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They observed it overflowing its banks for miles and irrigatin extensive and fertile plains to the depth of several feet, and saw reason to believe that this river, which flows westerly from the interior, may be navigated at least one thousand miles from the sea. As Dr.
You see I was kind of figurin' somethin' like this when I first come to this here place 'way back when I met you that evenin'. Says I to meself, 'a fella couldn't even raise robins on this here farm, but from the looks of that water-hole he could raise water, and folks sure got to have water in this country. I was thinkin' of irrigatin' and raisin' alfalfa and veg'tables, but fifty a month sounds good to me.
Will you show me, please? I want to see her alone." Lysander bent his tall figure and moved along the rows of orange-trees, until he caught a glimpse of Melissa's blue drapery. "She's right down there," he said, pointing between the smooth trunks with his hoe. "It's rough walkin', I've just been a-throwin' up a furrow fer the irrigatin'; but I guess you c'n make it."
In days of her youth and beauty this had been very effective, but now that these had passed, it was productive only of good-humored raillery from him, and mirth from the bystanders. "No wonder Jim has the finest ranch in Arizony," the cowboys were wont to say, "with Josephine a irrigatin' it all the time." Allen Hacienda was certainly a garden spot in that desert country.
"For the posies are a-bloomin' and the mockin'-birds are matin', And somewhere in Arizona there's a Chola girl a-waitin' For to cook them enchiladas while I do the irrigatin' On me little desert homestead over there. "While I'm ridin' slow and easy . . ." "Whoa! Wonder what that is? Never seen one of them things before. 'T ain't a lizard, but he looks like his pa was a lizard.
"Irrigatin', huh?" said Mark, abstractedly, moving his finger down the column of names. "He makes a blind of buyin' up cattle and fattenin' 'em on the hay and alfalfer he's raisin' up there on my good land, but he's the king-pin of the rustlers in this corner of the state. He'll be in here tomorrow with cattle for the Indian agent it's beef day and you can size him up.
East and west, north and south, he was known for a kindly nature, and kindly actions. These things, and for a devotion to prospecting for gold in what were generally considered to be the most unlikely places. "Right? Why o' course I'm right. Ef you'se folk jest got busy around here, we'd make Barnriff hum an elegant toon. Say, now I got a dandy scheme fer irrigatin' that land back there " "Yep.
"There warn't a spot on the place that Martin might not go to diggin' or plowin' up sometime. He might even 'a' dug round the roots of the linden for somethin'. Ain't he always fertilizin' an' irrigatin'? I didn't dare leave the bag there. If he'd 'a' gone stickin' a pick or a shovel into it sudden " "I see," interrupted Eliza. "'Twas stupid of me not to understand before.
He hires a good crew at topnotch wages, and puts in his time plannin' irrigatin' ditches, experimentin' with fertilizers, doin' the seed testin', and readin' government reports; even has a farm bookkeeper. Then when cold weather comes, instead of turnin' off his help, he springs his side line, maybe workin' up the wood lot into shippin' crates, or developin' a stone quarry.
"I always suspected that Jackson was playin' us about that red-haired cousin," said Rice two weeks later; "but I can't swallow that purp stuff about her puttin' him up to that dodge about a new gold discovery on a fresh claim, just to knock out Brown. No, sir. He found that gold in openin' these irrigatin' trenches, the usual nigger luck, findin' what you're not lookin' arter."
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