Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-01-30

OF Washington. u. g., has appeared In
thousands OF rapcrs throughout the
United States. and this city has re-
Ceived much publicity "a the result.
| Through the courtesy Of MI Haskin,
the article il herewith reproduced;
In the city of Albuquerque. the
largest In the state Of New Mexico,
| the eastern visitor is destined 90 re-
arrange his proConcclvod notions OF
the new state fortunately Albuquer-
| que Is an New Mexico IN little. partly
| because OF ia natural location and
| partly because @ Is railroad center.
and the railroads have here made
special provisions FOR the tourists.
70 one who has thought always Of
/ New Mexico ar land Of barren
mountains ana sandy deserts. II Is an
intellectual shock to discover that
the principal industry Of the principal
city OF tho s,ato IL numbering, aud
that the huge saw mills OF Alhuqucr-
que are puppIrd with western yoi'oW
pine from the largest unbroken pine
forests yet existing IN this country
Ia New Mexico and Arizona.
The Traveller alighung from the
train IN Albuquerque finds the stage
set Cor his amusement and instruc-
lion. The railroad station Itself and
the huge hotel connected with u, form
"a group Of low rambling buildings in
the spanish mission style that not only
please the eye because of their In
trinsic beauty. but also bring sharply
20 mind the traditions and romances
Of the old Spanish colonists. ON the
platform. and inhabiting part Of the
hotel building. arc score OF lndi-
ans of native tribes. there TO sell their
wares-blankots and basketry -ane to
impress upon tho traveller that this II
the country of the Indian. Not the
Indian that roamed the plains and
depended upon the meat OF animals
for food and their skins for dress, but
the Indian who lives In permanent
houses. submitting themselves to
complicated system OF government
ltilling the soil for food and weaving
wool and Gotten for clothing. Here
In the railway station 80 Albuquerque
the present generation of these In
dian tribes are represented by their
most skillful weavers Of blankets ana
baskets, who reap o rich harvest from
strangers who GO through on the
railway.
A for the city itself, Il IL entirely
modern and entirely American. II
was founded In 1850, on the advent OF
the railroad, and was laid out after
the rectangular fashion OF all new
American towns. It's wide strtets now
are graced with substantial buildings
the steel office building and the cut
stone mansion that are no different
from their kind Ia every other Amer
lean town. but. only mile or 80
away. b. old Albuquerque. spanish
town, where the houses are adobe hut
and the language OF the people Is
spanish.
only a few steps away from the
railway station Is model az "a Pueblo
Ihome. an adobe structure whose only
entrance is from the roof gained by
means OF a long ladder. This vs. typi-
: cal OF the hOnses ~ the Pueblo In
ldians.,buii aftar they had fallen under
Ithe more or less thriftless Influence
Of the spanish Mexicans. when tn
spanlards first came. and indeed iol
4 many generations thereafter th'
p Pueblos retained their typical system
4 OF housebundlng. Each village Wal
h communal and all OF the people LIVED
!. in the same huge house. Some %
n AMfNN were WMNAA va HANhAhH 49, ''f''f
a often Of adobe They were three q
10 SIX stories In height each story reced
r ing from the one below a. USUAL
/. these towns were built on some higl
r. place accessible only by steep traI
Z and In every instance there was a
n door opening out Of the lower STORY
n but always ladder reaching 20 IN
- entrance on the top of the gronn
e floor. n ladder that could be easil
n ruised for purposes of defense. Sew
r. eral of these Pueblos are In easy mo
.e toring distance OF Albuquerque.
when New Mexico was coded to IN
r. United states By the treaty Of iAi'
n the American government recognize
il the pueblo Indians as citizens and
a also guaranteed the Integrity 81 tn
N land grants made by the spanish an
Mexican governments These two po
iuticaI facts, taken In connection wiz
me economic fact that agriculture !
this part of New Mexico Is possihl
only os the result of irrigation, MAX
tho social institution of Now MeNic
unique.
The huge land grants OF the span
tsh era are governed after the ancier
custom. and. IN fact. form PRACTICAL
In0fItNN fII tNlAANANHthth.'f'' ~
10 habitants for the most pnrt. hf
u spanIsh-sroaking MoNicanF who's
a. manners of living are not RADICAL
u different from their kinsmen oelo'
in the Rio Grande. The Pueblos lN
Ut In their own villages filling the Ism
So reserved 90 them hy the governmon
o. ana are governed IN tleir loc'
le AFFAIRS hy thclr ancient system
IT, caciquclsm modified only by the
ne acceptance of the Roman 'ath"u
faith. On essentials they have no
changed their mode of Ike from th'
pursued three centuries ago. ln IN
rio Grandc valley. In the vicinity
-, AIbuquorlue. one may see In its ORIG
nv iual form the origin Of civilization .
.e' what is now the United states. Whei
%. ever primitive man was blessed wit
pr abundant rainfall, wherever Il va
~ possible for him 10 iind food AN
~ warmth without any greater ctfo'
~ than m, slaying of "a beast ther
~ primitive man remained savage.
10 was only when some wilder u'o
W drove "a dsfenseless body of terror
"- stricken wages into cherries dos
ort that man WIS forced out "i n