The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1900-09-06
ROOF GARDEN" Of TEXAS.
D. Dudley Bryan, City Editor of
The Houston Post, Describes
ClOudCrOft.
Description OF JOURNEY There.
Scenery Is Described As Being surpass-
ingly Beautiful-Five Thousand
Texans Will Make the Trip
Next Summer.

d. Dudley Bryan, city editor of the
Houston Post, was visitor at Cloud
croft during the latter part of August,
and in the issue Of August 10 OF the
Post, describes the Breathing Spot and
the trip there as follows;
"The Cloudcroft region is veritable
garden of ungarnered hues for the
scientific, poetic and speculative mind.
From Ell Paso to Alamogordo the
region traversed resembles the brown
plain country Of Western Texas-a fiat,
nnproductive and cheerless waste, cut
by occasional waterways, which only
furnish sufficient moisture to insure
crop cultivation on narrow strips Of
Iand. fs
fAlamogordo gives striking example Of
the possibilities in Western town build
ing, when capital, backed by energy and
pluck, determines to succeed The
place was founded June Z, 1898, and
now has 1000 population, the county
seat, two saw mills, each with capa-
city for manufacturing 100000 feet OF
lumber per day, railway shops, general
Offices of the FL Paso & Northeastern
and Alamogordo Il Sacramento Noun
tain railways, a box factory, planning
mills, a National bank, park one mile
long, four churches, three newspapers,
an ice factory, 10000 shade trees, cleo
trio light system, water system, presi-
Dental class postof1ice, $4,000 public
school building, public library, COM
mercial club, women's club and an aggre
CATION of fine residences and brick store
buildings that would he credit TO any
city. The sE,lncoln Baptist association
desire to emulate the ex-
Accessfuliy set in various
ses, and has begun the con-.
IN Of a 100000 college there.
stimated that the payrolls of the
and railways distribute from $35,-
to $4,000 per month in AlamogordO.
Dn leaving this active frontier town,
steel trail to the heavens leads the
.ssenger through mountainous coun.
picturesque beyond compare.
sting close to the overhanging layers
towering rock creations are pretty
he Mexican hamlets, the adobe walls
the houses being sheltered by great
tton- woods, single trees Of which af
rd from fifty to seventy-hye feet Of
ade. @
Tsretches. OF fruit laden orchards and
meadows extend from the
towns far into the canyons
hduntains, furnishing pic
Df pastoral quiet charming to be-
pIt is said that engineers pronounce
the CLOUD climbing route" the triumph
of NinetSenth century standard gauge
railway building. A succession of sinu-
Gus wiAdings exceeding 80 degrees
curvature and Of grades varying from
8 to 5 l-s per cent are the chief physical
characteristics of the road. At times
the engineer seems to tower above the
passenger coaches, and the phenomenal
loops and curves makes 1t possible for
one TO examine from the rear car the
minutestS details of the mechanism in
the engine cab.
Cautiously climbing along the rock
bound canyon sides spanning dizzy ra-
vines, over filing trestIed conceptions
Of the road builders brain. In less
than fourteen miles the train reaches an
elevation OF $500 feet, from which point
the scenery comprises some of the most
beautiful effects of desert expanse, val
ley Ferdure and mountain ruggedness.
The range of vision extends to the
west. north and south, from fifty to ESQ
miles embracing snow-clad mountain
peaks, protuding from wilderness of
pine and fir, ragged volcanic upheavals,
ilanked by black lava beds and white
desert sands, and brown plains, strewn
with the slvery threads OF water
courses. From the elevated points of
vantage along the route is seen Sierra
Blanea mountain, the Pixies Peak of
New Mexico, 800 feet higher than the
Pixies Peak OF Colorado, its bald or
snow-crowned crest majestically rising
from q clump of smaller mountains,
which look like sand domes, in compaR
son. AT intervals the world famous
White Sands desert, vast bed of snow
white granulated gypsum, from forty to
fifty miles in length by ten to twenty
miles In width, can DC discerned, its tos-
sing, ever shifting and billowy surface
needing but the tall masts and broad
hulk OF a ship to complete an oceanic
Illusion. n .@~e. ur.a
The kodak enthusiast invariably
reaps a harvest OF rare pictorial gems
along the route. The Hazel Kirk"
mill, built In the early sixties asa com
munity affair (ths community embracing