As an historical neighborhood, this place…

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ilver City band has been engaged for the occasion, while many prominent old settlers have been put down for speeches. Let the old settlers from all over the county turn out, and have a jolly, good time. MOWRY CITY Vicissitudes of a Metropolis. — Decayed Grandeur. — A Retrospect. As an historical neighborhood, this place will ever stand as a monument in the long list of disappointed ambitions. The effete east has its pre-revolution settlements, the histories of which are familiar to every American schoolboy; the middle central states of the union have their records of endurance and bravery, but the far west must be conceded the banner for indomi- table pluck and perseverance. The history of Mowry City, the head of navigation on the Mimbres, reads like a romance. Mowry City, at the old crossing of the Mimbres, occupies a peculiar position in the ( 60 ) niche of fame, and as an evidence of western thrift, stands unparalleled. At the present day, it wears an old fashioned, ante-deluvian appear- ance, and it might well be mistaken for an old habitation or stronghold of a once warlike people. The “city” was constructed of substan- tial stone and adobe houses, and when in the full tide of its glory, no doubt presented a truly formidable and grand appearance to the traveler.