Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — Euler Dwiggins Gets “High.” [ARTICLE]

Euler Dwiggins Gets “High.”

The following extracts from a letter written to his family by Hon. R. S. Dwigginsj now on his way to a remote corner of Mexico, will be found interesting to many of our readers: Trinidad, Col., July 16, 1887. We are 7,000 feet above the level of the sea here. The mountain scenery is the finest that I ever saw. We struck our first thunder shower just before getting here. Here we find the first Mexican Greasers, who live in what a child would call a mud house. They are made of just such brick as the Israelites made in Egypt. Mud mixed with straw, moulded into brick, much wider than ordinary brick, and dried in the sun. Rough boards or poles are placed on top of the walls of the building, and dirt is put on these. This constitutes the roof of these mansions. They are what are called adobe houses. Talk abou’, the negro cabins in the South! A majority of them are palaces as com pared with these huts. After leaving Trinidad, we ascend the mountain very fast, two locomotives being required. The road is very crooked and in places it is all both locomotives can do to keep the train in motion. Tiiis is it well built and well equipped road. Our train consists of three express cars, five day coaches and three sleepers. We will take dinner at Raton at 2:30, provided the train is on time. There is large quantities of coal near TrinidadCoal mines are extensively worked. Corn and oats do not grow to do any good up here. Cattle, horses and sheep are extensively raised, but they live on grass and do well. The much talked of cow boy is found here in all his glory. He is generally a Mexican and is unlike any other Unman

being.

R. S. DWIG GINS.