El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-27

| ers ard cliff jewellers, and with guns
| and lanterns, picks and spades and
sacks, we sailed forth. We found
stone implements, fragments of pot
terry and fabrics, hieroglypbics, and
| bones. We dug skeletons until we
got tired, and then went to look at
some mineral the boys bad found. A
day of lounging was soon spent bu.
we'll enjoyed, and next morning we got
up two hours before the day, ate break
f. st by the light of the stars and the
old moon, frosted our feet. aud were
ready to move for Casas Grandes b.
fore sunrise. We reached our des-
tination at dark, and next day we were
home again.
A few facts about the country, for
future use, will be worth noting. The
next time we shall go about one month
later. 1t will then be considerably
colder, the deer will be lower down,
the ducks will be plentiful, and the
acorns and piuons and juniper berries
will have ripened better and gone to
make the deer and bear aud turkey
fat and sleek. The country is full of
the evergreen oak trees (encins) AMI
encinilla bushes, as well as mancinida
trees, jumpers, nut pines, and various
other kinds of tree and shrub that a.
ford sustenance to the big game
animals 1t is 6esira BILE, however, to
keep on the broad mesas at lower
level. rather than IN the highest noun
taius. These mes8s are where we uni
formly found the most game of all
sorts. and they are easily accessible
apd make 90 d camping grounds. The
clearest of pure mountain water can be
found on any OF these mesas, in the
beds of arroyos. Ia the mountains
the large pines predominant, and
there is little food for game.
We shall dispense with wagon
next time. and use pack animals eXrlu-
sively. While it is possible to take
heavily 10 AIDED wagon into the heart OF
the hunting country on good roads, 1t
is nevertheless handicap aDd rather
Publishing camp. The camp, once
pitched, should be permanent. We
shall have few dogs: two good dogs
would be likely to raise IA lion or two,
although lions are scarce anywhere
They would be reasona bly, sure to start
up a bear g day, and they are almost
Doce ssary in following the trail of q
wounded bear, Floyd and Carpertar
shot big bear one morning, putting
and well placed The o,ood spurted
on the bushes three feet on each side
from the wound in the neck. They
traced the bear for four hours and
afterwards they and others spent some
hours on it, but The bloody marks
diminished steadily. and finally the
chase had to be abandoned, a dog
would have rounded up that bear
t'the biggest | have ever seer, in a
circus or oat of it, sang the two IL
unison) in a very short time. The
same thing undoubtedly happened with
many deer, which We're hard bit, but
left broken trails.
lion, bear, deer. wild turkey, wild pi-
geQc, quail, duck, rabbit, squirrel
skunk, and prairie dog to our whole
desire in fact, that the re-
giOn affords, except wildcats and ante
lope. We were too high up for the an
(telope. We saw several wildcats. but
IA &c ys79s55wSs tshcs,a-ao. And the par
rOts must not be forgotten. We saw
hocks containing nearly two hundreS,4
OF the pretty gossips.
The hunting grounds around Casas
Grandes are of vast extent. We chose
the region of Strawberry canyon and
Hop valley partly because we desired
TO investigate the caves and cliff dwell
lings of that region. But it is possible
to get good hunting within less dis
lance than wo Travelled. The country
in any part is fresh and not hunted
over to any considerable extent, and
besides this, there are restrictions
against hunting for the market in this
region, so that it will be for many sea
sons true game preserve and Ideal
hunting ground.