source of one of the main prongs of Whitewater…
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o say that my hunger and thirst was
satisfactorily appeased. Mr. McPherson is a
genial fellow in camp. He told me he received
a scare the second day he was in camp that
turned a large number of hairs on his head gray.
By invitation of Mr. Bush he went up to the
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source of one of the main prongs of Whitewater
in order to see the fine spring at its head and
taste its pure cool water, while making his way
through the dense bushes and undergrowth, he
heard the well known grunt of a surprised bear.
Bruin was lying in the bushes, cooling himself
off in the stream. McPherson had no fire arms
with him. He made a spring backward, fell
over a log into the stream, sprained his ankle
and otherwise was badly shaken up. He came
limping into camp without a hat and as white
as ghosts are supposed to be. He was suffering
with his ankle when I left but he says he don’t
mind that half as bad as the fright he received.
He half suspects that Mr. Bush set up a job
on him.
Freighting is very light now between the
Mogollons and Silver City, and the freighters
are bitterly complaining.