Arizona republican., 1919-03-25
RED MAN 5 GRAF I
 AT RIVER ENDED BY INDIAN AGENT
Government Teams Now to Replace Former System Wits Its Upward Sliding Scale; Wyman Tells Ex- perience

F. J. Wyman, a mining man Of Sil- yer City, N NJ, with two companions drove into Simpsons garage yester- day, having made the trip overland. This is by no means the original ap pearance of MT. Wyman in Arizona. He was here 40 years ago when the favorite outdoor sport was the burial of Apache Indians in which he often participated
 In his absence, said MT. Wyman, the morals of the Apaches have not apparently changed though they are pursuing different methods. His ob- servations with reference to the Apaches involve a story of the roads and is interwoven with the narrative of his trip.
 He said that the journey from Silver City was without incident until he arrived a the bridge at San Carlos. It is, said Alr. Wyman, an excellent bridge, one that the state and the federal government, for he understood that it was d work of collaboration, may be proud Of The only defect he | observed in it was that it was not long enough at either end. There is no way l to get on it, at one end or off of il at l the other. It appeared that the river had run around it at both ends. l Change Minds Suddenly Later events, though made him think that the bridge was built that way with design to contribute to the support of the Indians. thus relieving the government in some measure of the expense of caring for it's wards. On reaching the river, Mir. Wyman said | ho with teams and they told him that their business was to assist automo- piles across-fOr a consideration, a quid pro quo, which in the case of smaller automobiles including Fords, was s3. and for automobiles of greater draft, $3.50.
 After some negotiation the Indians made concession in favor of Mir. 1 Wyman and agreed to take him across for s4. Before they had hitched on, though, they raised the price to s. and one Indian said it was worth S10 if it was worth q cent. MT Wy man was about to settle down to an argument when suddenly the Indians got busy. hitched on and snaked him across the river, accepting the S4 that had first been agreed upon, without a murmur.
 MT Wyman could not at first ac- count for the sudden change of the attitude of the Indians from one ot extortion to that compliance and in terest in the expedition of his journey Then he saw white man approach ing. The Indians suggested that now since Mr. Wyman was across all right it would be well for him to get out o the way so that there would be room for other automobiles which nigh be coming up to cross But he decided to wait until the white man came up The latter proved to be the Indiar agent at San Carlos.
 Orders Them Away
 MT Wyman told him of his bushes! with the Indians and the agent saiC that he had heard those complaint before and was now about to mak an end of them. He said that the da, before a party arrived at the crossing when the water was much higher The Indians proposed a charge of s1i and that was acceded to. but whe the automobile was half way acros the stream the Indians told the part that the job was easily worth $50 an would be accomplished for not les
 The aggregate visible and availabl wealth of the party was S25. and
 compromise was effected on tha basis.
 The agent then made speech to tn assembled Indians; he first made theI pay back to MT WYman the differ ence between their announced sched ule and the price they had exacte from him. Then he told them take their teams away from the for and stay away. He said that tf agency would henceforth attend to u ford: he would have two governmel teams there and charge a flat rate $2.50 far towing. regardless of sig color or horsepower of automobiles.