Arizona republican., 1913-07-13

 1 Creek hill, almost a mountain for ! you are now 3,4S0 feet high, and what 1 a difference in the air here and in 1 the Salt river valley. But down the hill all too far to Munrie, good water. 1 and q place to camp; early start and l passed through Globe at 10 a. m. and | reached Rice Thursday evening - | started Monday. At Rice we are in | the san Carlos Indian reservation 1 and the government mountains. Good schools here for the natives, and just ] here the Apache Indian is seen in his i pristine beauty. That inveterate foe of the white man is still wild, that l is some of them; old customs hang on to them. At Rice we met a new Indian trader-Mr. Tiffany-no rela-
 tive of the Tiffanys of New York, hut just fine people. MT. Tiffany. with his wife, will soon be serving meals to the hungry passerby When ycu make your trip, whether by Wag- on or automobile, stop and eat with them
 Look over the government schools
 in the evening, for in the morning an early start ought to be made for d long, steady climb awaits you to the first place where water may be found Casadora Springs will be the place
 but keep your eye and ear open this
 morning for nature will have much
 in store for you about the school grounds; many nloc<ing birds will be seen and heard, and Indians of all de- scfIptlonS; wonder is d squaW reaping grain with s sickle, just as Ruth nigh have reaped in the fields of boaz in the days of the long ago
 She Was reaping the wheat in q
 1t,4lI
 ing tool We said ;t long climb In
 deed 1t was, for a team Casadora
 Springs, long looked for fifteen miles
 away, reached at last and such
 delightful place, a regular oasis in
 the desert, so pretty and delightful that We camped for the night though
 the day was not far spent, but we
 We're out for pleasure and q place
 like this is delight at any time: q good spring of clear sparkling water
 grass ln plenty trees, many of them
 walnut, oak, ash, sycamore: some of
 the trees more than two feet across
 and birds, do you know the birds. several pair of cardinal birds were here. and seemed to feel that We Were
 intruders, for they continued to scold for a time, then said, all right stay If YOU wish, and mother bird to at
 tend to her nest bird to sing for us. \ steady climb in the morning for ten miles to the top of the divide where We will drop down toward Black river, ten miles up and We have
 reached the pines a new delightful scent of the pines comes to us; what q delightful scent of the pines comes to us; what delight that piney smell; just below the top the old ranch house where the Kibby murder Was committed but quickly passed and forgotten in the eyer changing scene along the pines, and soon the sttWmlll iS reached; q good place for lunch and to feed the team. and oh such good water, right from a spring no more artificial ice needed; water is plenty cool enough. Eighteen miles tO Black river. all down grade: ten miles through the pines; note the vista of the picture. Black river Sat urdaE night. We will need fish for breakfast. So they were caught and Sunday camp prepared, and a delight full day spent for the friend of the trip was a fine fellow and a good story teller, and one with large store of experience. having crossed the plains with an OK wagon train in 1861, and many We're the tales of
 ' that the writer listened to with great pleasure for they We're well told, and Of one adventure with Indians in the | early days of California. Perhaps you will wish to hear of them some time | in the future.
 on Monday from Black river to the ] White river Indian agency, twenty miles. and here We met the genial l agent of our Uncle sam, MT. Peter | son, who made us welcome and wrote l for Us a permit to fish and camp | upon the reservation. Tuesday on 1 to Coolies ranch, twenty miles; up | now among the pines; all day through | the pines and the oaks; great giants | of the forest, these oal<S-note the l picture of one four feet through: | note also the ferns at the foot of the | tree. |
 Coolies ranch a delightful place to | camp; 1,C0O feet from sea level: open | forest; drive even with an automobile | through the forest, and then if you l have team good grass is here to | be found, and all yours just for the | feeding, camp here and ride across | to White river for q days fishing; l this the writer did. and took a fine | lot of mountain trout from the stream | and the first trout dinner was en- ] joged
 on now for eighteen miles to the | Horse Shoe Cienega and across the 1 western end of this south to the river l and up the river just mile and a | fine place for a camp and the stream | right at hand.
 This place will not be beautiful to | one who does not love nature, but for | the nature lover continual delight. | Listen, that is q robin red breast | singing his evening song; robin red l breast lives for the summer here in | the mountains; he seems to prefer | the night places of Arizona to the | lower regions, never seen below only | as migratory bird Here he spends | his summer and rears his young and | sings to those who may be fortune enough to come within the sound of | M LS sweet nnteS. That song now