What to see in America . known as the Panhandle is mostlytable-land nearly four thousand feet above the sea counties in it are without a river or a watercourse ofany kind. Prairie dogs, gophers, and jack rabbits parties of men have been organized to round up thejack rabbits, and have exterminated them in great prairie dogs are troublesome because, like the jackrabbits, they devour the grass, and besides they dig up theearth, leaving huge mounds of almost barren sand, often acresin extent. Some of their villages have a population often thousand to the square
What to see in America . known as the Panhandle is mostlytable-land nearly four thousand feet above the sea counties in it are without a river or a watercourse ofany kind. Prairie dogs, gophers, and jack rabbits parties of men have been organized to round up thejack rabbits, and have exterminated them in great prairie dogs are troublesome because, like the jackrabbits, they devour the grass, and besides they dig up theearth, leaving huge mounds of almost barren sand, often acresin extent. Some of their villages have a population often thousand to the square mile. Poison squads are nowemployed by the big ranchmen to depopulate the dog most picturesque feature of the Panhandle is the PaloDuro Canyon inArmstrong is strangely sculp-tured by the torrentsof the rainy has a depth of overeight hundred feet inplaces, and is wonder-fully impressive in itswild grandeur and abysmal solitude. ^^ ^^^ Borders of the Spindle Top Oil In western Texas, Field. 310 What to See in America and extending into New Mexico, is the region known asthe Staked Plain. It is the eastern part of what was for-merly designated the Great American Desert. The missionfathers who crossed this arid plain in their peregrinations
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