Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1879 — New Mexico. [ARTICLE]

New Mexico.

S|iwiai rortV'|*oii>ln»M- ot I hk UxroN*. » VkkmrjP, New .M: \t o, Jalitfaty 2, 1879. Please permit me through ilia oolums of 'Tub Union to address our friends in Jasper Contfly. We started from Rensselaer on the Btb day ol lust October and arrived at our new homo—with our son!i-=*«n the 13th day. Found them well. Have had tolerable good frc&lth since coining to the territory. People have bud oolds hero blit not much other-sickness. A child that lived in our tudghborbddd died with whooping cough last week. When we talk to tlie abler settlers about this country the*y say that it is healthy, and good tor stock-raising. Cattle and sheep are living on what they can pick up on the lqotmtains and in the valleys, and look well no"'- We live at the foot of the mountains. The scenery is beautiful. The mountains are capped with snow. The people tell me that we can see snow the year round from where we live; yet it is not very cold. It is not necessary to feed stock at any time. People having a little means to start with —only a few hundred dollars—cap becoine rich in a few years. I can’t say that wc like living here very well, for the country is so new. There are good schools hut no churches; ong day is like another ns far as sabbath observation gcfes. In Deeembersflow fell three to five inches deep in the valleys and on tile mountain sidesremaining twelve or lift e'en days, but cattle lived through without being fed and look well. Stock m a are gathering up beeves and driving them to market, now, ylnrcctligstonii. 11hinkI never tasted boetpf'better flavor than that slaughtered off from the native

grass.

G. W. TERHUNE.