RECORDS OF ENDURANCE 



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Maximum Number Number 



Weight of Load 

 300 pounds 



350 pounds 



400 pounds 



rats of 



travel 



per hour. 



5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 4 

 4 



of miles of days 

 per day. continuous 

 travel. 



75 

 50 

 25 

 20 

 20 

 15 



1 

 7 

 30 

 60 

 30 

 30 



RECORDS OF ENDURANCE 



The endurance of the pack mule is amazing. The 

 following are from the official records of the United 

 States Army: 



In 1881 a company of Indian scout's and one pack 

 train made a march of 85 miles in 13 hours under loads 

 of 200 pounds to each animal. This was under Colonel 

 Buell of the 15th Infantry against the Apaches. 



A company of Indian scouts and one pack train later, 

 but in pursuit of the same Apaches, marched about 60 

 miles between sunrise and sunset. They were then 

 loaded on cars and shipped by rail to Fort Craig, New 

 Mexico, and marched across some 30 miles to the San 

 Mateo mountains, loaded 250 pounds to the mule; then 

 without making an all-night camp struck the trail of 

 the Apaches and followed it into Old Mexico. About 

 300 miles was covered in about four days. 



From San Carlos Agency, Arizona, in 1882, a com- 

 pany of scouts and one pack train, loaded 200 pounds 

 to the mule, made a forced march of 280 miles in three 

 days. 



In 1891 and 1892, during the Garza campaign on 

 the Rio Grande, Texas, a troop of the 3rd Cavalry and 

 part of a pack train, loaded 250 pounds to the mule, 

 were marched 108 miles in 16 hours. 



In the same campaign another pack train marched 

 104 miles in a night and part of the following day. 



Also in the same campaign another pack train made 

 90 miles in less than twenty-four hours, each mule 

 loaded with 250 pounds. 



