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Show 32O FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. same men who invited them here join in to drive them away. You, no doubt, will have trouble with your Indians in time." I was deeply interested in these natives, and felt determined to do all I could for them ; in fact, it was Indian or nothing if we finished our ditch in time to do anything the following season. So I divided off the land between the Pimas and Maricopas, leaving the chiefs to divide the lands among their people. They soon went to work enlarging the ditch. These natives were of the poorer class, having been liv-ing in settlements where the water had been shut off from them. They had been living for years in poverty and degradation. Their association with white men had only degraded them the more, and they were dwindling away and numbering less and less every year; so when they had the privilege of taking hold with us they were truly grateful. When they commenced to move, some thirty odd miles, my son Wiley took his team and hauled their stuff for them. The squaws appreciated this, as most every-thing would have been carried on their heads ; many a time they would pack from seventy- five to a hundred pounds. Some may ask, " If these Indians were so desti-tute, what was there to move?" I will see if I can think what there was. I remember well there was an eight-mule load for the Maricopas. Without giving the number and pounds, I will name some of the principal articles. There were earthen water jars and cooking utensils ; baskets and more bas-kets ; dogs too poor to make it afoot ; Mosquite beans ; old rawhides, metats, primitive hand- mills; a few old shovels, hoes, axes, wooden plows, etc. These were about the average outfit of an Indian household. They |