TTTE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 13. 1907.
Cow Pony's Share in History and Show
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.tlEN the director of the Omaha
Home Rhow decided to aild th
feature of cow pony, "not ex
ceeding lit" to the Hat of
horse In thp prize Hut, they
struck a popular chord among
western horsemen, for while the row pony
Is not a beauty for look. It usefulness In
the building; up of the western country has
been beyond valiif In many lines of work.
Whet other horse could have done the work
on tho frontier which baa been performed
by tho cayuse? Tlie style, conformation
end manners of the pony are to he consid
ered. The clans In designed to attract the
peoplo of the western country who. while
thry may admire the bnnglatln more, can
. not net away from the fact that the cayuse
Is a most useful beast.
That the boy may know thry lire getting;
a square deal nil around ond that a man
who is not prejudiced against that class of
horse Is Judging, It Is arranged fur an ex
pert from the far west to lie the Judge In
this class. Style, manners and conformation,
will take precedence In the order named.
By conformation is meant the general con
tour and condition suitable for range work.
That the pony la a cow pony must be shown
by his manners when a rope Is being used
on him or from him. He must stand wlth
orjt tying and must be brldle-wlse.
The cow pony la the same lively little
cayuse which was used In the '60s to hurry
the Pony Express across the country, and
the feats of some of those remurkabla
ponies and riders would fill volumes., Iii
the story of the "Pioneer Transportation In
America" the cow pony comes In for his
hare of praise.
The world's, record for organized and
"schedule" riding was mado by the Pony
Express. Never before nor since has mail
been carried ao fast, so far and for so long
merely by horse-power, und never else
where have horses been so steadfastly
spurred In any regular service. The Pony
Express carried mail from the east and
California at 15 an ounce for arjut two
years. It ran from Independence, Mo., to
Sun Francisco, 1,9'jO miles. Its time was
ten days and It never needed eleven. It
employed 800 of the fastest horses that
could be found of course, all western
horse a.0 station keeper and eighty rid
ers. Stations were sixty-five to 100 miles
and over apart, according to water. Riders
were allowed two - minutes for changing
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TYPICAL COW PONT.
horses and mail at the stations. The first
starter from the California end was Harry
Rolf, who left Sacramento April 23, I860. He
made the first twenty miles, with one
change In 69 minutes. Tho first section, 1S5
miles (including the crossing of the Sierra
Nevada, with thirty-five feet of snow), was
'done In 15 hours and 20 minutes, the sum
mit drifts being trampled by a big train of
mules. On the same day that Roff left Sac
ramento, Johnnie Frey started from St.
Toaeph with the west bound mail, which
went through In the same time. The mall
was limited to fifteen pounds, and salary
for such men was $100 to $125 and "found"
per month.
William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") was one
of the pony express riders, getting his first
Job aa a 14-year-old "kid" from the man
that Invented the pony express. Cody made
the record here a round trip ride (necessi tated
by tho killing of this relief) of 884
, miles without stops, except to change the
horses .and to swallow on hasty meal.
Quite as heroic a rider If less famous was
"Pony Bob" (Robert H. llaslem), whose
score was a 3S0-mlle rlde-on-end through
Indian Infested regions with redskins on
tho warpath, who had killed the next
man. ' After the telegraph gave quietus to
the pony express, for over a year he was
a Wells-Fargo messenger, making a 100
mllo round trip every twenty-four hours
(time on the road, ten hours). Then for
six months he ran from Reno to Virginia
City every day, using fifteen horses and
doing the twenty-three miles In one hour.
Jack Keetley, another pony express rider,
made a run of 310 miles In thirty-one hours;
another, Jim Moore, rode 280 miles in
fourteen hours, forty-six minutes.
It wss the proud record of the pony
express that In all Its dangerous achieve
ment it lost but one mall. Another came
near doubling the list; the rider was way
laid by Indians and scalped but the frontier-bred
pony broke away and came clat
tering Into the next "home" with the mall
poiich safe at the saddle horn. And the
letters to California went forward on time,
while back on the desert the brave carrier
stiffened In his blood.
What other horse was ever bred which
could, day In and day out, stand the gruel
ling work of carrying that mall across
the country at such a rapid clip? That Is
'the same horse which the cow man of
the west la using today. He Is small of
stature, but a bunch of bone and muscle,
with nerves keyed to the highest tension
at all times. He Is as sure-footed as a
burrow and knows no such thing as tiring.
How many miles does the pony on the
roundup have to travel In a day? It all
depends upon the staying qualities of the
rider, for the pony Is ever ready for any
task which might be Imposed upon him.
Bure-footed he knows no such thing as
stumble, and niay be relied upon to carry
his rider for miles over the boundless plains,
even though that rider may fafl asleep In
the saddle.
Little attention Is paid to the breeding
of these ponies and a few years ago they
ran wild on tho ranges the same as the
cattle, and today droves of ' these wild
ponies may be found in the panhandle
country. Competing with these horses
from the west will be some of the more
civilised kind from South Omaha. Her
the commission men all have ponies which
they use In handling the cattle In the yards
and many of these are of a higher type
than their Western cousins. Bred of bet
ter stock they are trained along the same
lines and can jump Into a bunch of cattle
and cut out the right steer aa well aa the
westerners.
The Indians on the reservation still hang
on to the cayuscs and, although these art
for the most part degenerates, they give
an Idea to the easterner of the type. The
cow pony Is apt to be a site larger than
these Indian ponies and with more ginger.
And yet it Is the Indian pony which the
easterner sees, the most of, for he is taken
east with the large circus organisations
which carry the Indians for show.
Now is the time of blooded steeds
And horsemen looking w'se, ;
But when it comes to Msi's Furnishings t:
Hatty Black he takes the prize. - -..-
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UTAH'S NATURAL BRIDGES
Work of Titanic Forces Shown in a
i Remarkable Group.
FAR FROM TRAVELED ROUTES
4 ttearlou Rarely Visited, bat Well
Worts While Wonders Large
and . flma.ll Found by aa
Exploring- Party.
I'tah, contains three great natural bridges,
one of which Is said to be the largest In the
world. They span the canyon of the Whit
river and are almost wholly inaccessible, to
th transcontinental caravans of tourists.
If fifty feet of th masts of the Lusltanla
were cut eft tha largest steamship In the
woild could sail under the huge natural
bridge. Th height under the arch of this
giant apan la 157 feet and the total length
of the span 129 feet. It would require five
bridges of the alse of the famous Natural
Bridge of Virginia placed side by side to
match this one In the width of its span.
Tha height of the Virginia Natural brldgo
to th top la 215 feet, to the crown under
neath 175 feet and the width of the span Is
from forty-five to sixty feet. The biggest
Utah bridge is callod at Augusta. The
others have been named the Caroline and
. th Edwin, and It Is where they are, In
southeastern t'tah, among romantic, wild
scenery, out of touch with tho world and
hundreds of miles from the nearest Mil
road line, that the government purposes to
x create two t ew national parks.
Expandlnr a cliff-dwelling hunt Into a
search for new natural wonders, a party
of geologists, archaeologist and engineers
spent six weeks last aummer in San Juan
county, in the southeastern corner of I'tah.
The party carried commissions from The
gevernment to map the unchartered ter
ritory rhtr the natural bridges are found
and t'l make a survey of the country. In
cidentally the party made an archaeological
map of the cliff dwellings found profusely
Id th canyon caves and the ruined pueblos
thot dot the nieasas.
San Juan county has an area of 11,000
aquar miles, and, according to th I'tsh
State Board, of Statistics, there are less
than 900 persons In the whole county. Not
more than a few score of these cltHens
live outside the towns of Montlcello and
Bluff City, frontier settlements, whose pop
ulation consists of cattle and sheep owners.
Exploring; the Coantry.
The exploring party, led by Prof. Byron
Cummlngs of th University of t'tah and
Prof.- Edgar I Hewett of the Department
of th Interior, left Thompson's Springs,
Utah, on the Rto Orande railroad, on June
14. went by stage thirty-five miles south
to Moad, gathered an outfit of horses and
pack mules and crossed sixty-five miles of
desert to Montlcello, at the east base of
tha Blue mountains. From Montlcello the
party struck off to the east and then took
a southerly course through Montezuma
canyon, a tributary of the San Juan rlvir.
After spending ten days among the cliff
dwellings and ruined villages of the canyon
the party reached the San Juan, fifteen
miles east of Bluff and close to the Colo
rado line. Bluff Is fifty-five miles south of
Montlcello and seventy-two miles west of
Mancos, Colo., the nearest railroad point.
. Supplies were taken oh at 'Bluff and the
caravan of nine persons mbved westward
toward the Colorado river, across a coun
try that Is seldom traversed by a white
man. Utos and Pal-Utes leave their sum
mer wlcky-ups near the San Juan and
Colorado rivers for cooler places high up
on the Elk ridge or th Blue mountains.
Trails are almost unknown and water Is as
scarce as trails. The guide led the party
over broken country, through waterless
canyons and across desert, rocky wastes
toward White canyon, which writhes and
twists down from the Elk ridge to the
Colorado river.
Hard Road to Travel.
Near Bear'a Ears peaks, at the summit
of tho ridge. White Canyon springs out of
the pine fortsst, winds through tumbled
rocks and deepens Into an impassable split
in the earth. In its course toward the Colo
rado river White Canyon completely severs
one part of the country from the other.
In a straight line It ' is not more than
seventy-five miles from the source to the
outlet of the canyon, but In Its ramble
White Canyon covers over 100 miles, and
there is only on place in the wholo dls
anc where entrance can be effected with
out the greatest . danger. This Is through
Armstrong Canyon, a small tributary,
reached after a day'a ride north of the
general course through a forest of scrub
plnon. Following this canyon down a few
miles, the first camp was struck In tho
shadow of the Edwin Natural Bridge, the
smallest of the three natural wondeis.
The entire formation of the splendid arch
Is of white sandBtone. Her and there a
streak of gray and the brown stain of
water lend a weird effect to the picture.
Towering 1,000 feet above the canyon on
either side Is a solid background of dark
red rock, with dashes of crimson. The red
beds were1 originally part of the Elk
Ridge, and dip to the south and west to
ward th Colorado. The water of another
age cut through the upper formation into
the white sandstone, which slants from an
elevation of 7,000 feet Into oblivion at the
river level at Dandy crossing.
The Edwin Bridge spans .a small branch
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of Armstrong Canyon, and the abutments
are set upon a natural rise far above the
general level. The government measure
ments, taken this summer, show It to be
104 feet from the bed of the creeks to the
top of the arch. The floor of the bridge Is
thirty-two feet wide, ten feet thick and
114 feet long. It, like the others In the
group, was formed solely by the water
that boiled down over the rocks and
gouged a holo in the narrow wall, leaving
a perfect arch. The original course of the
canyon stream Is traceable around the
west end of the bridge.
The permanent camp of the party was
made three miles below Edwin bridge in
Armstrong canyon,' and a quarter of a
mile above the Caroline bridge, under
whose arch White canyon comes to Its
Junction with the Armstrong. The Caroline
bridge lacks some of the symmetry und
grace of the Edwin bridge, and while It
Is 205 feet high. ' the distance from the
bottom of tha arch to the creek bed is
on'y ninety-seven feet, showing a thickness
of the floor of 107 feet. Three receding
ledges form the roof of the bridge.
An Imposing; Arch.
Up White canyon, two miles from the
junction, stands the Augusta bridge, the
most majestic of the three. From an Im
posing height of 222 feet one looks over
the edge of the great structure to the creek
bed beneath. Walls rising to greater and
dizzier heights Hank the bridge on liutu
sides. The floor of. the bridge is Bixty
flve feet thick, and under the arch, 157
feet high, the average ten-story building
might be set without touching the under
side ofthe bridge. The floor Is 3,1 feel
long. The erosion of ages has cut away
all of the Irregular edges, leaving a per
fect arch of splendid proportions. The
same story of chemical and water action
is written on the Augusta, traces of the
water that poured down from the Elks
being still found around the south end of
the bridge, and the confusion of great
rocks below shows that huge pieces were
torn away at a time In that titanic work
which resulted In the present freak for
mation. The trip from bluff to the natural bridges
Is beset with more than enough hardships
to appease the appetite of the average
tenderfoot, hut It la like a syln along tho
boulevard In un automobile when com
pared with the Journey across the San
Juan river through the Navfcjo Indian
reservation Into Monumental 'valley, the
other national park thut is to be cared
for and protected by Uncle Sam.
Turning their backs upon White canyon,
the party struck off across the country to
the south. Seventy-five miles away Grand
gulch empties into the San Juan river,
.ind n'-ross thjt treacherous mtreain lies
Moonlight gulch, east of the Navajo moun
tain, Hie iv on mmuiitli' pit in a'l the
desert wastes of the southwest. Through
rocky canyons, across desert wastes,
around impassable gorges, into tangled
forests of Rcrub plnon and cedar, the party
slowly wended Its way. ,
Esulorlna- Grand Gnlrh.
For two dnys tho party traveled almost
constantly through a labyrinth of canyons
und an exukpeiating growth of scrawny
trees without covering more than thirty
miles, as the crow files, tinally finding an
entrance to the mysterious Grand gulch.
An almost sheer descent 61 800 feet, ac
complished by winding back and forth upon
ledgoa of slippery rock and dropping gradu
ally, put the whole pack train out of com
misRion. Two day wer lost In recupera
tion. Once in Grand gulch, there Is no way of
getting out, except by following the canyon
either to Its mouth or back to Its source.
Following the canyon to Its mouth Is a feat
that had ' never been accomplished. Trails
wore cut through the thick growth of shrub,
btry, and where the rocky bed of th can
yon fell away a rude gangway of rock was
built for the passage of the horses to the
next level. Oftentimes great bowlder were
dumped Into the canyon from hundreds of
feet above to form a new trail or Impro
vised stairway.
High up In the ledges and caverns of th
sandstone walls are cliff dwellings. Lone
habitations grew Into villages, and villages
Into cities, as tho party neared the mouth
of the canyon. As th gulch' deepened the
secreted borne of the ancient Inhabitants
were found higher and higher In the rocks,
with the only means of entrance wiped away
entirely. An Ideal place to avo'd discovery I
and attack, burled In a rocky canyon In an
almost Inaccessible part of the world, the
cl'ff dwellings form detn'ls of a wonderful
canyon picture, Orand gulch may be called
a half-sister of the Orand canyon "of the
Colorado, since It Is In the same nelirhbor-r-ood
and closely resembles that great
wonder.
Emerging from Orand gulch, th party
came upon the low lying banks of the
San Junn river. On all sides of tha gulch
and the river the rocky walls rise to a
height of 1,000 feet or more. The stream
Is sluggish, swift and shallow. The muddy
water rushes over the black quicksand at
a fearful rate of speed, and fording is
dangerous.
Valley Rightly Trained.
Moonlight gulch empties Into the San
Juan on the south side a few miles west
of the Grand gulch, and to reach It was a
hazardous task that meant a day of danger
ous work. Once in Moonlight, It was eisv
traveling up the canyon to Bluff. Monu
mental valley lies between Moonlight and
Bluff. Great columns of red sandston rise
to splendid heights out of th sage brush
and tha greasewood. The proposed park
lies close to the western edge of the Navajo
Indan reservation and covers a plateau
that dips -from, the north base of Navajo
mountain. From the top of the Blues,
away to the north, Monumental valley re
sembles the factory district of a great city,
with Its myriad chimneys pointing upward
and here and there gigantic structures of
grotesque shape.
On the horlron a vestlbuled train seems
to be skimming along, but it Is nothing
more than a sandston ridge, which th
erosion of centuries baa shaped Into th
appearance of a train. A battleship stands
out in bold relief against th sky. The
close-set funnels and the steel mast rise
from a superstructure built over a deck of
bastions and turret. Here Is a Russian
monument, set on a pedestal hundreds of
feet high, and beyond runs a long vista of
turrets and piles, set against a background
of wildly romantic castle walls. A splen
did organ commands Instant admiration. It
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PASSING OF TRAMP PRINTERS
Machines Sound the Knell of the
Genial Hobo of tha Print ,
Shop.
"Men can't be made good by law or re
formed bv legislation." hus been the state
ment of many, but at that men have been
made good by machinery, a whole trade
being reformed and made over on another
plane by a matter of mechanism, cogs and
cams and levers.
: t him intrnHnetion of the linotype ma
chine Is due the elimination of tlie tramp
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printer, lie nas peeu anven urn. ui mc
( ltles where the machines have com in, and
that means every city of over 10,000 people
that has a dally paper, m cam wora one
r.t the machines, for "that : reaulrea good
nerves, and the tramp printer hasn't the
nerves. It require steady .worn ana con
tinuous practice, and he can't have thos
because he doesn't work long enough at a
time.
Time was, not long ago, either, that
there were scores of tramp printers, tour
ists, who ranged about the country. They
drank whenever they had the money and
worked when they had to In order to get
a "stake" to make the next town. 1
They were ure of a chance to get at
th case In almost any town, for the regu
lar men would welcome a chance to lay
off for a night or two if they could get
a "sub," and a soon as the tramp had
secured enough money for a "Jag" he
would get comfortably full and enjoy life
in his own way.
If he was' a little nervous or a little
iire.i" he could lean on the case and
stick enough type to make out a Job, but
with the linotype machine ne cannoi nu ine
irov .trai.ht or fast enough to keep up
the speed. Gradually the tramp printer
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has found his territory icssenm. mo
cities were eliminated, for the only office
offering a possibility . of work is tho Job
shop, and for the most part these cannot
tand for a drinker unless they are pressed
with work and need help badly.
The tourist thus has been driven to re
frm nnH hecomes steady, buckling down to
work In one place for longer periods than
before.
in,,.r thin that ha forced a higher
class of workers In the newspaper printing
trade is the fuct lliut tho expense or a pe
.tih, mm liine is such that th office must
secure a certain detlnlte amount , of type
from It, and except In the great aames
the number of machines btars a definite
relation to the umount needed ror me
paper's columns, and unless that Is forth
coining there Is a distinct loss.
The result has ben marked Tn the
standard of the printing trade. The man
who drinks to rxctos cannot hold a steady
Job In these days and has been pushed
down and out In favor of his temperate
brother. With this natural selection ope
rating over a period of U-n yeurs the print
ing trade ha come to be probably the
most temperate in tlie country, and the
drinker la the exception. The only thing
that U'P the occasional drinker In his
plaoi is the possession of some unusual
tulent that niakis his services of such
vulu.- that his lack of steadiness must be
horno to secure the benertts of his ability.
Thus the machine ha made one class
of men bttr than ihey were, has rjld
the plan of thsir morality and sobriety,
and eliminated what formerly wps a nuis
ance of no smsll proportions. Chicago Tribune.
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