The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-06-05
Copyufht. 1914 BY Frank a. MunssyJ
tJnutiuurd from Yesterday

The smell of garlic and froeh.r0ast.
Ing coffee was Goo the air aH they drew
into town for the night. and their
room vas on adobe chamber with tile
floor and iron bars across the win.
dows. Riding south The next day they
met vaqueros. mounted on viry mus.
tnngs. who salutcd them gravely, TAX.
ing no shame for their primitive wood.
en- saddle-trues and pommels AZ broad
as soup platee.
As they left the broad plain and
riambered up over the back Of a noun.
tain they passed Indian houses. brush.
built and matched with long, coarse
grasses. and by the fires the women
ground corn on stone metates az their
ancestors had done before the fail
For In Mexico there are two peoples.
the S%paniards and the natives. and the
Indians stll remember the cAys when
they were free
Il was through such a land that Phil
and Hooker rode on their gallant
ponies, leading a pack-animal we'll
loaded With supplies from the north.
and ~ tho people gHzed from their
miserable bowels and saw their OUTFIT
they wondered al their wealth.
But n they were moved 20 envy, the
bulk Of a heavy pistol. showing through
the swell o. each coat. discouraged
them from going farther, and tho cold.
searching look Of tho tall cowboy as
he ambled past stayed In their mem.
Dry long after the pleasant "AdiOsl'
OF De LAncey had been forgotten.
Americans were scarce In those
days, aud what few came by were rid
Ing TO the north. How bold, then. must
this big man be who rode In front
and certainly he had some great 70
ward before him 70 risk such n horse
among the reyoltososi So reasoned
the simple-minded natives OF the noun
tains, gazing In admiration at Copper
Bottom, and for that look In their eyes
Bad returned his f%orhidding stare.
There rs something about a good
horse that fascinates the average Mex
lean perhaps because they breed tho
finest themselves and are Ia a position
20 judRe-but Hooker had developed a
romantic attachment for his trim little
chestnut mount and he resented their
wide-eyed gapings as u lover resents
Rlancos at his lady This. and a frontier
education, rendered him short.spoken
and grun with the -palsanos and it was
left 10 tho cavalier De Lancey to do
the courtesles Of the road.
As the second day wore on they
dipped down into a rocky canyon. with
huge cliffs Of red and yellow sandstone
glowing in the slanting sun, and soon
they broke out into a narrow valley.
well wooded with sycamores and mes
quits and giant blackberry trees.
The shrlll toots OF a dummy engine
came suddenly from down below and
a mantle OF black smoke rose mates,
tically against the sky-then, al "a turn
Of the TRAN, they topped the last hill
ana Fortuna lay before them.
To- that n moment thoy were set
back again Gny milen-clear back
across the hne--f0T Fortuna was
American, from tho power-house on
the creek bank 20 the mammoth con
centrator on the him.
All the buildings were Of stone.
square and uniform. First a central
plaza. nanked with Offices and ware
houses; then behind them barracks
and lodging houses and trim cottages
IN orderly rows; and over across tho
canyon loomed the huge bulk % the mgl
and the concentration with ia aerial
tremway aud endless row Of gliding
buckets.
Only on The lower hills, whore Che
rough country rock cropped up and
nature was NJ lts worst. only there did
che real Mexico creep I'M and assert y
SELF in q crude huddle OF half.Indlan
huts; the dwellings OF tho oare-iroa la,
lives.
We'll. by Jove'" exclaimed DO Ian
cey, Surveying tho scene I'D an ap.
pmlsing eye this doesn't look very
much ike Mexico-or a revolution.
eitheri"
"No. q don't" admitted Bud: EVERY,
thing running uil blast, too. Look al
that ore train coming around the
hill"
Gee. what a hurgl raved PM,
Say. there some class 20 this-what
n ] mistake not, woW be- able 10 find i
fow couEsuial spirits here 20 help %.
spend our money Talk about a com
pany town. Iu bet you their bgrroou
10 nll 10 Americans There's tho COZ
raj down below -iCtB ride b.. aus
leave oar horses aud sec what's th.
price OF drinks. Thoy can't f.ezo nae
whatever 81 is-wo doubled uur monel
AZ thc line
Financially considered. tloy ha'
doue just that ,oT. for every Amcri
can dollar iu their pockets they c0di,
got two nat were just as good "a
Copi FOR the picture on che side. 1hl
Ia itself was a FrCat inducement for
ready fpcuder aud. hnding good com
pany az tho Fortuna hotol bar. Phi
bought Eve dollars worth Of drinks
threw down q nyo-dollar bill aud 80