. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . of way inconsideration of an annual pass over thatpart of the line. Anyone with the slightest knowledge ofroad construction is certain to be im-pressed with the skill displayed in the lo-cating of this line which involved unusualengineering difficulties. The hunters whoacted as guides to the first traders we:cthe real locating engineers, for they knewevery ford over rivers and every defilethrough the mountains. For many milesthe train was seldom out of sight of theSanta Fe Trail. The locating
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . of way inconsideration of an annual pass over thatpart of the line. Anyone with the slightest knowledge ofroad construction is certain to be im-pressed with the skill displayed in the lo-cating of this line which involved unusualengineering difficulties. The hunters whoacted as guides to the first traders we:cthe real locating engineers, for they knewevery ford over rivers and every defilethrough the mountains. For many milesthe train was seldom out of sight of theSanta Fe Trail. The locating engineersfaithfully followed its route, only cuttingoff detours where the natural obstructionscould be cut through or bridged. August, 1903. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 381 Wlicn the trail tiirnrrl away from ourroute near Las Vagas, leading the wayto the old city of Santa Fe, other trailstook its place. The railway track is taken valley green with alfalfa and bloomingwith fruit trees and the siglit of thedesert would be postponed; for the herds of sheep and cattle rinl eviilcnci-s of lifu. BUDS AND BI,ObSOMS IN SOUTHERN CALlFORNtA. most of the infertile plains and valleysblossom like the rose when touched withlife-giving moisture. The floods that nowdevastate Ihc land in the rainy andthawing seasons will some day be hoardedup and circulated as it is wanted to makethe thirsty carlh produce food for the na-tions. The work is well begun in someplaces, and proofs are abundantly giventhat the carlh will produce fullness if manonly will do his part. The cities of Las Vegas (the meadows)and Allnifjuerque are the only places ofimportance touched in New Mexico bythe railroad. They are well worthy ofcloser inspection than a through travelercan give. There are numerous pueblos,small Indian villages with swarthy deni-zens to be seen, who seem to suffer fromthe chronic scarcity of water, for most ofthem look as if they did not wash them-selves once a year. Lo, the poor Indian!is pic
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