The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-18

riding there were only w sAA@
eyes, and in sight got soaking wet C~aTM
to the waist high swimmer and Na|S'
River into which Jack emptd tributary " -
the Snake River which wrgged its way through dan ana oregon
to very Bitten the salmon from the Pacific
see the top of Bukskin Mountain head McDer
Tom pointed to it, saying:
"It's long ride and maybe dry camp
For had filled two bottles full of water
got and the day rolled the bottles up
tied them saddles There was no road The
ahead only of direction We were
NOW in the Diamond the marks use a By %
the ouny the ranches themselves are called after their
brands.
There growth low scattered browse
which sheep fed winter when there was snow ak their
clear day and the mountain appeared to be
than really
stop the early morning Our clothes had dried Neither
we NOR M had had bite to a We cur go axn
ourselves nibed at the browse We ate slice of
set out again The had gone down We were making pro-
gress when heard the sharp chatter Of a magpe
water!" both cried but there nothing in
sight barren desert We turned little to the right and made
for the place the sound had from The horses became restless
with sheer prectous walls Far below lay the
far as we could
along and thirsty there
reach it.
We last gully running down into the
mshap than scratch horses left hind leg We msaded
peted Cherokee Bill and turned Preacher loose had long drink
pillows pulling
saddle blankets when the night COOL At break of day
place to get the flat above To right the flat
the Haystak Mountains of low hills rising sharply from
the pan much alike that cowboys invariably got lost them
during the round-ups.
got early family glad
and delighted be back with wife and baby But the
happiness marred by the condition Of wife who suffer
from renewed attack of what doctors had called rheumatism
When girl she had been thrown from horse and her spine
injured 1t affected her JOINTS which badly swollen and
her much pan from which she suffered all her life.
decided last take Kyle Springs
camping outfit spring and leaving the baby with her
grandmother started out with splendid
coored with white and tails We the Hill
day. the second day Wnnemua Springs
The curative properties of these
mad been worked out There was house of four five
BARREN bleak spot Cnbar Mountain
miles There small farms ranches
We alone for three weeks month"; except during
days when some Indians campe at the springs My wife
cay helpless, unable at that time to walk
her everywhere herself the morning
would get and Dress feed the horses up stable
one morse and lead the other waterhe only fresh
the about mile Coming wash and carry
little breakfast wife, and would
roll her In blanket and her springs
hole in the mud and her covering the neck with
the oozy warm mud Having done her long hair
tened another towel two stakes pillow
stripped before beginning the steamng
that went through day. mudho
side in the Nevada into the plunge rned the
mud off, wrapped blankets to carry her back to the
house. In the afternoon would
time dip baths which were in hole SO small that
had to be careful After this came
another turn in the steam bath, and plunge
After we had been at the springs nearly
the derent ranches nearby stood wife
when Unionv weighed only eighty
eight pounds This loss of pounds
her usual weight We concluded giving
at the springs go home where we
tried snake-oi, sagebahs and other remedies.
In the nert Hayood vr one of those sort Of Wild
west oes that the Zane Grep brand of nkslnkers
not rs Moreover Hay0oos story II not end
st romancers but reality often plays that trick
oetWeen t1Uo cowboys Walter Rice