CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1899-02-09
enough south that it is warm, very

warm in winter, and just high enough
up in the mountains that it is cool in
summer, and they do tell US that it is
cooler in summer than in winter. The
altitude is 5000 feet, or nearly that
of Canon City. Cuernavaca has never
had boom, except, perhaps, about
the time Cnrtez located here, when
there was little furry in real estate
and the price of corner lots went up
a trifle. During the past three hun
dred years, however, the town has
moved along very nicely with just a
good, healthy growth as we would say
in Canon. The population now is
about 1000. ! am quite sure the
rate of growth will be greater during
the next three centuries.
If man has that sentimental love
| of nature in his heart he cannot help
liking Cuernavaca, because there is
SO much of nature here. If the dark
sehoritas as they peer at you from
their iron banistered balconies or on
the street from under their old lace
mantillas dc not make you forget
wife and friends, the other more
wonderful display of nature in its
perpetual spring time glory will take
from ones mind all things else. Ma
ture and man have combined forces
and done much for Cuernavaca. Dur
ing the past hundreds of years man
has scattered many seeds about these
hills and bringing water through
long tunnels and over high aqueducts
nature has done the rest, and as
result Cuernavaca is a vertible gar
den in itself. Its ever perpetual
blooming and fruiting season makes
of it joy forever and the delight Of
all who see its ever changing beauty.
l have found but two discordant
elements here in all this array of
beauty that causes man to lay awake
Of nights. Thsy are the church bells
and heas. We have been haunted "
church bells ever since we crossed
the border of Mexico. / have never
seen country with so many churches
nor any church with SO many bells as
they have here. To keep the people
painfully aware of their existence,
and their power these bells are rung
every hour and every quarter of an
hour, day and night alike The musi-
cal tones of the Cuernavaca bells are
about equal to the Canon City fire
bell-an its proximity to my window
about the same Imagine my joy. Of
the feas have not made microsco-
pic examination, but think they are
similar in jumping and disturbing
ability to those raised in Florida,
Southern California and other warm
sections of the States.
On the afternoon of our first day
here we were treated to novel and
interesting experience, of which no
mention was made in the guide book.
1t came in the shape of a good, healthy,
active earthquake, and the sensation
was peculiar indeed. All the houses
were Immediately vacated, and the
good natives on their knees in the
middle of the streets appealing to
Virgin Mary for comfort and safety.
No damage to speak of was done here,
but in the City Of Mexico, from which
We had departed that very morning,
many houses we're tumbled down and
a few lives lost. 1t was the worst
thing of the kind that has occurred
in this country for 30 years.
For the real active tourist coming
to Cuernavaca there is much to see.
There's the Zocalo Garden, in which
you will spend many hours after meals
and of night time. Here the band
always plays Thursday and Saturday
evenings, and here all the young peo-
pie come for their promenade and
semi-weekly Irritation. There is the
Palace Of Cortex, finished July Sth,
1881, and now used as the State capi-
tol. There's the magnificent old
Cathedral, whose corner stone was
laid in 1929, which is full of great
chapels, many antiquities and many
ever ringing bells. The beautiful
Borda Garden is the place to spend
your thoughtful half days. These
gardens were built by Mr.. Borda
more than q hundred years ago at .
cost, we are told, of million and .
quarter. Mr.. Borda when young and
active took sixty million dollars out
Of Mexican silver mines, 30 could well
afford this little luxury. The market
in every Mexican town is Interesting
and the one here is no exception.
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