El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-16
Sunny South Saloon
Celebrated Echo Spring
1902 Sour Mash.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
ED. & GUS, Managers.
TRAVELLED 1000 MILES
For Health-ExperienC OF a Man
Who Came From Kansas To FL
pdso In d Wagon With His Fam
iIv Across the Country.

E. E. Farnsworth is a living ex.
| ample of what a man in the last stag e
of consumption can do to save his own
life, and at he same time heis a walkin e
advertisement Of the bene fetal effects
of the rare air Of the western pla-
tesus.
He is now in Ell Psso with his family,
after having come 2114 miles across
the country in a wagon. With his
wife and his father he is living for q
few days in the wagon they have fitted
up, on Oregon street just north OF the
s. P. track.
I'VE left Winfield, KAN" said Mr..
Fa-nsworth, ION the 10Th day of last
\ March, when l was SO weak that l
| could not throw the harness on the
horses. We came on to the west in
our wagon, living in it. sleeping in it at
night, and travelling during the day.
'When we came to an agreeable
place we would stop for fe ~ dsys, and
then we would resume the jour
ney with the horses refreshed.
Most of the summer was spent in the
mountains, bunting and fishing, and
from there we went into Utah, and
came down through Central New Mex
leo to Ell Psso. We have the same
| horses with which we started, aud our
wagon is in good shape. We have had
many experiences, but nothing has re.
suited seriously for US, and the net re-
suit is that we are here in, good shape,
and l have practically regained my
health.
The wagon in which the trip was
made is a marvel of ingenious arrange
ment. 1t is a Milburn wagon, on
Spsulding springs, and is the size Of an
ordinary farm wagon. The front seat is
arranged so that it can be thrown back
on hinges disclosing we'll arranged
clothes chest.
The remainder of the wagon body is
high, projecting over the sides and
covered with painted canvas. By
various ingenious arrangements
the interior is so fitted up as to
| bold the beds for the party,
tables and chairs and
sheet metal stove. The bed can be
folded back against tina wall; the stove
can hardly be noticed because of the
way it lie fixed in the side of the wagon.
and the table, when not in use. can be
| folded down along the side. Lockers
under and on the side of the wagon
provide places for storing food, tools,
| ropes, and the like. The average time
made on the trip mas been % miles a
day during the days travelled.
From here the party will go up to
Tularosa, and then on across to Ros-
well In the Pecos valley, returning to
their home in Kansas in April, after
having consumed about a year on the
trip.
The method Is certainly sensible
and, as it has proved, an effective one
for regsininR health, aud Mr.. Farms
worth returns to his home practically
we'll, whereas there would be prObabl
lot of people walking slowly behind
him il he had remained In Kansas dur
ing the winter.
GsThe party have gathered numerous
ore specimens, and have sent many
pounds of them home. One fine
specimen of copper ore was found near
Las Cruces, and this they still have
with them. The total cost of the trip
so far for the three has been only about
a thOusand d0llarS