The Arizona champion., 1890-04-05

speaks the English language, an' one can get on very well. Vel
 here our jolly croud brakes up anc
 1t leaves Bill and I alone to eros
 the Andese mountains. We leave
 the city by railroad for Los Andies
 a five hours run, costing $4.90
 The railroads in Chili are run by
 the Government, and they have English cars, which are very short and not half so good, as the Ameri- can cars by the second class, they put you into them and lock you in, so you can't get out, so if the thing was wrecked you would be in bad box, but we arrived safely at Los Andies at 5 o'clock in the evening and stopped at French Hotel, for $l.30 per day, it was a very good place but small. The city has about I2,000 inhabitants. We did noth- ing that evening but look over the city, but was up next morning bright and early as we heard there was a party starting that morning across the mountains, but they had gone at 4 o'clock to get as far as possible before it got so walm as it is very hot around that part for about twenty miles. So we had to make other arrangements. We at last found native of the Argentina that was going over and he would take us for S20 per mule, ahd as we had our valices and other things we had to get 3 mules from him at d cost of S60 paper which is about $50 in our money. He was very much under the influence of strong drink at the time so we could put no de pendence in him he said he was ready to start then and there, that was about II o'clock and We got away from Los Andies at 5 in the evening, and he would stop at every place he come to that night for something to drink.
 We drove twenty eight miles from 5 to l the next morning, and then slept till 7 o'clock. They are working on the Andies railroad, that crosses the Mt>. at this place from Chili to Argentine Republic, so we were going through the camps all the time. Well you may believe that I got very sore and tired on my trip up the trail on one side and down on the other for seven days It Is hard trip to make, we would try and make a place at night wher we could get grass for our mules, and something for ourselves fo: there is not living thing th1t grows on the mountains on the Chili side such as grass or trees only small places that are put in by the natives iand irrigated, and on the Argentine side it is very little bet ter, little bunch of grass but no trees of any kind. Along the route are built small houses for the men that carry the mail in winter tn stop in they go over the mountains in snow shoes. The Railroad will be grand thing when completed for it will be wonderful piece of work for man to perform. Where it crosses the summit it is l4,000 feet, it is narrow gage from Los Andies over.
 Our trail led us up the Andies river from Los Andies to the SLOW drifts on the summit, on the other side in the Argentine. Out of the same drifts of snow starts the Mandona river, which we came down within 40 miles of the city of Mandoze. At this time of the year it is the best to cross the mount,lins as January means June in the Unit ed States. We met several parties on our way and at every place we stopped and helped a crowd of Italians across the river, as they were walking. There were in ali about 60, half of them were women and children, so we helped the women and children, and let the men wade across. 1 would advise everyone to have enough money to pay for mule before he tries to cross the Andies mountains where we did for 1t was all we warte1 to do and have a mule to ride as we would go over places that 1 was afraid to stay on a mules back and