Arizona republican., 1899-08-11
RURAL LIFE IN EUCADOR5
An interesting Leffer From United
 SfafeS Minister Sampson.

The Following interesting letter de- scriptive of .he magnificence of rural life in Ecuador has been received from
 United States Minister Sampson:
 ''United States Legation, Quito, Ecua-
 dor, June 20. 1S99
 l Because. perhaps, of the beau,y, ] the grandeur of mountain and plain, | df the charm Of courry tlife and the i buzz and hustle of the city; the beau : tifuI productive farms and the city ] palaces for the rich, and the extensive ! buildings for housing mechanical, manufacturing and commercial estab- i lishments; Jhe stately churches and elegant opera houses; comfortable ! carriages and the jam of the rapid transit cars; the life of all as to clean Illness, dress habits, etc., whether rich or poor, learned or unIearned; the removal of human labor 50 far from the plane of brute f0rc9 by employ ment of animals, vehicle. mechanical. steam and electrical forces: the sa- clusion from the public view of the squalCr of the city, where it exists; : the harmony existing between Protez,-- ant and Catholic churches and the in
 
 ing to these different churches: trans porta.iOn in elegant carriages. com modious steambOats or ocean palaces. and elegant lightning express trains
 whether long or short the journey. seeing on every hand evidences Of en-
 terprIse, thrift, education, cOmfort. progress and advancement in all Ines CT action and Life. because you see all. all Of these we have been wont to write so much of the extremes today Iound in this country that you may nave imagined that there is nothing put the grandeur in nature to be 1ound here, nothing of the beautiful n homes, the highly improved in Larms, the harmonious with the nine teeEsh century advancement and pro- gress; but, if so, you are mistaken.
 Let me give you, then, a report of my visit last Friday and Saturday to t1e santa Rosa ranch or farm. Which, no doubt, will prove a reva!a- l1cn to you as to what we can see in tn-s country, where so much seems not to be in harmony with this age of advancement. Receiving an invita- ton from SenOr Palacios to visit them at their feautiful hacienda in ChiIlo two and half hours distant). we did so The ChillO valley will average Hi'-een miles wide and is 100 miles long. From the Andean snows the mountain streams, the creeks and the rivers Of the valley are fed. To the east the numerous snow peaks p5erca l the sky, chief among which is the ac- tive volcano Cot0paxi During the great eruption Of 1878 the entire val Icy Of the Rio de P.':a, 3 tributary of the San Pedro, which runs through a | part of the ChillO valley, was sub ! merged in water. Homes, mills and l manufacturing establishments were 1 swept away as F but chaff Twenty | miles below, near Tumbaco. the San ! Pedro passes through a canyon four CT five hundred yards wide. Here the : water rose to a height of 100 feet. Be | fore reaching this poir.. the Rio de | PT.a united with the San Pedro The i great deposit Of silt from the noun | tains really changed the character of | the soil of the whole Rio de Pita val ley. It greatly enriched it. On the | west is che beautiful green mountain . ndge which separates the Chillo and . Pichincha valleys. Standing Cn the . of it the view, forward or ! backward, takes in a country Of which Moses might well have said: Behold . the promised land The view of the two valleys is linda Valleys as beau t-TuI as any the sun shines upon, al ternately dotted with the golden grain ready for the sickle CT in shock ready for the fail, or that, in the field adjoining, just shooting cut of the ground; with the corn being gathered CT that by it's side only a few inches high; with various other grains, veg etabIes or grasses of all shades and cOlors; with individual homes inGi- eating hundreds of haciendas or vil- lages and cities where dwell as happy and cont5nted a people as can any where be found. COntented if they have Cnly a home that would be an insult to a good horse to pu, him n 1t n the United States, and only con tented if they live T ] palace
 "On arrival at SenOr PalaciCs'. about 10 o'clock, we found royal good breakfast ready, after partaking Of which we started for the Santa Rcsa' ranch for a horseback ride. seven of us. We found the proprietor, Senor Jijon Larrea, one of the most couctIy and polite of men, educated and ce- fined From him we obtained the fol- lowing data: His hacienda contains about two thousand acres, one part be- ing used for the cultivation of wheat,