Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-06


those who live here have visited the Rito de Los
Friioles, and climbed through the cliff dwellings,
have seen Acoma or Taos, have fished in the
streams of the Mescalero, or the upper PecoS,
or have mOtored our great scenic routes.
Summer especially is the time to enjoy the great
out of doors, not to sit on the veranda of fash
ionable hotel.
Either you were born here, or the Santa Fe
brought you here, and while you were still on
the train showed you a number of attractivey
gotten up little booklets that depicted the beau
tiful or interesting spots which you might visit
And the Forest Service is trying, through the
movies and the newspapers, to tell everyone
about the great Fairgrounds of the public the
National Forests which it has opened up. So
that between the S. F. and the F. S. the people
ought to realize that there is magnificent great
out of doors, with manifold attractions, for them
to enjoy during the summer months.
And yet the tourist and the visitor to the Sun
shine state are apt to see more of New Mexico
than do those who have lived here for years and
years, or indeed all their lives. 1t is like living
in Washington and never going through the Con-
gressional Library, or living in New York and
never visiting the Metropolitan Museum, because
you think that you can do so at any time. Worse
still, is the fact that many residents of this great
state have never even heard of such place
the Rito de Los Frijoles; they don't know where
it is nor for what it is famous. Nor do they
know of the attractions of the Indian pueblos, al
though number of interesting books, such as
"The Indians of the Terraced Houses" have been
written, telling the traveller all about the pueblos
and just how to get to each.
And there are those Fasteners" who think of
New Mexico as composed of great sandy deserts
and "mesas," with some cattle and a skull or two
in the foreground, and cowboy and some noun
tains in the back ground. This is not only the
land of ranches and round ups but of grand
mountains covered with heavy timber, where
there is wonderful hunting during the Spring and
Fall seasons and fine fishing in swift crystal
streams during the summer. Where mountain
climbing trips on foot or on horse will discover
views and scenery which can not be surpassed
in any of our great Western ranges, nor perhaps
anywhere. And the hardy may even try skiing
and snowballing in June on the peaks whose sum-
mits reach above ten thousand feet.
And there are good automobile roads right up
into these regions, while trails have been made
into the heart of mountain places And all
around us, within easy reach of Albuquerque, are
picturesque Indian puebos which will prove of
fascinating interest to the new conner, and will
yield fresh enjoyment to him who has grown
used" to the Indian, if he will but look at him
with a seeing eye, and allow his imagination to
dwell on the fact that here are the living repre-
sentatives of life and civilization which was
going on centuries ago in almost exactly the same
way that he sees it before him today.
Nowhere in the United States are there so
many prehistoric remains, nowhere so many ruins
Of cave dwellings, as in New Mexico, and evil