A "QUIET" TOWN IN NEW MEXICO.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 2, 21 June 1882, Page 3

A " QUIET" TOWN IN NEW MEXICO.

The following extracts from a letter (kindly placed at the disposal of the Arrow Observer by Mr Welsh) received by the last mail from Mr L. Cclville, ot Las Vegas, will bo read with interest by his numerous friends in this district : — " I am still in the butchering business, and doing well. I cau make more here in one month than in the Arrow for two years. I take as high as 150 dols a day cash over the counter, with trade increasing every day. The railroad is just about finished to the hot springs, and we expect another road here in six months, which will give this town a great start. There are lots ol people coming here lor health. Town property has advanced 150 per cent since I wrote to you last. I This is getting a very peaceable town I now. The citizens hung three fellows to a telegraph pole here, and gave a ot of fellows the run out of town, With a caution not to come here again; if they ao come they will be "invited to a necktie party," which will not be good for their health. Most oi the noted characters are all shot down now ; and the Indians are as good as any white man in the country. We have the small pox here, but not very bad, and the people do not take much notice ol it. It plays up with the Mexicans and Indians, as they have not proper attention. I will send you the life "Billy the Kid," the worst desperado that ever lived in this country. He was a young Irishman, and a perfect terror. But a young sheriff named Pat Garrett pinned him with his shooter, and relieved the country of a preat nuisance. ' " Billy the Kid" has a brother, who swears vengeance against Garrett, but if he comes to Las Vegas, they wili soon put that notion out oi his head. I have only seen one man shot here yet, and he was a Chinaman. Another heathen put two holes in him before you could say knife. The revolvers they have here are very quick, and you have only to keep pulling the trigger till they are empty."