El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-11
TELL Of TRIP
ON POSTCARDS
Militiamen Send Home Folk
Curious Impressions and
Hear Queer Yarns.

-A1anoRordo n. NJ, July ll--Ahe
militia bovs on the troop trains from
the states Of pennsylvania and Massa-
cbusetts. which passed through Alamo
yor5o on the way TO FL Paso, LEFT
lunches Of written postcards at the
f. p. & S. ". station. to be mailed TO
the folks back home" Some OF these
cards bore minute but interesting de-
scriptions Of The country, but most OF
the cards showed an absolute UNA
miIiarity with any OF the country
through which they had come, especial
IL the New Mexico region
one boy. in writing to his father
said. FOR 900 or 500 miles We have
been travelling through a country IN
babited almost solely bv the natives
-r4,.,, seep, 10 be about half civilized
Everything hut Water
Another one wrote with an aisii any,
5-esr southwest Some people some
Ssnd- some grass burrs, some ca - -
49, .o-,s country. Everything but
water" ,.--,- - IN -5av
,FeTi~o between Tucumcarl and harIl-
-11-71 Orvsrrizozol is irrigated with yFatsL
from the Grand river lie pIooao ~
,-esy+ the Rio Graude. which IS cut OF
from the section he mentioned ny TOD
two to five ranges OF noun 1alil9-
VIII Return, II Spared
~. ,,ounz fellow, in writing 20
r-irI presumably his sweetheart saio-
I'VE are nearing the border Nnsn rs
.-rssf war We are about 10 enter Is
over, II am spared aIter t1e c1s,,e-
baftie is cleared away and the cla N
o@ Ssber is forever hushed-then II
come back TO you - -
Local Munchzusens Get Busy.
The bows were usually very eager IN
ssl<inE questions Of the people VI.
1-e-e Gathered at the depot when me
+-sf1- arrived. and seemed to want 20
find out all they could ABOUT ms -
ton OF the country IN mos Ces
their ouerfes were answered aS 49, 49,
rsfeIv IS possible. but some persons
fo0I- advantage Of > good oppoI -uIllt
and elaborated on tnelr MlIlciial
talents in "string1ng the boys
accounted Thrilling lndtan r lsnts
One young man VINO N liisis. 1000
fastener, and came 10 Alarnos ol ~
sbout three years ago oescrl3e9 .. -
ir-7a rinarv battle between the lli9le---s
and the settlers, which he salu Lau -
CURED about 20 years ago on ne -ll5~-,,5l13
,1o+ where the town OF AlaInos oIuO
nov stands. He said ne was teLz
voune al the time, but he rememp re sl
The incidents Of the battle as cIeS-l = =
IL il had happened only a year -,s
He told how the Indians were IeA - -
after an all day fight, and were are
vrar5 given permission 10 return ~
Cs--v swav their dead which num-
bsred several hundred He showed tie
anita bovs a small mound in Aiameoa
nsrk. T-hich he said entompeQ inc
mains OF the white men VINO MeLS
I-5Ued on that day. The mound, IN 1act,
vas one built but a few years ago alle
"a now used for q public waking pLaOs
look Tor AIountain Lions
GOOD deal Of interest was mani
FsefeS in a story told by an OLD man
--fo makes his home in the sacrament 70
Mountains and who bears all the ear
71srks of a typical frontlersman' Dut
~ in reality makes his hNlne y
s--o1-fDr potatoes. although he mas N
times past lived on the rugged cage o.
civilization. He told the boys Ia
the Sacramento mountains, Wllch rs -
70 the height OF 5000 feet aooEe tile
valley country, were INFESTED Win D ea5
sn5 psnfher and Mexican mons anu
ofher wild beasts which maze llls .
burden TO the settlers he SAID tnaL d
nan would not be safe should ne Ven
f1rre out of his house stter DARK w. ~.
out a gun and that children were nut
allowed 10 run about alone even IN tue
daytime. -, ,-,,,.
The Sacramento mountains rise eDou-
four miles east OF AlamogorQo, ana
while the old man was tetllnS ms
story, his auditors aboard the cars
corlld be seen looking intently IN ne
5irection Of the mountains, prooa1I9
exoectine 10 see some Of the wild erea-
fT7-ss roaming about in search OF prey