readers of the
HERALD will say that it is made up O
the following words: Adios, siga
quien sabe ana manana, but principal
ly manana. MCN.