Daily Arizona silver belt. (Globe, Gila County, Ariz.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-17
(By Issac Chrisnran}

With Jack and jill IN the foreground,
and the hospitable and manufacturing
city of Globe fast disappearing in the
distance, with her church towers, her
smoke stacks, her gallows frames for
the hosting of ore instead of stretch
ing men 8 neeks, that are so high that
the moon in passing over them, trips
her toe and spills the water over the
hills and valleys of the Pinals; copper,
silver and gold mines that equal those
Of Ophir, where solomon gathered the
means of building her temples and the
Pbarohs reared their pyramids to the
skies.
We journey on our way until arriv-
ing at the wharf where Jack and Jill
made their first objection to the trip.
The shrill whistle of the ferry boat
being new and novel, they had not been
mules had it not taken six men aud a
boy to hogtie them to the ferryboat
that crosses the RoOseveltian sea; but
once on the other side they concluded
ais well that ends well' and we
proceeded on our way without further
objections (Jaek, Jill and II rejoicing
that il was no worse.
Drawing the floods of the Lower
T9nto caused by the semi-tropieal
rains that fall on the headwaters of
the Tonic in the Mogollons at this
time of the year, that little later win
he snow on the higher attitudes which
ore natures reservoirs for storing the
1 much needed moisture for the more
/ s0utheTn valleys of the sunny south
land; proceeding on our way through
the town Of Payson, where a j0-cent
dinner stayed with me for five minutes,
mused by the absence of screen doors,
and where it is too much trouble for
the sleepy townfolk TO put up sign
boards ut the crossroads, We arrived at
toe nice little town of Pine, where
pleasant breezes Of about 5000 feet
altitude makes things about right.
This is said to be Mormon town,
though from necessity they are obliged
10 conduct themselves. in manner
conducive to please the dignity of the
Nwers that be.
This reminds me of a circumstance
TIA, was happening at the White
Mountain Indian agency two years ago.
The Indian agent was apportioning
some government cattle among the In
dan, and upon questioning, the bucks
confessed they had more than one wife
and thereupon were informed that they
Gould not have any cattle unless they
Grove all but one wife with her chill
.'cn away, to drift as best they could
cold and heartless world, even
worse than the custom of the people
India in burning all in an age and
country where we are sending mis-
onaries broadcast over the world, and
Tie wives and children raised such a
'owl that shook the agency, agent and
al.
] want TO know q IN from Missopri)
modern civilization is the best of the
NO ways; separating husbands and
yves and their offspring that have
wed happily together for years and
FTng their young and passing this
le away in a manner that nature, (i5
could appear) has pointed the trail.
Laboring up the difficult ascents and
Fading through mountains Of mud, for
rains every day, arrived at the
'a1an ranch, owned by Campbell &
'ancps, and was the recipient of the
'laI hospitality common to the Arr
9na cowboy, 200 miles from our start
g point and $500 feet altitude,
,2ong the quaking asps on the roof
Arizona.
The next day our journey Of ffty