Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . nt desired. What a country for stock, .said the Colonel, meditatively, as he lookedout of the window where the high level plain—or Llano Alto, as the Mexi-cans call it—grown thick with its peculiar herbage, but looking dry andbarren in places, was inanimate except for here and there a herd of cattle. 09 70 THROUGH STORVLAND TO SUNSET SEAS. Water willmake it bloomas the rose. The aridregions oiAmerica. through here. Two milli(Mi of our young ||ijority every year. They want homes of
Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . nt desired. What a country for stock, .said the Colonel, meditatively, as he lookedout of the window where the high level plain—or Llano Alto, as the Mexi-cans call it—grown thick with its peculiar herbage, but looking dry andbarren in places, was inanimate except for here and there a herd of cattle. 09 70 THROUGH STORVLAND TO SUNSET SEAS. Water willmake it bloomas the rose. The aridregions oiAmerica. through here. Two milli(Mi of our young ||ijority every year. They want homes of ? With water it will bloom as the rose, replied the Growler, and someday there will be great farms all thimen and women reach their maj(their own. The naturally watered lands will soon be exhausted, or too highfor struggling industry to acquire. In California, in Utah and in Arizonawe have seen the desert converted into a garden by artificial application ofwater. It will be so here. Few people really realize how great is the scopeof arid country in the UnitedStates. I will confess 1do not, I said. ^^ K. MISSIONS NEAR SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS • ??*. ^ .r^ **^*^^ It is half the whole country.• Not so much asthat, surely, I an-swered, in surprise. Yes, said the Growler,it is really half of allAmerica, excepting Alaska. It can be defined in this way: If you com-mence on the ninety-seventh meridian, on the west end of the Gulf ofMexico, and run north to the British Possessions, then run a thousand mileswest to the one hundred and fifteenth meridian, at the east line of Idaho,dropping down one hundred miles, then run west to the top of the CascadeMountains, in Washington, one hundred miles from the Pacific coast ; thenturning south, run along the top of the Cascade Mountains until you get jforty miles below San Francisco, then turn west and run to the Pacific coast jand follow that coast down to Old Mexico, then turning follow along the jnorth line of Old Mexico down the Rio Grande
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