On the Trail of Geronimo — page 20: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

‘12 ON THE TRAIL OF GEKLONIMO. CHAPTER II. ON THE ROAD TO ARIZONA. SECOND Lieutenant Dick Whitcomb would have been an extraordinary young man had he not felt a little pride now and then in the fact that he was an officer in the United States army. ‘True, he was pretty well down on the ladder, but he was beginning where his illustrious predecessors began, and at an age somewhat younger than most of them. Dick traveled by rail to Sacramento, thence by the same means to Los Angeles, and by the Southern Pacific to Yuma. This place is in the extreme southwestern part of Arizona, on the river Gila, and the railroad was finished only to that point. A stage ride of five hundred miles, through one of the hottest regions on the face of the earth, was before him. The Southern Pacific railway through the southern part of Arizona and New Mexico follows co