Williams news., 1903-03-14
THREE MEMORABLE DAYS
 OF DARING PROSPECTORS
The Vicissitudes to Which the Pathfinder and the Seeker After Precious Metals is Sub-
 ected During His Pilgrimage

The Indian tribes of the south. west and their mysterious prede cessors, the cliff dwellers, offer g very inviting field for the investi gations of the archaeological and the ethnologist, but one which has not been very thoroughly cultivated SC far. Investigators who have studied that field have obtained most inter esting results. One of them, c. D Harrington, was in Kansas City last week, says the Journal, pre- pairing for new expedition, in the course of which he will explore and excavate the prehistoric mounds in Arkansas, especially along White river.
 MT. Harrington has travelled all over the west and southwest with a pack train, and has an intimate knowledge of the Indian tribes of the southwest, as we'll as of the monuments of ancient history which are found among them. He is one of the few men permitted to visit ceremonial meeting of the Navajo medicine men, where he saw them do their wonderful sand painting, and heard their incanta- tions to the Great Spirit, for the healing of the sick, for the sending of rain, and for other blessings which they desire. The hut in which these ceremonies take place is known as hogan"
 In the course of his explorations and travels, MT. Harrington has had some very thrilling experiences.
 "I think that one of the most memorable experiences 1 ever had," he said, twas on trip few years ago, when I went over into the Blue mountains of Utah, prospect ing for copper. l was accompanied by a big six-footer named Ford, who used to live out in western Kansas somewhere We outftted at Cortez, in southwest Colorado, and went on the start for some forty or fifty miles up McElmo canyon and Wickiup canyon. Then we struck off across the mesa to Montezuma canyon, where we re mained several days. exploring the cliff dwellings, which are very nu- merous all through that region. Montezuma canyon curves around in rather peculiar shape. There is an arm of the desert comes out there, and the canyon makes long curve around it. It is ten miles shorter to cut across this curve than to go around it, so we decided to go across.
 "We left the canyon one morn ing, and started across with our burros, not carrying a very large supply of water, as we did not ex pect it to be very long journey. I thought that I knew the trail, but it was not very we'll defined, and we travelled all day and made a camp at night. I didn't think very much of that, as I thought we couldn't be very far from the other side of the curve of the canyon That ght there was a sandstorm, which obliterated what traces there were of a trail. We started out again the next morning, and about II o'clock our water supply ran out. During the afternoon we opened a few of our tomato cans and drank the juice, and that night we again made a dry camp. There was also another sandstorm that night.
 "The next morning we opened up the rest of our tomato cans, and to- ward the middle of the day our burros bolted and left us. There is no place on earth hotter than that, and by afternoon our tongues were l swollen and our mouths parched so