Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-10-24

dian maiden of Cooper is one indi-
vidual, the dusky female of today
another. Exit, Romance. Enter,
Realty
One thing, however. was evident.
The Indian was the Joker in the
game and as drawing card was an
unqualified success An afternoon
was set aside for them to indulge in
races. games. chicken pulling, etc.
and by the mass of people on the
grounds this feature proved the wis
dom of the directors in giving ii
prominence. The expense. OF course.
must have been large. for in addition
to being fed number OF prizes were
offered in the races. But that 1t paid,
| think. the balance sheet of the asso-
citation will clearly show.
| In the afternoon there was a par
ade, and at least 5000 people wit
messed it. The bucks and squaws
were in their glory. They were also
on horseback, many riding double,
aside from carrying the copper-color-
ed kids of the tribe. The Woodman
band preceded them. discoursing mus
ic as it marched through Main street
out to the fair grounds, and business
for brief half hour or so was wholly
suspended in honor of the character
stic cavalcade. The grins upon the
faces of the "untutored children of
the forest" plainly showed that they
thought they were bigger men" than
the pale faces about them, and heap
big Injuns." Well, so they were, and
many a white man. woman and child
could well wish they were cared for
| in like manner. --->
The Navajoes can easily be taught
| the customs of civilization. The
Utes-well, it may be that they have
| among them those. as in the case of
the monkeys | once read about, who
have told them the white man will
make them work if they discover that
they are disposed so to do. You may
remember:
THE sorrowful story
Told as the twilight fails
And the monkeys walk together
Holding each others tails"
They were set to work in the field,
where they followed the negroes,
their initiative qualities being easily
taken advantage of.
was told that 100 of these Navajo
Indians were taken into the Arkansas
valley during the beet thinning sea
son and set to work in the fields
about Rocky Ford. That they can
get down upon their marrow bones
and with deft fingers lift the super
fluous beets from the row is evidence
of an intelligence and Willingness to
work that will surprise many who
think Indians, idleness, iniquity are
synonyms.
In the afternoon the races took
place. The first was half mile free
for all bucks. Unlike horses and
white iockeying, there was no trouble
to start the dozen or more who enter
ed for the run. They started as the
cow-bell rang but dwindled down to
two or three in the lead. on the home
stretch. In the next race only squaws
participated; they rode astride as cas-
ily as Tod Sloan or Lester Reiff on
the Derby course, in the start, but
managed to mixed up as they passed
the first curve and one of the dusky
maidens was dumped over and landed
on the track almost under the feet
of the horse behind her. When the
goal was reached two passed under
the wire almost neck to neck.
Was the second annual fair of the
Colorado New Mexico Industrial as
sociation a success? From financial
standpoint | presume it was, to the
satisfaction of its directors. From
IN Industrial standpoint yes, again,
when taking into consideration the
sparsely settled district in which it
occurred and the total absence of ex-
hibits from the one county in Colo
RADIO able to make an extensive DIS
play But. as straws show the way
The wind blows as well as the way
he wave flows, so the few exhibits Of
the products of the field, farm, or
chard and garden in this far away
but promising section of the state,
demonstrate that Nature waits with
open gates the coming in of settlers
and will welcome them as warmly as
the altitude will permit.
Something should be said of the
counties comprising the district which
| have once called the Switzerland OF
/ Colorado. AS the sturdy little repub-
lie in the heart of the Alps Is to the
greater ones in Europe and America,
| so is this little commonwealth among
the counties east of the Continental
Divide and west of Marshall and Ten
nessee passes. 1t is little world re-
volving in its own orbit and having
within ii all the elements that go to
make communities prosperous and
| happy,
And over one, at least. hovers
cloud of mystery and undeciphered
romance OF the ages long gone by.
on the headlands of Hovenweep and
in the canons of the Mancos, in Monte
yuma county, are the ruins OF the
Cliff Dwellers' homes. AS for their
once tenants, what wrote Stanley
Wood,
NO voice of spring, no summer glor-
les.