The Delta independent., 1921-11-18
MR.. AND MRS. eRiNLEv
ARRIVE IN CALIFORNIA
Continued from Nov. 4 issue)

| we were Hot peTmitt0u 10 stop al
the Indian reservation, but didn't
have any desire to stop anyway, but
guess there was no danger SO long as
you let them alone.
About half mile out we saw the
last trees we saw for several days.
Just before we got to the sulphur
spring we met an Indian man and his
squaw, driving a little skinny pony
and burro to light wagon. The
man was standing up, bareheaded
with blanket wrapped around him,
and the woman was sitting fiat down
in the wagon. and bareheaded, with a
blanket wrapped about herself. She
| had the reddest face you ever saw.
She looked as if she had used red
barn paint. Now, we Americans try
to make ourselves look white and she
tried to see how red she could make
her face look. She sure was bird :"
After lunch, which we had at the
sulphur spring we started for Gallup
1t was lonely road, nothing growing
nothing in sight but hot sand and
rock 1t was fierce road on tires
The sun kept getting hotter and hotter
and we just longed for a little cloud
to just kind of cover up a part of
that red sun. If it wouldn't rain we
would have been glad to see cloud
anyway. Our engine boiled hot and
it took all the water we were carrying
for the car. About o'clock we came
to an Indian trading post and they
told us there was well down in a
gulch. was SO thirsty l thought
would die if l didn't get drink. The
water wasn't very good, but it was
quite cool.
Every once in while we saw
bunch of sheep and goats tended by
Indian women and children. About
A:3O we came to a store which was
run by a white man, and we were
still "A miles from Gallup. The others
storekeeper told us there was lots of
sand, SO we camped right there along
side the road, with not a tree to be
seen anywhere.
After a while an Indian man and
woman came up driving bunch of
sheep and goats, and the woman was
carrying a baby on her back. They
were all bareheaded The Indian
women all wear the fullest skirts.
Some people told us that the first
of each year the women start out
with seven skirts and as one wears
off they just drop it off and go on. A
number of Indians came there for
water that evening, driving the skin
niest ponies. They looked scarcely
able to pull barrel of water.
You never see them buy any canned
goods nor flour out of the store. and
they can't raise anything without wa
ter. 1t is mystery to me how they
exist
Well, Saturday morning we started
for Gallup and reached there about II
o'clock There was not as much sand
az we had figured on, but the old
desert still hung on. There wasn't
tree to be seen anywhere and the
camping ground was behind garage
and surrounded by high board fence.
The sun just boiled down on us, and
we were certainly disappointed. for
we had figured all along that when we
struck the main highway we would be
on real boulevard.
We hadn't been there more than
Ave minutes till a car came in going
from California to New York. and they
told us the road was simply fierce;
the sand was so deep at places that
II you didn't have a shovel you had
to take your hands and dig sand away
from the wheels before you could get
along The man said we wouldn't
have any good roads till we got to
Bakersfield, California, and that there
would be no shade to camp under ex-
cept at Flagstaff, Arizona. and you
had to pay to stay there. Well, we
were sick bunch.
We put up our tents and made a
little shade, and as luck had 1t, a
cloud came up and 1t rained several
times during the day. Gallup is a
dirty looking town. but they had a
nice Harvey House" there and lots
Of paving laid. Maybe you think that
old Santa Fe railroad didn't look good
to US. We hadn't seen train since
we left Thompson, Utah. over 300
miles away. We bought a number OF
cans OF canned goods and copy OF
the Sunday Los Angeles Examiner, so
1t looked like we were getting some.
where.
About 20 miles out OF Gallup we
came to the painted Desert" 1t was
pretty view and looked as II the
rocks had really been painted. Then
at Adamantine we went to see the
Petrified Forest. Those petrified trees
are mystery. They have all fallen
over and lie in ruins, and are nothing
but solid rock. They are all c6lors OF
the rainbow. That hight and all next
! day 1t poured rain, and the camp