The Forrest City times., 1904-11-11
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Letter From A. l.. Stevens.

Is representing him here duilng ms aD- >euce, is just in receipt of the fellow ing letter, dated at San Geronimo Mexico. October % 1901
 ME E. l. NADAkIN,
 Forrest City, Ark,
 Friend ' ada,tr:-N0 doubt quite few of the boys will be expecting to lear from me But so far l have no feached Jalisco. owing to some stop l,ufs and all kinds Of delays. But might give you partial description of the country thus far have seen The llISt one hundred miles or more, after NC crossed into Mexico was very sandy. then night came on. Morning found u> in the mountains, as bare and bald as conld he, with very narrow valleys. nothing III the way of vegetation but cactus, and very little grass. few sma bushes from knee to waist high. We lodc almost the entire day in thls kind Of a country. But the following morn ing, fancy us nearing the City of Mex leo with quite different country everything looking green, atmosphere cool and bracing.
 We spent Sunday and Monday in the city Sunday We went to the big bull light; immense crowd and the bulls very fierce. Saw six bulls killed but but not until they had killed five horses and several men badly wounded The bull fighting l enjoyed, and was very exciting but when they would ming the poor blinded horses in, one could not help shuddering knowing the poor things had no showing fer their lives. =Aiter seeing the one. think the average American would not care to see the second l made six diff ierent pictures of the fight and they @ill be interesting If they only de xelod all .. k. have also made seY- eral more very interesting pictures Saw great many things of interest," loo numerous to mention.
 We left the city Tuesday morning aud passed through beautiful level table t4nd about 5000 feet above sea level, until We began the decent Of the mountains. 1he scenery Was the most beautiful 1 have eyer seen The night We spent in Cordoba the homp | the pine apple. \ very rich mountainous country, truly, tropical fruits and vegetation grow bount'fuIly After getting full down and into thp leNel bounty we found the railroad ted very soft. owing 10 the late tropl cal rains, which has just let Up S9mp places the steps of Cars, where one side was lower than the other, would drag the ground. So you can imagine how slow we trave.ri We passed one gentleman's land, Who owns about 40 miles square, and thousands of catllp and horses.
 By the way. Here is the chance for ,ome of our Forrest City young men. lhis old man has two lovely daughters @ho were educated in the United etales, and Ee says he will give an, young American of good family big 'tnch, il lie will marry ore of the gilIs. 70 you see there is enough for two.
 We passed thoagh some very fine t;ly and saw thousands of cattle aud horses, and not one that looked the east bit sick. think this the finest stock country on earth. Grass is very Lae.
 Oh. 1 cant begin to describe the country We have passed through; saw lets of wild parrots, tho monkeys).
 Everyone tells Us that that part of the country where we are going IS as We say of the St. Francis bottom The Garden of Eden. ;
 We came in here last night and as here IS no regular schedule of train service on the Pan American, We have -o wall here and leave for Jalisco to. LOTION morning.
 l can't write al. By the way. su with the treasurer of the Pan American Land and Colonization Co, and he informs mt that while the lois gre uot all sold they baye set January
 as opening day
 The climate so far is fine. We took swin. m he San Geronimo river at A" thlS morning. As we have lost so z1uch time coming down, can't say 1 M get back in thiuy days CT not. ash up tle boys a little and finish ID 5ae sixty lots. You should not miss seeing this country The trip is grgua. will write again in a few days after looking the country over. Bet wishes.
 Your friend.
 A L STEVENS
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