The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1900-06-07
THE EL PASOAN'S PARADISE.
Beauties and Wonders of Charm
ing ClOudcrOft Set Forth in a
Neat Little Booklet.
.ANEICHLENT spot FOR RECREATION.
Only a Few Hours Ride From Ell Paso And
1t Has All the Advantages of
Town and None of
the DiscOmfOrts.

the DlSo0mfOrts.
The Aamogordo Improvement Com.
pany has issued a charming booklet de-
scribing Cloudcroft and the cloud climb
ing railway that leads to it. Besides be-
ing remarkably well written and enter
tanning in its description of the beauties
and wonders of this enchanted region of
the Sacramento mountains, the little
book gives definite and practical infor-
nation to all who may hope and plan to
go there, to the guest who desires to run
up for day or two, to those who pro-
pose to summer there, to those who
want to build cottages or buy up acres
of the forest, to hunters who desire to
60 camping, and to tradesmen who want
to go into business there.
of Cloudcroft the book says : For
many years hunters prospectOrs and oc-
casonal intrepid campers had brought
most fascinating accounts of the grand
and delightful Sacramento mountains
lying a distance of about a hundred
miles beyond the dry burning desert
sands northeast of FL Paso, Texas For
years the land had been withheld from
settlement by the government pending
its being made forest reservation, aud,
altogether, it was one of the most iso-
lated and least known localities in the
United States. But by the spring of
1899, that monstrouS nineteenth century
civilizer, the railroad, had crossed those
desert sands, scaled the summit of the
mountains, burst the veil of obscurity,
christened Cloudcroft, and before the
deer, squirrels and birds had learned to
fear man, their forest silence was broken
by the click of the telegraph instrument,
the merry laughter of children and youth
and the Joyous revelry of the dance of a
gay summer resort. All this within a
twelve month. Such briefly records the
nativity and debut of Cloudcroft 1t is
decidedly new, fresh and sparkling.
Natures realm, with forests primeval-
old, dead logs and underground still OBJ
struct the deer trails, and the carpet of
the glades--ferns, mosses and wild how-
ers--is still unsullied and uncrushed.
There is an entertaining account of
AlrmOgordo, the town whose birth was
something like Mineryas who sprang
full grown from Joye's brain. This
town sprang into full growth from the
capital and brain of its promoters.
The town itself is of interest as ex-
employing the possibilities of our
modern civilizing institutions or what
enterprise and capital can accomplish,
The town tract was opened to the pub
lie June Z, 1898 At that time there
was not resident in the entire town
ship, nor had the government even sur
veyed the land. In September, 1899,
a census showed. 1860 inhabitants; as
complete system of waterworks as
any city; electric lights; first class
hotel with every modern Improvement:
two modern saw mills, each of 100, ,0OO
feet daily capacity; an ice factory; large
brick blocks and elegant residences;
graded streets; eight thousand growing
shade trees and park mile long; and,
what is of particular interest to the
traveller, the finest depot in the south
west 1t is the county seat of the new
county of Otero and is about to erect a
$50, 600 court house and SIS, 900 school
building. Everybody admires and falls
in love with Alamogordo, and with a
few years of age when her trees and
new orchards and vineyards bord ering
the town become grown, no more beaut-
iful or delightful abiding place can be
found under the sun.
The Cloud Climbing Route from Ala
mogordo is marvellous both for the won
der of the possibilities of engineering
and for the beauty of the scenery OF the
FreSnal canon and its fir trees, of the
white sands, of far off and near by
mountain tops ana of valleys far below
The observation ears permit one to have
unlimited and unhindered view of it all
The account of view from in the cal
just after leaving Alamogordo and be
fore reaching La Luz, is allurng.
Every soon we were looking upon
birds eye view Of the town, and, to tn,
west, far out on the plains, appear tn,
world famous white sands-that vast
billowy bed of snow white, granulated
pure gypsum, sixty miles In length by
ten to twenty miles In width--whllc IL
the background, fifty miles across th,
plain stretches the western border oI
the Tularosa Valley, here called the San
Andreas mountains.
"This will be the background OF the
grand panorama soon TO be before you,
along the dizzy heights of your noun
tain climb The picturesque little ham
let Of La Luz Che light lies lmmediate'
ly at the mouth OF tho canon, with It's
wealth of VSrdufe, Of CottonwOUds, or.