The daily sentinel., 1909-03-05

tofore.
On arriving in Pecos we were all
very sorry indeed to see Mr.. Barnes
carried OFF in their clutches. He had
made himself very agreeable to the
rest of us and we were extremely
sorry to lose him.
Here we took the Texas & Pacific
train after dinner and went east %
miles to Pyote. This was the end of
the railroad journey, and, really, we
were pretty tired of railroad trains
and railroad seats. Somebody said
the seats We're tired, too.
The party. now numbering six,
climbed into two hacks and started
at about 2:30 pm. for the lands.
After travelling 20 miles we got to
the attractive little irrigation town
of Grand Falls. We stopped for
few minutes rest and then drove on.
1t seems that there is a shorter
way to the lands than driving around
over what is called the iron bridge,
and Mr.. Harrison, who was plotting
us, decided to take the shorter route,
We were all rather tired and sleepy
and also our appetites had increased
tremendously and we were looking
forward with a great deal of pleasure
TO supper. THE Mexican driver of
the leading hack, who paid much
more attention to smoking his con-
tinuous cigarette than to driving.
drove us up over a bank and irriga-
tion ditch which succeeded in waking
up Mr.. Walters. who with great
deal of ease and grace stepped out
onto the land. However. he climbed
in again and we continued to the
river bank. 1t was very early in the
evening and the moon had not yet
come up. Stopping on the edge of
the river bank and looking down on
the water by the light of few stars
it looked to be n long way down and
we all had rather queer sensation
where our suppers should have been.
The house itself was about three or
four miles on the other side of the
river and we were all very grateful
to get there and find an exceedingly
good meal. After supper we were
ready to turn in and going over to
the large tent provided for the Of
ficers of the company and the men
who come down to look over our
lands. we found the very best of beds,
having good springs and thick mat
tresses.
Friday morning we all started out
and Immediately after breakfast
drove over the lands. We found the
entire country here covered with
growth of Texas mesquite bush. In
this locality the largest bush grows
to be or feet high and there are
many smaller ones which would
hardly come up to the knee. We saw
the larger part of the land shown on
the map in the advertisements Some
of this land was of a very light choc-
olate but the land that we all liked
most was the dark chocolate, sandy
loan
On arriving al the boundary be
tween section 10 and section T., we
all decided that this was the place
for us. Everybody got out and pick
ed his land. here really was very
little choice excepting that some of
the men wanted to be adjoining each
other. This part of the tract we
named Pecos Palisade. and after get
ting sack full of soil to take back
for a sample we drove on.
Farther down on the lands we
stopped to eat the lunch which MIR.
Merrill, the field manager. had pro-
vided and by this time we had de-
veloped a big appetite. 'ihat night
we got back to camp about o'clock,
all feeling very tired and sleepy.
The next morning, Saturday. we
started out to look over the water
proposition. First we went to the
construction camp and from there we
drove directly up the main canal into
the reservoir. Here we all got out