Why, there's big sections they exhausted and left almost desert. The bonanza farmers are all gone now, thank the Lord, and here's where we small farmers come into our own. It won't be many years before the whole valley will be farmed in patches like mine. I was reading an account the other day. All life depends on food.
All food depends on water.
About a ton. Well, we've got the water, immense subterranean supplies, and in not many years this valley will be populated as thick as Belgium. Fascinated by the five-inch stream, sluiced out of the earth and back to the earth by the droning motor, he forgot his discourse and stood and gazed, rapt and unheeding, while his visitors drove on. They don't have to irrigate in the valley of the moon, unless for alfalfa and such crops. Billy took her up.