| Show impressions continued from page 1 the cites future speaking of fa farms rills I 1 visited D a whopper the other day it iles a few miles south of A mesa and is owned by alie the mesa co I 1 the farm or ranch Is nine miles long anti varies in width from two to tour four miles A lot of cattle tire arc kept there and somo some but at present the company is paying particular attention to growing alfalfa they havo have about acres under cultivation and tills this year have cut and baled and sold about ions they get from 10 to 13 a ton for it f 0 b mesa the water used on this ranch for irra irrigation gation and auf eul iliac ir ary y purposes is pumped by elac triciti tri city I 1 wish wiil some borne of our people could see these wells and the amount of water they produce mr ir chand ler the nia manager nager of tho the property says they irrigate 1000 acres from one well in the course ot or a year and judging from the size of the stream cain the statement seem to beav be overdrawn er they have four of these wells in operation now nov I 1 I 1 visited tile the mesa aesa ostrich Ost farm one daymut week and got my eyes opened again I 1 have seen ostriches before but they were either infer inferior for birds or wera ill kept or something was wrong with them tor for the best of them a circumstance compared P ared with these there are about a hundred amundred of these all big as cows in fact from a distance one would take thern them for cows as they feed in I 1 the pastures I 1 walked all around the field and took a good look at them they are both pretty and ugly their bodies are arc decidedly pretty just now their feathers are long and the males especially are bright the mana manager ger told me they would be plucked on the of this month the females are docile enough but the males are very vicious its a rare sport to see them fight and chase one another around the field they are about as graceful as I 1 turkeys ur i when walkin walking g but when they get gel under way running they are graceful as swans swails I 1 spent a pleasant afternoon watching them anti and succeeded in getting getting a few plumes before I 1 left they were beauties S too they have at present two hens sitting on eggs I 1 say hens but that quite correct for the male sits on the eggs two thirds of the time he goes goe s on at sundown and stays until about 8 next morning when the hen ben goes on oil she sits until about noon and then takes two hours for dinner while he spells her then she goes back until sundown her heres one instance at least where the women dont do all the work icik next day we visited the papago ward composed of indians the pim as and this turned out to be one of the pleasant est of ply visits we drove from hui hut to but bt dickering for baskets and other indian trinkets but succeed in b buying much the indians have got onto the fact that their wares bring high prices in the city markets and they propose a to get their r share hare of the proceeds becoming civilized wo we lid did succeed however in n getting a t couple of small articles finally we came to the home of I 1 the foremost indian in the ward a member of the mormon church and second counselor to the bishop of the ward ile he is a an n exceptionally tio nally bright man mail himself and his whole family of seven children two boys beys lind and five girls have been educated at the phoenix indian school one daughter katheryn is a singer of unusual ability she sang at the worlds fair in st louis for five months then she and another indian girl went with a presbyterian evangelist to new york where they sang in the churches for 15 months taking voice culture the while then she was sent to the n D Y university as a normal for one a year ago ft 10 this winter there besides her regular courses she I 1 took ock vocal and instrumental music vocal under prof lund and instrumental the piano under prof reed need judging by her conversation and hearing bearing she male made good use of her time while at school tor for she is really well educated I 1 asked her to sing for us but elic ehe was a little backward silo she sali said slie she would sing IVI would sing first so I 1 sang a little song then she sang A wandering bird and I 1 must say I 1 never heard anything sweeter the song was in a low key and seemed fitted to her voice we talked 0 of various things principally the indians tor for an hour or so when we were ready to go I 1 handed her my sard ard which contains besides my name the words the box elder janews news when she saw that she said Is that your paper I 1 answered that it 11 was why she continued 1 I used to read the box elder news agot it from the library in the school at provo its afine paper now think of that arizona la canites reading the leorne pap pape crand rind pronouncing it good I 1 felt fell quite chesty I 1 went down to phoenix yesterday the alb and visited the iho indian school its a splendid place and although I 1 was a little late in tile the day to se see all tha classes at work what I 1 lid did see convinced nic me that tl the le government is doing a gooi good booi wa work 1 k among all these se people they are taught tho the grammar gral grades s and ln ia addition thereto industrial courses courses of all kinds the indians seem to take taka great interest in tho tl 0 o work too although I 1 was told that some of the young men who learn trades and got get work outside tire of it and go baek back hoina biou c these are arcs th exception most of them are steady and good workmen the girls too are arc asals ted materially and become good seamstresses laundresses and house housekeepers I 1 was greatly pleased with the indian school one of the tha biggest in the united states and conss cons the world perhaps this will do for the tha time being in a future article ill aen mention another item or two that greatly interested me march larch 5 1908 i NORMAN LEE |
