Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-02
GEN. CHAFFEE MADE A TRIP
 ON COLORADO
With Party of Los Angeles Friends He Went On Inter-
 esting Journey From Yuma
 To Gulf.

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 The Los Angeles Times of recent date contains an elaborate account of the trip of General Adna R. Chaffee, Gen. M. H. Sherman and party of l friends down the Colorado river from Yuma to the Gulf of California, up the Hardy river to the head of navigation and across the delta of the Colorado to the slopes of the Cocopah maunt- aims.
 According to the report. adventures were not lacking; they were stranded on a desert island in the Gulf of Cal ifornia; they were housed at night to ward off an attack from renegade Indians, only to find the attacking party was a colony of beavers at work: in the Hardy river they found an abandoned schooner the idle sport of wind and wave; they passed through a thrilling experience with what might have been the original of Jules Verne's floating island; with their Indian guides they chased wild boars through the jungles along the Hardy and hunted bear in the Coco pahs; they visited valley of geysers almost equal to those of the Yellow stone; one member of the party as- serts that he found traces of the lost schooner Argo, which sank in the Colorado river in 1859, carrying with her 150 barrels of rare Kentucky whisky, which has been aging in the wood ever since, and is now worth a kings ransom.
 During the day the boat steamed slowly down the tortuous channel of the Colorado. At night the Indian guides built great bonEires on the wooded slopes of the riYer,and there they gathered about the campfire and lived over again in romantic narrative some of the stirring periods of the early settlement and development of the far west.
 Among the marshes and tule jun. gIes which flank the Colorado river they found rare hunting After tray cling for a week by boat the explor- CTS tok horses and Indian guides and spent another seven days roamig oyer the slopes of the Cocopah moutains, where the echo of the huntsman's ri fle is almost unknown. In this fast Less of desert and mountain are lock ed what is probably the greatest hunt ing ground in the west
 While the boat was moored to the banks of this river one night three of the party wakened together from their sleep anl rushed on leck to repel what sounded like the approach of band of marauders, or unfriendly Indians. rrTrrrrrrrrTrrrrrrr etaoin etaoin etao- They found that the boat was anchor ed in the middle of colony of beay CTS, and that these craft animals were making as much disturbance as possible to cause them tot move oD to quieter mooring places.
 When they had cruised for fifty miles up the Hardy river, Captain Smith announced that they were at the head of navigation on that water course. But General Sherman had mads provision for this At the point where Capta.n Smith said they could proceed no further they were met by another party with fresh Indian guides and horses to carry them on the proposed hunting and exploring trip along the slopes of the Cocopah mountains.
 On the slopes of the Cocopah noun tains the explorers aunted mountain places they found traces of bear. me sheap and deer In a number of chief of the Indian guides expressed confidence that if they would wait for his men to beat the thickets they would be rewarded with some rare shooting.