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Show 4133 McDonald- D 2153 days, filled the barrels with water; we had three wagons with us, so as to give the older cattle -- these were all old cattle they had sold off for beef cattle for the Mojave Indians-- so we took these wagons to get the water across the desert, the desert between the Muddy and Las Vegas springs; and the third day we pulled out about three o'clock in the afternoon and traveled all night until daylight, and stopped about an hour. Hitched up then and drove until the tongues of the cattle were out that far ( indicating); they were just moving across there, just could see them moving, across that desert; we hitched up then, and drove, and never stopped for anything to eat the second day, and the next morning we stopped about an hour, and from there in we got in to Las Vegas springs -- there was nothing there like there is now days,-- just old ' dobe walls, Stewart's place. Mr. Stewart was there then. We had a job to keep the cattle out; for the last nine or ten miles you didn't have to drive them, at all, even them that were hitched in the wagon, they had smelled the water, and they just pulled out as fast as they could possibly go. Then from there -- we laid up there a while, -- and we pulled from there in to the head of Eldorado canyon. |
