74 CA VE AND CLIFF D WELLERS. 
At all hours of the day, however, women 
could be found kneeling in front of the 
primitive altar, a poor, degraded class, 
with not as much morality as the most 
savage tribes who have never heard of 
civilization. 
My trip of over two hundred miles down 
the eastern slope of the Sierra Madre 
Mountains, from the boundary between 
the two countries, coupled with the infor¬ 
mation I gained en route , showed me that 
I might do better by attempting to make 
my way through the great range from the 
westward ; so it was decided to make the 
change of base from the State of Chihua¬ 
hua to that of Sonora. 
While visiting at La Ascension on our 
return trip we saw about a dozen Mexi¬ 
cans extracting silver from ore by a 
method which is as old as that mentioned 
