El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-07

-Conto Is page 1913 La Nueva Mexico 5y
Captain Casper Tnlsgren CVerses writeen On
crossing the Rio Grande at a point where
now stands the city OF Il Paso. Texas. May
1. 1855. then belonging to New MeXico.)
1HE following brief historical
sketch Of AIesilla and the AIesiIIa
- valley. including much that con-
- Germs early e. Paso. has been compiled
by request Il makes no pretension
10 literary merit nor to historical &C
curacy beyond that of the sources
from which the data has been drawn
The village Of MesiIla is modern.
comparatively. but the Mesilla valley,
adown the vista of the ages. has re-
sounded to the tread of prehistoric
man-cavemen, cliff-dweller. Aztec.
Inca, Iberian. Saxon. Beautiful as the
vale of Avoca. il attracted none OF
them and remained as silent as the
harp in Tara's hall, till the lberian
pitched his tent by its silent lanes.
erected a shrine TO his God and fixed
his abode by its quiet waters. disdain-
ful Of the Saxon who had usurped his
place in the Providence and Kingdom
Of New Mexico
Here the "Gadsden Purchase or
treaty Of Mesilla, was signed and the
Iberian forced to acknowledge the
Saxon or migrate. Here the Confeder-
ate general. John r. Baylor, created
the territory of Arizona and made Me-
sflla its capital, TO be gain degraded {
TO mere village on the west bank of
the Rio Grande- Later even the river (
abandoned its bed. changing from the (
east 10 the west side Of AIesilla.
In the following pages some account (
will be given Of the more salient hap 1
penings in this historical but now al
most forgotten capital OF a Confeder- I
ate territory
Prehistoric History.
as TO the origin Of the first inhabitants .
OF New Mexico
Facial resemblance. says A F. Ban
delier, their customs. ceremonies, Orna-
ments and weapons. bear strong wit
ness Of a kinship with Asiatic peoples.
as dc also the Cherokees. PueblOs of
New Mexico and the Mexicans and [
Peruvians. descendants of the five Z
great stocks or families Of Indians,
J. e.. ShOshOnean. Zunian, keresan.
Tonasan and Athapascan- The Mo-
quis and PueblOs belong 10 the first
It is certainly possible that branches :
OF the Monaghan race crossed Behr-
ing's strait. Such a movement was
easily accomplished and thence they
moved southerly along the Pacific 10
New Mexico.
The compact architecture typified in
the communal many-stOried building
cached its southern limit along the i
Rio Grande at san Marcial. where the
SpaniardS found the first villages on 3
the Rio Grande in 1880. Below that /
point the detached type. in clusters,
the river bank at intervals. as .
lar south as Dona Ana probably, Ger ]
-ainly to old Fort Selden, at that time, |
southeast Of Mesilla. New Mexico.
Theory Of Migration Confirmed
Carl LumhoitZ. in Unknown Mex I
CO." confirms the above theory and
iays the Asiatics crossed to this con-
inent by the Aleutian islands by slow
)ilgrimages, going south along the
Pacific 10 New Mexico; thence west
% Casa Grande; thence TO its sister
prehistoric town of Casas Grandes
chihuahua, Mexico. and thence 10
renoxtitlan, the home of the Mocte-
.Umas. q
Another famous ruin similar TO this
speaking OF the ruin Of Casa Grande. 7
.rizona), is that Of Casas Grandes. in
chihuahua Mexico. where many valu-
bel relics have been found, proving, s
mong other things, the wealth of the
mines
Thus the Indians Of Casa Grande / J
nd the PueblOs OF New Mexico were a
he fOrefathers OF the Aztecs and the Z q
ay," by Fred s Delenbaugh- a
Mariners Expedition.
In the unpublished documents Of the Z
Archivo de midas" 1871. we find the II
blowing as having been issued in G.
SOS: q
IN behalf of the Catholic Caesarean g
iajesty, Don Carlos. king of the $
.omans and emperor ever august. and z
iona Juana, his mother. sOvereigns Of =
con and CASTLE defenders of the T y
lurch ever victorious, never van d
uished. and rulers Of barbarous ma
ons. I. PanfiiO de Narvaez. his ser
ant. messenger and captain. notify ( G.
nd cause you to know that IL has be I VI
1me necessary that some men should pl