Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-09-08

last spring flood Long sandburs.
gulilos secured ont by the current
ridges AMI burrows show Who're the
waters rushed iu cross currents tud /
paused boz -Virliug oddies.
Here the long trains of th" old ,
Santa F' upu toilod with chugs,ng |
aNlcs through the marrow stream, |
over the dry bed ana On through the |
studhils for six miles Co IA" open, |
smooth prairie beyond
south of the Arkansas river |
through all IT, length in western KAN
sns dunes of sand cover U strp iinm
six ~ eight miles wide.
our driver says Nonh'a flood de-
posted those sand hills hut be- isn't
sure nf IT, They are O. succession uf
mounds from 20 to ju rcct high ut
finely pulvoriycd sand. covered with
sage brush SOAP weed ana short
buffalo grass that makes tho best of
pastufnEc. lu plJy,a Nuu see where
the winds have blown the sand out ul
the side ot q HIN. sroupug out u deep
gull, tncro and dopDstur o. 100 &C.
ridge little further ON
In tho middle OF the afternoon q
I cloud came up uut al Ga, southwest
! like a. curtain ul black pushed up
/ from the hurizpn. nud with hgh
/ wind thut TOSSED the edges ct the
! cloud into grnyish spumc tn" driver
stopped tho motor car with its hnck
/ To- the oncuming storm aud fastened
| the curtains down.
| IN, rain came across t1e prairie
| in "a sheet of gray from earth o. sk,
and the noise ot it striking the earth
/ was Hk, IN, tramplus uf herd ut
! horses The road whore the motor
/ car stood vkirtrd the bottom edge cot
|n gentle slope upward 90 the north
J FiND minutes after the rain reached
[ us this slope was cataract OF down
rushing water that WriTlcd in cddics
! two f.et deep around the car. The
1 rain drops pounded tho hood uf the
car With the force CT o. hundred lash.
cs. bat inside We sat secure ana dry
| aud smoked and re-. pcuplrd tho old
| santa 20 trail the marks of which
aye Vet plninlN Visible across tho pratt
! ric 90 few miles Co the suuthNttd We
| wen, not Tar from Fargo springs.
Whore Captain Ic,lrdiah strong smith
! WINS Killed by the Comsach, Indians
5g Years ago WIN. Sc smoke tho
driver tells tho story ug Il Wu4 told
To- him when be- WIS cowboy on
th.so plains 3u wears Jgu
captain smith was ON, oi tho real
horocH OF the plains. ono ut the kind
Uhu do things that the novel writer's
mover hear oi Ito was tu, original
pathfinder ne wac tho rrsi white
man Nhu crossed the plains aud
mountains to tho Pacific, o., was
known to the Indians Js the man
Uhn sleeps with ON, ,yc open ln
1882 or Whereabouts h. was guiding q
company of trapu'rs from -. LuuiN
To- Santa f. Nearing th, forks ~
the CmarIou az Fargo springs h"
rode ahead tu see DO thrr, was water
\ band OF -u CoWanUhcs surrounded
HIM. ~" shot five ui them dead with
his pistol then, with his left arm
pierced hy lance. he drew his
Ratchet from his belt. rushed IN
among them and h,wod down tiv"
more and as he lay upon tho ground.
mnrtallN wounded. and thv Indians
rushed iu tu scalp HIM be- drew his
kniio ana stabbed three col them 10
death. ont ut the hand -, go h"
kilod o.. bud De lr~ buried 300 tu,
sand n an unmarked gray, some.
where off there 60 m. south
~ Fargo springs there WIS once o
town Of unnrl, 90" persons \
lu'wsplucr th' prUrl, pWl. WAS
printed there Tbtt was va 1856 Sow
There is not even a house Jud ruHI
lprJiii, owls boot over thr d.~oiatiuu
lu haif h,nr after the sky clears
ithr ground is dr>. m, rain ntd ran
OFT the sunhtkrd surface ua f lt had
been q hoard ilour aud had found
the los plugrs and had iuIW,d min.
Iatu." circular lakes thor. OF HUd
rolled w torrents To- tine dr UfcrK
beds f1r 60 th, south and would soon
pc fiibng the Cimarrlu bank uu The
mon who haV, stuck 10 this couutr,
since it was first settled 20 years ago
say that thr land gets little good
from the rains because tho water
runs OF 80 quickly. but that this viii
he changed when The land is broken
up Then the rain win sink into the
earth
We com" To "a rcll, 90 Tho frontier
DAYS ana stop to examine IL u b.
the body and top ot one of tho ola
express coaches that ran over the
TRAN between Santa Fr and Kansas
Clty before there were railroads ou'
here ON one OF IT'S trips 1t had
broken down ana there upeu the
{ open prairie. far from tho homo ct
man u had lain ever since. SOME
one had taE,n It's wheels. hat the
framework. preserved 100 the dry air
ct these strcpcs, 5000 toct abov, the
sea. was as soIud 49, ever
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