Show alexander majors r some of our people mry may not tha thai t of all the men of note wha who have ever visited arizona we ve have the most remarkable one now in our midst in V his particular iti oular culat line in e I 1 that ever eser lived ved fri iri yaa this oran or any y other landon earth he is no less a personage than th the tho king hing as it were of all the I 1 bull buli bullwhackers whack whackers ers by which term tha initiated will understand that he 1 ther th er P and has bas been the most extensive ox teamster the world has ever produced we allude to alexander majors whom nearly everybody west of the mississippi river at leas leasty tf knows personally or by reputation and to hi his everlasting honor be it said that notwithstanding the nature of the busl busi bu sines nes in which he acquired his reputation and the whole armies armied of men he has had bad in lis his its employ wo we have for the first ti time me bohea to hear r th that at A alex ales ex majors maj ors ev ever er wronged a man but of a cent or was false to any promise or profession in the fulfillment of W promises all ali and d kindness to nien men an and d AnIf animals nals have everdeen ever been distinguishing features of his character and are aro those upon on which ho be still reflects and reverts to with with commendable pride bis his rules in freighting was that every overy man in his emi employ loy should bo be treated as a gentleman and aud should be kind to his earm earn a arid und for fbi this purpose each was required to higa a sort of eoda coda cil cli cilto elito V the contract which required him to observe twe the tb e rules of ability refrain from frow habits of blackguardism guard ism auch puch as profane swearing and ether other vulgar language langu ago such as betray low breeding breedin etc ete under penalty of forfeiture of wages these ruiey ruley 5 alex juniors majors maintained forbears for yeara years on tho plains and at times had bit more than three thousand men in his employ lonie of whom are now nov in prescott Presco tr anu ana wherever found they will tel tei tell teil I 1 you that it was waa flie tiie the file most admirable system under which men ever WO worked aked and that thoi noat ag agreeable to bothom both employer and employed in order that our readers may understand something of the tho magnitude magnitude of rin mr majors busine business s ad and that of russell majors majora waddell of which mr was as solo sole man ager on the plains we give a nev figures which mr majors has haa been kind enough to furnish us at our solicitation in the year the they li had ad on qu the plains trains of 25 r wagons SO 30 men and from to 3 10 ani aul animals mais mals to the train making wagons 10 men med and on an average 10 9 00 oxen they freighted hocamp to camp floyd in utah that year over pounds of supplies be ades doing n early nearly all th the 0 hauling xer ar dakota colorado new rew mexico and some bome to Tucson arizona the gross recel rece reee lots iota of the year were over ingold coln coin coin colu with such sueh a lareo largo ilu liu number numbed rabel of trains of course nat all moving at alonce abonce otyce iut aut jut a cledic in mr majors employ on a given na a ah cst est estimate linato finato of the number then moving which showed they had all ail been marching in wosa order one afier after the other they would have extended over exactly forty miles of road in other words if all that we were moving removing on that day had been in one train it would have been forty miles long mr majors drove ox teams twenty years before he lie began to do an ex business and in jn 1648 1818 had his first train of six wardna running ning to santa banta fo fe which ten years afterwards had grown to he is 13 now gl 61 send year old and as hale and active as most men of forty and would readily bo taken for that acre acye age 1 11 his own account of his success and ia 19 at ia and to hin himself iselt avoiding excess frescott arizona ml nw june 0 |