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Influence of Proximity to the United States. Native Villages. Dangerous Sand-Spouts. Reflections on Approaching the Frontier. Pleasant Pictures photographed upon the Memory. Juarez, the Border Town of Mexico. City of El Paso, Texas. Railroad Interests. Crossing the Rio Grande. Greeted by the Stars and Stripes.
Sand-Spouts. Fertile Lands. A Silver Mining Region. Alpine Scenery. An Aged Miner. Zacatecas Cathedral. Church and People. A Mountain Climb. Ownership of the Mines. Want of Drainage. A Battlefield. Civil War. Local Market. Peculiar Scenes. Native Beauties. City Tramway Experience. Town of Guadalupe. Organized Beggars. A Noble and Successful Institution. Market of Guadalupe. Attractive Señoritas.
As the sea has its water-spouts, so the land has its sand-spouts, whereby the whirlwinds, forming on and sweeping over the barren plains, gather up the soil and rush circling along with it for miles, sustaining the mass in the air, two hundred feet or more in height. This phenomenon was often observed while traveling on the Mexican plateau.
We were told that horses and cattle exposed upon the plain were sometimes taken up in the suction of air caused by their progress, carried a hundred rods or more, and then dropped to the ground lifeless. Other stories were heard of the erratic performances of sand-spouts on the Mexican plateau, but they were of a nature requiring too much credulity for us to repeat them in these pages.
On these dry and sterile plains sand-spouts are frequently seen; indeed, half a dozen were counted at the same time from the car windows. These are created just as water-spouts are formed on the ocean, and to encounter one is almost equally serious. One must visit either Egypt or Mexico to witness this singular phenomenon.
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