Boys in the Mountains And On the Plains Or the Western Adventures of Tom Smart
Boys in the Mountains And On the Plains Or the Western Adventures of Tom Smart
William Henry Rideing
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220 BOYS IN THE MOUNTAINS. One of her duties in camp is to provide water. Though water is much needed by them, the Indians seldom make en- campments on the banks of a stream, and the labor of supply- ing them with this necessary of life is divided between the dogs, the children, and the squaws. Large earthen pots of their own manufacture are triced on poles, the opposite ends of which are fastened to the sides of a dog, and on the primi- tive vehicle thus formed the jars are carried to the rive...r. The train was now approaching the Utah boundary-line, and Tom's attention was attracted by clusters of dome-shaped furnaces, which are used in the manufacture of charcoal for the smelting-works of the mines in the Uintah and Wahsatch Mountains. The Chinaman becomes a figure in every scene — as railway- laborer, cook, waiter, washerman, and bootblack. Another feat- ure is the high trestle-work bridge which crosses the land- scape, supporting a V-shaped trough, from which the water drips — an object familiar enough to residents on the Pacific coast.
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