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Updated: May 5, 2025
I reckon the old world is good enough to live in to work in; and certainly there are men in it who are better than I'm ever likely to be. I met one of them last winter out in the Carriso cow country; a 'Protestant' priest, he called himself, of your persuasion. He was the most hopeless bigot I've ever known, and by long odds the nearest masculine approach to true, gritty saintliness.
Tom Gordon, lately home from a full half-year spent in the unfettered solitudes of the Carriso iron fields, to be married first, and afterward to start up with Caleb for superintendent the idle Chiawassee plant as a test and experimental shop for American Aqueduct, was indemnifying himself for the long exile.
Along the line of the old Carriso Creek stage road from Yuma to Los Angeles, between Warner Pass and the mouth of Carriso Creek where it reaches the desert are several water holes where sheep have, up to 1897, at least, regularly watered during the dry season. "I have known of several being killed by stock men there during the past few years, by watching for them about the water.
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