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people, contained bundles of trees and shrubbery for their new homes. They are thus making in Mexico, as they did in the Salt Lake Valley, a garden of a desert. Tree plant- ing is a part of their religion. From the December 18, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise Las Vegas Optic. Upon his last visit to Las Vegas, some months ago. Uncle Dick Woatton, of Trinidad, related, in a side-splitting manner, how he loaded up an old Barlow & Sanderson stage coach, in 1874, and drove his family, a rather numerous one, too, all the way to Pueblo, to see their first circus — John Robinson’s. It was ten years prior to this that the Colorado legis- lature granted him a charter for the construc- tion and maintenance of a wagon road through the Raton pass to the New Mexico line, on the summit of the mountain, or nearly to that point. He afterwards obtained the same privilege on the New Mexico side of the mountain. His toll rates formerly were $2.50 each for heavily loaded wagons and $1.50 each for light vehicles. His highest toll receipts in one year from his road were $13,500. But Uncle Dick lived well, and always had a community of people around him. He is, today, in easy circumstances, but he is not the wealthy man he could easily have been. It was “come easy, go easy,” with Uncle Dick, in the palmy days of yore. ( 123 ) Mogollon Morsels