El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17

Within sight of Chocolate Pass, the
only gateway leading from the city of
Chihuahua to the old town of Cases
Grandes and the state of Sonora in
Mexico. most wonderful transfer
nation has taken place within doz-
en- years.
Where those dreaded sCourges of
the Rocky mountain region in Next
CO and Arizona, those inCarnate red
devils, Geronimo, Victoria and HUI
with their hordes of poor Los were
particularly wont to roam or lie in
wait for the emigrant train and
murder burn and ravish. here a new
order of things strangely and desira-
bly, in contrast to the other now pre-
walls.
Where the wild warwhoop of the
ienoble red man less than fifteen
years ago resounded throughout the
valley and awakened terror in the
breast of the luckless traveller over
land, the most violent vocal exercis-
es to be heard now is the glad
''helloal' ~ of the young farmer as he
greets his Mormon milkmaid sweet
heart coming over the lea driving
ssBossy'' home to the tub of mash
and milking stool. This young man
has his own idea of what constitutes
a contented life. Through his indus
try he has acquired in this most pro-
life country, a little land well titled,
a little house well filed, and DOW has
his eve to leeward for a little wife
well willed,
In that beautiful valley which ex-
tends fifty miles in length and fifteen
miles wide, from the Sierra Madre
to the Escopdida range of mountains,
there has sprung up within the
past year little city that has every
advantage surrounding it to make it
the CommerC ial metropolis of an i'm
mense district.
When it is remembered that less
than a year ago the railway company,
which now transacts its business in
the handsome station pictured in this
issue, carried on its affairs in a box
car and none of the hundred buildings
now erected were in sight all will
agree that the title of Magic City"
is no misnomer for Nueva Casas
Grandes.
There are few if any people in the
great southwest that have not heard
of Casas Grandes, new Casas Grandes,
an embryo city with a future as
bright as the particularly precious
commodity, gold, that is extracted
from the heights of the Sierra
Madre mountains near by.
1t is the hub, the centre, the trad
ing and Quitting point for an i'm
mense country of mountain and plain,
vale and valley that combines a
treasure field in mineral with its ag
ricultural Wealth. territory that is
fast filling up with great colonies of
people from the United States. It
lies in a region that embraces a new
and profitable field for the farmer,
miner, manufacturer and tradesman,
a locality in which there is an open
ing for almost any line of business.
Including as it does a vast virginia.
mining field that bids fair in a few
wears to rival the output of the most
famous Camps Oh CdI LII, 1Ol CSlS VI
timber that it requires days to ride
through, ideal conditions for the pro-
duction of all kinds of vegetation,
superior ranges for cattle and stock
the Casas Grandes country can be
said to be the land of promise to the
future settler as it is the land of pros |
perity to the present inhabitant.
In all departments of agriculture
and horticulture, over most of the
country, there s no essential lacking |
within the range of possible cultiva-
ton. While Casas Grandes itself is
only Oh the threshold of its career as
manufa turing centre.it offers great
inducements in this line to men of
brains, energy and money.
DIT is d country endowed with the
most superb of natures gifts, is sim
quarry blessed in tie matter of good