Arizona republican., 1913-02-28
4 WINTER TRIP
 IN NAVAJOLANO
Strenuous Journey of E. l.. Graves Who Roamed Over the Reservation i'll a Biz gard in Search of Naval" Blankets

r. l. Graves has just returned from an ,-ventful tour of the Navajo res ervation. such a tour as he will never make again in the winter time MT Graves went with Vice president and Mrs Marshall to santa Fe and after leaving them he proceeded to the Ma vajo reservation to make d collection of Indian blankets He arrived at Gallup last Tuesday and then went by auto stage to Fort Defiance a government post thirty miles distant.
 He desired To visit first, Crystal Springs The only means of traVeling there conveniently was by an auto owned by the only Navajo auto enthu- slast in captivity for that was where the owner. was. Clitso Dedman he was held in jail on the charge of bringing liquor upon the reservation while the commandant was awaiting word from the department as the disposition of him Clitos is a weI-to-do Navajo and his machine was d Ford
 To accommodate Mir Graves the com mandant allowed Clitso a leave of ab- sence for two days and they set out for Crystal Springs with inCufficient wa fer in the radiator. They had to stop Frequently to put melted snow into the radiator after having failed to cut through the ice of the lake though they attained a depth of ten inches and quit when they began 10 suspect that the lake was frozen to the bottom.
 The altitude of the Crystal Springs country is 5000 feet and the scenery is beautiful
 Returning to F't. Defiance on Thurs day. MT Graves spent the night there and on Friday visited the famous post at Ganado making the trip in an auto stage The proprietOrs of the various auto stage lines have overcome the diff faculties presented by the arroyos in a clever way, by building trestle work across the ravines, carrying a plank track eight inches wide for each wheel or side of the machine, with a vertical plank on the inner side of each track plank, acting as a guard rail The ef- feet is rather startling to the new conner in a machine which is apparent lv dasing ahead to its own destruction into a ravine, where no bridge is in sight. to have it suddenly hit upon the narrow blanks and roll across the slight trestle often twenty feet above the ground. The drivers say there never had been any accidents on these old bridges Friday night the big bliz gard broke. being the forerunner of one of the worst storms in Northern Ari- zona in many years, and a part of the same storm that brought so much rain 10 the Salt River Valley and California. Against the advice of the people at Ganado MT. Graves insisted on start ing the next morning for St. Michaels, having secured a strong mule team and blackboard. driven hy a Mexican who had carried the mails over that route for twelve years. The snow was over two feet deep on the level when they started and rapidly becoming deeper. The blizzard steadily grew worse and as all ordinary road signs and land marks were obliterated or out of sight because of the storm. they lost their way about eleven in the morning, and drove back and forth through the woods, seeking the road for hours. Ali ter a day of indescribable anxiety, on ly relieved by the wonderful beauty of the pine woods in storm, they finally succeeded in reaching St. MiChaels at 6.30 in the evening, a trip they should have made in less than half the time felt mighty grateful that they got in at all mules completely exhausted
 An interesting sight was the moving of great flocks of sheep by their Ma Vaio owners from the mesa country tC the lower lands where they could gel feed. Each Navajo had his own flocl ,ft iacr q. reds Each flock was headed by two ol three women and children on pony back, breaking down the deep snow so the sheep could get through, eacf squaw or girl carrying lambs in hel arms and also having others tied on tC the saddle With each flock were us ualIy three sheep dogs. one on eacf side and one in the rear. Some of thu flocks were several hundred yards long and altogether there were probably 10,