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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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se of the great Sierras. Above usthey lifted their thousands upon thou-sands of feet of sheer and mighty wallsthat we were to scale. As the name indicates, Chacala is ofIndian origin, and its battered appear-ance bears out its claim to antiquity.Down through the center of the townruns one long street with one-storyhouses of adobe and brick massed solidlytogether on either side. The tiled roofsof those on the north, supported by arow of pillars reaching the length of thestreet, extend over the wide sidewalk ofwell-worn brick. There are other streetsreaching out from a small central plaza,but they are narrow and crooked andscarcely more than alleyways. The place has a romantic situation,under the shadow of the towering peaksof the Sierra Madres. A small but tur-bulent river flows out of a canon andthrough a deep gulch on the north ofthe village. High and rugged hills riseeverywhere, their steep sides here andthere dotted with fields of ripening cornor green patches of maguey, the latter
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2l6 THE OUTING MAGAZINE supplying the thirsty inhabitants withfiery mescal. While Wilkinson cared for the mulesand arranged for our entertainment, Iwalked out to a silver mine on a bluffa mile or so from town. The mine wasclosed, save the pumping station, andthere was not much to see. But I foundan American foreman in charge, andfrom him I learned that the plant wasowned by a United States corporation.It had been opened and equipped a yearor so before, and had a small thoughcomplete outfit with modern, up-to-datemachinery. Dull Times for ^liners The financial depression at home hadcompelled them to shut down a monthor two before my visit, with no pros-pect of immediate resumption. Theforeman told me there were some otheroperations, all of them small ones, inthe surrounding foothills, but all wereidle like this one, for they were in thehands of Americans without funds towork them. The drizzle had turned into a steadydownpour before I reached my quarters,which precluded further explorat

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