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Updated: June 2, 2025
The plants mentioned are not nearly as plentiful now as they once were. Because of the prolonged droughts that prevail in the range country and the overstocking of the range these plants are in danger of being exterminated and, if the conditions do not soon change, of becoming extinct. The saguaro, or giant cactus, is one of nature's rare and curious productions.
Of the cactus family, the most conspicuous is the saguaro, or giant cactus, which frequently attains the height of fifty feet. All the cacti are leafless and abundantly supplied with sharp, needle-like spines which protect them from herbivorous animals. The bark or outer covering has a firm, close texture that prevents the sap from evaporating during the long, dry season.
A strong wind blew scorching from the south the next day; Johnson turned aside from the sagebrush country to avoid the worst sand, and bent north to a long half-circle, through a country of giant saguaro and clumped yuccas; once they passed over a neck of lava hillocks thinly drifted over with sand.
"Go after him he dropped in the trail across the river near the first big saguaro." Belding began to swear as he fumbled with matches and the lamp; but as the light flared up he stopped short in the middle of a word. "You said you weren't hurt?" he demanded, in sharp anxiety, as he bent over Gale. "I'm only all in.... Will you go or send some one for the Yaqui?"
It is gathered by means of long forked sticks, for if it should drop to the ground it would be broken. The pulp of the stalk yields a little juice or sap which is used by the Indians when hard pressed for water. Scattered among the huge club-shaped columns of the saguaro is the cholla, the next largest of the cactuses.
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