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THE JEMEZ SPRINGS.• . 4k Weaderfhl Regie* AM Whkh €«»•paratively LMIIe Has Kvtr Brea PaMlsked,Samereat ftprtags *f Mil Water, Seda •te Hvlplir-Tli Charrh— tteme TraAIUm.Tlitre seeuis to be tome talk of a rail*road to the Jetties Hot Springs. Already it is said there are parties on the grourd with a view to building a road. Should the enterprise be carried to a successful issue, it will be no great white till this place will rival any summer resort lt the west. The springs are not only more numerous, hotter, and more varied as regards medicinal properties contained iu the waters, than any of theother springs of the territory, but the attitude is not so great as many of the others, besides the cliiuate is tiuuiU! and delightful.The springs are situated in a uarrow level canon, between rugged bluff*which risotoa dim liight apparently blending with the clear blue sky overhead. The scenery is grand beyond description. In sight of the springs, about two miles to the north are the picturesque ruins of what must at one time have been the potue of a highly civilized, thrifty people. The remain* of a Christian church are stiU standing, consisting of the walls and part of the tower. This structure is built in the form of a i i reck cross, being 1$ feet through at the base, and the walls yet standiug are perhaps 40 feet high. This churchis built of unhewn stone held in place by adobe, and is evidently much more modem than the surrounding ruins.There is a misty tradition to the effect that in the tierce revolt of the Indians in ttifeto, the inliabitants of this town rose against their Spanish masters, murdering five prists who lived among them, and expelled or massacred all the Spaniards in the reigen. But they in turn were slaughtered or driven out twelve years after by the Spaniards, who came back and ever after held the country.Two mites above the hot springs are the soda springs, fifteeu or twelve iu number, the water being only tepid. A continual deposit by these busy little fountains during countless ages, lias formed a dam across quite a river which being fed by snow from tbe mountains, is an unfailing stream for tbs year around. The dam is some twenty feet high and of a chalky whiteness, the water flowing through a flume in the embankment, falls with a roaring soundto the bed of the river below, and keeps ou its course through the canon past the Hot SpHngs village, until it joins another stream some miles below.Not far from the soda springs are tin* famous sulphur beds, where immense deposits of the purest sulphur are only awating the means of transportation to realise fortunes for the lucky owners. Near the sulphur beds is the crater of an inactive, though not altogether extinct volcano, grumbling and smoking at times, it is said, yet perfectly harmless. The moiiutaius ate covered with thousands of acres of the fineet pine timber, the country is welt watered; wild cattle are numerous on the meeee, game is abundant, and the streams are full of fish. No place in New Mexicopresents so many attractions as thiswonderful Jemcs region.
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Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican Review and Live Stock
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Thu, Apr 24, 1884
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Thomas S.
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