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And other crops in proportion. 
Fruit trees and small fruits grow to satisfaction, and yield abundant fruit of 
superior quality. Corn does moderately well, and will be a successful crop as 
the country grows older. 
The planting season is from March ist to July ist. 
There are four main canals now opened, (May lo, 1883), embracing an 
area of 300,000 acres of land that can be flooded. 
Size of canals, from ten to forty feet wide, and from one to four feet deep. 
After enjoying the hospitalities of the citizens for a few hours our train 
pushed onwards towards the west and night fell upon us in the solitudes of the 
Raton Mountains. We reached Las Vegas the next morning, where we spent 
the forenoon in examining the queer and quaint civilization of the descendants of 
the Aztecs, now becoming rapidly overshadowed by the modern ways of the 
"Gringos." Street cars, gas, water works, and telephones, may be seen side by 
side with the burro, the adobe hut, the primitive ox-cart without a nail or other 
iron part in its construction, and the large out-of-doors earth-built oven ; but it 
has little effect upon the true Mexican. He looks on calmly, shrugs his shoulders 
compassionately as he witnesses this reckless haste, and as he wraps himself in 
his blanket for a siesta, mutters his favorite expression " mucho tiempo " (plenty 
of time). The business of Las Vegas is growing rapidly and it has assumed within 
the last two years an air of solidity which it did not have when we saw it last. 
A branch of A., T. & S. F. R. R. takes passengers to the celebrated Hot 
Springs, about four miles out, where is to be found the largest and finest hotel 
west of St. Louis, known as the "Montezuma." At this hostelry we were roy- 
ally feasted and feted, bathed and irrigated with hot water to our heart's content, 
and our body's renovation. The medicinal quaUties of the springs, of which there 
are about fifteen or twenty within a compass of a few acres, attract many invalids 
from all parts of the country. 
An analysis made by Professor Lovewell, of Washburne College, Topeka, 
gives the following results : 
The quantity of Magnesium Carbonate in most of these waters is very small, 
with indications of a small quantity of Potassium and traces of Lithium. Car- 
bonic Acid is probably in the bubbles arising from most of these springs, 
Santa Fe was our next stopping place. There we again found the ancient 
civilization giving way to the new, though sufficient of the former still remains, 
and will remain for many years, to make the city an object of interest to the 
tourist. Ancient churches, old Government buildings and old ruinous adobes 
of all sizes and shapes vie with the Palace Hotel, the Windsor, the new cathedral, 
the University of New Mexico and the Railroad Depot. 
One of the principal objects of interest is the Palace.. Some irreverent tour- 
ist says it has more the appearance of a rope factory than of a palace. It is said to 
have been first built in 1581 by the Lidians, from material taken from an Indian 
pueblo ; it is one story high, with a porch in front, and occupies one side of the 
plaza, or public square. Some of the walls are five feet thick. It had been the 
