Hide Article Text (OCR)
President E. C. Butler, of Good Roads Local and Colonel D. K. B. Sellers Return on Train From Magdalena, President E. C. Butler, of the Al buquerque Local of the State Good Roads’ Association, and Col. D. K. J. Sellers, returned on the train last night from Magdalena, where they had been snow bound with Mr. frut ler’s big steam car for three days. They declared that had Colonel Sele lers not had to meet a New York man here tonight, they would have stayed by the car. They report an excellent trip and fine roads. “If the road north of here was as good as that between So corro and the state lne, asserted Colonel Sellers last night, “there would never have been any question of where the national highway would go. It would have to be alone this route. There are not twenty-five yards of road between here and Santa Fe as good as mile after mile of the road weet from Socorro. The state and those Magdalena roads’ boosters have surely done fine work on that stretch of road.” Colonel Sellers declared that the road had been mapped and logged as the way to the state line, and that he and Mr. Butler would have gone on as far as Springerville, but for the snow, which they feared would cut off their return.There was a foot to eighteen inches of snow between Mag dalena and the mountains and over two feet of it on the road from Mag dalena to Socorro. I never saw such a fall of snow there. We had to stop at Magdalena. And, say, there was sure some big game up there in the mountains. I knew there was lots of game in the mountains of the Socorro section, but I never saw any elephants there un til this trip. This time I saw three. Butler saw them too, and he will hear me out. “One of them was a little fellow, about four or five feet high, and the other two were higher than I could reach. One had tusks and the other had none.” “Now, colonel, you surely don't expect to get by with that?” he was asked. “I'll swear to it, he said “Call your bluff,’ was the retort, after several others had crowded around to hear the story. A notary was called, the colonel then being in the office of the Al varado, and after due deliberation, Colonel Sellers made affidavit that he had not only seen the three elephants, but two camels as well, Mr. Butler was thereupon called up and asked ‘What Colonel Sellers had taken with him in the way of baggage and lunch, but corroborated the colonels statement that he had had nothing to drink stronger than black coffee. “But say,” he volunteered, “we saw a circus up there in the mountains, traveling overland from some point West to El Paso. That settled it. The cigars were em phatically not on the colonel.
Newspaper Details
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Tue, Dec 10, 1912
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
USA 16 Jun 2026
Other Publications Near Albuquerque, New Mexico
Industrial Advertiser and Weekly News
Albuquerque Tribune
Albuquerque Daily Journal
Albuquerque Weekly Journal
Albuquerque Journal
