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one in and leave no trace. The 
horses and cattle shun them as they 
would rattlesnakes. From the fact 
that they are found where every- 
thing around is thoroughly dried up. 
I wonder at their source. I have 
taken a pole twelve or fifteen feet 
- long and pushed it down entirely be- 
neath the surface in one of these 
wells. 
The freight train crews in New 
Mexico do a rushing box-car passen- 
ger business, the cash fares being 
pooled, and divided monthly. <A 
brakeman told me that his ‘‘Greaser 
seale’> each month was more than 
half his regular pay. The whole 
crew plays the game, and the Mexi- 
cans are taken up or down the road 
for whatever the railroad boys think 
they will stand for. There is a usual 
rate of about half price, but the 
crew will take less if the Greaser is 
short of dinerio. The companies are 
now covering the depots with spot- 
ters and endeavoring to break up 
the system. 
On a train | met two young fel- 
lows, mining prospectors, who had 
been driven out by the severe cold 
and snow, and who had. been for 
three years gold hunting back in 
the hills, without results. One of 
the men was a graduate from a min- 
ing school, and an educated and 
brainy man. He said they were go- 
ing down to work on an irrigating 
-job to get money to grub-stake them 
for another season, when they would 
go back to the hills. He said there 
were streams where one could make 
fair wages washing out the sand, 
but that it.could not be done in cold 
weather, and as they were out of 
money and provisions there was 
nothing doing but a job with the 
gang. This is but one of countless 
instances I found where men had 
spent years of time gold hunting, 
and most peculiar of the fascination 
is that one never becomes discour- 
aged; that hope springs eternal, and 
year after year these men will live 
in this barren, desolate lava country, 
ever believing that tomorrow will 
bring them luck. And you will ls- 
ten. to their stories of hardship and 
privation -for hours, and even then 
feel that desire to get an outfit, and 
go. with .them-—to hike. up in. the 
hills: and liye as our pre-historic an- 
cestors lived before: Columbus went 
hunting... Drege 
T rode ‘on a train with the real big 
political boss of the territory, the 
Joé Cannon of New Mexico, and 
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when I laughingly made the compar- 
ison, he said the difference was that 
Joe won out by driving men to vote 
as he wanted and that when he was 
short he voted his flock of sheep. 
This man said there was .one man 
who stood between New Mexico and 
statehood at this session and that 
was Senator Beveridge of Indiana. 
At Espanola a man showed me a 
petrified corn eob, wizened and 
shrunken, but plainly a corn cob, 
and he told me he dug it out of the 
dust on the floor of a Cliff Dweller’s 
ruin, where no doubt it had lain for 
for thousands of years. 
I saw a half dozen men piled up 
in a drunken sleep on the ground by 
the-depot one day, and a bystander 
pointed out one of them as having 
ss Mass. 
an income of a thousand dollars a 
day from a leased mine—his part of 
the gold. The man had had the in- 
come about four months and he was 
trying to be a ‘‘Coal Oil Johnny.’’ 
Kivery saloon man in that part of the 
country took an aetive interest in 
him, an interest in keeping him alive. 
In econelusion to this series [| 
would state that | shall return to 
this wonderland of the southwest 
next November, when I shall live in. 
these prehistori¢e ruins and. wear out. 
a pick in search of relies of a forgot-; 
I shall also. go to.,, 
the buried cities and: mummy caves | 
of Arizona, and if my money holds, 
out, to the petrified forests, Death. , 
Valley, the Grand Canyon, and other, ,: 
wonderful places that we know so... 
ten. civilization. 
little of, 
