Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-31
NO MOVEMENT HAD OF
 SUPPLIES FOR TROOPS
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 { The instructions not to loot have multiplied the mems problems, for not only are the camps pitched at dis tance from cities, but the men and of
 iicers stay away from the towns, which otherwise they might frequent
 to make purchases of food supplies or
 souvenirs. Hence, il comes about that
 in fast marching command the men
 run out of tobacco or else swap their
 matches before their smokes are gone. The great cottonwood trees which a.
 bound wherever there is water provide
 comfort for the expedition.
 i First of all the cottonwood, it's green
 visible for many miles across an arid plain, is the sign that a watering place
 is near. Then the boughs of the tree, with their thick fringe of leaves, have ; furnished hundreds of wind breaks a
 gainst the cold, and sand shelter which enabled the men to eat without having each mouthful powdered with sand. i When large camps were established
 and water holes were discovered for
 the horses. cottonwood logs colved the well digging problem, being used to [ Until the cottonwood was in use it
 was necessary in digging a single six : foot deep water hole, to eXcavate a
 crater % to 40 feet in diameter in or i der to prevent the sand sliding back { into the hole.
 ! The cottonwoods have furnished : light foot bridges across the creeks, the only natural shade against the sun
 and occasionally their immense trunks have been used as shelters against : the cold. sand and sleet during the quick changes of this climate.
 The loss of horses on the forced marches into Mexico in itself remark ! ably small, has been further reduced ! by the instincts of self preservation of i the trained cavalry animals when they
 had to be left to shift for themselves. i There seem to have been two classes of the horses; those which went back ! to Nature and others whose trained instincts were so strong that they managed the trails and finally over 1 took the columns which had dropped { them. In the first class are a few i horses grazing on hills overlooking z ] their vitality or healing their saddle sores in solitude. The horses are be- ! ing caught as they recover and put
 back into service. In the camps are
 few that stuck to the long trail af
 ter they had been unsaddled and turn ed loose as encumbrances. Some of
 the troopers assert that these animals were able to follow the route by ob- 1 serving the lair tights" at points where various commands had stopped ! 10 "chow"
 The air tights are the cans of timed i goods At any rate, the light losses of horses and mules, officially reported ] by General Pershing when he reached ,: 5he first goal in his dash has been re-
 duced further by this sort of salvage i The roads leading south from Colum-
 bus to the eXpeditionary base is mark
 ed with ingenious wordless sign posts. ] Engineers or truck drivers, discov-
 ering a fault or turn in the road which they wish to indicate. and hay ! ing nothing with which to make a sign board, nor the material 10 write
 on such board if made, have used tho
 thorny chapparal bushes which they cover nearly the entire country to a
 height of two or three feet.
 1 These bushes are cut down and laid
 diagonally across the road. The driv- CTS know from the angle Of this diae-
 onal which direction to take when they turn out from the main road. Further more, they heed these Indian sign
 posts scrupuously. because of the length and exciting sharpness of the
 spikes on the brush. The thOrns are long enough to puncture automobile
 tires.
 The men have adapted themselves
 quickly to the altitude of north MeXi-
 co. which makes the nights not only ! cold. but because of the somewhat l rarified atmosphere, reduces the oxy- gen supply and with it naturally bodi- [ ly heat. The cowboy scouts have start
 ed a round of camp jokes based on the
 first few nights of the cold sleeping. Jack Speare, one of the scouts, claim ed this morning that his bunk mates
 ratiled their covers so hard by shiv- ! ering that the vibration kept him
 awake.