Arizona silver belt., 1901-02-21

Tn the southwest the Navajo blankets
 hold first place, Thsy find a market
 all over the west and bring prices
 ranging from Sl5 to Sl50 The ordi-
 nary blanket is about S. by feet, and
 is made of wool which the Navajos
 raise themselves. The usual color is
 white or gray, with designs in red or
 blue. Formerly the Indians depended
 entirely upon native coiors or dyes,
 which they obtained from roots or
 minerals; but now they buy dyes from
 the traders So well ir the work done
 that the color dues not fade, and the
 blankets may be said to be almost in
 destructible. What may be termed a
 second grade of blankets is made Of
 Germantown yarn and the design is a
 zgztg streak resembling lightning,
 some have u streak of prismatic colurs
 highly esteemed by the Indians and
 purchasers, yellow, green, red and
 white predominsting. A beautiful
 anket has a red ground and black,
 With white diamouo shaped or amen
 tation enclosing smaller diamonds.
 Red Is favorite color, and the red blankets as q rule cost most such blankets are very thick and heavy,
 weighing from ten to twenty pounds and cost fcom Sl0 to S70. hese are the blankets commonly handled by dealers in santa fe, Al0uqueIque and Los Angeles; but there is another grade, the highest, which is not seen by the tourist and the general public. lt IS made up of special wool called bolleta, and imported from dealers in Old Mexico for this particular pur- pose. It costs the Indians from S7 to sS pound. In making these blankets the Indians take a long time. One beautiful specimen had year eX- pended upon it, and the designs in red, blue, green and white were mar. vels of beauty whether from the In. dian or the American standard. This | blanket was bought for slO0 and re- | SoIu TOT uOuDie tnat sum.
 At the diplomatic dinner last Fri. | day night the president told several | of the foreign ministers that he did !. not See how au extra session of con gress coulu be avoided because there | would oe no opportunity for the con- | sideration Of Luban affairs during the | few days that remaIn of the present | session and The subject was too i'm | portant to postpone any longer than | Is absolutely necessary. He did not | intimate to them when an extra ses- r sion would be called, but to others | within the last few days he has sug- gestod that IL would not be advisable | to submit the Cuban constitutio for | the consideration of our congress until | 1t contained sume satisfactory pro- vision defining the future relations | which should exist between the repub- lie of Cuba aud the United States. It may be said that the president intends to hold the Cuban convention Tn ses- sion until he has exhausted every eff fort Uo secure exactly what he wants, no matter how long it may take, be- cause he considers 1t advisable to have the amendments made by the CuDans rather than by our own people. For this reason he has about abandoned . his proposed trip to California. He . had arranged to gO out in May to wit Hess the launching of the battleship | Ohio, out he remarked to member of i the California delegation that he | feared it would not be possible for him to leave Washington this spring, be- cause if congress must be called in extra session he was anxious to have | It over before the hot weather. The committee of the Cuban convention knows exactly what the president wanJs Gen. Wood has advised it fully and is using his influence to SC. cure the adoption If an article in the constitution recognizing sort of semi -protectorate on the part of the United States. Correspondence of the Chicago Record.
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