Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-04-19

the Pecos river to the staked plains in
Texas, the view dotted here and there
with herds of cattle and sheep and hav-
ing as a very inviting and beautiful con-
trast to its sedate brown, the green fields
and groves under the irrigation system
OF the Pecos Irrigation company, from
Malaga to Roswell.
To the west one beholds the glittering
White sands, those mysterious beds of
pulverized gypsum, IS miles wide by SO
miles long, looking like a white sea or a
great big salt lake on the plains between
the blue Sacramentos and the shaggy
and crested gray San Andres mountains.
To the south stretches a great table
land lost in the shadows of the Guada-
lupe and Eagle mountains and towards
the Rio Grande, to the north, loom up the
Oscura mountainsr1ark and gloomy. The
Jarillas and Black mountains between
look like islands, while the Organs to
the southeast remind one of a great or
gan placed there by mother nature thou
sands and thousands of years ago.
Your correspondent has witnessed
rain storms covering an area Of so miles
in every direction thousands of feet be-
low him, while the mountain tops glim-
mered in the sheen of the sun; on the
other hand he has seen snow storms en-
circling the tops Of the giants in the
White and Sacramento mountains, while
below all was serene sunshine, clear and
beautiful.
The scenery in the parks is in places
sublime, again gorgeous and again as
sombre and silent as a dark moonless
night.
A Bit of Sacramento Mountain Scenery.
On emerging from a canon a beautiful
park is viewed. Billows of color mum
date the mountain slopes, tremendously
blending the frost-tinted foliage with
the sheen of the morning sun. Stately,
uninterrupted mountain peaks rear their
kingly crests and pierce the azure vault
of heaven. The zephyrs that fan the
cheek are tempered by the dazzling
banks Of snow. Groves of quak-
ing asp, pine and spruce line the road
way, arching overhead, and golden
threads of sunlight creep through the
dense foliage and dance Enthusiastically
over the face of the rocks. A shining
rivulet or creek pursues it's course to the
left, winding sinuously and dreamlike
through a luxuriant bed of verdure.
The scene is II of surprising beauty
and quietude, and the mind is lulled in
to peaceful oblivion of care. Complete
re-incarnation is effected and a child
again gazes g~leefully on the delights of
nature. Here, beautiful mountain wild
flowers spring up unsowed and die I'M
gathered, %scenting the rarified air with
tpvioafi n r = ,f,,rnop MD Il iF,,,;rr &ho
elixir of health.
Progress of Construction.
But to return to railroad matters.
There are in use now on the Ell Paso &
Northeastern three Baldwin engines
1856, 900 pounders-magnificent speci-
mems of locomotive building and four
more are on the way. Material for con-
struction for the next 80 miles of track
and for 20 miles of the Alamogordo and
Sacramento railroad is at hand and
ready for use. A surveying corps is in
the field locating the permanent line
from Alamogordo via Tularosa north to
the rich mineral country around White
Oaks. When A%lamogordo is reached
the town of La Luz, a few miles from
the former, will be moved bodily and
join Alamogordo. The roadbed is grad
ed to within 10 miles of Alamogordo.
A~lamogordo by May Is.
MI. c. B. Eddy, president of the road,
and a party of interested capitalists and
directors have recently gone over it's
completed portion and have expressed
themselves as thoroughly satisfied with
the work done so far under General
Manager J. A. Eddy. AS sure as the
earth %revolves around its own axis, so
fully does your correspondent believe
that on May Is he will send you a dis
patch v 9 the company's solid and
modern telegraph line from A~lamogordo,
announcing the completion of IS miles
of the road or about one-half of the dis
lance between Ell Paso and the Salado
coal fields and White Oaks.