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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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aic in age, a mosaic inraces! You will see the palace where haveruled eighty Governors, and the Fonda, or theend of the old stage coach Santa Fe trail,where Stephen B. Elkins came in raw-hideboots, penniless behind an ox team. Or, iflike the bear-hunting holiday seekers, yourtaste runs to ancient gore, you can go outto the ruins of the old garetta and see rem-nants of walls where clots of hair were found round bullets embedded in plaster. As to oldchurches—well—go to San Miguel and getBrother David talking and rapping the oldestbronze bell in America (they dont ring bellsby clapper in New Mexico; they hit the belllike a gong) and see what Brother David saysabout Floridas claims to antiquity. Or rideout to La Bajada Hill from Santa Fe—hereis a grade broad as Broadway, New York, upone side of a wall high as the MetropolitanTower, a rise of 8 to loo feet! That grade,one of the steepest in America, cost only$5000 a mile, using native cement for the 19S THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS
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THIS BROAD SCENIC HIGHWAY RUNS FOR 1000 MILES FROM WYOMING TO TEXAS stone work. Ordinarily, this great CaminoReal has cost only from $500 to $1000 a mile.Compare that to the cost of road buildingin the East, %i to $3000 for easy grade, $5to $15,000 a mile for mountain and cut-outsections; and you have food for other re-flections than those on scenery and holiday.Why is the West, where the price of labor isincomparably higher than in the East, build-ing its roads so much cheaper? For a dozenor more reasons: First of all, there is that quality of com-munity interest or pulling together with en-thusiasm. Every man-jack in the West is sojumping keen to have good roads at any cost,that he is willing to spade them himself, orpay a poll tax of $3 a head, or vote for$18,000,000 of State bonds, as California hasjust done. All you can be sure of in the East,when you launch a good roads evangel, is astrong pull on the back tug. This manwont move his fence, and that woman is

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