504 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE, 
At Las Vegas (the Meadows) we took a carriage for the famous Hot Springs, 
five miles distant; and, passing directly through the old Mexican city, which 
still divides with Santa Fe the trade of Northern New Mexico, and which com- 
mands the bulk of the enormous wool business, we made our way past several 
ranch-villages belonging to the old and aristocratic Baca family, to the cool and 
beautiful cafion in which the springs are located, and were soon domiciled in the 
excellent hotel there. As these springs are worthy of especial mention, and are 
not generally known at the East, I will devote some space to their description. 
The springs are twenty-two in number, and are all found within an area of about 
ten acres, near the left branch of the Gallinas River, and perhaps half a mile 
from the mouth of the cafion. They have been, from the time ‘‘ whence the 
memory of man runneth not to the contrary,” a famous sanitary resort among 
the Castilian, Mexican, and Indian races inhabiting this region. 
These springs rise not far from the mouth of a beautiful cafion, which opens 
upon the plains four miles above the city of Las Vegas, and from that point 
winds romantically into the Spanish Range of the Rocky Mountains, the latter 
extending one hundred and fifty miles southward from the Colorado line into 
New Mexico. The Springs have an altitude of 6,400 feet—the elevation which 
has made Colorado such a favorite resort for those affected with pulmonary com- 
plaints—with a decided advantage over some of the northern resorts as to latitude 
and health-giving climate. The character of the waters is similar to that of the 
famous Hot Springs of Arkansas, as shown by the following chemical analysis, 
made by Prof. F. V. Hayden, United States Geologist : 
CONSTITUENTS. SPRING No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. 
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Calcium Carbonate, ie 6 
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Fifty miles from ies Vegas we come to Baughl’s station, where we stop over 
to explore the ruins of the Pecos church and village (described in the November 
number of the Review). After spending nearly three days in this interesting 
work, we again take the train and move on to Santa Fe. The scenery along the 
whole line, from the Raton tunnel to Santa Fe, with its charming pine-decked 
valleys and hill sides, its distant purple ranges of mountains and its occasional 
snow-clad peaks, is very beautiful, while such special objects as the Raton Pass, 
the Moro Cafion and the Apache Pass are grand and striking. 
Santa Fe ‘is about eighteen miles off the main line of the A., T. &S. F. 
R. R., and is reached by a branch road which has some remarkably steep grades 
