Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1881 — Camels in America. [ARTICLE]

Camels in America.

It will be remembered that some years ago the experiment of using camels for the transportation of freight across the California desert was tried and proved a failure. Since that time the matter has been gem rally forgotten, and nobody has seemed to care whatever became of the camels themselves. It now appears that some of them lived, and has since bred and flourished in the Gila and Salt River boltoms, and the result is to be that large herds of theseanimals ore now roaming in Arizona and New Mexico. If this is true, it will be strange if American ente.prise does not find a way to utilize them. They are most useful beasts in some other sections of the globe, imd it seems as if the old experiment might yet lie tried and prove successful. With er numbers to draw from, it would not be strange if the subject, if carried out, might result to advantage. The scattered tufts of hair swept out from the shop in front of which the variegated pole rears its gilded head are relics of barbarism.