Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-22
SUPPRESSION OF CANELS AND
DROMEDARlEs.

a rather extraordinary Dali Inns occu
ir.r,!u.ad into the Assembly by Mr.
C,,riiu. of Lyon county. 1t provides
70. N AT to prohibit the employment
OF camel, AMI circumstances on the public
highways in this State. This will sound
As auserly in Eastern ears, and. indeed.
IN .he ears of many Nevadins as would
bill to suppress Os,riches and Elephants
from o5structins the streets and alleys
O. Hlrtown and other cities OF the Great
BASIN. But We axe peculiar people
and have had peculiar experiences and
I'D less peculiar emergencies IN our lie
AMI business Here, then, are some
f.c:, relating to eanels and dromedaries
il this resion:-Several years ago one
Sylvester Nowry. deceased, 4 member OF
IL, corps Of L. 5. Engineers, having
hal large acquaintance with the
P..ias AMI their desert Valleys and hill
sides, recommended to the Government,
that in travelling across the long wastes
Of the region indicated. the camel-the
ship Of the deseTt-c1uli be utilized
prof.abiy. Doubtless Lieut.. Mowry,
vhp vas of ! romantical turn of mini,
had al Exaggerated idea of the camel as
an auxiliary in traversing our neighbor-
ing wastes; and it is not impossible that
he. being Democrat, had feeling re-
gard for the traditions. manners and
customs of the Arians and other people
Of the Orient as in preference to the
more modern things such as
THE railway
mi the steamboat.
xni the thoughts thss shake mankind
And SO he pressed his recommends
ton upon The Old Public Function
ary," the late James Buchanan. and in
duced him. as President. to favor and
urge the camel business. (In these de-
generate days. if under the recommen-
Dalton Of public officer, n herd of
camsls should be purchased for the pur-
pose for which these were bought. there
would bs an Investigation Committee;
and Pure and Independent Press
vonld urge its great and paramount ne
cessity, to cleanse the Ausean stables. y
Ent, anyhow. on Dir. Mowry's recon-
raeudstion. a troop Of cameis and drom-
eia.ies was purchased by the Govern
meut and set at work. under Missouri
ox-drirers and other artists. packing the
mails and other commodities across the
desert parts of the great plains The
tair. ended in srotesGue joke-as
gro,sslue and unsainly as the awkward
est came, or the most detorned drome-
dairy ever did suggest to the nice and
critical mind. To cut 4 long narration
short. the dozen or more OF camels and
dronelariss that were assigned 70 duty
IN Nevada were finally sold 20 some par
ties in LYON county in this State. After
q while they became tie property of
yenturesome and fanciful son OF Gaul
Who resides on the old Burch Ranch, 10
miles below Dayton. on the Carson
River. Savillier is his name. Four or
Eve years ago this man o. France had
thess queer beasts employed packing
salt from somewhere to somewhere else.
Nov they are enjoying prolonged holi-
day. Meantime thsv have multiplied
and replenishei tine alkaline wastes of
Lyon county with additions to their
humpy family, until there aI. now about
thirty of them. big and little
THE Cazasls ar, coming
Long since they would have eaten their
heads of but for the fact that they pre-
fer willows and grease~ooi and sage
brush and obsolete playing cards. and
old cas.-of clothes and like oHtTe
comessibies of a gramniverous sort. to
lay, barley and other choice food of the
nlan.er. Tho complaint is, not that
they browse thus proniscuously and
with comparative indslicacy of taste and
observation-disclosures there is no man of
all ths profisate dwellers in these desert
wastes who would deny a dinner of