The sun., 1893-08-07

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I THIS Is PATTERSON
| the Apaches. ask him. He's stood of the tribe
| sing le-handed. It's tho truth. II you can get
him to tell his experiences you'll sit up all
night to listen"
At Magdalena. whore was to get the stage.
I fell In with o mining man who had had q lot
! Of experience In the Rocky Mountain region.
and said 1t was interesting.
"Yes. suppose amy Eastern man would call
\ It so but to us 1t Is commonplace" he said.
But IL you want to hear an interesting man
{tsll . prospecting !story get Patterson to talk
ling. You'll stop at his house the second night
>Dut from hers."
Next day got into tho little road wagon
that alternates with blackboard in doing duty
as stage over tho Tulerosa route. and found
Blunt Armstrong. the driver. o pleasing
companion. Hs knew Just what to talk about
tho subjects Of interest to be found along the
road. such as the widely scattered population
the mountains: tho great plains Of San Angus;
Se1ond md the Sentimental divde. After running IN ing
hsB Gasa ss shss aadsG sh.u roach Pat
about the most astonishing thing in the coun-
The route Of the stage on the second day be-
air. WAS fragrant with the odors Of the pine and
cedar. but after few miles ran out on the
and % stuntsd daisies an incS o Or 50 % nigh. a. and and
here Il lay through long. hot days drive that
sd Fsn tsi Under
'A which, STfYe s1'''d sesna down @ through oS 100.
black lava ridge Of the continental divide that
toward the plains once more. and there before
us lay Pntterson''s-a low. ,flat-topped. ''dobe-
asd sheds
twsnty:s :sGr: breadth Si Ests.a The The Whole yss
only appropriate fence for a desert home. Not
tree. not even shrub could be seen within
% erass % sight s Sas ae' sort %' ., ns sesns Snas
fringe for one side Of the pond. The, fur.
rose just at the left Of the lake It was a singu-
lar picture. Tor a barren bank to sheet OF
seen and On reaching
from either Of tho two doors that opened In
No face appeared at eithsr OF the three or four
Wind windows, Thsre was neither cat M nor dog nor
them a, lot Of prairie dogs scanpered about
from hole to hole over the stretch ot desert
.hs ryee s shd the
horses and said that / would find the offce he
n ss and Gt ha Gs
ming to the rear of the house, There were
lSs Of bags q -four and grain piled on one side
door at the left led into Q room say l2xl5 feet
large There was big lithograph of whal-
two corners. q washstand In the third. and in
the fourth. beside the front and only window.
fs Th ot SSSShs Sssdnbee. a, the ns
Sns SI. wa was free to como and help himself to
When tho horses had been cared for the
led the to the LAKE, ak + was really
across depression in the valley. which in that
@ as daT % Ws Walked
ior more than half its ieneth Il averased ss sen
1eet wide on top: seven feet high. and forty feet
wide % on tho bottom.
rs dne piece q Work. Il fstoe ooks HR. liz. the
roadbed for . railroad across a hollow. How
Not I'D msapbullt i si'H It Rimseif ga,nn with
~. What, More than third of mile OF dam
,.,i That's \, what And 2 cloudburst washed
men In dozen different places told me the |
:. sane 81 story: to Besides when one has seen and
although 1t is probably the most remarEaLls |
pssS 9t Sfk fhst
full white. springs that almost spout up from
Sreyises gre In the ROCKS at the head of the draw
matter how wet or how dry the season. and 40 |
ths ultimate source Of the supply could be |
found only by trained geologist who could |
mSaatalns not BY sIaS droSchts hts'' In the
But when one stands on the lake bank he |
can can scarce think Of it's springs or even OF |
has ia the centre OF desert. One looks al.
most continually at that huge dam and pic |
lures the lone man as he ills his wheelbarrow |
70 70 Es Ts1 op is e the ,. dasp ins bed S
Eoes back for more. not hundreds OF times. |
but thousands and tens OF thousands Of times
As said, the whole ranch is enclosed bya
the lake for long distance-so far as TO in.
eudo the place whore the stream from the |
lake sinks In the desert sand. In this way
sss aa' an nsoms @Adi from to two weld sdats. nas.
The water irrigates all the land he wants to
cultivate with the aid Of his two boys and he |
sells water to the COW men who come that way
at two cents a drink for each animal But he
does not cultivate much OF the land The alti-
tude is $3.50 feet above the sea. and he raises
oats and alfalfa only, Blunt said.
Ing about on the pond for hall hour. and then
could see cloud OF dust away at the lower
snd q the ranch and * the time he reached
emerged from the cloud. A few minutes later
I was shaking hands with Patterson.
Imagine man about six feet high with
limos. with brown hair. bnshy peard streaked
with gray. and blue eyes that have curious
side slant; with a gray soft hat, dark vest,
Patterson as he stood before me and made me
welcome in o big and hearty fashion.
We went into the office. whore Blunt and
sat on the edge OF q bed while Patterson ad-
the light Of n Silyered student lamp, going
over the gossip OF tho road and MagdAlena