San Francisco water . this must be the road we used to take to Careys ? Do you remember the stage roadand this canyon and that creek? Do you re-member the toll-gate, a natural gatewaywhere two walls of rock nearly closed thecanyon; where the driver, without stopping,threw the toll-money on the side of the road,and we thought how nice he was to pay tollfor all his passengers? If this is the road toCareys we ought to reach that rocky gate-way somewhere along about here. My mother said nothing (she is a non-committal little woman), but just kept hereyes busy as we rolled along through thattypical
San Francisco water . this must be the road we used to take to Careys ? Do you remember the stage roadand this canyon and that creek? Do you re-member the toll-gate, a natural gatewaywhere two walls of rock nearly closed thecanyon; where the driver, without stopping,threw the toll-money on the side of the road,and we thought how nice he was to pay tollfor all his passengers? If this is the road toCareys we ought to reach that rocky gate-way somewhere along about here. My mother said nothing (she is a non-committal little woman), but just kept hereyes busy as we rolled along through thattypical landscape, one that spells Californiain every rounded contour of hill and gulch,in every alternating patch of shrub and grass,of rock and soil, of growth and baldness; inthe alders, the wild grapes, the oak andmanzanita and madrone, that alternately hidand revealed the murmuring stream, and inthe dense undergrowth that quivered in theheat haze and from which rose the hum ofinsects and the perfumes of the Site of Crystal Springs Reservoir as it appeared in 18S7, when work started on the huge concrete dam 14 SAN FRANCISCO WATER October, 1926
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