File:Western field (1905) (14592211830).jpg

Identifier: westernfield61905olym (find matches)
Title: Western field
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.) California Game and Fish Protective Associations
Subjects: Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.) California Game and Fish Protectice Associations Sports
Publisher: San Francisco
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
inwith a party of Bisbee sportsmen just re-turning from a duck hunt on the lakes nearFronteras. Like all the sportsmen of Ari-zona whom I have had the good fortune tomeet they were a jovial lot, and our ridetogether, which lasted nearly half a day,was indeed a pleasant one. When we partedat the Douglas junction I lined them up fora photograph. At Naco we had to stay all night, and Ihave been addling my brain ever since tofind what excuse it has for being on themap. Like all the border towns it has itsAmerican and Mexican sides, and possiblythe purpose of each is to keep the otherfrom stealing the boundary monument. Naco has no hotels and the traveler has todepend on the rooming houses. It has norestaurant worthy of the name, but it hasthe champion waiter of all Arizona. He is ayoung gentleman with a terracotta com-plexion and claybank hair, and from his ro-tund appearance I should judge that he takeshis meals outside. On taking our seats at oneof the three tables he came within about
Text Appearing After Image:
Water Works. In the Quail Country. SNAP SHOTS BY THE WAY. Her First Montezuma Quail.The Wheeler Land Companys Castle.A Party of Bisbee Sportsmen. 1(56 WESTERN FIELD four feet of us, struck a tragic attitude, andin the voice of the sweet girl graduate, de-claimed: We have some nice cottontailrabbit. Also, with a strong emphasis on thefirst syllable, some channel catfish fromTexas; besides, same emphasis as the girlgraduates and, we have steaks and chopsfrom Kansas City, as well as ham and eggs.After a long breath—likewise we haveoysters. Mocker spoiled the tableaux by possibility of finding lodgment for buildingsalong the rocky sides of the caiion. Where-ever the latter broadens out so as to admitof a second street it has been given localnames, so we have in the town proper thesubdivisions of Mesa, Ronquillo, Capote,Alicia, etc. Mesa, the lower end, has an ele-vation of 5,300 feet above the sea. Cananeais practically an American town, its onlyindustry being the extensive mills and mi

Note About Images