Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-08-25

Arkansas. sandy beds and low banks.
The Cimeron takes its course In Colfax
county, Colorado, from out the coal fields
sout beast of Trinidad. and takes gener-
al southeastern course for distance of
over four hundred miles, and then empties
into the Arkansas river, on the line be-
tween the Usage and Creek Indian reser
vations, about go 20 west. The width in
places is from one b alf to three quarters of
mile, and during high water has q cur
rent OF from four 70 seven miles per hour.
Just above the crossing Salt creek empties
into the CImeron. which slightly lmpreg-
mates II with alkal, or gives the water a
brakish or salty taste. Some thirty miles
east of the crossing is the celebrated Salt
Plains of the CimerOn, an old camping
ground of the Indians when on the hunt.
These were times when the Indians
roamed ut will. and such was the nature
of this immense plain which apparently
defied civilization or cultivation, that the
civilized world never dreamed of ever
utilizing it. Some portions of il along tine
rivers only were supposed to be tilable,
or was thought could be subdued by agri-
culture, and was only hit for vast pas
lures, like those of eastern countries, but
experience has taught that nearly all this
vast country can be subdued by system
of scientific OF practical tiilage. 1t is true
there is n fear entertained by some that a
great part OF it, since it lays in the Indian
Territory and Just on the line. will form a
lawless interval between the abode of
civilization and the savage. like the
wastes OF the deserts of Arabia. and like
them be subject to the depradations of
maraudInR Indians and horse thieves, and
here may at no distant day spring up new
and mongrel races. like new formations
in geology, the amalgalnation OF the
debris and abrasians of former races.
civilized and savage, the remains of
broken and almost extinguished tribes,
the descendants of wandering hunters, of
and other parts, adventurers and desper-
ADDE'S of every class and country, who
are elected from the bosom of society and
seek dwelling places in Just such plains az
these, on the border of the Indian Terri-
tory.
The government Is contributing inces-
sanity to swell this singular and hete rOge-
neous cloud of wild population that is to
hang about this northern boundary of the
Indian Territory, by Transporting whole
tribes of savages from Dakota and Wv
Oming. Many of these bear with them
the smart of real or fancied injuries; many
consider Themselves expatiated beings
homes and the sepulchers of their fathers,
and cherish a deep and ab,ding amnesty
against the race that has Clspossessed
them. Some NAV gradually become pas
toral lords. ike those rude and migratory
people, half shepherd and half warrior,
who. with their fiocks and herds roam
the plains of upper Asia: bnt Others NAV
become Predatory bands, mounted on the
fleet steeds of the prairies, with the open
plains tor their maraudina grounds, and
the bluffs and mountains for their retreats
and lurking places.
1t is not nv intention to sketch his
torical scrsps, but describe the country
from Dodge City to Camp Supply; there
fore will proceed where / lett OF. From
country lnterspersed with numerous little
valleys and bluffs, with here and there
fine plateau of prairie-spontaneOusiy like
the valleys-covered with rich pasturage.
Eight miles from Cimeron we come to
Snake creek. Here is good water and