Southern California; . threshing was accomplished. The winnowing waseffected by selecting a windy day and throwing thewheat and chaff into the air, thus allowing the latter toblow away. In addition to the grain growing and raising ofdeciduous fruits there are large flocks of sheep and herdsof cattle roaming the hills and the borders of the SanJacinto Valley. Higher in the mountains grow the pinewoods in such considerable forests that lumbering iscarried on extensively. Here also is a favorite resort,Strawberry Valley, where people from all over the. ^^^?^.M heated lowlands .repair during thesu
Southern California; . threshing was accomplished. The winnowing waseffected by selecting a windy day and throwing thewheat and chaff into the air, thus allowing the latter toblow away. In addition to the grain growing and raising ofdeciduous fruits there are large flocks of sheep and herdsof cattle roaming the hills and the borders of the SanJacinto Valley. Higher in the mountains grow the pinewoods in such considerable forests that lumbering iscarried on extensively. Here also is a favorite resort,Strawberry Valley, where people from all over the. ^^^?^.M heated lowlands .repair during thesummer months to ^enjoy the freedomof forest life. A few miles i!^east of San Jacintolies the quaint little Indian village of Sobobo. The road to the settlementtraverses the bed of the San Jacinto River, which, infact, is normally no river at all but a wide level trenchof gravel bordered with willows and cottonwoods, andwith clusters of wild verbena growing in the sandy lark finch sings his little ditty by the roadside andthe pallid horned toad, which is really a broad flat lizardwith curious excrescences on its head and back, scram-Ijles over the sand and stones. The range of mountainslying to the north of the river bed, is dark and barrenlooking ; in the twilight it seems like a huge pile of ironrolled and molded into a vast heap. Off to the eastMount San Jacinto lifts its mighty bulk to an elevationof over eleven thousand feet, topped with snow andpine-clad upon its higher slopes, the great forests show-ing diml}^ from the valley
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