The Adair County news., 1905-01-11
MExICO.
JUAREz, Jan. 1, 1904.

According to promise l will give
you a short sketch Of my trip
west. left home on the 18th Of
December, went to Glasgow to
strike the railroad. l fully real
lied the need of railroad from
our section of the country with
the outside world. l stopped
with Mrs. Alice Ebert, who keeps
a most excellent boarding house,
left my team with Finas Breed
ing, who keeps a splendid livery
and feed stable. l left Glasgow
on the 10th via of the L. & N,
for Memphis, Tenn, arrived
there the next day at 10 o'clock,
Just in time to miss connection
and layed over IL hours, which
gave me time.t to take in the city.
left Memphis at 10 p. M, for
Texarkana, via Cotton Belt route,
arrived at Texarkana on the 22d
at 10 o'clock, a. m; had to lay
over five hours, which gave me
time to look over the city. 1t is
an up-to-date business town. |
left on the same day at $3.50 for
Paris, over the T. P. Road, ar
rived there at 7::30. l visited my
brother and nephew, VIM. E.,
and Charlie Lee Walker; also
Henry and Ed Myers and Col.
E. L. Dohoney. He spent a day
with me at my brothers. He is
one of the best conversationalist
ever met, and knows just how to
make you feel good. | left
Paris Xmas day at 1870 for TT
Worth, travelling through the
prettiest country l ever saw,
passing through Honey Grove,
Bonham, Bells, Sherman, Whites
boro, Denton and arrived at Fl
Worth at $50 p. M, and layed
over until next day at 1915. |
took the opportunity of looking
over the city to some extent. 1t
is pretty city and about the
third State in population. | visi-
ted the finest saloon I ever saw,
owned by 10 z. Wheat, formerly
of Adair county, but failed to see
Mr.. Wheat as he was not in. |
met MIR. Sale Coffey, a brother to
]. N. Coffey, Columbia, KY. He
was looking well and doing bust
ness for an oil company at sal
airy of $500 per month. Leaving
Fl Worth at 1915 Monday morn
ing, for the great West, [ passed
some good country before reach
ing Brazos river, but after cross.
ing the Brazos it is one vast
mountain desert, fit for nothing
but to stop a hole in the ground.
There are several up-tO-date
towns in the barren country. Alb
aline, Sweetwater, Colorado, Big
Springs, Stanton and Midland,
are towns of about 1000 popula-
ton each, and occasionally you
will see some nice prairie and a
rich valley, with a little cottorf
field now and then. After you
cross the Pecos river the hills and
valleys are as naked as a buzz
Yards head, not a particle of tim
Der or vegetation of any kind un-
til yon get near the Rio Grande
river. Then you can see mus
cult bush and cactus once and a
while. I got to Ell Paso on the
9th and found my son, Robert,
waiting for me at the depot. He
seems to be in good health and
spirits thinks Ell Paso is the
garden spot Of the earth. It is a
beautiful city, situated on the
banks of the Rio Grande, at the
altitude of 300 above sea level.
ut is supported entirely by rail-
roads and miners. 1t has one of
the largest smelters in all the
southwest. 1t is a great railroad
center, being represented by ten
different roads.
Juarez is a town in Old Mexico
with about $4,000 population,
nineteenth of which are Mexi-
cans. visited the old Catholic