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Gila Eiver. One of the government camels was living a few years ago 

 in the public parks of the City of Mexico, 



The attempt to make use of camels might have succeeded under 

 different conditions. Davis, the strongest advocate of the use of the 

 camel, went out of the war office just as the experiment promised 

 success. Major Wayne, who alone of army officers had full theoretical 

 and practical knowledge of camels, was transferred to office work at 

 "Washington, and Beale, who later accumulated considerable experience, 

 was not encouraged by the War Department officials. The army 

 teamsters and most of the officers outside of the Quartermaster's De- 

 partment, took no interest in the matter and some opposed the experi- 

 ment; the members of Congress were too deeply engaged in sectional 

 controversies to care much about transportation problems in New 

 Mexico. The Civil War afterward occupied the attention of those in 

 authority while the herds were neglected, and the fact that Jefferson 

 Davis had inaugurated the experiment was, in the opinion of many, 

 enough to condemn it. After the war the rapid development of rail- 

 roads solved many of the problems that seemed so serious in the fifties. 



And yet had Wayne, Beale and Hartz been given ten years of 

 favorable conditions, it is probable that camels would now be used as 

 beasts of burden in some parts of the south and west, for conditions still 

 exist in that section under which the camel would be useful. 



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