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.. . By JAMES P. THRELK~D . . I watchword ?f Albuquerque tot1ay is progress. To [ the stranger Wlthfu our gates we Hboast, among other I ~' things, of our Veterans' Hospital, the Few Post' Office and Government builqing, the bathing ebeadp, our new Country l Club, our -educational facilities, the q~nservancy project;i . and of our ~~dY incr~ase in. ~p,!l+on. ~top several I· downtown buIldIngs and In the wIndow~ of vanous realtors!; is the boastful prediction thatthe populAtion of the city willi be so many thousands in such ,and sucll *,year. We retire atl night-with the sworn intent of bigg~r a~d better things fori ' the city and for ourselves tomorrow~ ~ This progress id~11J , seems to have originated in about 1880iwith the cqming of1the Santa Fe Railroad,' the shops, and rnpch new blood from~ other sections of the States. New Albuquerque grew up~ ~ " almost over night alongside the tracks ~ distance of a mil~ from the center of the plaza in Old 1own, and so -rapid~ and zealous has been the subsequ~nt gr~,wth that Old Albu-il querque stands today almost surroun~~d, smothered, andi[ forgotten. . -, ij ~: If you will obtain ~n abstract to so ~ e piece of propertyJt' located in what is known as the lowl nds, you 'will find ~~ .' reference to the original Villa of Albu ,uerque Grant. Thel1" date of this is usually~ given' as' 1706. : ere is ample evi-l! dence that there was quite a settle~e~t In the vicinity o~' Albuquerque before that date. It wouldlappear that shortly! after. the settl.ement of Santa Fe by Pev..•alta. settlers beganl,· to drift into the vicinity of' Bernalill~, and Albuquerque~~ They were attracted,' not only by the pleI,ltitude of wate~· and the adaptability of the land for irrilation, farming, andl sheep raising, but also by the fact that, the valley affordetlj the best natural trade route between C ,: ·htiahua and Sant~. .. Fe., With the evacuation of New Me;~ ico in 1680, these. settlers gave up their holdings and fi1' to Mexico. Whe~ .

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DeVargas came up the valley in 1692 to con er and re.establish settlements in 'New Mexico, some of t ese original settlers -fuust have taken up and rebuilt their odes along . the Rio Grande. In 1706 it is recorded th t Governor Cuervo reported to the Viceroy of Mexico, t e Duke of Albuquerque, that he had settled thirty. fa lies on the banks of the Rio Grande on four square ~ lea· es of land and had -named the villa San Francisco d~ Al urquerque. Shortly after, upon an order fr.om the Duke, th name .-was changed to San Felipe de Alburquerque in ho or or" King " Philip of Spain. At just what time the additio al "r" was" dropped, or for what reason, I have not been ble to discover. In support ·of the theory that there wer settlers on the site of Albuql:lerque prior to 1706 there is in the Archives a petition under date of 1708 made by ne Lorenzo "de Carbajal, to the chief. alcalde and war capta n of Albuquerque, Martin Hurtado, for a clear title 'to a pI t of ground . within the villa containing the ruins of an old ouse which had belonged to his father. In addition to thi there was published in the New Mexico Historical Revie of June, 1929, the "Noticias" of >Juan Candelaria found few years ago among some records- in Mexico City. Juan as born in 1692 and was for a number of years a resi ent of the was" inVilla of Albuquerque. He stated that the to corporated in 1706 and that twelve families and some soldiers from the garrison residing in the to of Bernalillo- came to colonize it. So if Cuervo sec red thirty families he m~sthave found a number of th m already living on~he site of the villa. The laws of the. Spanish government rela ive to the affairs of its colonies, found in the ordinances nd decrees of Spain entitled "Recopilacion de Indias,". gr nt to any settlem~nt of not less than thirtY w4ite persons our square leagues of land. Since the Spanish league is co parable to two and· one-half miles, the amount of land in te original grant was approximately 25 square miles or 17,6 1.06 ~res. .

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randum Book of MaJiJuel Alvarez were printed. The Journal of Alvarez, with ~otes culled from the richest minds of antiqu~ty and t~best th,oug~t o~ his own day, is a p:~­

nent renunder of 0 e type of ImmIgrant to New Me~co', In the early nineteen h cepturY. Th.ough ,: commerce and adventure played their p~ in the travels of Alvarez from his ,native Spain, they did :not harden his mind into narrow, monied furrows. The A9count BOQks of Alvarez, another , interesting set of recortls, indicate the~ fine generosity accompanying his business life. .In a number of instances, payments·on substantial ~ebts are postponed in the books where financial disaster cause(i by Indian raid~ or by other' .. losses of unavoidable sort overtook the debtors. There are frequent losses to Alvarez :by deaths, and one instance where s~u~h a loss is supplemented by fur;ther c-redit extended to the destitute family of the ose. "How can we come into ~hese sacred ;precinc ,as liti~ gants or witnesses and try Our cases or . ,give . .t stimony~. standing upon the graves of our fathers 1',' said' t e Mexi.; cans. And with due. regard for the delicacy of their feelings, and in obedience to the demands of Bishop Lamy, the phtnl was abandoned, and the property turned over to the .Church.. It was shortly after . sold to Don Simon Delgado and tted up:" for a store, where he kept an assorted stock of d goods,: groceries, and liquors," and disposed of them for ca h, as he: found customers ~mong the poor and needy. I resume 1 the bones rest in Pface and quiet, as the transfer s made 1 by the Church for ~ valuabie consideration instead f being j appropriated by t e government and" devoted to secular i "' 1 uses. '

roduce the b effect with the materials money can buy. But when the rtist makes money his goal it becomes a thong abol}t his eck. Stand:ardization follows with consequent loss of ind vidual crea~ tiveness and quality. The difficulty is not that the artist is too disinterested. Rather is he too commerci ized by the dealer and art critic. ' DOROTHY J

Dear Editor of the QUARTERLY: Mr. Neumann, in his interesting article, T e Commercialization of the Arts, summarizes his argum nt with0his firs~'sentence, "Genius is able to produce its bes work when working for money.~' Although I.do not wish take issue with him, since, with reservationsr:I agree wit him, I do desire to point out other possibilities than the' 0 e he S(} ably defends, and also, 'to indica~, what I consider weakness in his essay. . The case for the artist who is working either for . money nor for fame is strikingly presented by Robert sixteenth Browning, in the fine monolog, Pictor Ignotus. century painter speaks: I could have painted pictures like-that you h's Ye praise so. How my soul springs up! 0 bar Stayed me-ah, thought which saddens hile it soothes! He had dreamed, he says, of painting pic res which would stir men's hearts by their beauty, which- ould bring him the admiration and love of·mankind, and make him famous at home and abrOad, but, this tliought h: d deterred him: "Am I to be judged by these cold hearts, see heir faces, live in their houses, listen to their prate, part e of their daily pettiness, be judged by them? No f"

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The sumptuous ~ edition....-J)f Hel~m Hunt Jackson's , ! , Ramona coming to hallld so long af; r t~e appearance of the g ?riginal ?early fifty *ears a ?, ~ cfte1 at once a questlo? In the mInd of the replemberIng read~r whether or not: It will provide anything llike the original, thrill. Time has. dealt irl a manner unki~~ly' Wi~h Mrs. Jaek-, son's masterpIece. It!has been so ove~Itten, around and about; so sentimentalfzed; so pervert I· to t~e purpose of local publicity that'dne feels a ceita-n' hostility toward being required again ~o give one's a ntion to it. But it was with a genuine culriosity that I sat own to reperuse it, for during the half c~ntury that has lapsed since I first read it for'the Rurptse of making at English theme,o,f' it, I have known a grfat deal more ,in petail about the Ilfe " d~scribed, and about! the kind ~ of . peqjPle tJ:1.e story deals WIth; ,and somewhat to my surprIse, ~ou~d mysel~ .reawakened to the book's value, not only as a pIece of wrItIng but as an historical naJrrative. - ~: , I know a great dbal more about ttagedies of the type l ~." .. of Alessandro's and ~~el that Mrs. J apkson has made nQ mistake in the empha~s which she has ~ut upon it. I have known a great deaT..In0re about the typ~s 'of descendants of , Spanish Conquistador~i'theiroutlook,1 their manners and their affections, and" I hnd them ext1'll,orjlinarilY well drawn' particularly the Senor! Morena.'r.here~arevery few of her type left in the l~nd, ~ut all that remaif to us~confirm Mrs. Jackson's portrait. '-q!1e old sh~p he¥ing life has gone; 'Swept out of Califor ,a, and practical~y, out Qf the whQle Southwest by newer practices, . but l'verythin g that we remember about it. e phasizes the acc,-racy of Mrs. Ja~k­ son's· detail. What e has to conel, de after rereadIng l?a,mona is that it copstitutes not onlf California's ch~ef contribution to Ameritan fiction, but ali important item in

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