El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-08
Ell PASO is
A HUMMER
How The City Strikes the Eye
Of a Country Editor
SOME PECOS PlCKINGS
About the Pass City, Maria, Alpine,
And Sanderson, With the I'm
pressions OF the Editor Of Pick

press1ons Of the Editor Of Pick
ings.
The editor has been absent during
| the last two issues of The Pickings.
He visited Sanderson, Alpine, Maria
and Ell Psso.
Ell PasO Is really too large and swift
for small country editor to tackle,
but we will do our best. AS starter
we say that she has the swiftest lot of
! politicians q the state; they are all
hail follows well met and extend cor
daily the right hand of fellowship to
T. country rustic like we are. Ell Psso
to the uninltiated is all s-whirl and
swirl, it is town of cosmopolitan
people, and business; like ancie nt
| Tyre or Alexandria, the citizens OF all
chimes pay homage by their presence
to Ell Paso: you can rub elbows with
the Greek, Syrian, Turk, Italian,
Hindoo, Senegam Dian, Chinaman. and
the denizens of all Europe, including
the Tartar. You can amuse yourself
| with the histrionic, gastronomic and
the light fantastic, and bedeck your
self with the jewels of India and the
silks and satins of etfets Paree: in fact,
you can see everything under the sun
but the houchee couchee. The city in
business is swift as also are her citi-
Re ms; q stranger is made to feel like an
old time residenter within twenty-four
hours sojourn, and one actually feels
gloomy when the inevitable hour of
departure arrives, the contrast
between Ell Psso and lesser towns
makes o1e feel lost and that existence
is bideous nightmare when In the
lesser town, fresh from Ell Paso.
Sheridan could not have made his
ungenerous remark about Texas II he
had have been in Eel Paso instead of
Galveston.
That Ell Paso is destined to be the
great city of Texas is beyond doubt:
even q hayseed like unto the writer
OF this can see that. We cannot say
all that we would, but desist with this:
that Ell Paso is hummer and hot
number.
Sanderson has improved wonderfully
within the past twelve months. Many
neat and substantial cottages have !
been erected and more are being built. |
@. M. Wilson, who was founder of tt !
town eighteen years ago, owns nearly |
all OF the town site, and has built many |
neat and attractive cottages which are |
rented at moderate rates. Mr.. Wilson |
has obtained good and suffi cient flow |
of water at the foot of the mountain |
range north Of the town about of a |
mile; he has built large reservoir at
the well which will be kept full of
water to supply the entire town through
q pipe line, and stand pipes will be
placed In every house.
SaudersOn Is situated in the ex-
treme southeastern part of Pecos coun-
ty, on the Southern Pacific Railway,
the conn any using that point as
divisional terminus. 1t stands in a
narrow valley hsnked on the north
and south oy gigantic mountains, high
ly picturesque, which lends an entrsnc-
ing view to the town; in scenic ap
pearance it reminds one of the beauti-
full and quaint looking Swiss towns
that nestle i'll the valleys of the
Pyrenees mountains. The town affords
carry large and varied lines of mer-
chandise. The elevation of the Gown Is
about three thousand feet, and the |
contains all those health giving |
properties that have made m my places |
famous health resorts. Mosquitoes |
and malaria cannot exist in the at
mosphere of Sanderson.
The people of Ssnderson are a |
liberal and high minded class of citi- |
zens, and the latch string always hangs |
on the outside.
Alpine is a nice quiet town and is
noted for her salubrious climate and |
high minded citizens; the town is
almost perfect: the residences
are most beautiful and substantial, and
The site is all the most artistic eye
could wish for large and majestic
surround the town, and to
witness q sunset in Alpine is q pleas
ire indeed. The many colored beauti-
'ul ttnts Of the western sky, puts to blush
The feebler effort of ce famed Italy's
italian sunsets, and would cause des pair
10 the most enthusiastic son of Italy.
Alpine is said to be somewhat prosaic,
but all the same, it is q lovely retreat
rom the busy hum of the congested
populated centers.
Maria, a sister town of Alpine and
10 miles west, Is a typical up-to-date
western town, it Is a town of beauty
and is lovely to view, situated as 10 is
n broad level with the Davis and
Chinati mountains for background,
'he dwelling houses are really elegant,
I'm bracing the Gothic and renaissance
style of architecture; the citizens are
10 vast and varied; several churches
stand in the valley as marks of Chris
,ianity and high civilization. The
altitude Is considerably more than
|. 600 feet, and sickness from climatic
,ause is unknown. If man should follow
The precepts of the Bible and the
natural laws of health then life would
De prolonged to the age OF Methusaleh
n Maria. Maria has a large and hand
'ome two story stone school house and
/ first class faculty that teaches the
'oung idea to shoot in the present
advancement style.
See the Jeffries FitzsimmOns Fight
At the opera house Thursday even
ng, and by absorbing Jas. Jeffries tao
lies you will be able to guess the
winner in the coming contest between
Teffries and Corbett.
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