The sun., 1901-06-23

In q handkerchief. or In a ring Of Yucca nnre:
The yucca ring II necessary when carrymn
the sharp-botton,ed water jars. As q sroup
OF the water girls stand against the side OF
balcony II Is easily seen that u IL only step
from these figures to the cary1td. ~a,,
Tie burden bearers OF the mines ore Ne.I ;nl
known to the reading public ana many Rlc
lures have shown the carsadores toh,ns
up the notched poles with more than nun
dred weight or ore In the leather SACKS ins-
free 20 hold on to the ladder. In the mould
tains II Is still more marvellous how the men
weighing rurely more than 40 pounds mum
N lisa day over preci itons tr ! :, wh,r,
misstep In many places would hurl them down
the slope hundreds OF feet. Yet they no.
only do IL, but also are glad to rest their mus.
clos by dancing half the night whenever
they get chance. II Il hard TO understand
race that ia unauestionnhy lazy, and yet
fcnts Of tod and hardship. and at the same
time 40 stupid that on return trip " the
sacks happen 70 be free from cargo the car
cause they don't feel natural unless loaded.
-, One OF the stories current ip Mexico runs
this way: An American who had contract ior
road In Chihuahua twenty years ago went
down from III Paso to sec how his bosses
were employing the native poems In the work.
lie found that the Mexican hborers were
slowly carrying tons Of earth for the railroad
in round yucca baskets fastened to Their
shoulders constant stream OF poems pro-
with filed baskets Of earth upon their shoui-
ders. Another processl on OF natives with
empty baskets In their hands wound up the
hillside to the cut from the grade The slow;
ness and waste of humaR- energy appalled,
But. rs no use PLANNING to help these hs
this way through oil time. and no grinso ideas
go down here
The American didn't argue. Two week,
several score OF Yankee wheelbarrows down
to Chhuahun for experimental work In the
railroad grading 4 fortnight later he him. n.
smazement when ne came upon the scene
Of his contract TO see stream OF Mexicnns
coming, laborously. half bent and pufing
wheellcss wheelbarrow Of earth held fast
across his smarting shoulders The Mexl.
cans climbed down TO the grade, dumped
and shoulderine the clumsy. articles .sra,yely
started back up the hillside for other loads.
When explanations were made II came out
save time and labor in grading The Mexi;
cans had never seen anything similar, and
50. on looking the things over. they believed
the shoulders. but they couldn't quite see
how the wooden things were helps 20 labor.
ASRs the Y the G @0ST Sb1
steal strength. The Rev. +. NJ. Bostwick.
a Methodist missionary in the ancient pueblo
OF San Marcos. In the upper valleys OF the
Durango Mountains. tells OF how, for 81 each
in Mexican money three cargadores carried
n parlor organ on their backs seven miles
up a twisting, ragged mountain trail.
Indian cargndores In the same region
carry for n sum equal 10 20 cents day in
our money, sacks Of silver and copper ore,
each weighing 1850 pounds. seven and eight
miles and will trot amiablv back 70 the mines
for fresh loads. Every pound OF the several
hundreds Of tons Of steel and iron machinery
and building materials used in the fifty stamp
mills Of the MontcZuma gold mines, away
up among the capped peaks of the
Alvnrado Mountains in Sonora, was carried
there on the backs OF Indian cargadores from
the railroad station. some twenty-five miles
distant down the valley. When one sees
The enormous steel stamps the ponderous
upri ghts that hold the stamps in place and
the massive engine and boiler and thinks
muscle. he has profound admiration for what
American inventors have done for saving
human labor.