Arizona republican., 1899-09-28
HUNTING AND PROSPECTING
0 OIeer Things Encounfert q in Life
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R. R. SCrOuQ OI 6ieuudIS duu A1d Sellers o. Pnoenix returned on Friday
 last from a months outing in the iAICgollCn mountains. Hunting was their principal occupation, as they
 went principally to have a good time and escape the hot weather. They managed to kill one mountain lion,
 several deer and a number of wild
 turkeys Mir Stroud has visited the 1 Mogollcn mountains annually for sev-.
 eraI years and says he can notice that game is rapidly becoming more scarce, even witr all the protection thrown around it by law.
 i The Indians constantly leave the
 reservation Tor the purpose Of hunting and when al. Indian takes the trail for ] a deer, he knows no law or anything i else till he nas captured his game. Sportsmen also are needless when
 they get out of sight Of these who
 might peTchalce make them suffer for their violations.
 Among other remarkable things found in this region is the peculiar ef- feet of the water in certain places Gil whatever 1t chances to come in con- tact with. If l. drips constantly over an object the l--ne or lther substance in the water adherss to that object, with the resuI- that in shCrt time it becomes f0ssilized. or at least has that appearance. On Fossil creek they
 came across a fern nearly two fa-t long, and the water by constantly dripping upon 1t had turned one end Of 1t to stone, while the other was still green, being nCurished from the root. Mir Stroud tried to bring this uniqua specimen t3 Phoenix, and said he would net have taken S20 fer it, but it was unfortunately broken up in trans pC.'tation, as he had nothing but pack animals With him on which to carry his effects.
 The Natural bridge on Pine Creek ! has often been referred to by tourists, i but each one has something new and | different to relate. An old gentleman by the name Of David Gowan, lives ! right at the bridge and cultivates a tel73crei farm on top of it. It scarce i ly seems so big to look at 1t from i above or below or underneath, but On | top it appears tci be, and $. a gigantic i the world. Mir. GowaD is talking Of erecting hotel here for tourists and ] is engaged in necessary repairs to the 1 read, which will make the locality i more accessible. The effect oe the ! spring water in this locality is the ] same as that referred to on Fossil | Greek. MT. Gowan is engaged in the manufacture of natural curiositiss Rather he is guarding them while they are manufacturing themselves Mir Stroud says that an ordinary cowboy hat placed where the water can drip on it, in thei course of six months will have the appearance of a patrified hat and weigh probably fifteen pounds
 MT. GCwan has among ether a ticles tcO numerous to mention, new in C5ui SC Of petrifactiCn, a deer's head, a Tattlesnake, several hats, canes, etc. He also has ladies' hat, ostrich feath- CT and all, which ha is fCssiliziug by contract and when the job is finish ed he is to send it to a Boston client.
 Underneath the bridge are the openings to several large caverns. Some of the entrance ways are so small one can with difficulty get but once inside the visitor beholds ever-chang.ng scenes Of splen- dor. On the white stalact;t5s and stal- agmites gre written with a lead pencil the names of hundreds of visitors from Phoenix and elsewhere, who have Paid their respects to the place in the days gone by
 The nearest they came to the ad- ; venturous during their outing WIS during the search for the Camp Verde murderer. On several Ccc3sions they came across the recently deserted camp Of the fugitive and met several posses of officers who were hurting : him. At enc time a posse Of thirty seven rcen were in the field at one | time and hot on the trail. MT. Stroud l says the ssttIers in that vicinity relate a little story on the posse, which goes l to show that the outlaw. whoever ne ] may be, was pretty smooth at his bus mess. ,
 rhe posse approached his camp at Qke time while he was shoeing a horse.
 saw them first. however, and made
 good escape. They followed the
 il but he gave them the slip. came
 k after their departure and finished