Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-01-09

west l HIS IjdIl VI new MEXICO mas
been occupied for unknown ages by
man. Long before the day of Colum-
bus. some say before the days of the
Pharaohs and Of the early Babylon
ians, these New Mexicans reared
structures that stand today, uninhab-
tied but well preserved, puzzle to
the archaeologist and the historian.
Not far from Santa Fe, and only few
miles from the station of Buckman's.
lies the Cliff Dwellers' Park of the
Pajarito, a park in, every sense of the
word, except y size, for it covers al
most 10000 square miles. Here are
found half-buried cities, a few partly
eXcavated, twenty-thousand caves for
merly occupied by man and strewn
with potsherds of mysterious design,
with arrow heads, metals and other
relics of longforgotten civilization.
Canons, waterfalls, forests cliffs III
combine to make this park the most
beautiful in the Southwest, If not the
world. Good wagon roads and trails
make this park accessible, and wheth-
or one remains day or a year. the
wonder of it all is never exhausted.
"To the east of the railroad, these
wonders Of prehistoric age, find
their compliment in the no less inter
esting Pueblo villages, occupied in
part by the descendants of the Cliff
Dwellers Here in the villages oE*>n
Juan, Santa Clara, Tesureqne, San IL
defonso, Pojoaque, are found commun-
istic republics older than the republic
of Switzerland, bits of ancient gov
eminent set on American soil with
traditions that reach back far into the
dim past. Here are performed dances
Of heather origin, of worship to the
sun and to the elemental gods, dances
that are as weird and picturesque as
the people who perform them.
"The pueblos form the link between
the prehistoric Cliff Dwellers and the
Spanish Conquistadores, while the old
mission churches at Santa Cruz, at
Santa Fe, at San Juan. at Trampas.
at Ojo Sarco, older than the Oldest
mission churches in California and
far better preserved, link the Spanish
age with the present
The hot and medicinal springs of
Ojo Caliente, of Wamsleys, of other
points, added to climatic virtues. offer
an ideal refuge to man from chronic
illness and its results. Marvellous are
the cures of the climate. There are
in business in Santa Fe and the les
ser towns today men, whose death
sentence was pronounced by able ply
slclans OF the east, twenty and more
years ago, who are hale and hearty
today.
Looking fondly back upon the past
this region is also keeping step with
time. In fact, it is on the eve of
wonderful industrial awakening in
which it's waterfalls will be harnessed
TO furnish power, it's rivers will be led
into storage reservoirs to reclaim ten
fold the area now under cultivation.
In place of thousand orchards pro-
ducing fruit that rivals that of Cali
fornia in color and size and surpasses
it in flavor; there will be ten thou
sand; instead of being place of 5000,
Santa Fe will become city of $4,000
inhabitants and what are now mere
villages will become prosperous towns.
Truly, the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad system is the Scenic Route
OF the United States; truly it is a de-
veloper of the riches of the Rocky
Mountains. It's New Mexico feeders
will in time prove to be it's most in
teresting lines and will yield the rich
est returns to their owners, at the
same time developing a veritable en-
pire of the Southwest"
The Lands Of Taos.
The Taos valley is located "Down
by the Rio Grande," in the northern
central portion Of the Territory of
New Mexico, about fifty miles south
from the Colorado line. 1t is reached
by the Denver & Rio Grnade Railroad.
Serveletta is the nearest railroad sta
ton, being about ten miles distant,
and twenty-five miles to Taos, the old
historic county seat and most impor-
tant town in the valley.
Here We're constructed some of the
first irrigation bitches in the United
States, built at a time when irrigation
engineers were unknown, relying en-
tirely upon the well-proven fact that
water seeks its own level and these
old bitches have remained true to
their purpose, that of watering the
earth" for hundreds of years. Here
also are the Pueblos de Taos, the
American Pyramids which in point of