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[29:107] (1) Eng. Estancia settlement. (<Span.). =Span. (2). 



(2) Span. Estancia 'farm' 'cattle ranch'. =Eng. (1). The 

 settlement evidently took its name from some farm located there. 

 This is quite a large Mexican and American settlement on the 

 New Mexican Central Railroad. 

 [29:108] (1) Eng. Willard settlement, Eng. family name. =Span. (2). 

 (2) Span. Willard. (<Eng.) =Eng. (1). " 

 This is a small Mexican and American settlement at the juncr 

 tion of the Belen Cut-otf [29:108] with the New Mexican Central 

 Kailroad [29:13]. 

 [29:109] A branch of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, 

 popularly known as the Belen Cut-off, since it'connects with the Rio 

 Grande Valley line of the Santa Fe Railroad at Belen, below 

 Albuquerque [29:103], but somewhat too far south to be shown on 

 [29]. 

 [29:110] (1) ''AnfS^g.e 'place of the salt,' at level of or below speaker 

 {!<infc£, 'salt' <'a 'alkali'; nfs^ of uncertain force, same as in 

 tcunyse 'turquoise', cf . I'u 'stone'). = Cochiti (2), Eng. (3), Span. (4). 



(2) Cochiti MenatlJcu: said to mean 'salt place.' The first 

 two syllables are evidently the Cochiti word for 'salt'. =Tewa 

 (1), Eng. (3), Span. .(i). 



(3) Eng. Salinas lakes or district. ( < Span.). Known also as the 

 salt lakes, salt marshes, etc., and by Bandelier as the "Salines." 

 These terms may be coupled with the name of the adjacent Manz- 

 ano mountains [29:104] as in Span. (1). =Tewa (1), Cochiti (2), 

 Span. (4). "The salt marshes" ' ; "the salt marshes in front of the 

 Manzano range"^; "the salt lagunes of the Manzano"^; "the 

 Salines of the Manzano"*; "the Salt Lagunes of the Manzano"" ; 

 "the Salt Lakes of the Manzano". 



(4) Span. Las Salinas, Las Salinas del Manzano, 'the salt 

 marshes' 'the salt marshes of the Manzano [district],' referring to 

 the Manzano Mountains [29:104]. =Tewa (1), Cochiti (2), Eng. (3). 

 The salt lakes of this region were the chief source of supply of the 

 Rio Grande Pueblo Indians. The Indians of the various pueblos 

 in ancient times used to make long pilgrimages thither on foot 

 for the purpose of gathering salt, an operation which was re- 

 garded as a religious ceremony. After wagons were introduced 

 among the Indians they hauled heavy loads of salt in them from 

 the deposits. This is still done at the present day. An Indian of 

 San Juan hauled a wagon load from the Salinas district last year. 

 Mexicans from various parts of New Mexico get their salt from 



1 Bandelier, Final Report, pt. i, p. 163, 1890. 



2Ibid., p. 36. 



'Ibid., p. 167: pt. n. p. -20, 1892. 



1 Ibid., p. 113. 



6Ibid.,p. 219. 



5 Hewett, General View. p. 597, 1905. 



