"Rio Grande" dew at Laredo. In this city It is often used as farewells stone just as at Cincinnati. Laredo is 460 feet above the sea. Saltillo is 5,337 and Monterey is 1624 feet above the sea. In other words in 67 miles the road descends 3713 feet and in the next 168 miles descends 1164 feet. The Terrain undulating slope is covered with the Spanish bayonet, bunches, small mipals, bushes, cactuses and some grass. One sees no farms with probably only a poor farming land. Laredo Monday Dec. 24-1916 Stood one night at the Ross Hotel run by Charlie Ross otherwise known as "One arm and the Old Woman." A good second grade hotel. Left Laredo at 7:40 a.m. As we ride along the same Terrain flavor continues as the one we saw yesterday afternoon. It is here as in Mexico's covered with mesquite bushes, some sage, some grass and many small bunches of wild cactus. Here as in Mexico it is semi-arid and agriculture