CHAPTEE XI. 



FORT UNION. 



Raton 



rers aud Mountains j 

 -Fort Union.— Kitty 



■Kronig's Farm. 



tins to Los Vegas. — Th 

 ■A Eide oyer Turkey Mountain. 



Los Vegas. — Our Eeception by the Citizer 

 The Hot Springs of Vegas. — General Palm- 

 proceed independently to Santa Fe, 



■Leave Fort Union, 

 fexican Baile CBallV 



Distances : 



laton Mountains to Eed Eiver, 64 miles 

 Los Vegas, 76 miles. Total, 140 miles. 



From tlie Eaton Mountains to tlie toTm of Los Vegas, the 

 line surveyed by our party lies at a distance varying from 

 twenty to thirty miles east of the foot of the Eocky 

 Mountains^ thus avoiding the spurs which jut out from them 



into the plain. It passes six miles to the east of Fort Union, 

 and docs not strike the foot of the main chain until reachin 

 Los Yogas. The Santa Fe road, however, keeps quite ne 

 the mountains for nearly the whole distance from Eaton Pass^, 

 to Los Yogas. Both the road and oui' line of survey cross in 

 this distance numerous streams, the heads of the Canadian 

 •such as Red Eiver, Eio Yermejo, Peiiejo, or Ponaro, Little 

 CimaiTon, Ocate, Eio Moro, and at Vegas the Gallinas — the 

 waters of which streams can be used with the greatest 

 profit by settlers to irrigate the valleys through which they 

 flow. It is far easier for the settler to dig irrigating ditches 

 around the plot of land he has selected, than to clear a farm 

 in a timbered country ; and when once he has completed this, 

 his first task, he can ever afterwards reap the benefits of a 

 crop far more abundant and more certain than any that can 



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