What to see in America . in the shade. The greatdeserts of Arizona and the adjacent states offer little toattract settlers, and the pioneers of a few years ago regardedthem with fear as places of desolation and death, yet thesenow serve as pastures at the rate of one or two square milesfor each cow. Wild life is more abundant on the desert thanyou might fancy, but the animals are small and not often insight. INIost of them are nocturnal. Large colonies of ratslive in the sandy areas; and various lizards and the boldlittle horned toad are numerous. In places the species ofrattlesnake known as s
What to see in America . in the shade. The greatdeserts of Arizona and the adjacent states offer little toattract settlers, and the pioneers of a few years ago regardedthem with fear as places of desolation and death, yet thesenow serve as pastures at the rate of one or two square milesfor each cow. Wild life is more abundant on the desert thanyou might fancy, but the animals are small and not often insight. INIost of them are nocturnal. Large colonies of ratslive in the sandy areas; and various lizards and the boldlittle horned toad are numerous. In places the species ofrattlesnake known as sidewinder is found. The namerefers to the creatures sidelong method of roam widelyover the desert, and theirempty shells are a com-mon sight. iNIost of thesetortoises are about teninches long. They aregenerally found far fromwater holes, and it is amarvel that they canobtain water enough tokeep them alive. By means of vast irri-gation projects the gov-ernment is making muchof the once arid worth- Iim. 440 What to See in America
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