Helping the Indian [Walker Lake Reservation, Nevada] (5 pages)

SUNSET, the Pacific Monthly + ly strong. Still, Snow made enough oj of the sixty rented acres to buy then at low-water, shifting-channel price Thereafter he continued to buy. of the landowners were anxious to They did not believe that the Rio Gra would ever become a docile, henpecke river; Snow knew it would. He bac his faith with his signature on numero notes given in payment for land, 2 whatever he bought he put into alfal at the earliest moment. eastern Texas, Louisiana and northé Mexico discovered the peculiar vi of alfalfa hay; they found that a ton alfalfa would get more work out of mule, more por: out of a cow than a ton of timothy. the cotton growers and the dairyn began to buy more and more alfa The Rio Grande valle hay into the cotton di and Louisiana, into the mining regi of Chihuahua at a frei ht cost of $3 to $6 a ton; districts north had to pay from $6 to $9 frei alfalfa trade cinched. The price to $12, $14, even to $18 a ton and s¢ there. Since baled alfalfa could be livered at the sidetrack for about $ ton, and since five tons was a fair aver About twelve years ago central out of a pig, more could aun stricts of arther west 3 erton. The Rio Grande valley had ace with the increasing demand, cli crop, an acre of alfalfa yielded a income of $45 to $65. Snow by-and had a thousand alfalfa acres working him. Most of the land was bought him during the lean lottery years for than a single year’s profit under the dispensation. e is wealthy now bank director, motor Owner, capit officer in the water users’ associa But he does not employ a valet af rivate secretary. I found him to hey sacks of Spanish beans upon scales, weighing them out in Spanis a swarthy customer. There are a good many swarthy la ers and landowners in the Rio ‘valley. They were there first, cent before the coming of the first Ame settler. President Lafayette Clapp ¢ Las Cruces Water Geers Associ sends out a monthly report to the thousand members. A thousand are printed in English; another tho in Spanish. Most of the old lands 1 the community ditches that relied the river’s undomesticated, errati¢ were farmed by Mexicans when theq — : Summer there now ft LI Voyago delightful via Honolala and Samos. Splendid 10,000 ton, twin-serew American stenmers every 21 days frum San Francisco (Nov. 16, Dee. 7,28. January 18, ete.) Return Ist class, $337.50; 2nd class, $2253 including Chins and Japan, Ist class, $5755 to Honolulu, $65. H. E. BURNETT, 17 Battery Place, New York, or OCEANIO S. 8. co., 675 Market St., S. F., Cal, Y DN EY SHORT LINE HOTEL .PLAZA POST AND STOCKTON STS. SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL PLAZA co. Hotel Stewart SAN FRANCISCO Geary Street just off Union Square European Plan $1.50 a day upward Breakfast 50c Luncheon 50c Dinner $1.00 Most famous meals in United States WE ARE LOOKING FOR in the United States criptions and take ral commission. PT. SUNSET FRANCISCO agents in every city to secure new subs care of renewals. Libe CIRCULATION DE! MAGAZINE, SAN ect was started. Las Cruces, Rincon were pure Spanish-Amé towns in those days. Rin-dried covered with plaster constituted buildin material, and long spou “jected om the flat roofs to keef walls from melting during the 2 When the Reclamation Service t survey the farm lands under the ¢ old ditches, it gave UP in despair. was not a single corner to begin not one straight, unbroken ue had ever been run. The ind farms had most unusual shapes an was not a valid, legal descript identify one of the twelve t miniature holdings. What was to be done? The I: to be surveyed in order to establi water-rights and to determine t of the cost each parcel was to

SUNSET, the Pacific Monthly + ly strong. Still, Snow made enough oj of the sixty rented acres to buy then at low-water, shifting-channel price Thereafter he continued to buy. of the landowners were anxious to They did not believe that the Rio Gra would ever become a docile, henpecke river; Snow knew it would. He bac his faith with his signature on numero notes given in payment for land, 2 whatever he bought he put into alfal at the earliest moment. eastern Texas, Louisiana and northé Mexico discovered the peculiar vi of alfalfa hay; they found that a ton alfalfa would get more work out of mule, more por: out of a cow than a ton of timothy. the cotton growers and the dairyn began to buy more and more alfa The Rio Grande valle hay into the cotton di and Louisiana, into the mining regi of Chihuahua at a frei ht cost of $3 to $6 a ton; districts north had to pay from $6 to $9 frei alfalfa trade cinched. The price to $12, $14, even to $18 a ton and s¢ there. Since baled alfalfa could be livered at the sidetrack for about $ ton, and since five tons was a fair aver About twelve years ago central out of a pig, more could aun stricts of arther west 3 erton. The Rio Grande valley had ace with the increasing demand, cli crop, an acre of alfalfa yielded a income of $45 to $65. Snow by-and had a thousand alfalfa acres working him. Most of the land was bought him during the lean lottery years for than a single year’s profit under the dispensation. e is wealthy now bank director, motor Owner, capit officer in the water users’ associa But he does not employ a valet af rivate secretary. I found him to hey sacks of Spanish beans upon scales, weighing them out in Spanis a swarthy customer. There are a good many swarthy la ers and landowners in the Rio ‘valley. They were there first, cent before the coming of the first Ame settler. President Lafayette Clapp ¢ Las Cruces Water Geers Associ sends out a monthly report to the

thousand members. A thousand are printed in English; another tho in Spanish. Most of the old lands 1 the community ditches that relied the river’s undomesticated, errati¢ were farmed by Mexicans when theq — : Summer there now ft LI Voyago delightful via Honolala and Samos. Splendid 10,000 ton, twin-serew American stenmers every 21 days frum San Francisco (Nov. 16, Dee. 7,28. January 18, ete.) Return Ist class, $337.50; 2nd class, $2253 including Chins and Japan, Ist class, $5755 to Honolulu, $65. H. E. BURNETT, 17 Battery Place, New York, or OCEANIO S. 8. co., 675 Market St., S. F., Cal, Y DN EY SHORT LINE HOTEL .PLAZA POST AND STOCKTON STS. SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL PLAZA co. Hotel Stewart SAN FRANCISCO Geary Street just off Union Square European Plan $1.50 a day upward Breakfast 50c Luncheon 50c Dinner $1.00 Most famous meals in United States WE ARE LOOKING FOR in the United States criptions and take ral commission. PT.. SUNSET FRANCISCO agents in every city to secure new subs care of renewals. Libe CIRCULATION DE! MAGAZINE, SAN ect was started. Las Cruces, Rincon were pure Spanish-Amé towns in those days. Rin-dried covered with plaster constituted buildin material, and long spou “jected om the flat roofs to keef walls from melting during the 2 When the Reclamation Service t survey the farm lands under the ¢ old ditches, it gave UP in despair. was not a single corner to begin not one straight, unbroken ue had ever been run. The ind farms had most unusual shapes an was not a valid, legal descript identify one of the twelve t miniature holdings. What was to be done? The I: to be surveyed in order to establi water-rights and to determine t of the cost each parcel was to