io CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
one, with water trickling round their 
roots, and the sagebrush and grease 
wood of the other, not rating at ten cents 
a township. 
The diplomats of our country at 
Washington may be all Talleyrands in 
astuteness, but in the Gadsden purchase 
they got left so far behind that they have 
never yet been able to see how badly 
they were handled in the bargain. 
As our people travel along the line of 
the Southern Pacific Railway, through its 
arid wastes of sand and sunshine, they 
can little realize the beautiful country of 
Northern Chihuahua and Sonora that 
lies so close to them to the southward. 
And yet some of this seemingly arid land 
in Southern New Mexico and Arizona 
is destined to become of far more value 
than its present appearance would indi- 
