El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-14
NEW TENTED
CITY OUT On
THE MESA
Troopers of Fourth Cavalry
Are Getting Settled in
Camp.
CAMP COMMANDS
VIEW OF BORDER

<Out at the nine hole on the Country
kclub golf course, Tuesday, in mesquite
bushes and sand, is part of the army
of mobilization that has been ordered
to the Mexican border by president
Taft and secretary of war Dickinson.
The fourth cavalry, Col. E. z. Stee-
yer commanding, was the first to ar
rive at the Mexican border of the en-
tire division of 10000 men. Fort Sam
Houston almost 200 miles from the
border, has been selected as the rem
devious Of the troops that are now be-
ing rushed to the border. Col. Steever's
command has pitched camp on the
mesa by the waterworks station, with
the Rio Grande and the Mexican side
in plain view, off to the south from
the colonePs portico tent
Things were up and doing at the i'm
provised camp near the water station
Monday. Tents were being set up, camp
kitchens installed, officers quarters
prepared and the camp corral arranged
for the mounts Of the troopers with
the yellow cord on their hats. Order
came out of chaos by nightfall and to-
day the six troops, headquarters band
and machine gun battalion are as COM
fortabIy encamped on the mesa as if
Meade or Fort Smelling The officers
quarters have been laid off on one long
camp street facing south with the tents
of the men arranged in horizontal lines
running north and south. Back Of these
is the corral, where the horses, in
Guiding the % gray mounts OF the cav
airy band, are tethered.
Future Movements Unknown.
Nothing is known by the officers in
nd Of he Irx- dot -
to what the future will bring them.
The colonel has a telegraphic message
from adjutant general Scott at Fort
Sam Houston telling him to take COM
mand of the patrol along the border
from Noria, n. NJ, to Polvo Tex. Aside
from this, nothing definite is known
about the movements of the troops.
From colonel down to the rookiest pri-
vate in the rear rank of the awkward
squad, the men of the fourth are guess
ing-and hoping.
How the Camp Appears.
From a distance the new camp on the
Fort Bliss reservation resembles a Sc
ries Of bunkers thrown up along the
golf course past the ninth hole. The
yellow tents lose themselves in the
mesquite and sage and were II not for
the path of color marking the corral
the camp could not be located from
fraZzles out into a narrow wagon path
Monday afternoon the new camp re-
sembled nothing SO much as a circus
in early morning. before the big tops
are up and the circus men are prepar-
ing for the parade. Everywhere was
orderly disorder The troopers, with
their small arms strapped to their
sides. were busily engaged in pegging
down tents, setting up camp kitchens
and laying off company streets.
Not Like Mexican Soldiers
Insistently the comparison between
these soldiers of our Uncle Sam and
those Of Don Porfirio camped within
sight of the fort, kept coming to mind.
Sturdy, strapping chaps, those troopers
Of the fourth, they, compared TO the
underfed, aenemic guardians of the
Mexican border as their sleek. well red
horses did to those miserable bull |
lighting specimens of equine breeding
hat the Mexican cavalryman curries !