Western field . Damfino,was the reply and, without waiting for ourorder, he sculled himself into the kitchenand returned a few minutes later with somebacon, beans and bread. The ride from Naco to Cananea is up abroad tableland, broken here and there withshort ranges of mountains. At the base andin the canon of one of these ranges is situ-ated the town of Cananea. The town isabout nine miles long and from fifty tothree hundred yards wide, according to the of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Com-pany, giving employment to some 6,000 men,and turning out 3,000 tons of copper eachmonth. While it has
Western field . Damfino,was the reply and, without waiting for ourorder, he sculled himself into the kitchenand returned a few minutes later with somebacon, beans and bread. The ride from Naco to Cananea is up abroad tableland, broken here and there withshort ranges of mountains. At the base andin the canon of one of these ranges is situ-ated the town of Cananea. The town isabout nine miles long and from fifty tothree hundred yards wide, according to the of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Com-pany, giving employment to some 6,000 men,and turning out 3,000 tons of copper eachmonth. While it has its American churchand American school, it is sadly lacking inhotel accommodations. The best we foundwas The Elks, an upright board shell, runby a genial son of Great Britain who servesnothing but T-bone steaks on his table, butcuts them from any old place between thehorns and the hock joints, and sings OldBlack Joe in high C with an alarmingvigor. Nevertheless he is a good landlord, THE PACIFIC COAST MAGAZINE. SN\P SHOTS EN ROUTE. always pleasant and obliging and trying tomake his guests as comfortable as the con-ditions of the country will permit. To the south and east of the lower endof Cananea the table land stretches down tothe Sonora River and the Jaralita, one of itstributaries. Along these streams the mesabecomes broken into rolling hills coveredwith grama and bunch grass and dotted hereand there with small scrub oaks. In thesehills we found the montezuma quail quiteplentiful. Thefee birds are the very oppositeof the California blue quail. In shape theyare round and plump and somewhat largerthan the Eastern bob white. They are foundonly in single broods, and never run, noteven when wounded. The bevies range fromsix to fifteen in number. When alarmedthey huddle together and only flush whenclosely approached, springing high in theair and getting away with a rapid are the best hiders that I hare everseen, lying to a dog until almost steppedupon. Never have I h
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