As I First Saw It Ten Years Ago

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s. Hugo and wife, S. H. McAninch, W. E. Murray, Fort Bay- ard; John Corbett and wife, C. H. Dane, Dem- ing; J. E. Carey, Lake Valley; Rob Roy, J. K. ranch; W. W. Dodd, M. T. Mackey, Wallace, Idaho; J. H. Martin, New York. ( 10 ) DEMING As I First Saw It Ten Years Ago The conductor called out Doming, and as Doming was our destination, I and my two companions stepped off the cars as soon as they came to a standstill. There were no other pas- sengers for Doming, which was not surprising, considering that the town was only a few days old. As near as I can recollect, there was not a single house there, nothing but tents from a decent wall tent, to an old wagon sheet thrown over a mesquite pole. The whole city, in fact, might have been loaded on a government wagon, and not have been a very heavy load. Where fine brick blocks of metropolitan propor- tion now stand, there were absolutely nothing but fine Italian climate and mesquite brush. The depot was a small platform of planks set down in the desert. The town was probably three hundred yards from the depot, and as soon as the cars stopped a crowd of probably one hundred of about the worst looking speci- mens of humanity to be found on earth, ran down to the railroad and we were absolutely surrounded.