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fully seven miles back in the mountains. 
We were told that this water could be 
easily piped into the town, and that there 
was some talk of an attempt to do so, for 
the sleepy old place is beginning to 
awaken to the fact that the world is mov¬ 
ing ahead. 
Near the town is a sort of pleasure gar¬ 
den, or ranch, as it is sometimes called. 
It is owned by an industrious German, 
who sank a number of wells on the place, 
and obtained warm, cold, and mineral 
waters, and established baths, which are 
very popular with the people and make 
the place quite a resort. There are 
groves of all kinds of tropical fruits and 
plants, with flowers in the greatest pro¬ 
fusion ; the brilliant, gorgeous flowers of 
the tropics growing beside the more 
modest ones of the temperate zone, and 
