El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-11
TRIP FROM Ell PASOI
Continued from yesterday.

Continued from yesterday.
He eooo returned and we were of
again leaving the section and pump
house, also the haboes behinds in their
misery. AS montana Bill" and sat
In the cupola viewing the strange
country we plunged into semi-dsrk-
ness.
Bill what has become of the sun in
such short time" I asked. His
favorite word was his prompt reply:
"There you are"
1t is thirty six miles to the next
stop or water tank, Cambray. Rolling
plains on the right, ditto on the left
exs ept in some places. The ground
is painted with stuff like tar and full
In one of this cracks is the SHELTON of
q horse, the back bone underneath
the limbs aud white ribs sticking up
and what appeared to be the hip and
shin DO .es of an indian underneath.
was on a work train last month and
rambled over and had q good look at
it, but the hundreds of wild cats and
getting in front OF our headlights at
night urged me not to be too nOsey.
Continuing Montana" said: "You
won't be in this country three months
until you are gone on gold mines.
Every new train man talks mine, then
In come manner, he is pinched into q
little investment. Then he scratches
his head; then he waits, waits and
wsits.''
On our last trip west we met train
%, on which was Conductor Harry Alb
bington Baird Crapkshaw. At Alden.
this next.station. Harry and his en-
tire crew, including "Peg" Harrison,
the engineer, and Smiley Robinson,
the fireman insisted on forcing US to
listen to Oakman Circus Doyle's big
god strike at Dragon Summit. He
was offered $50, 900 for his claim on the
spot. kilograms and congratulations
were CT ased over the line and we lost
30 minutes listening to the glorious
account OF the strike.
The next crew we met Conductor
Tom Confidential Purcell was equally
- enthusiastic in b0asting the great
find of 8 rear brakeman, but reduced
the value to $4,000. While talking
about it the third section pulled up in
charge of William Nye Acton, who al
most at that moment put q damper
on the whole discovery by trying to
prove that he saw telegram saying
the actual value of the mine was
$4,000. He tried to prove this by
Engineer Humpy Lsyman. This anne
stopped further argument, so
we decided to wait q little longer
because we met at the next station the
very crew Circus Doyle belonged to.
ton there stood at the switch the big,
fat, good natured Circus Doyle, so
jun ned off to offer my congratulations,
but for my pains he grunted in a rath-
er low tone: ''Shut that toothless face
of yours. l wanted to get off in FL
Paso tomorrow. The pay car will be
there but you fellows have grounded
my excuse"
From Cambray water tank to Dem
what of brushy country, great pin
nacled hei~hts are in the distance and
every pinnacle records Apache
slaughter and cruel understanding
the poor captives tongues and eyes out
and tying them naked on red ant hills.
Driving along at clip of thirty-five
miles per hour through the black wall
Of night, the air gauge needle lin the
cupola drops from go to 45 pounds and
with a flip the-go-bloue over the
switches in the yards, we bring up sud-
denly at Deming. Here on your right
Is fine depot and hotel, also the Santa
Fee railro I'D. On the left is Deming
proper. After taking little coal and
water we are under head way again.
montana Bill TWISTS himself into
resting position in his cupola seat,
takes look to see If am paying at
tention and starts. Deming is good
town aud strange place or at least, I
found it go. I was sent down there by
Supt Randolph to switch in Hughey
Williams place in the yards. 1 lasted |
just six days, and right there is where |
lost my first tooth and I have lost |
one every pay day since.
swell, as was saying, for the six
days I worked at Deming, q sand |
storm, not dust storm, but what |
would call q regular rock storm,
started at 10 o'clock every morning
and only quit when the clock struck
three every evening. The |
course of the wind was from the town
towards the depot. When ever. the |
railroad boys desired to go up town
during the storm, they held a wide |
board before their faces.
s'It was pay day aud I thought I
would run up town aud get myself q |
pair of gloves. It all went very we'll |
until coming out of the wrong door of |
the story, in some way I got turned |
and. TELL me-" q regular |
of sand, gravel, rock !
and stone struck my board and face at !