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CHAS. R. ALLEN, Seattle, Coos Bay, Carbon Hill Coal, 118, 120 Beale St. S.F.
The J. M. BRUNSWICK & BALKE CO.,
BILLIARD TABLE MANUFACTURERS, 653 and 655 Market St., San Francisco.
Haas I, groceries CARRICO M W, propr " El Paso Times " and dealer in Hague J P, attorney at law books and stationery Hartkopf Frederick, saloon and restaurant, mgr for Jacob 352 HART & POTTER, publishers " Daily Independent " Lobback Central Hotel, John Dougher Texas-El Paso. ALPHABETICALLY. COFFIN & CO, liquor saloon and soda water mfrs propr CONKLIN T H, real estate agt and insurance Heine Joseph, clothing and fur- nishing goods Cummings Samuel, Globe Res- taurant Hille August, harnessmaker and carriage trimmer Davis B H, attorney at law DAVIS L H, attorney at law DAILY INDEPENDENT," Hart & Potter publishers HILLS W S, attorney at law and agt for Campbell's addi- tion to El Paso (see adv) HOECK F P, mgr Rio Grande Pharmacy DEAL B F, (McKie & Deal) DIETER & FREEMAN, barber HOOPER WM B & CO, im- porter foreign and domestic wines and liquors, petroleum, teas, miner's candles and bulk goods a specialty; gasfitters and lamp goods shop DODGE G A, fruits, confection- ery, cigars and tobacco Dougher John, propr Central Hotel " EL PASO HERALD," week-, ly, R M Mckie and B F Deal proprs IRVIN W A & CO, wholesale and retail druggists, dealers. in books, stationery, newspapers El Paso Transfer Company, Jas Marr supt and periodicals, wall paper, paints and oils "EL PASO TIMES," daily and weekly, M W Carrico propr JACKSON C T & CO, lumber, sash, etc (see adv) JONES J W & CO, groceries and EMERSON & BERRIEN, dealers provisions in furniture and household JULIAN JOHN, agt Wells, Far- go & Co's Express furnishing goods, undertakers Escobar Y Armendariz Jesus, Justice A L, physician consul of Mexico Keating Paul W, liquor saloon KEMMIS J A, practical watch- maker and jeweler Faber Valentine, lodgings Finlay A J, agt S PR R ter- minus Ketelsen & Degetau, gen mdse and forwarding and commis- sion merchants First National Bank of El Paso, J Raynolds pres, J W Zollars cashier Kidd & Andrews, saloon and bootmakers FORREST G W, carriage paint- er KIERSKI & CO, Texas News Co (see adv) Furman T F, mason and plas- terer KOEHLER & CLINE, black- smiths and . wagonmakers and repairers of agricultural Goldson & Kyger, boarding implements Gist & Scheffers, blacksmiths and wagonmakers PACIFIC PRESS, PRINTERS, ENGRAVERS, ELECTROTYPERS, BINDERS, Oakland, Cal Send for Estimates. PACIFIC PRESS, PRINTERS, ENGRAVERS, ELECTROTYPERS, BINDERS, Oakland, Cal Send for Estimates.
WACHHORST, Jeweler, 315 J St., Sacramento. Sign of the TOWN CLOCK.
PACIFIC PRESS, PRINTERS, ENGRAVERS, ELECTROTYPERS, BINDERS, Oakland, Cal. Send for Estimates.
Try the COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL, Tombstone, A. T.
Conducted on the European Plan.
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KOHNER LOUIS, groceries, pro-
visions and produce, opposite State National Bank Krause E, architect
Kroeder & Freilwhy, meat mar- ket
Lightbody & James, clothing and furnishing goods, and merchant tailors
LINDANER M, Star Clothing House, clothing, furnishing goods, boots and shoes, hats, etc
LONE STAR" (The) semi- weekly, Newman & Shannon editors and proprs
Lucas Charles F, stoves and tin- ware
LUKINI & CO, California Res- taurant and Chop House (see adv)
MADDEN M L, saloon Madden Mrs M L, dressmaker
MANNING JAMES, liquor sa- loon
Marr James, supt El Paso Trans- fer Co
McKIE & DEAL, publishers “ El Paso Herald"
McKIE R M (McKie & Deal) Mckinney J A, physician Meier Albert, El Paso Bakery Merrick Bros, clothing, boots and shoes, etc
MOREHEAD CHARLES R, pres State National Bank
Mulligan & Kennedy, boot- makers
Mundy Bros, butchers
Nebeker & Co, dealers in wag- ons
NECOMAN & SHANNON, ed- itors and proprietors " The
Lone Star "
NEILL G F, attorney at law and district attorney
NEWLAND N S, Acme Liquor and Shooting Gallery
NEWMAN S, M D, City Drug Store
NEWTON T D. saddler and har- ness maker
Niccolls A L, druggist
NICCOLL J F, asst agt Wells, Fargo & Co's Express
OBENCHAIN S J. wholesale dealer in liquors, cigars, etc Ochoa Y, gen mdse
PACIFIC HOTEL, Mrs Rosina Stely propr (see adv)
PIONTKOWSKY H V, watch- maker and jeweler and re- pairer of musical instruments, and piano tuner
Porter Mrs F D, postmaster
Raynolds J, pres First National Bank
RICE CLINTON, real estate and mining solicitor and broker, Central Hotel (see adv)
Rider E L, architect and builder RIO GRANDE PHARMACY, L H Davis propr, F P Hoeck mgr, wholesale and retail druggists
RODGERS A E, M D, physician Ross T King, physician and sur- geon, A, T & SFR R
ROTHSCHILD & MARCUSE,
watches and jewelry, fancy goods, cigars and tobacco, books and stationery
SCHOENFELD M, stoves and tinware, hardware, pumps and metal roofing Schuster B, mgr El Paso Trans- fer Co
SCHUSTER B & CO, gen mdse Schutz Joseph, gen mdse and sewing machines
Schutz S & Bros, gen mdse
Schwingle Jacob, groceries and produce, flour and feed, to- bacco, etc
Slaughter John L, saddle and harness mfrs
IMPERIAL EGG FOOD will Make Hens Lay.
319 Market Street, San Francisco. Sold by the Trade. or address G. G. WICKSON.
CHAS. R. ALLEN Pig Iron and English Joke, 118 and 120 Beale St., S. F.
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The J. M. BRUNSWICK & BALKE CO.,
BILLIARD TABLE MANUFACTURERS, 653 and 655 Market St., San Francisco
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and 9th, Oakland. House as goou as new. 9 Broadway, bet, 8th --
Speck John M, liquor saloon SPRINZ BROS & DAVIDSON, gen mdse
STANTON C Q, attorney at law and notary public
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STATE NATIONAL BANK, Chas R Morehead pres, W H Austin cashier (see adv)
STEINBUCH A F, butcher shop opposite State National Bank Stewart J J, liquor saloon STELY MRS ROSINA, propr
Pacific Hotel (see adv) .
STRAUSS LEON, repairing watches, jewelry, guns and pistols and sewing machines with Kierski & Co
Strong L D, house and sign painter
STUART & SUTHERLAND, groceries and provisions SULLIVAN GERALD E, city editor " El Paso Times"
TEXAS NEWS CO, (Kierski & Co) wholesale and retail books, stationery, cigars and tobacco, and. fancy goods, watches and jewelry (see adv) THOMAS GEORGE W, whole- sale dealer liquors and ciga. s Truesdell Frank M, dentist Ullmann M, gen mdse, furniture, etc
Walton Harry, barber shop and baths
WELLS, FARGO & CO'S EX-
PRESS, John Julian agt White & Hardy, staple and fan- cy groceries and produce Williams E & Sons, boots and shoes and furnishing goods Wilson W A, painter Wulff Henry, gen indse Zollars J W, cashier First Na- tional Bank
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O. T. BASSETT, - DEALER IN - LUMBER OAK, HICKORY, PINE & REDWOOD SHINGLES, SASH, DOORS, Blinds, Mouldings, Lime, Cement & Plaster, Office and Yard opposite Southern Pacific Passenger Depot, EL PASO, TEXAS.
California CHOP HOUSE
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OYSTER SALOON
Cor. Main Street and Plaza,
Between the Central Hotel and Post-office,
EL PASO, TEXAS.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
Regular Meals and a la Carte. LUKINI & CO., Prop'rs.
H. WACHHORST'S
Selection of JEWELRY, is the Rarest in the State, No. 315' J Street, Sacramento, Cal.
HOWARD BLACK, CUSTOM SHIRT MAKER. 126 KEANNY STREET, Rooms 7 and 8, San Francisco, Cal
Ladies' Dresses, Shawls, Cloaks, etc., come from A. Stein's Dyeing House as goou as new.
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C. R. MOREHEAD, President.
JOSEPH MAGOFFIN, Vice-President. W. H. AUSTIN, Cashier.
State National Bank EL PASO, TEXAS.
Do a General Banking Business; Buy and Sell Exchange on all the Principal Cities of the United States and the City of Chihuahua.
Special attention given to Collections here and in the State of Chihuahua.
Stockholders .- H. L. Newmann, St. Louis, Mo. Ynocente Ochna, El Paso, Chihuahua.
A. F. Shapleigh,
Joseph Magoffin, El Paso, Texas.
James C. Moore, O. T. Bassett, John J. O'Fallon, 66 W. H. Austin,
Thog. Rankin, Jr., 66 C. R. Morehead.
Correspondents .- Importers and Traders National Bank, New York. Merchants' National Bank, St. Louis, Mo Wells, Fargo & Co's Bank, San Francisco.
C. T. JACKSON. A. W. JACKSON.
C. T. Jackson & Co., DEALER IN
Lumber, Doors, Windows, BLINDS, MOULDINGS, SHINGLES, SHAKES, ETC. Our Facilities for Buying enable us to Sell at the Lowest Market Rates. YARD ON EAST OVERLAND ST., EL PASO, TEXAS.
United States. Mexico.
CLINTON RICE, Real Estate Mining Solicitor Broker.
Central Hotel Building-Plaza, EL PASO CITY, TEXAS.
EL PASO, Ysleta, Socorro and San Elizario Town Lots, Rio Grande Valley Farms, Grazing and Dairy Ranches, and Vineyards, Purchased, Sold and Leased.
CITY LOTS (well located, titles clear) offered upon the installment plan at rates within the reach of every one.
MINING and Landed Properties in Texao, New Mexico, Arizona (U. S.), and in Chihauhua, Sonora, Coahuila, Sinaloa and Durango (Old Mexico), examined and reported upon by Skilled and Relia- ble Experts, and Satisfactory Dispositions of the same Negotiated.
Reliable Correspondents in every Principal City in the United States and Northern Mexico.
Loans negotiated upon Government, Railway, Real Estate and Mining Stock Securities.
RIO GRANDE PHARMACY CORNER OF
El Paso St. and West Overland.
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
FANCY GOODS,
TOILET ARTICLES, ETC., Wholesale and Retail, El Paso, Texas. L. H. DAVIS, Prop'r. F. P, HOECK, Manager.
G. W. FORREST, House, Sign Carriage
Painte
Ornamental Work a Specialty.
West Side Plaza, fronting S.P.R.R. EL PASO, TEXAS.
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GO TO THE PACIFIC HOTEL
MRS. ROSINA STELY, Proprietor, Opp. S. P. R. R. Depot. EL PASO, TEXAS.
Board for Transients, $1.50 to $2.00 per Day.
THIS POPULAR HOUSE
Offers First-Class Fare, and accommodations that are equal to the Best in Town.
Choice El Paso City Property FOR RESIDENCE AND BUSINESS PURPOSES.
FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS, BY W. S. HILLS, Agent for Campbell's Addition to El Paso. EL PASO, TEXAS. 13 Call before purchasing and examine Plan of the CAMPBELL PROPERTY and get terms.
METROPOLITAN AMILLINERY,
Millinery, Notions, Dress Making. Latest and Finest Styles in Underwear and Hair Switches, Hats, Bonnets, Trimmings, And best quality of Laces.
Next door East of Central Hotel, EL PASO, TEXAS. Mrs. C. C. BORRADAILE.
T. D. NEWTON,
Manufacturer of
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
California and Texas Saddles a specialty.
A full line of Harness and Pack Saddles, as well as all other goods pertaining to the trade, constantly on View at our Show Rooms.
Overland St., El Paso, Texas.
WM. KIERSKI, Manager. GEO. KIERSKI, Superintendent. WATCHES JEWELRY Pistols TEXAS NEWS CO. § Guns Repaired and Warranted. Cleaned, & Repaired. Wholesale & Retail Dealers in BOOKS AND STATIONERY Cheap Periodicals, Cigars and Tobacco, Pipes, Cigarettes, Etc. DAVIS BLOCK, EL PASO, TEXAS.
PACIFIC PRESS, PRINTERS
TWELFTH AND CASTRO STREETS, OAKLAND. 527 COMMERCIAL STREET, SAN FRANCISCO.
The J. M. BRUNSWICK & BALKE CO.,
BILLIARD TABLE MANUFACTURERS. 653 and 655 Market St., San Francisco.
Southern Colorado.
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SOUTHERN COLORADO.
ALPHABETICALLY.
The Centennial State, born when the commemoration of our one hundredth anniversary was in progress, has the form of an exact parallelogram, lying between the 37th and 41st parallel of north latitude and 102d and 109th degree west longitude. The admission of the Centennial State into the sisterhood of States, in 1877, was attended with no little eclat, and her rapid development since that event has elicited the loudest expressions of surprise from the whole world.
It is bounded on the north by Wyoming and Nebraska, on the east by Kansas, on the south by New Mexico and on the west by Utah. It is 380 miles in length by 280 miles in breadth, having an area of 106,400 square miles, or 68,096,000 acres. Its natural divisions are the plains, the foot-hills, and the mountain country. It has been estimated that the plains occupy one-third of the whole area, which, with a perfect system of irrigation, must become the source of great agricultural wealth, an industry that is as yet but in its incipiency. Experiments in the cultivation of cereals and vegetables have resulted most satisfactorily, though the location of farming lands has not heretofore been the object of the immigration which has found its way to this favored land. With the increase in population, however, a greater interest seems to center in that particular pursuit which calls the mower and the plow into use, and the future is very near, we dare say, when the agricultural products of the State will com- mand a very high respect in her commercial attractions. The soil is inexhaustable, yielding abundantly, with proper cultiva- tion, everything indigenous to the latitude.
As a grazing and dairy country it is claimed that Colorado has scarcely 'an equal, since at no season of the year is there a time when nutritious grasses of many varieties cannot be obtained by the cattle which roam at large, requiring no shelter save that furnished in the valleys. These facts are alone sufficient to pro- claim to the world that her agricultural capabilities are very great, and thatno risk other than that made in all new countries is necessary in order that success may be attained. In the pos- session of the famous Rocky Mountains, which intersect the State from north to south, Colorado is eminently fortunate, not only because of their illimitable deposits of precious ores, but because
CHAS. R. ALLEN, Anthracite & Cumberland Coal, 118, 120 Beale St., S F.
HOWARD BLACK, CUSTOM SHIRT MAKER, 126 KEARNY STREET, Rooms 7 and 8, San Francisco, Cal.
M. MADIGAN & CO New York Horseshoeing Shop.
faction guaranteed. S. W. cor Twelfth and West, Oakland. Horseshoeing promptly attended to. Interfering prevented. Satis-
The J. M BRUNSWICK & BALKE CO.,
BILLIARD TABLE MANUFACTURERS. .. 653 and 655 Market St , San Francisco
PACIFIC PRESS, PRINTERS, ENGRAVERS. ELECTROTYPERS, BINDERS, Oakland, Cal. Send for Estimates. H. WACHHORST .
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they are probably richer in scenic attractions than any other range of mountains in the world. Such a variety of sublime and picturesque scenery as is presented in every section of this noble range, it is universally conceded, is nowhere rivaled, not even in the renowned Alps of Switzerland. A visit to the Garden of the Gods, Estes Park, or Clear Creek Cañon, is attended with most pleasing results invariably, for in each of these places nature has exerted herself to the utmost in her most exquisite handiwork.
The following description of Colorado from a published history of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, with whose growth that of the State is so closely identified, presents the topography of this wonderful region consecutively, and just as it strikes the visitor :
THE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE RAILWAY
Was commenced in 1870, a few months only after the Kansas Pacific Railway had crossed the plains and reached the foot of the Rocky Mountains at Denver. The object of its projectors was to construct a railway along the eastern base of the back- bone of the continent, and then to pierce the mountains by branches to reach the mining districts whenever and wherever they proved to be sufficiently productive. With this definite pur- pose in view a three-foot gauge was chosen, which ten years' expe- rience has proved to be eminently adapted to meet the require- ments of the country. The mountain-base line was gradually constructed due south from Denver to El Moro, 206 miles. The first mining branch was that to the coal fields near Canon City, which preceded by one year the completion of the road to the coal fields at El Moro. Then followed the extension over Veta Pass, heading toward the silver mines of the San Juan country. Next came the extension to Leadville, which was delayed for a year by a bitter legal contest with a rival road for possession of the Grand Canon of the Arkansas.
No sooner was Leadville reached than the extraordinary min- ing activity developed throughout the mountains of Colorado, which has placed this State foremost in the production of pre- cious metals, justified the unprecedented feat of carrying on the construction of no less than seven extensions at once. In the effort to reach the spots where nature hides her treasures the greatest engineering difficulties yet encountered on this continent have been overcome, the deepest gorges have been traversed, the loftiest ranges have been climbed. In five different places the summit of the Continental Divide has been crossed, and the " Pio- neer Line " on these extensions is following the course of streams whose waters lead to the Pacific.
By way of introduction we will briefly enumerate the charac- teristic features of interest to the traveler on the different divi- sions of this railway, which is justly termed " The Scenic Line of America." It skirts along the western edge of the Great Plains, the vast and sublime treeless expanse that hardly a score of years
Has an Endless Variety of Kings, from Solid Gold to Costly Diamond Setting. 315 J Street, acramento.
HOWARD BLACK, CUSTOM SHIRT MAKER, 126 KEARNY STREET, Rooms 7 and 8, San Francisco, Cal.
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since was known as the Great American Desert, for over 200 miles, at just the proper distance to show in all their majesty and sublimity two of the loftiest snow-clad ranges of the Rocky Mountain system. From Denver to La Veta, a distance of 191 miles, the panorama of mountain and plain seen from its cars has no equal, as regards extent of vision, on the North American Con- tinent. To the traveler from the eastern sections of the Union it seems to open a new heaven and a new earth. Accustomed to the limited horizon of the East, with wonder and delight he finds his vision ranging over spaces vaster than he had ever dreamed could be compassed by human sight. From beholding mountains 100 miles to the north, he turns to see other mountains 100 miles to the south. To the east the plains, solitary and untrammeled as the ocean, rise up to meet the sky. Lying in depressions of the plains, like parts of a mosaic, are rapid mountain streams, along whose narrow, fertile valleys are beautiful cities, neat villages and attractive farms, over whose surfaces flow the tiny crystal rills from the irrigating ditches, without which even the hardiest shrubs would wither and die. Vision is assisted by the wonderful transparency of the atmosphere, and objects many miles distant appear near at hand, while even the furthest mountain peaks lie clear-cut and distinct against the sky.
Bayard Taylor has said that nowhere along the entire extent of the Alps is there a point from which they can be seen to so good advantage as the Rocky Mountains are beheld from Denver. Hence there could be no more fitting starting-point for what is essen- tially a Rocky Mountain Railroad.
But to return to the railway. Fifty-two miles southward from Denver the summit of the watershed which separates the valleys of the Arkansas and the Platte is crossed. Here is a lakelet, the shore of which the train skirts for half a mile. Then it glides down the Valley of the Monument, and twenty-three miles fur- ther arrives at Colorado Springs, from which point a branch line, five miles long, leads to Manitou.
Forty-five miles southward we come to Pueblo, where the chief objects of interest are the Pueblo Smelting and Refining Works, and the iron furnace and steel works of the Colorado Coal and Iron Company.
Delightful as the scenery is from Denver to Pueblo, it is merely an introduction to the greater wonders that are unfolded when the railway penetrates into the fastnesses of the mountains, and lays bare the very "heart of the Rockies." Half a score of branches, varying in length from 500 to 300 miles, penetrate the famous mining regions of Colorado, in most of which they are the pioneer and only rail line-the enthusiastically welcomed herald of civilization, trade and progress. Of the 800 miles of road now operated, in fact of the entire 1,200 that will be com- pleted before the end of the current year, it can safely be said that
CHAS. R. ALLEN, Cannel and West Hartley Coal, 118, 120 Beale St., S. F.
BLUESTONE A SPECIALTY. THE BLUESTONE AND REDUCTION WORKS, TOMBSTONE, A. T.
HOWARD BLACK, CUSTOM SHIRT MAKER. 126 KEARNY STREET, Rooms 7 and 8, San Francisco, Cal.
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BILLIARD TABLE MANUFACTURERS, 653 and 655 Market St., San Francisco
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there is scarcely a mile of tame scenery. Everywhere the atten- tion is held by the shifting phases of the mountain view, near or distant, the beauty of the extensive parks, or the picturesque grandeur of the cañons and mountain passes. The scenery changes with every mile.
Diverging from Pueblo, 120 miles south of Denver, the rail- way enters the mountains . by three avenues-through the majestic gateways of Veta Pass, Grape Creek Cañon and the Grand Canon of the Arkansas. One mile above Cañon City it dives into a cleft in the granite rock, and-passing through an awful gorge three thousand feet in depth-emerges above it into the upper Arkansas Valley, where the constant succession of beau- tiful and varied scenery, mountains and cañons, parks and pleasant valleys, are a constant wonder and delight as the train skirts the roaring torrent of the Arkansas, which dashes headlong eastward towards the plains.
One mile above Cañon City, and just at the entrance of the Grand Cañon, the Wet Mountain Valley branch leaves the main line, and following up Grand Creek in a southwest direction for thirty-two miles, through a cañon of wonderful beauty, termi- nates at Westcliff, from which point the mines of Silver Cliff, Rosita, and Bassick, numerous stamp mills in the vicinity, and a large agricultural population are supplied. The agricultural importance of the Wet Mountain Valley, and its scenic beauty will be found fully described in their proper place.
Returning to Pueblo we now follow the railway southward and westward. From Pueblo to Cuchara, a distance of fifty miles, the line has few attractions beyond the ever-varying features of the Spanish Peaks viewed from the cars as the train describes a tortu- ous course across the drainage of the country. At Cuchara the line branches. The El Moro Division makes straight for Fisher's Peak, the most prominent headland of the Raton Mountains, but fails to arrive at its destination, for five miles beyond Ei Moro it runs to ground in the enormous coal veins which flank the mount- ain. At El Moro the entire coke supply of Colorado is manu- factured. Over 26,000 tons of coke were shipped from this point during 1880, and supplied sixty-one out of the sixty-eight furnaces in the State. A very striking view is to be seen nightly from El Moro. It is a semi-circle of two hundred coke ovens all aglow, backed by the dark, basaltic columns of the Raton range.
The line from Cuchara westward ascends the fertile and pictur- esque Cuchara Valley for twenty-two miles, and then climbs up Veta Pass, rising by short curves and steep grades into the very realms of cloud-land, nearly two miles above sea-level, affording magnificent and far-reaching views of the Spanish Peaks, Veta Mountain and the romantic valley between. Thence the railway traverses the great inland basin of the San Luis Valley, striking the Rio Grande 250 miles from Denver and 130 from Pueblo, at
H. WACHHORST
Invites Attention to His Genuine Sterling Silverware, No. 315 J Street, Sacramento, Cal.
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Alamosa. From Alamosa the line runs almost due south twenty- nine miles, leaving the river ten miles to the eastward, to the Mexican settlement of Antonito, where it again forks.
From this point the traveler may be prepared for entering a new world-whether he goes South, to find himself among the still living remains of Montezuma on the tributaries of the Rio Grande, or hastening along the edge of the stupendous Toltic Gorge, over the dizzy heights of the Chama summit, on through the dense forests of the Tierra Amarilla, reaches the great San Juan country, a land so entirely unlike, in verdure, in climate and in scenery, anything to which he is accustomed in the Rocky Mountains north and east, that he can scarcely believe himself still in Colorado.
Born of the new era-the railroad era to the San Juan country -is the now famous town of Durango, already the metropolis of southwestern Colorado.
The New Mexico Division extends from Antonito, ninety miles south, to Espanola, New Mexico, twenty-three miles from Santa Fé, which gap is bridged by an excellent line of six-horse coaches. Climbing the mesas at the foot of San Antonio Mount- ain, the railway passes over an elevated country, underlaid with volcanic rock, and covered with park-like forests of pinons (pinos edalis), the edible nut-bearing pine of the Rocky Mountains. The cones which contain the seeds mature about once in three years, at which periods all the denizens of the forests, the deer, coneys, bears, squirrels, wild turkeys and prairie dogs grow fat. The nuts are delicious eating, and are frequently sold as an article of commerce. Sixty-four miles south of Antonito, at Barranca Station, is the place of divergence for the celebrated Ojo Caliente hot springs, twelve miles distant by stage.
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