Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-24

GU which the Americans took refuge after the battle of San Pascual. and shared tho forced march barctootcd over inc cactus plains to bring help from San Diego. was sent with an expedition to survey a wagon road from Ft. Defiance to the Colorado river.
 This expedition is especially inter- estlng because on iI the camels re- gently imported firm Asia were used as pack animals Ol them Bcale says
 The camels are so quiet and give so little trouble that sometimes We for get they are with us Certainly there never was anything so patient and enduring ana so little troublesome as this noble animal They pacE their heavy load of corn, of which they never taste a grain; put up. with any food offered them without complain. ing, and are always up with the wag ons. and with all so perfectly docile and quiet that they are the admiration of the whole camp.
 At starting there were many, a
 large majority or the men. who secuted the idea of their going with
 us, even so far as ort Davis; but at
 this time there is not a man in camp who is not delighted with them. They
 are today in better condition than when we left CamI Verde (TeNasj with them: especially since our mon
 have learned by experience the best mode of packing them
 On this expedition Beaie took much
 the same route of the present Santa
 Fe railroad from the point where
 Flagstaff now is to some distance be
 yond the present city of kinSman
 WheTe his own name remains ir
 Beale Springs which was one of the
 watering points OH the northern
 wagon road when it was established
 The most important government
 surveys and explorations which ar fected Arizona were now at an end though Major Powell was still to -s
 veal the wonder Of the Grand Cano- . of the Colorado, (which Lieut.. Whip
 pie thought might be as much as ;
 thousand feet deep throughout Ari , zona.) and Lieut.. Wheeler was to GC good work along the border of Ne
 vada.
 A milgling of many forces had noN { combined to make the coming great , ness of the west apparent in some de
 dree 10 everyone The gold of Cal , ifornia was pulling ln army of mc' ! away from the farms and factoric' |, and offices of the east. and turin: , many a pioneer Of inc Missouri re I zion to leave his clearing and nj
 newly built cabin and turn his yoke; , cattle and white covered wagon tg
 ward the sunset coast
 al If most Of these travellers eXpectet ' to gather a store of nuggets in fev l. months or a year or two and 20 hom a again, it was only a short time ti' | some of them knew they would neye |, be able to go back. and many were 0 ,. choice making homes in the new Ian , and there was a steadily growing poi , ulation whose fortunes were flung q ,. with that of the west and who con q sciously or unconsCiously wove thei . . future lives in with the larger life o Q the land.
 Of some Of these the next artici .- in this series will speak. lt ha n been the purpose to give sOmewha !. connected picture of the development l. Of the west and of Arizona from th s Spanish explorations up to the pre- n ent time, and that our later Her
 Stories" may have their proper bacl . ground the present article seeks z show the circumstances under whic ., the country wss explored by th 5 United States goFcrnmept and mad n knovn to people Of the east. ot SHARLOT M. HALL. 
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