Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-20

perfect nlDullll-bblh h'" NhplCt,
others to overcome the effects OF bad
whisky. have seen several lying under
bushes while the sun was shining brightly,
aud upon inquiry found they were might
heiders, ~ or men Employed by the freight.
crs to look after tho mules during the
night and prevent theirstrayiug ell, The
wagons they use for freighting In this
country are immense, and frequently
there are 10 span Of mules In front of
them. Two or three wagons are drawn
along at once, one behind the other, after
{ no menuer of a railroad train. The
, W agons behind tho first n are called
, "back.action" wagons, and are complete,
each one having a barrel of water on
either side. Loads of copper from the
mines are thus hauled to the railroad sta.
tions, the trains taking back merchandise
from the states. 1t seems to mo that
one of these wagon boxes will hold as
much as a small house. OF course, freight.
ing in this way is slow, but it is very
sure, and the miners are bound to get
their goods In time, but frequently agood
deal of patience Is required. Everything
costs a good price in n mining region
necessarily, and fruit brings a sum of
money tina. eastern farmers could scarce.
" realize. In tho sheltered hooks many
of the older settlers are turning their at.
tention to fruit raising, in which they are
remarkably successful, and raise apples,
peaches, grapes and melons In consider
able quantities.
The Ava.Supi Indians come in once in
n while from their secluded homes in a
valley near the Little Colorado river.
which ia nearly inaccessible. The trail
leads down the sides of a mountain which
is very steep and rocky. In this valley
the Aborigines lave a nice home, where
they raise good crops and remain unmo-
Tested, our troops never having found 1t
necessary to beat up their habitations or
war upon them in any way. These habi-
tations are mostly in a deep canon of
Cataract creek, which rises in the Bill
Williams mountain. These Indians are
very peaceful, elect their own chief, and
seem to progress well enough. There is
a considerable strip of good farming land
along the creek on which they live, which
is cultivated most successfully by the
Supies. They sometimes leave their Sc
cluded retreat for the purpose of bring
ing In dried peaches and dressed deer
skins, which they barter for cotton goods
and other stuffs. Especially do they
drive good bargains with the Mcqui
Indians, whose pueblo is above them in
Arizona. Any one who supposes for an
instant that a red man does not know
how TO mako a good trade is mistaken.
From early youth they are trained to
make the most of their worldly goods and
look out for their own interests. A buck
skin in their hands has a value which a
white man never dreamed of, and 1t Ger
tsinly is astonishing to see how soon they
learn the value of money.
When a territory is organized, which
Is way in advance of the tide of immigrR-
ton, it takes a long time to get u start,
and this is true in regard to Arizona,
The Indians, of courne, kept away many
s%ettlers, their cruelties and devaststions
being of the most pronounced character
In 1860 | was in the territory, and
travelling between Tucson and Camp
Goodwin, when a band of Apaches
swooped down on a station on the old
overland road, known as Tres Alamos, on
the San Pedro, and got eway with all of
the stock. Some of the settlers were
shot, but before a person could fairly
turn around the damage was done, and
Iio itlblabo NtI6 Ol dllOIp llo IOChb
laughing at the distress they had caused.
Fortunately the party | was with saved
their animals, but the stage company lost
quite a number of horses. This occurred
near the place where Ochoa's train was
bounced and many teamsters killed, and
not long after that occurrence. ! recol-
loct the skurryipg of the Indiana as they
swept by on horseback Ike phantoms,
with their black hair streaming in the
wind and their long lances pushed out be-
fore them, fastening on the frightened
animals and working in that quick, ner-
VOWS way that ia seen among savages
when intent upon some enterprise. Our
party was a small one, and we had to be
extremely careful as we iourueyed along
to prevent the Apaches getting away
with our stock.
! never have seen such juniper trees
before, and was delighted to find the
black walnut trees here, not such huge
trees as we see in ludiana, but veritable
black walnuts, the nuts themselves being
much smaller and the shell thinner than
those Of the north. Live oak trees grow
on The hlllsides, and these, too, are Of the
scrub variety. Upon asking what they
were 1 was informed hat they were scrub
oaks, but they are totally different from
those of Indiana and Illinois. Pine trees
grow here of magnificent proportions, and
m~anzsnita bushes abound every where.
Or course this is the land of the cactus,
and there are many varieties, from the
grand Sorro, or giant cactus, 80 or 40 feet
high, to h tiny round balls, with their
bright yellow and crimson blossoms.
Prlckly pears grow to enormous proper
tions. and some of them thrive on the
barren granite le6gas where there does
not seem to be soil enough to support a
blade of grass. How wonderful they all
are with the magney plant at the head,
which ranks among the most useful vege.
table productions of the earth, giving us
a delightful drink, (pu'que, a fiery spirit
known as sguadiente, a ibre out of which
excellent ropes are made, and a pulp
which can be easily manufactured into
paper. This also is frequently called the
century plant, from a supposition that 1t
only bloomed once in a century, but this
is all a mistake as it blooms every 10 or u
years.
Snip Your Own Grain,
Kearney presq