. Our country: West. e money byselling some of their pottery. They have come in to spendthe last dollar of it. The two most interesting ruins in Santa Fe are the San Miguel Church and anold building opposite it,called the Indian is, undoubtedly,the oldest house inAmerica. It is a rough,two-story adobe, with alow, narrow door, andwith windows like port-holes. The logs thathold up the dirt roofshow no signs of decay,and the building isyet used as a tenement-house. The church isalso of adobe, but builton a foundation of small stones laid in mortar, which is thereason of its wonderful p
. Our country: West. e money byselling some of their pottery. They have come in to spendthe last dollar of it. The two most interesting ruins in Santa Fe are the San Miguel Church and anold building opposite it,called the Indian is, undoubtedly,the oldest house inAmerica. It is a rough,two-story adobe, with alow, narrow door, andwith windows like port-holes. The logs thathold up the dirt roofshow no signs of decay,and the building isyet used as a tenement-house. The church isalso of adobe, but builton a foundation of small stones laid in mortar, which is thereason of its wonderful preservation. It was first built in1640, was partially destroyed by the Indians in their revolt in1680, and built up again in 1710. The interior of the churchis still in tolerable repair, and service is held in it. The altitude of Santa Fe is a little over seven thousandfeet. Its winters are sunny and mild ; a little snow fallsoccasionally, but it never lies long, and the air is exception-ally dry. Helen Hunt San Miguel. New Mexico. It was midnight when we were landed at the Santa Festation, on the south side of the town. The moon was shiningbrightly. In a moment I was riding, in effect, through foreignstreets. They were narrow, rocky, lined with squatty,unlighted, silent, sombre adobe houses. It seemed as if agentle, fun-making earthquake had jostled them out of line,tilted them off base, started them down grade, perched themin awkwardness. Un-American ! Old! I cannot conceiveof a time when those old adobes were not there, sprouts fromthe adobe soil, as it were. The next day after I arrived at Santa F6 I asked the priceof a large plum of a Mexican dealer. Five cents ; not less could be. One for three cents ? I asked. With scorn the dealer replied, No three cent here ! Fivecents lessest money here. One plum, two, three, four plum —all same ; five cent. Seller, buj^er, Spanish, American people alike have herecontempt for the change-making of the East, all declaring th
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