Rio Arriba: a New Mexico County by Robert J. Torrez

Author:Robert J. Torrez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Rio Arriba, New Mexico, history, land grants, violence, corruption, Navajo, Ute, Jicarilla Apache, Tewa
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2014-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

Schools, Farms and Orchards Along the Chama Valley

—A Hospitable People—

—Supt. Chaves’ Reception and Response—

Abiquiú, March 18.—In company with the superintendent of public instruction I have visited the schools of this district and found the most remarkable progress. Three good schools have been in operation all winter. The teachers are bright and intelligent; Eleasar Gutierres and Emiterio Espinosa are natives of the territory, and Prof. Esteban Macias y Cayazo is a native of Mexico and a naturalized citizen of the United States. This gentleman has astonished the people with the progress his pupils have made in the short period that he has been here. He had charge of the school at Plaza Colorada, on the opposite side of the Chama river. When we arrived at the school house we found it decorated with hundreds of little American flags and the boys and girls each held similar flags in their hands. The desk of the teacher was decorated with American and Mexican flags, the latter in remembrance of his native home. The superintendent was accompanied by the Hon. Pablo Gallegos, Capt. Juan Andres Martines, chairman of the school directors and by all the inhabitants of the village. Prof. Cayazo welcomed the superintendent in an eloquent speech and presented his pupils whom he wished to be examined in order that it might be seen what progress they had made. The people then sang a song of welcome after which the superintendent examined many of them in the various branches and listened to a number of recitals with which he was highly pleased. The superintendent was so well pleased with this school that when he was informed by the directors that it would soon have to be closed for lack of funds he paid the teacher one month’s wages out of his own pocket, and bought for the children a large supply of books.

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