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Show 3-1 Ex. Doc. No. 41. 1. . f 150 mile. tlown the riYcr has been deter· <'X})C( tt lOll 0 b them' an . . . on th 1 sl Sc ptem cr . . . The o·oy-mincd on, to statt . t lo churrh tn great slittc.. b .lhwust 30.-To-day ' c Wl n , l chair covered with cnmsoll, wa~ crnor? s "<'""'l't ' a larg'-' e, well sl1u· ifc<· o fit'c' cr.' 'l"nc cllur ·h was crowtlcd ocrup1. t I hyr .t he comman< tng . l ·n but not a. word was 1. , , , ol' men ant wom( , . 4 , w1' th '•l tl '' ltlentlvc au< Ience . l ,Nll o l<epl hts back to l11C 1 · b the p ncs , . · ttcl·cd from th pu pll "! ..., t.tt'rr lHa"'er: and ul.cantatlO.ns. \1 \ h 1 ttme repcn 'n J I no· con g r c gat\ on t .1 e w . ~ e on c ~~ s c < l at t h c fan d a. n g?' an< s L rum m l ~ The balld, the Hl ntlca~ 'thout' intermission. hxcert the gov~lr the 8nrnc tunes, phyc( Wl, . ' S th rc were no ~cats m the churc 1. no 1·' · seal and one rolw of 1b crn cclnhce·.c's o n Lllc bare flo or as she entered, < 1 "L,arh woman droppc<. o.n lC .L. .fol· a. scat on the ground at ong .r .. ( . ·h ' d thu~ post lOn < ' ~nll only cxc a.ngc the tin\.dc of a srnall belL interYaL' announcell bf t ·as d<'coraled with some ftfly rosses, The int eriobr of lfh teh ce lmuroe. tl 'm' t~ s· c "ll) lc ]1ainlings ·and wax figures, J' . a great ~urn er o .· (1 with pt!'CCS of tmsel. . . . - and lookmg glasses tnmme chb1c looking person, of fan com The priest, a very grave, r~speb c s rinkling hoJ..y water oYer the P1exion, commenced the servl1~~ y h. fo·h official person he exten ded · 1 11 abreast o M 1Y ~ congregation; w le ' 1 'tve him a handful. his sih·cr water ~pou: an~ g\ru ·k u 1 the young women' "'_'hom we When a fa.vontc au w,.s s1 t tl lt~ .. nclan(ro counted thcu bca~1s, recogm.s ed as h av.m g fi gure< a1 Ll ,lC n sc(ll vcsc tob t' he tu. nc o f t l c l C musl . t"osscd their h 'a.<1s, and cr~ss:_l 1c11~I their work to ·come to chur h. All a}1l1carctl Lo hav: Just. on·'l displa.J thn.L will not be There was no rn. ne<.1 I·e s.s ln<r nor pcrs "' f l o n rcturninrr from clnuch, we oun< . een on week days. I~d~ed:naorket womcnn selling thci.r melons and all the stor.cs open, ant t e plums as usual. 1 lon apple and plum, arc very Th fruits of this place, mtlts cbmc ... ~ en' in thd States. 1 must cx- 1 ld scarce y c e,l~, . h indifferent, an< '~ou l . f· it the 8pricol and grapes, whl. gr~;v cer)t' in cont1emntng t lCl~ I u~ I 'e nart·ow va 1lcy of the Santa .1! c, in per f cell.O n. On le.a vwg ' l1 f 't to a mile or two 1. 11 w.u I ll1 ' ttn c. which varies from a ~houbanc b· ce ltills utterly incapable, bolh t nothmg u t arren ' country prescn ~ . rodu inrr anything useful. . from soil and .clnna:c,l ot p Hiva.tetlbhy irrigation, and is now, as wtll The valley lS entue y cu l 'th corn Five miles below n~c the sketch, COYCl'CC :Wl ... be seen on u· cars in the gramt1c sands. town, the strc~m l~a§p ' . Fe is from l\\'O to fonr tliOusan(l, and The popu1allon of. ~nt~. l the 100rest people of any town in the th e in habit a. n t s a r e ' 1 t 1 s s cl L t ' f I '1 b r ~· c· k co l. n t h e S p a n i s h sty 1 c ' Province. 'I'h e 1l ouse s 'a rel bo 'lrtn uo,n a· sq·u a"r' e. The interior of the 11 f nc story ant Ul c • • Th genera . y o o t and the principal rooms open !n~o ll. e! quare 1S a~ op.en cour ' . from the outside, but nothmg can ex-are forbiddm~ lll appearance.~ f the interior. The thiek walls 1 the ('Omfort and convemcnce o . . , ceec l . mmcr and warm m wllltel. make them co~ In st le arc provided with excellent beds, but The bette]r c as1s 0p poeno pu n t a(n n cu.I c.:-ok'tns · The wonJcn here, as in the lower c ass s ee 1 world a pear to be m u h before the ~~en many other pa.~·ts olr. t lC cc anJ k~o·wletlge of the useful arts . 'I he in refinement, mlc Igen ' Ex. Doc. No. 41. 35 highrr cla s dress like the American women, cxcrpt, instead of the bonnet, they wear a carf over the head . This they wear, a Jeep or awnkr, in the hous or abroad . The drc. s of the lower das · of women is a. simple petticoat, with arm and houldcrs Larc, except what may chance to be C'OYercu by the rcboso. Thr men who have m ans to do so, dr ss after our fa hi on; but by far the greater number, when they drrs at all, wear leather br cches, tight round the hips and open from the knee clown; shirt and b!nnkct take the place of our coal ai11l vrst. The city i ·dependant on the distant hills for woo<l, an<l at all hours of th tlay may be seen jackass s passing laden with wood, which is solei at two bits (twenty-five ent ) the load. T .esc are the mo, t diminutive animals, an rl usually ' moHnlcd from behind, after tne fashion of lrap-fr og. The jacka s is the only animal that can be ubsisted in thi barren neighborhood without great cxpcn e · our horse arc all sent to a eli lance of twelve, fiflcen, and lhirly miles for gra. Grain wa. very high when we first entered the town, selling freely at f1ve and six dollars the fancgas, (one hundred and forty pounds.) As our wagons <lraw ncar, and the Tops of wheat are being gathered, the price is falling gradually to four dollars the fane gas . Milk at six cents per pint, eggs three cents a picrc, ugar thirtyfive cents per pound, and coffees v~nty-five ccnl . The ugai· used in the cou ntry is principally made from the corn talk. A great r e clu c t i on m us t t a k c p I ace n ow in t he p r i c e of d c y goo d s and groceries, twenty per cent. at ]cast, for this was about the rate of duty charged by Armijo, which is now, of cour~r, taken off. Jfe collected fifty or sixty thou and dollars annually, principally, incleecl, entirely, on good . imp orted overland from the United States. His charge was $500 the wagon load, without regard to the contents of lhe wagon or value of the goods, and hence the Juty was very unjust and unequal. lVIr. Alvarez inform eel me t hal the importations from the United States varied very mu ·h, but that he thought they would aYcrage about half a million of dollars yearly, a.nJ no more. Most of the wagons go on to Chihuahua wittrout breC~king their loads. New lVTc ' ico contains, according to the laf't census, made a few years sincr, 100,000 inhabitants. It is divided into lhrcc departmen ts-lhe northern, micld l e, an <l sou thea tern. These are arrain sub-divided into counties, and the counti s into townships. The ] ower or sou lhern division is inc om parabl y the richest, containing 48,000 Inhabitants, many ~ whom are wealthy and in possession of farm~, stock, and gold dust. New lVIexico, although it soil i barren, and its resources limited, unless the gold mines should, as is rroba.ble, be more extensively developed hercaft r, ancl the cultur of· lhc grape enlarged, is, from it position, in a commcr ·ial and military aspect, an all-important military possc .. sion for the Unit tl tales. The road from a.nta Fe to Fort Leavenworth presents few obstacles for a railway, and, if it |