White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-06-17
BABBLING
IN THE DESERT

Reports that some of you may have
heard that tourists have their little
tits and arguments while crossing
the continent probably have their
Foundation in fact. and il all of the
ones that are really worth reading
about could be dug mp they would
make not one great big book but a
whole library. It is perfectly right
and proper for these parties to travei
in company, to nelp each other out
of the mud and 70 carry each other
Ito town for automobile parts in case
of a breakdown. But in practice
some of those bargains prove 10 be
onesided. You can hear of them
every day. A typical instance was
two and a half years ago when a
Utah family were returning from
California. Their car broke down
out IN White River valley and about
ten or fifteen minutes was long
enough to establish the certainty OF
there being no show to go ahead. The
family in another car who had been
travelling in company with them and
had been helped many a time bland
ly climbed into their car. gave It thu
juice and pulled out without as much
as saying, Can we take the folks t.
Ely out OF the snow and storm"
Lets stop here in this little stona
cabin tonight"
Nav, it's too early TO stop now.
We can cross this next valley easy.
II was father and son quarreling
about where they should camp. That
wasn't half of it. Half an hour later
their fiivver was stuck in a mudhole
in the center of the valley and it was
long after dark before it was pulled
out.
If | had had my way we would
have camped in the cabin and come
over this in the morning when it's
froze."
You IAN guess who was speaking
When we git to Ely we'll have to
put Dad on the train and send him
to Frisco. There's no gittin' LONE
with him."
1t was sister speaking to brother.
She and brother told the same thing
TO the folks in the other fivvers
twenty times. more or less.
An hour later several cars had
clustered around a brush fire on the
bench four or five miles on. 1t was
a blizzard and one had tire trouble
that could not be fixed till daylight
Hardly any %sagebrush for wood.
If l had had my way We would o
stayed in that cabin.
You've heard that before and can
remember who.
We're going to put Dad on the
train at Ely"
1t was one of them-no matter
which.
Presently it was noticed that Dad
was missing. He had said he was
sure there was some wood or high
brush on the tops of some foothills
two miles away After searching for
him for an hour and a half he came
back and confessed that there was
no wood on the peaks. He had beer
told so before he started.
This exhibits but one phase of the
argument. There were dozens OF
ramifcations TO it and they were
heard at every stopping place. There
is no point TO such a story. IL ends
only when all hands reach sunny Cal
ifornia and you may behold how good
and how pleasant it is for brethren
to dwell together in unity.
The old Klondike trail-that was
the place for the quarrels between
partners. l never knew CT any 10
actually come to blows, but that was
because they quarreled 70 much, like
barking dogs that never bite. II
5000 men went TO Dawson in tic
fall of 81 and $4,000 in the sprine
of '9S, and these were partners in
twos, threes, fours, etc, 1t can 10
said with entire safety tina; moi
twenty men in that mass Of es,00C
were not in one way or another or al
one time or another involved in those
quarrels. Those who escaped were
the ones who went alone. and tbeJ
were not to exceed n in a thousand
Men who had worked together for
years and who had gotten along har.
moniously made the discovery there
that far from being acquainted be
fore they had not even been intro
duced.
The quarrels were the result OF
somebody being in the wrong Gen.
orally both or all hands. and as
look back at it now-which IL the
was only one person IN the whole
bunch who was never in.the wrong