| Show AmET amey tica LICA DESERTS not very long bince since e a 1 letter etter was published in the dallas T texas e as herald describing 0 the passage of 1 train across the Llanos estacado estocado Esta cado desert in that state from fort chadbourne we traveled south to the chenco river rive f old camp johnson Joh neon then followed up the chanco Chon I 1 coto to the edge of the great american desert which is is a barren waste soil light 2 color and alkaline nature producing mostly salt grass and a few mezquite mesquite mez quite bushes and cactus this kind of country extends from the colorado to the rio grande is miles in width and extends through our c continent on being narrower in in some points there are but few watering places on the route from the pecos to the rio grande the herd berd had bad no water for 76 hours and traveled miles the herdsmen were without water or nourishment 30 hours their exercise was very hardy hard riding and hallooing hallowing hallo hailo at the cattle and was calculated to bring on thirst soon the men buffered suffered extremely for want of waterland wat water erand and sleep many shot down the famished bullo bullocks acks on the road stuck them pulled off their boots or shoes caught the thick hot blood and drank it freely and by y so doing t saved their lives the cattle wera weri were all v very 1 ery much excited and any of af them would fight and the men were compe compelled lied to shoot many we went into the sand hills 1600 head of cattle or struck the sand with that num number lerl berl and left with about 1050 many of the bissill missius having died for want of water On arriving the men merr were all excited an andt aart their comrades pan I 1 murray ge Celt iton oil ori wheatly and collier woula would never have brave got tor had not hot some bome of the abe herdsmen been sent on oil after waterland wat water erand and ritu returned rnea to them they had hid stop stopped pid by the side of the road 1 folt foit fbi t chadbourne rne ison lson the line of the southern ii mill route sac sac union ao 10 nov 23 3 |
