LA ASCENSION TO CORRALITOS. 45 
pens or little corrals. It is a hacienda, 
some eighty or ninety years old, with an 
extremely interesting history, that would 
make a book more thrilling than any fic¬ 
tion. The main building is a great square 
inclosure with very thick walls, having 
many loopholes for guns, and high turrets 
or towers at the corners. To enter the 
building are massive gates, while inside 
are a number of courts with other gates 
leading to other inclosures, and making 
the interior building appear like a small 
town. Here during the fierce Apache • 
raids the whole population.was gathered 
for protection, and the crack of Apache 
rifles has often been heard around the 
thick walls. Dons of Spanish blood have 
extracted fortunes from the mountain 
sides near by in mines that have been 
worked since shortly after the Conquest. 
