Highways and byways of the Pacific coast . time, and if you want to succeedyou havent hardly got time to talk to anyone. Evenan industrious man dont find it all straight region is naturally kind of a desert. Just now fora few years were havin rain, and everythin is greenand flourishin. You couldnt have better pasturage,and we dont have to feed our stock anything in addi-tion to what they pick up themselves, the year before this wet spell there was eleven years we onlyhad one good rain. The streams went dry, the wellswent dry, and the feed all shrivelled up in the pastur
Highways and byways of the Pacific coast . time, and if you want to succeedyou havent hardly got time to talk to anyone. Evenan industrious man dont find it all straight region is naturally kind of a desert. Just now fora few years were havin rain, and everythin is greenand flourishin. You couldnt have better pasturage,and we dont have to feed our stock anything in addi-tion to what they pick up themselves, the year before this wet spell there was eleven years we onlyhad one good rain. The streams went dry, the wellswent dry, and the feed all shrivelled up in the , we had to give the stock cactus to eat. Wed makea quick brush fire and take the cactus and singe offthe thorns, and that singed cactus was what the cattlelived on. I sold most of my cows at ten dollars apiecethe feed got so scanty. Another thing weve found out is that we cantraise fruit in this neighborhood. The trees will dowell for three or four years; but see here, and withhis post he thumped some clay laid bare in a washed-out. The launching of the ship On the Borders of Mexico 37 gully, under the surface soil a foot or two is this oldadobe, and its got alkali in it. Thats the boy thatruins the fruit trees. The roots, as soon as they strikeit, crumple up, and your trees begin to croak and dontflourish any more. But the situation is like this—a man who comes hereand works hard and uses some common sense andadapts himself to the country will prosper. One day Iwas callin on a genoowine old Dutchman who is livina few miles away. *Vell, he says, *dis desert doeslook fine when it rains. Hes got about sixteen children, and you mightthink hed have trouble supportin em. I mentionedsomething of the sort, but he repHed, I make a livinghere, and he gave a big wink and then said, *and Imakit one dollar besides. So can other people. It was a half-clouded morning, and the weather wasreminiscent of a sultry day in June at home. Theheat was full of moist, growing power, and the pa
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