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self at some time long since gone by.
The population is principally Mexican
greasers and Indians.
At Laguna. New Mexico, we come
to a genuine Indian village made up
of adobe houses or rather huts, quite
town at this point all made up of
Indians whose squaws and girl chill
dren crowd around the cars with their
wares to sell to the tourists; most Of
the articles offered at our car were
pottery made of mud and clay of that
region and baked In ovens and gor
geously decorated with conglamera.
ton of colors that would make horse
laugh.
We arrive at Albuquerque, New
Mexico, at noon on Friday, Jan. T.
Here 1t is quite cold and about the only
thing that took my attention off the
cold weather, for the time being, was
the size of the pie at Fred Harvey's
lunch counter. 1t was at least six
inches across the face of 1t and the
price forty cents. We did not like pie
for lunch, especially at that lunch
counter. Mr.. G. F. Rice and myself
stepped across the street, and the
thoroughfare was not exceptionally
wide, and bought nine-inch pie for
fifteen cents and you never saw pie
appetite improve as fast as mine did
in the next half hour. We had our
lunch baskets and had hot coffee or
tea regularly three times day until
we got to Kansas City. While many
of the passengers on the train did not
get their breakfasts until noon or lat
er Us there was no dinner on the oy-
erland and train running five or six
hours late could not get to Fred Har-
vey's pie counter. l have gone over
the northern route with its lovely
scenery to California and back five
times and helped to swell the IIarri-
man millions and gazed upon the New
ada desert, that Is garden of Eden
to the side of the Arizona and New
Mexico product along the Santa Fe.
If man owned q million acres Of this
land he would feel like singing mot
foot of land do possess"
Saturday morning we arrive at Sey-
more, Kan, at o'clock and we are
travelling over good farms that are rich
and fertile and have the goods tackled
up to show the traveller that they are
prosperous. We were told before
leaving California that we would en-
counter all kinds OF frigid weather On
our route, but at Garden City, almost
on the western line of Kansas we see
tents up and they have people living
in the same as some we saw in Cali
fornia where the sunshine did not keep
the frost and the freezing off the pump
kin vine or the orange and the fig
tree.
Our travel over the states OF Kan
sas and Missouri was pleasant and we
did not find very much cold weather
until after we left st. Louis on Sun.
day evening, July 8. We arrive at
Columbus over the Pennsylvania rail
road Monday morning at $40, only ten
minutes late in 455 miles run during
the night. We arrived at Mt. Vernon
Monday afternoon, weather below ze-
ro, but meeting many of our old
friends who gave us hearty well
come back to the old town. We have
not had time to think of winter and
really have been enjoying every min
ute since. We will be located at home,
112 East Pleasant street in the next
week and will soon be doing business
at the old stand, No. SO, Public square.
Come and see me at either place,
have the same old smile.
Very truly,
LEROY G. HUNT.