The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-05-09
ON The WING.
Geo. T. Barr Tells Of Their Trip
THROUGH the Great Southwest.


Ration, New Mexico, while we were
enjoying a good dinner in the eating
house. During the morning we had
passed through Trinidad. the most i'm
portant point we saw in Colorado, and
Ration was our first station in New
Mexico. Trinidad appeared to be a
very busy city. 1t is evidently an
Quitting point for mines, and, in
deed, several mines are to be seen
from the railroad, coal mines these
were we Judged. The station was
surrounded by we'll kept lawn, with
numerous water sprays playing over
it, but the rest of the town looked
dirty, and clouds of dust were sweep
ing through the streets.
Throughout the afternoon of this
Monday we continued winding in and
out and up and down among the
mountains, going in an almost
straight southerly direction and pass
ing Las Vegas between four and five
O'Clock D. M, where we had the fresh
air during a stop of some moments,
and where we found again we'll ap-
pointed station and hotel grounds with
green lawns looking very attractive
in the midst of the general dryness
and brown of the surrounding country.
Soon after passing Las Vegas we
turned west and at nightfall were al
Lamey. Late.in the evening the train
made long stay of an hour or more
in Albuquerque. but it was too late
and too dark to permit of a peep al
this we'll known old city.
Tuesday morning we wakened tt
find that we had just crossed the lins
into Arizona. and the breakfast sta
ton was Winslow. Again, having
already had our breakfast from TIT
lunch box SO completely packed by thu
Mankato friends, we spent the tim,
the train was at this station in stroll
ing the platform and interviewing
or being interviewed by score o
small Mexican urchins having rubie
and petricfations for sale. One brigh
) eyed, dark skinned youngster discover
ed a little carved black bear whic
was presented US by our comrades c
Z the Tramp club a few days befor
3 leaving Mankato, and which we wer
wearing as a charm on our waite
chain, and when he called the after
C ton of his fellows to the same, theI
q was great interest manifested an
Il much talk in the soft Spanish, and W
n almost felt that we might have Al
# ranged an exchange which would hay
:. given us all their stone treasures fl
Ia our little bear, had we been so dispo
,s ed.
k All day Tuesday we were drivir
to west across the plains and mountain
If of Arizona. Along in the morning v
4, again saw in the front snow covers
as peaks, being Sunset, Agassiz, Hur
s. phrey and O'Leary peaks, comprisil
Is, the eastern end of the San Francis
at range. We passed much nearer the
tie than we did the Spanish peaks
On Monday, and at Flagstaff station we
1t within ten miles though eur guess
y, the distance would have been o
IL mile. Flagstaff is nearly 1000 fe
at above the sea level and lies amo
d, pine trees. The air here was excee
81 ingly pure and sweet, but cool,
in snow was all about US on level WI
the road bed. In this vicinity {
seen many saw mills, few of cons
cradle size. An interesting po
AUG passed this day was Canon Diab
IL where the road crosses diminut;
Il. canon but one exhibiting the us1
1oo characteristics of its more pretenti(
81 fellows with their perpendicular ws
cut out of the level plain on eitl
side. Here too we saw the tepees
80 band of Moqui Indians, and in
80 distance could see the buttes VIII
- that tribe holds it's annual sn:
~. dance. At Seligman was fou
,t side by side, two electrically come
-, ed clocks, one Indicating mounts
=; time, the other Pacific, and again
ed, h-o W TURN oaoA Jul watches
so that while it was but three o'cl
oil with us, the Free Press had gone
press and Mankato business men "
thinking of supper, for there it
FIVE At Williams a branch road r
ing norln 70 ING ~ ~
,oao stop over and could not take this {
20 - trip. From Seligman the road dl
oft rapidly until it crosses the Color
!, - river at heighth we believe of
,o5 than one hundred feet above
nor ocean By the time, however,
go, we reached this crossing it was
60 and we did not see the Colorado.
,+,ol fore reaching the Needles, howe
IN where the crossing is made, the
- has left the canon. At the Nee
station, on the California side of
line, the train stopped for sup
Here large numbers of Indians,
mas Hulpais, were on hand with !.
dog work, bows and arrows, ETC., for
'ar to tourists. They were repulsi'
This feature and dirty in dress. ALI
ould the hair in unkept brushes wit
ayor covering and the suuaws, with hs