Highways and byways of the Pacific coast . with rubbish, and it was clearthat whoever wanted to dispose of old tin cans, worn-out household utensils and garbage simply conveyedthe waste material to the outskirts and dumped this forlorn outlying section was the cemetery. Itwas right on the open prairie and looked as if it hadbeen forgotten. Two or three graves were marked bymarble slabs, but the rest were either unmarked orhad wooden head pieces on which the lettering wasfast being efi^aced by the weather. A few of the graveswere inclosed by broken fences of palings or wire, andsome had l
Highways and byways of the Pacific coast . with rubbish, and it was clearthat whoever wanted to dispose of old tin cans, worn-out household utensils and garbage simply conveyedthe waste material to the outskirts and dumped this forlorn outlying section was the cemetery. Itwas right on the open prairie and looked as if it hadbeen forgotten. Two or three graves were marked bymarble slabs, but the rest were either unmarked orhad wooden head pieces on which the lettering wasfast being efi^aced by the weather. A few of the graveswere inclosed by broken fences of palings or wire, andsome had lava blocks heaped up around them. WhileI was poking about here I disturbed a Jack soon as he saw me he laid back his long ears andwas off through the sagebrush like a streak. My train came presently and I went on to Minidokaand then took a branch road to Twin Falls City. Thisbranch road had been called into existence within ayear by the irrigating of the tract of country throughwhich it ran. Naturally, the region was a sagebrush. The Niagara of the West 303 plain rising and falling in long swells and broken hereand there with ragged gullies. But an irrigationcompany was now ready to furnish water for threehundred thousand acres, and the government waspreparing to supply a flow for half as much moreterritory, so the entire fifty miles along the railroad hadsuddenly become populous; for there are always plentyof people adrift in these newer regions who are on thewatch for chances to make their fortunes quickly andeasily, and they rush into any district that is opened become permanent residents. Others sell outafter a while and seek still newer fields of opportunity-Many settlers are from the middle West where landhas become expensive, and where a man making afresh start has usually a prolonged struggle to own afarm. If he is adventurous or unstable he turns hiseyes to the undeveloped lands in remote regions whichare to be had cheap and which he can make valuable
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