. Reminiscences of frontier life . pros-pects, and to do this the trail is the only road, and inmost cases the prospector can not afford to make muchof a trail through heavy growth of timber up and downsteep mountains. And again, to reduce the size of thenecessary machinery, so that a single pack animal cancarry the heavy pieces, is another expense to be avoided,and the poor pack mule is that the burden fallsupon to carry the overload, the expense of which is beingshunned by both mine owner and machinery the builder overtaxes the capacity of the mule tosuch an extent that
. Reminiscences of frontier life . pros-pects, and to do this the trail is the only road, and inmost cases the prospector can not afford to make muchof a trail through heavy growth of timber up and downsteep mountains. And again, to reduce the size of thenecessary machinery, so that a single pack animal cancarry the heavy pieces, is another expense to be avoided,and the poor pack mule is that the burden fallsupon to carry the overload, the expense of which is beingshunned by both mine owner and machinery the builder overtaxes the capacity of the mule tosuch an extent that the poor animal lays down his burdenin despair, his mate is brought in to share his load,or carry one end of two bars which are hung in a yokethat is fastened to the pack saddle in. the middle andextends down on each side of the mule. In the lowerend of these yokes is hung a pole or scantling extendingfrom one mule to the other, and on these poles is placedthe heavy weight to be carried. The half hoop or yoke ^-fc^^Miws^ . -r 7 ^. 130 Reminiscences of Frontier Life. that extends down each side of the animal is allowed toswing backward and forward and is sufficiently wide toallow the animal to turn. The cut represents two mules carrying a pulley sevenfeet in diameter and weighing 700 pounds, which couldnot be carried on one animal. A TRAILING LETTER. The following lines will demonstrate how perfect asystem of postal service we have in this country andGreat Britain. During the eighties, while traveling through Kansas,which was then the home of an old schoolmate and life-long friend, I wrote him to once more renew our friendlyrelations, as it had been many years since we had seeneach other. While young men we had followed the con-struction of the Union Pacific Railroad together and wit-nessed many exciting times, but as my friend had mar-ried and gone to live in what the frontier man calledbleeding Kansas, and as my occupation sent me inother ways, we naturally drifted apart and a
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