Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-16
ALBUQUERQUE IS SURROUNDED BY
SOME OF the GREATEST SCENIC
WONDERS in THE entire WORLD
Many Tourists Remain Here For Months
Enjoying the Climate and Never Think to
Take Trip to "The Most Fascinating City
in America" as James Describes Acoma.

azine as "the Oldest continuously
inhabited settlement in the United
States" On the top of the rock is
wonderful old mission church
which covers a larger ground area
than is covered by any other
church in America. It's walls arc
ten feet thick and so feet high, and
one of the pictures near the altar
is painting, presented to it by
Charles II, of Spain, of San Jose
(Joseph) the husband of the Vir-
gin Mary. 1T is called by the In
dams "the picture of the Father
of Cod" and they believe it brings
them good luck.
OF Acoma no finer description
can be given than tho following
by Charles f. LOOMS:
"Three miles south of Mesa
Encanada is the most splendid
specimen Of fantastic erosion
on this continent. An island
in the air: a rock with over
hanging sides nearly four hum
dred feet high. 70 acres in
area on a fairly level top in
denied with countless great
bayss& notched with dizzy
chasms, flanked with vast
buttresses so sheer Assyrian
in their chance carvings by the
rains that one could believe
the builders of Nineveh had
learned their trade here, so
labyrinthine in It's perimeter
that no man will find the last
word for il"
Not only has Albuquerque never
advertised Acoma and the won.
derland through which one tray.
els by automobile to it, but it i!
not even mentioned in any foldei
of the Santa Fe railroad, although
it may be reached within a few
miles of Laguna station.
We've been asleep on the fob,
Jemez Scenery.
Just a short distance to the
northwest Of Albuquerque are thu
Jemez hot springs and the Sui
phurs.
1t is doubtful IL a finer bit o
wooded scenery can be found il
America than that between Jeme;
Springs and the Sulphurs, and i
one could bring the Hot Springs
or Arkansas, and the Hot Spring,
OF Virginia-the two most famou!
hot springs resorts in America
together, and add to them Mani
tou Springs Of Colorado. the,
would be, compared with tn,
Jemez springs and the Sulphurs
as a tallow dip to an incandescen
light.
At the Jemez springs there Il
mineral water gushing so hot from
the ground that an equal amour
or cold water must be turned int
the tub to make bathing possible
The water is a rare combinatio.
of sulphur and soda, and ii is rec
| ognlzed as q cure for rheumatism
skin diseases and blood poison O
all sorts.
The sulphur country has within
an area of two or three acres min
eral springs of almost every i'm
| aginable kind--every sort of waite
| that Manitou has and enough
| left over to make a wonderful re
sort in themselves. Then Their,
are the sulphur springs, boilini
hot that steam up out of tn,
ground. Without about forty gal
Ions of cold water poured into
tub, the water would soon boil tn,
flesh from your bones. No germ
or microbe can live in that waite
ten minutes after you stop pourint
cold water in with the hot. Their,
is no possibility of contagon or in
lection from these baths.
Thousands of people come to AL
buquerque and go away each yeal
without having heard Of Acoma
the Gran Quivera, the Jemez ant
sulphur Springs. although Berna
lilo and Sandoval counties and the
state are spending many thousands
of dollars to make and MAINTAIN
good roads and BRIDGES between
all of these points of super attrac.
ton.
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