Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-02-01

IL
- as translator with the conrt ot pre-
valc land claims 0t Santa re- ana who
los % well know student of history
in tho southwest. comes "a tho fore
with q contribution ia which he
makes an effort to correct mieaintc-
menis ana misconceptions regarding
the southwest lie first corrccts d
very prevalent story that the Old
church IN Juarez is older than the
old church In santa Zee and was
built IN l5t0 ana says
Services We're not neld in tho "old
mission of Nuostra Sonora de Quad
alupo IN Juarez I'm 15ia" simply be-
cuuse work was not even begun ON
that mission or church TN 1853. nor
WIS lt dedicated To services TN 1865.
There were no missions or foreign SEE :
Elements Of any Kind Ia Now Mexico
or west TeXas tim san Gabriel or
Chama near raos, New Mexico, was
founded In 1898 by Juan Onate. The
most northerly settlement In New
Spain was Santa Barbara and It was
not founded tin 1860. Il s in south
crn Chihuahua near parral
Tho old mission of Nnestro Sonora
del Carmen at Isleta tplease spell II
with an ~ as that is the only corr
rect way TO spell 1t In spanlsh) was
not founded IN 1910. II was built
subsequent TO 1851 ana was known
us the Corpus Christi dc los Tguas
for % reason which viii be stated fur
thor on Ia one of the local papers
some two or three years ago. writer
stated that lsleta WAS founded In $3.50
hy The 1csults IL could not havo been
founded IN 1913 and also In 1880, be-
sides 1890 WINS the year I'm which the
Jesuit order itself was founded and
IL ala not relch America ull mauy
years afterwards
There is no map Of the sixteenth
century showing lsleia, because lslcta
1id NOT exist ln tho sixteenth century
and there was no ono IA the country
30 make such map.
The socnfro mission was not found
"a in 1850, ior the reasons already
given
II IS not true that Juan de Onate
passed by the site of the present city
Of Chihuahua. tie says ia his itn-
crary of whirn the writer has a copy,
that he marched down the Conchos
river to near us mouth and thence up
the rio GUnde 90 near whore 1i
paso new stands and crossed the river
there, this crossing or paso giving m
paso it's name. Vic crossed the river
NOT ia Anrn nut ON May 4. 1898. lie
was not led by a Pueblo lndian-there
We're NO Pueblo Indians in this scc-
tion-bu by "a concho indian.
isleta .sooorro san Lorenzo,
san Eloeario. ms It was origl-
raly called, and scuecu Oocal papers
persist i'm spelling &c Cnicuc) founded
n 1851 ny Governor Ocrmin. M 1850
tue opaniards were driven ont of New
Mrxico boy "a portion Of tho Pueblo
Indians The rigua Indians OF Is
leiB. Socotro ubd Scnocu, New Mexico.
down tho river from Albuquerque
with Two r.s), remained icyal to the
SpanIards and were brought by them
Tea the present location of IN pnso
and settled Ia now towns down the
river, to which ncw towns they gave
the names of thc towns from which
they came. J. e., isiela, Socorro and
Senecu The ether town was called
san Loronap 81 Real because the up
rising in New MeVieo occurred ON san
Lerense's day There were no Tlgua
or other Pueblo Indians IN the rio
Grande valley below the Tigua towns
near AlburQuerQue tu the spanlards
brought them down IN 1850. except a
few piros ana Tompiros Indians who
had come down about 1859. driven
from their town of Abe IN Tint year
hy the Apathes. The Indians at The
mission Of Guadalupe IN marcz were
the Mansions end down the river the
Conchos. neither OF which were Pu-
ehio Indians.
The Coronado expedition entered
New Mexico In 1910 aud returned O.
Mexico in 1874 Ii came up through
sonora and Arizona but did not Come
down to IN Fase. There were NJ
ether expeditions into the country thl
1859, when Francisco sanchez cha.
muscado. a desefter, with five or six
men ana two priests came into NeW
Mexico, coming down the Conches
river and crossing over 90 the pecos
and thence TO The lower Pueblo Indian