WHERE THE BROOK COMES IN. 



AMATEUR THOTO BY J. W. WILLIS. 



sluggish, muddy, alkaline stream that loiters 

 through Southeast New Mexico and West- 

 ern Texas — can scarcely realize the beauty 

 of the upper Pecos. 



That river, from the old town of Pecos, 

 7 miles from Glorieta, to the source 

 of the Mora river, a branch of the Pecos 

 which joins that stream 20 miles above 

 the Valley ranch, is beyond my powers of 

 description. In the Northeast corner of 

 New Mexico, near the Colorado State 

 line, amid shade and solitude, is a rock 

 on whose face I have carved 3 words, 

 "River of Humanity." From beneath this 

 rock emerges a tiny stream of clear, cold 

 water, which winds and turns, finding a 

 tortuous pathway between and around 

 great boulders and roots of mountain 

 pines. Every few rods it is joined by an- 

 other small stream, from the melted snow 

 on the mountain top, or a spring. 



Flowing swiftly down a narrow, deep 

 gulch, it tears and grinds out a wider 

 path, until it becomes a full grown river, 

 able to hew a mighty pathway to the sea. 

 Its waters are the home of millions of 

 beautiful black spotted brook trout, and 

 the green fields and pastures which border 

 its banks for hundreds of miles bear testi- 

 mony to the great good it is doing for 

 humanity. The fall of the Pecos river is 

 about 65 feet to the mile, and all that one 

 needs to do, to raise a crop, is to build 

 a small dam across the river, above the 

 ranch, dig a narrow ditch, called saka, in 



New Mexico, and turn the water into the 

 fields. 



The nearest railroad station is Glorieta, 

 on the Santa Fe, 7 miles from the Pecos 

 river, near the little Mexican town of 

 Pecos, one-half mile from Valley ranch. 

 There is no hotel on the Pecos river, al- 

 though visitors can find board with Mrs. 

 C. A. Vilas, P. O. Willis, N. M., at $6 

 a week. Mr. J. W. Harrison keeps a 

 store at Glorieta, and he will accommo- 

 date visitors over night and furnish con- 

 veyances and drivers to take anglers up 

 the river. A family named Windsor can 

 care for a limited number of tourists. Their 

 place is not far from where the Mora 

 branch joins the Pecos, and the fishing 

 there is excellent. 



Anglers wishing to fish the Mora river, 

 above the forks, should provide tents and 

 camping outfits. A number of American 

 families have built handsome cottages 

 along the river, during the past 3 years, 

 which they occupy in summer. This re- 

 gion is in the lower range of the Rockies, 

 elevation 7,500 feet, which gradually in- 

 creases in ascending the river until it 

 reaches an elevation of 9,000 feet, near the 

 Mora river. 



The Pecos is 25 to 60 feet wide, flows 

 at a rate of 6 miles an hour, and has a 

 great variety of what anglers term "fishy" 

 water; that is, a long reach of shallow, 

 riffly water, then a sharp bend terminating 

 in a long, deep pool, the abiding places of 



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