Medford mail tribune., June 26, 1960, Image 46

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"Ships of the Desert" were supposed to conquer
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Get to the Root of Athlete's Foot
RINGWORM, OTHER FUNGUS INFECTION
with New NP-27 Treatment
AND THE FUNGUS IS DEAD FOREVERI
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As part of Treatment, new NP-27
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The Great
Camel
Fiasco
By JOSEPH STOCKER
Far out on the Arizona desert, at the edge
of the village of Quartzite, there's a
small monument which marks the burial
place of a man remembered by Westerners
as Hi Jolly. That wasn't his real name,
though. His real name was Hadji Ali, and
he was a camel driver from Syria.
How a Syrian camel driver found his
final resting place half-a-world distant from
his homeland is the story of one of the
strangest episodes in American history: the
great camel experiment of the 1850s.
Those were the years in which America
was preoccupied with settling the West. But
before the West could be won, a perplexing
problem had to be solved the problem of
transportation across the Southwestern des
ert. The railroad was yet to come, and
waterholcs were so far apart as to imperil
travelers who came on horses or mules.
It was, appropriately enough, a Navy
lieutenant who came up with the idea of
importing camels those traditional "ships
of the Sahara" for desert transportation.
The lieutenant, Edward F. Beale, had
served under Commodore Robert Stockton
during the conquest of California. Subse
quently, while he was en route to Washing
ton with official dispatches, his mule nearly
died of thir st in the desert. When Bealo
reached the capital, he urged his camel idea
on Jefferson Davis, then secretary of war
in the cabinet of President Franklin Pierce.
Jeff Davis thought the proposal a stroke
of pure genius. He envisioned camels drink
ing up at the Mississippi, then not needing
a refill until they reached the Rio Grande.
Davis sent the plan to Congress, which
sniffed dubiously, debated lengthily, and
then appropriated $30,000 for the purchase
of camels from the Middle East. The first
load of 34 dr omedaries arrived in Texas in
May, 1856. Shortly afterward came 41 more.
With them came 10 native camel driver's,
including Hadji Ali, or Hi Jolly.
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The camel trains headed west, and things
went well at first. Carrying heavy burdens,
the camels plodded stoically and without
water across the hot desert. They traveled
25 to 30 miles a day. They climbed moun
tains, swam streams, and were contented
with a diet of desert vegetation which no
self-respecting horse or mule would accept.
All in all. the camels adjusted to the
Amer ican desert as if it were their own.
Along the route, however, the sight of
camels a-coming left onlookers startled and
skeptical. At one stop, an Army major in
charge of the expedition overheard a by
stander scoffing at the use of camels.
"Them animals may be big," said the by
stander', "but I'll bet they can't carry much."
For thwith, the major sent for some bales
of feed. When the feed arrived, he order ed
a camel to kneel and then loaded two of the
bales 613 pounds upon the beast.
The bystander scoffed again.
"Bet the camel can't get up," he said.
Whereupon the major piled on two more
bales the load now totaled 1.226 pounds
and gave the order to rise. The camel rose
without a tremor and ambled off, looking
or so it seemed to those watching him
positively smug.
After the desert had been crossed, the
military took a group of camels into
the California mountains near Bakersfield,
to see if they could tolerate cold as well as
heat. There they lived in two to three feet
of snow, not only tolerating it but thriving
and fattening in it.
So far, so good. The camel experiment
was hugely successful. The camels were
happy and so was the Gover nment.
But not so the native camel drivel's.
Homesick, bewildered by this new and alien
land, frightened at the prospect of increas
ing hardships, the drivers quit, one by one.
At last there remained only Hi Jolly and