Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-27

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, gold and silver mines, who travele,
with us for better protection. w
? went through Fort Cammins, Cook
, Canon, Magdaline Canon, and crosse,
the Rio Membres at the upper cross
ing on the new route. Hot Spring
is five miles from the Rio Membres
This is quite a natural curiosity.
boils out from the top of a little mOunC
which rises up from the level plain (,
the heighth of about forty feet, anC
runs down on three sides of it, anC
the water is boiling hot. There is
hotel here, and il is quite a place o
resort for invalids. The next port il
Fort Bayard, and ten miles from there
up the mountain, we arrived at Pine:
Altos, lin English Tall Pines) the
land of gold. We stayed here about
one month, prOspected some, found
the gulch mines would not pay, and
having no machinery to work the
quartz, we concluded we could not
mine here successfully, and conclud-
ed to get into some other country be-
| fore we arrived at n starving condi-
| ton. Texas now was the cry. So
we left our friends, Mr.. Porter and
son, and Mr.. Paxton, to struggle and
I buffet Dame Fortune in the mines.
You remember the fine American
! lever watch / carried when | left
home? Young Porter lost it for me
when coming down the Rio Grande.
lent it to him to use while standing
guard one night, and he laid it down
somewhere, and as there were several
Mexicans in camp when we started, l
suppose they found it. 1t was the
last ever heard of the watch or the
pay for it.
We were now six men and one wo-
man of us, seven in all. The origin
al three, the two Long brothers, from
Topeka, Kansas, and a Mr.. McCarty
and wife, from Warren, Ohio. We
took the back track again, and crossed
the Rio Grande again at Messillee, and
went on down TO Franklin, in the
northwest corner of Texas, opposite
FL PasSO, in old Mexico. A part of
US went over in FL PassO, to have it
TO say we had been in a foreign coun-
try, and drank some of the celebrated
FL Passo wine. 1t is an old tumble
down adOba town, about one-half in
ruins. Franklin, on the Texas side,
Is pretty town, and has a good deal
OF wealth. Its trade is principally
with Old Mexico. We passed on
down the river about fifty miles, and
camped several DAYS at San FL Zarie,
Saint Eliza a small Mexican town.
Here we showed an old Mexican some
specimens of quartz, of which Mr..
McCarty had about two hundred
pounds. The old fellow thought it
was all pure gold, and told some of
the MeNicans that We had a trunk
full of gold. They raised a party of
men to rob us, but an American who
lived there, found it out and informed
us of the plot, which put us on our
guard. They came spying about, but
found we were on our guard, and were
afraid 10 attack. We then moved
down thirty-five miles, to Pierpoint's
ranch, and waited ten days for a train
of sufficient force to travel with more
safety through the COmanche coun-
try. These are the bravest Indians
on the Plains, and have frequently
fought white men man for man in
open combat. Forty miles below we
left the Rio Grande at old Fort Quit
man, now in ruins, and struck Off
towards Fort Davis. 1t was thirty
five miles to the first water, Eggle
Springs. Here We were told was the
worst place on the route for Indians.
The train We were with had nearly
all their mules captured here on their
return from Fort Davis. The next
drive was seventy-five miles to the
MertO, Tor dead mans hole so called
on account of a dead mar having
been found i'll the hole in the rocks
where the water is found, some years
ago. The next watering place is Bar
rel Springs, thirty-five miles, then
twenty miles to Fort Davis. Here
the train turned back, and we had to |
90 on with our little squad alone. |
But we fell in with a number of Mex !
can families who were going to San |
and Travelled with them un- |
til we reached the Pecos river. But I
they were very poorly armed, and con- |
no protection to us, so we |
went on and left them. Followed |
iown the PecOs forty miles to Fort |
Lancaster, then to Beaver Lake, the /
head of DEVILS river. Followed the /
DEVILS river down about fifty miles, |
md took across the country to Fort (
Clark, and from there to San AntOnia, /
N Texas. We got to San AntOnia be-
.ween Christmas and New Years. |
Stayed few days, and went to Vic
.OTia, a distance from FL Bass of one 1
thousand and fifty miles. We stayed /
N Victoria about two months and 1
l-half, sold our team and outfit and /
dissolved partnership. Here Mr.. Rel /
EFT and l left Mr.. Donel, to see him /
III earth no more. He died since we
eft that country. He had been my
in arms, and partner in
business for about seven years, and a
)raver soldier, a truer, more noble
hearted man l never met.
But | must hasten on, for / am be
coming tedious. We, Mr.. Rellett and
[, went from Victoria to Port LOeaca
III the cars, a distance of twenty /
light miles in nine hours, splendid
-ailrOad time, from there by stage to
twelve miles, there took
| steamer to Galveston. by rail to |
Houston and Bryan, the terminus Oi /
he Central Texas Railroad by wag
IN conveyance to Waco. Here we
bought US two ponies and started for 4
Missouri. From Waco to Dallas, /
Dallas to Sherman, Sherman to Red /
River, then struck across the Indian
Territory to Baxter Springs in Kansas.
The ChOctaw, Creek and Cherokee (
Indians have the finest country / ev-
sr saw, and l believe the finest in /
he United States. From Baxter to /
NeOsho, in Newton county, and then
70 Carthage, in Jasper county, Mo. /
lrrived here one year from the day !
we left Kansas city, having travelled 4
l distance of nearly five thousand |
miles in one year. | have written 1
his very hastily, and you will hardly !
be able to read it all, and 1 have left .
1ut many interesting incidents which \
[ have not time co narrate. But let l
his suffice. 1t is probably all you 1
will ever know or hear of that dan
gerOUs trip from me. care not to re-
vert to the subject much. Hoping /
you will be satisfied with this, sub |
nit it to your reading.
Respectfully, your brother,
NJ. y. CHAMBERLIN.
4 Pension to Abraham LineOln's /
Widow. !
The proposal of Senator Morton in /
T'OunrnSs for tba nASSoua of q hin Oiv- /