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

full old paintings, brought from Spain old altar
cloths, bead and embroidery work, beautiful old
silver, and, stranger than anything, the Weirdest
carved figures of saints which can be imagined.
What would you think of the good Joseph and
the blessed Mary clad in the costumes of 1850?
All carved in wood.
There is world of UNEMPLOYED treasure in
New Mexico. The collector has gathered good
deal here, but there is still more, although much
has been destroyed. And there is a wealth of
material for the writer, as for the painter The
West has an infinite variety, and no descriptions
can convey the wonderful fascination which Is
eXerts over all who learn it and love it, while
New Mexico, by its very contrast of white hot
sandy deserts, glowing with opalescent coIors,
and high mountain meadows, clad in softest finest
grass, and studded with a thousand flowers. Of
ters variety to please everyone, first encharts,
then woos wins, and holds enthralIed.
So that whether you are riding through the
mesquite over the desert, bathed in sthat life
giving sunshine which goes through and through
you, and looking up at the encirclmg blue and
lavender mountains palpItatng in an unreal at
mospheric mist of color or whether you are up
in those very mountains, lying on your back on
a bed of pine needles, looking up through the
fluffy needles of the silver spruce, hearing the
aspen rustic like silk over your head and the
stream chatter as it plunges noisily down
the pebbles few feet away, you are enjoying
something which grips you, which builds you,
and adds years to your life.
You have read much and heard more of the
strange fascination of the deserts of Arabia and
Africa. Travellers tell us that are Just
as beautiful, just strange; think of the white
sands" of gypsum that lie on the desert south of
Aamogordo: Cleaning, dazzling they SHIN
mer in the white hot sunlight like great snow
bank or glacier. The eyes must be bandaged ii
visits the sands a summers day. And
they extend for thirty miles in width and length.
Strange tales told of crime in the desert, not
more than twenty or thirty years ago, of bodies
buried in these sands, whose pristine purity shows
stain of the blood of the victims of cattle
raids and Indian wars.
Our deserts are not so great in extent as the
Sahara fortunately, but they offer in brilhanly
of color, in variety of sky line, distractions by
which the mind and eye are ever intrigued.
Whether in the pale yellow light of early morn
ing or in the ruddy gold of the setting sur,
which glorifies the desert sand, and gilds the
fiat topped mesas, there is beauty in these bar
rem Places
Get out into the open, then, this summer
city. Stand on the mountain tops, drink in the
most wonderful air that can be imagined, and
see the world at your feet. Fish, hunt, climb or
motor, but get out of doors. Maps of the noun
tain regions, and more definite information on
roads and camping places may be had at the
local Forest Service Offices while information as
to the daily condition of main travelled roads
may be had from Col. D. K. B. Sellers of Albu-
querque. AS to trains exact information can
best be obtained by asking directly at the Santa
Fe ticket office.
The city of Santa Fee has two we'll equipped
stage or tourist auto services, with which ar
engagements can be made to go to all of the places
near Santa Fe, and there is also bus service to
Taos. Horses can be rented for day or week
for any of the mountain trips, and complete camp
outfits can be had in the larger cities,