The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 31, 1903, Page 14

11 THE SUNDAY CALL OM NERKDLE TOVYVUMA INA LR UNCHINGG THE EED) 2 or 7#56»/5%’/—55 ca S0 the ducks continue eating and I open fting & and at up the grub box and see what there is. | last ¢ & i tographs Copyrighted b * Sufficlent for officers, crew and passen- Fhatogrep PyTiE y afloat ag George Wharton James. gers, so all hands are called to partuke | R ¢ S and let the boat “rip.” She rips while the | : s s solitary meal is eaten, washed down with a satisfactory if not too copious draught {pe winter months when it is cold, how- _g.in « . of Colorado River water. There is a pat- this Is neither unpleasant nor in- for g i irious; Indeed, I can well imagine that gimoo giuck s one would soon get to like it, and its very go¢ into - : mildly purgative influence is a good rath i e pe er fhan an evil. i Here the river is fully 1000 feet wide, and this width is general all t way along, occasionally broadening and r . Pyt rowing. On the norta sid he Arizona ty g - K gide—are a scattering . fields of t x " Mohaves (who live at The Needles), whi 5 = = 2 THE SANTE FE BRIDLE corn, wheat, purapkins, squash, melon a \ rusg »¢ peaks /OS5 S THE COLORRO0 RIVER and beans are grown. The soil is a sand m z AT NEEDLES CRLIFORN/A - silt, washed down In the course of the Yor a St i ears from the platcaus of Utah, Wyom- waiting for - s alert Colorado and Arizona, and by na- fish t ture's mary s processes converted into r g w s: a sofl of great rle s. Conseque the i willows Indlans secure excellent crops with t 3 little lab: that of Irrigation, F down s Kk 5 A Needles gentle- this purpose they tap the Colorado Riv O & e a _*' ““ \ & ' s. Now s a hunch-backed Monave and irrigete fertilize their land in Were the r s piy - W ’ T one and the same operation, for the silt- b : Is par 3 R Snlorme Tk e laden walers carry and deposit just the SOm s g Bill ns v Susstioner 1o Mo RN L elements necded to keep the soil con- A Sing a8 2 534 sl “Do you see that PR e t nar s i s s , At Ye migde ros aohungl In this regard the Colorado is like the = the neavens, and as slowing . > a A S0 X on . K might send me a rainstorm annual overflow, has given life and r s b v Bees gtk m beautiful rainbow ishment to the crops that have fed count- . P a 3 t one end of it rested less mil s fact has not yet : K between ( . ! e on this side of that fully by the people who live nea e = 2 RE nbow, the gods de- the ( ver. No a 1 ¢ b . ward rem s t down upon”it to the lizer ca equal this na = g . s w I« and easily along and th and cheapn of & ¥ a s making I and there, un- tribution renders it a fr gi 3 - g T f a storm unat yint was thrust »ds which shiould be utilized for ¥ A % <8 ¢ 4 . by 11 vas coming down f the world wa P 2 s a K leare r + point caught into my While I was ruminat I forgot pay . ze 1 was back 1 made me the cripple $ } w v see m s & > t nost A w ) W and poetic way of = t expls g the poor fellow’s misforiune; S Need r £ a i way and 1 rather think a better way than the 2 L3 A guing witlh 1y 15ked cold-bleoded sclentific way, for, as it % . 1 1 mg g a th simp rted Mohave (ully believes : - = # \ " £ tor ‘ s deformity as the 3 - z g kK 2 . atet e, hence does not com- > L thus is able to mak: h cross I . I1lit a fire pD N and m g the e me at morning at The N w ~ 1 1 ma I3 1 T b ke 8 ea d ali w < 4 1 > a o and . ny cars A LPTOHAVE eans . INCIANG PouvNwiNee A . ETHE‘ oLorRaLo |, | MESQuTE [SEANS EIVESR NVERR DRENNENS ? v > AIES .. = , R was when K \ w on the soutl 1w EY ¥pangled wit ) » off T pushed and the next me- bodies Wun'\:' t a . . . 5 . e VRAFSS. ST D RRERat. oF Kb air ar:‘:l aws - vy “p " > railway was still in my ears. but in half tull of life, vige: d happi o ™ hour I could hear nothing the Civilizatic Ha, wha oys of ight r of the water over a snag it adaions % B Sty ke hidde > sitent, slow, sough- every breath a del v L g : g wat siorado were before R b w S . v # 2 e and , even if not exciting, pscgor g ¢ i et S. s - T e H'f ad not gone far before T met a Mo- Immigration and Ar > Jagy ¥ ,‘N with his wife and davghter, G o ot 2 £ in 2 boat. “You go Yuma?' was his sal o i : tation I take you thirty dollar. T de- States to t mmigrat & lined his offer with thanks and accepted Tt Sl yesr Soesis. § 7 ‘H‘ own services as crew for $30 for the |-\>|\|V“\h"d m‘-.‘!' -y How te sort myself out into all the appear. Yet t i rious ocew, I had assumed was ‘;'l‘:'{"' o So eotm K somewhat of a task. As captain my du- doub Pt y ties might metimes conflict with those §mv~~ the 2 . ./ , "'“Y "" e of the crew, and it was cle to be secn minimum size au d by Jaw, S 2 12t to be cook, photographer, author and the ratio of soldiers “ . popuiation is & =t wwn and gishwasher were incongruous if not in- one to every 1300 "}M‘-' t 1 is a ... f natural compatible employments. Yet it had to CSTOUNTAINS OF THE COLORARLO RIVER smaller ratio than tha ene - n each be done - country on the o 2 ave 2 0w e the author part o When one rem e - . A the lected their dutics, and the current swung @t these qr,,“m' sturdy, athletic fellows n far-away whistle sounds. It is the has as a kind of trade mark “that’s meat ran upon my first sand-bar. The current 167,990 more than last The tot e Guif of Califoruia the bozt around, when 01cs the photar. eilhonettad nesimst the ory o eue fellows noon signal at Needles. Hating time and ana drink to me.” That's what tha Colo- was fairly strong, the boat heavy and number of immigrants for the year ending #ere are three or four tribes of in- rapher part became Interested In an gn- their boats along {hro yh th v “pole” My boat is unnamed. It must have a 1ado River water is. If substance were Jumbersome, and, though I pushed and in June, given by the Commissioner of 5 « s ba Mobaves, the photostaplishle prak & Jovg wiy o1& tHht. . channele: betwosr i ,:"fiumo"h'l““" ot tome, and it does not require any cosita- ajl one nceded for food he could be well pushed my hands and arms lame, I could Immigration, was T.1%. And that does melhuevis, the Yumas and the Cocopas however, ought to be pictured. 1t was a bars. As picturesque as the :;d(en s (mnkm Soltaily beptire S Ld,"h' fed on this‘water, for if you let it stard not budge it. There I was aground in the not take in the arrivals from M o or ” ¢ i Povnderty. fiomrs 8¢ o et s R S e Al A e ot ol “K o oliers of nking of the absent one in the fai- jn a bucket iong enough a fifth of it i middle of the river. I hated to do it, Canada. Italy furnishes the greater per- paped mase, tilted over somewh far more glorious majestic |;lc1r‘;:w’|‘fima “;*a) e, T B o n Tirstantial sedl- but there was mothing else to be done, centage, while Austria-Hungary comes in to this it is & great mining the Mobaves have quite an interestng for here ave deserts, mountains, foothilly fating time, and two ducks—mallards, ment. The water itself i3 not so bad, go, hastily disrobing and jumping in reso- second. Russia also forms a chief source 1 think—just ahead! But I have no gun. though it has a slight alkaline taste. In lutely, I plunged into the cold waters, of immigration.