The Arizona sentinel., 1897-08-07
YUMA. ARIZONA SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1S97

surprising ny vision with Califor- ma wonders, and inhaling odor: from the flowers of hundred hill, and ss many wales for many weeks
 A trim brown blonded mare, { 450-pound top carriage, 8 box o axle grease, 6 few light tools IT case of emergency, Marlin repeat. ing rife with 400 rounds of an- intuition. two large grips contain ing changes of clothing, a jug Ot water, big, filled lunch-box-and we were off, .. c., your correspond ent and his better half.
 ILwas ten o'clock on q bright June morning when we bid adieU to friends. relned into the main thoroughfare leading westward, and away we sped. We started out with well-matured plans to reach specified points each day, carried no bedding, but instead, letters oi introduction to three ranchmen, about the only settlers along our route for one hundred miles, with whom we hoped to ind shelter on as many nights, or until We should cross the great divide. Ten miles out we left irrlgating ditches, green pastures, verdant meadows and golden orchards behind. Not a green thing in sight. Not verdant blade of grass. The flowers oi spring had passed to their reward This very ground which had been a-bloom with wild flowers in April did not seem to contain an essential element necessary for vegetable growth now, and yet it only lacked one .element-water.
 And it was through such dead gray, sterile section that we drove with clouds of dust following us for hours, and at four o'clock VIC refined in at headquarters ranch the distributing point of the mil lionaire stock-raisers, Messrs. Miller and Lux. What wonderful~trans- formation! And we are so quickly off the desert and in the midst oi green pastures and grain fields, and garden with such rank growth of onions and lettuce and beets and carrots as it has rarely been my privilege to look upon! But whence comes this water? No springs, nor lakes, nor rivers? Seven miles tC the southeast among the foothills is a basin, three sides of which were formed by nature and one by man. This great natural reservoir holds six and half billions of gallons oi water, qnd when the winter rains come it is filled and stored for the crops below, and it is then run oaI over the land as needed. It was the first water we had seen fol twenty miles. As we approached small chute, in a ditch not ten feet wide, putting out from the mair canal, 1 was attracted by splash ing. Alighting, l ran to the edge of the narrow channel, when sight such as I had never before seer met my gaze. The stream wa; literally alive with fish The pool things were shoaling, and were trying to get over the chute. The water fell about four feet, anC several large carp almost made the ascent.
 The banks of the stream were literally strewn with dead fish having Topped out of the water ant died This may seem a big 6st story to readers of the SENTINEL, bu IT vouch for the truthfulness O. every word. Tie mercury register ed 104 in the shade. What reliet and how comforting to get out O the blazing rays of the sunl
 In my next 1 will explain how business is conducted at the grea ranch of Miller and Lux as wei another days journey of 30 mile' without water, and of our stop and experience with Mexican sheeE herders. Respectfully
 E. ". HoAG.
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