Identifier: highwaysbywaysof00johnson (find matches)
Title: Highways and byways of the Pacific coast
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, macmillan and co., limited
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ith a muddy flow of water, and it was this waterwhich was to make the dead desert a land of plenty. The town had started in the sagebrush and withinabout a twelve-month had grown from nothing to a placeof over one thousand inhabitants. The man who hadbeen there a full year was an old settler—a pioneer.This was to be the metropolis of the irrigated country,and it already had some substantial buildings, and theplace resounded with the blows of hammers and theclink of trowels. As a whole, small structures werethe predominant ones, and shanty houses, often scarcelylarger than a good-sized dry-goods box, were common.Some people were dwelling in tents, or in the upperportion of a covered wagon that had been lifted offthe wheels and set on the ground. There was much coming and going of teams on thedusty highways, trade was lively in the numerousstores, and some business seemed to be doing in thetwo diminutive wooden banks. One corner in theheart of the town was being utilized at the time I
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A Jack rabbit in sight The Niagara of the West 307 arrived as a horse mart. Of the creatures exhibitedI observed especially a pair of large handsome horseshitched at the borders of the board walk. They werein charge of a peaked little man in shirt sleeves whohovered about proclaiming their merits, and, betweenwhiles, expectorating tobacco juice. His favorite claimwith regard to his team was: There aint nopimples on em anywhere. Theyre good sound horses,one of the finest driving teams in this country. It aintoften you get two such as these. What price do you hold em for V someone asks. Three hundred and a quarter, is the reply. Nowaint they the prettiest things you ever laid your eyeson ? Theyre a well-bred team and just as kind—why!Ive gone out to the barn and found my little boys onthem horses backs and wallowing all over em andnever getting harmed a mite. It would cost a good deal to take care of em,said the prospective customer. Feed is pretty ex-pensive. They aint heavy eaters,

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