The oasis., 1901-04-27

mals- two wheelers, and three abreast in the lead. Neither up hill, down hill nor on the level were the trace chains slackened. They were just kept pulling all the way-except over a few very steep places down grade.
 Crossing the line at La Noria, the road skirts oyer the boundary on the south side a number of miles, and on the home ranche at La Bote lone Of the properties of Senator Perkins company ten or twelve miles east of La Nora, one of the international boundary monuments, was but a few rods away. It was upon this ranch that we crossed from the Santa Cruz to the headquarters of the San Pedro From La Bote ranche house the road tends southeasterly and enters the Terrenate ranch at point opposite the southeastern end of the Eluachuca mountains. Here another change of horses was made, the last drive having been about sixteen miles.
 Both La Bote and Terrenate (tht latter the property of Miguel Molina are very valuable properties. They stretch for miles La Bote being fOuI miles wide and sixteen miles long skirtiug along the boundary the en tire distance. They are we'll wdtered ani in many places the water has been brought upon the land aud good crops are raised In the course Of the after noon we passed number of tine gar dens planted in garden truck, whic | finds ready market in the Cananea mining camps, the various forks Of the San Pedro, which we crossed SUD- plying au abundance of water fOr their irrigation
 Across the Terrenate ranche the course of the road continued south easterly, and followed mesa over which the utmost speed was possible Several miles over this kind of road md we crossed the north fork of the San Pedro, surmJunting a little bill, to the top of handsome mesa, where we saw for the first time the smoke Of the reduction furnaces at La Can dnea, twenty i've miles away by the road, but much closer in a straight line. The road skirts the valley be low the mountains until all the caiions are passed, then turns and takes up ( mesa into the Cananeas. The drive up the valley is pleasant, the evei changing panorama Of surrOundlnt muuntains and rolling plain contin ually attracting the interest of th' | traveller. To the Southwest lay thu 1 Cananeas, to the southeast were tn, AjO mountains, eastward was the San Jose range, northeasterly lay tht
 tIuachucas, and behind US. to Uht northwest, were the PdtagoDias.
 A little distance across the mesa | from which we first saw the smoke 0 ! the smelters at La Cananea and wt passed down into another fork of tht San Pedro, upon the ranche Cienagt | de Hereda, the property Uf the Elias family This is another splendid ranrhe embracing 75,000 acres of tin' land, well watered. Here also were inc gardens. And here we made another chance of horses, havint come the eleven miles from the Ter renate ranch in but little more thar an hour.
 From the Cienaga de Heredia ranch it was just ten miles across tl another fork of he San Pedro, where upon the Ojo Pacheco ranch of Sena tor Perkins company the tinal change of stock was made. The road wa hard and smooth, perfectly level iu many places. and slightly undulatinl ! in others, no grade was so steep tha the horses could not trOt, in makinl the ascent, or descend st full gal lop. while crossing the leve.s th
 vehicle seemed to have wings Th' run of ten miles was made in tfty-fv
 minutes
 From the Ojo Pacheco ranche th
 road is good, but un grade. gradually nearly the entire distance. Tn
 twelve miles was covered in one bOu and twenty minutes, and La Cananes