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Nature has, to a great extent, indicated the laws of settlement that will dominate the territory. To the capitalist she has given the rich wool-growing slopes of the inland country, where the expenditure of money is necessary, in order that the full value may be reaped from the land leased; money expended in water-storage, that repays the owner in a hundred ways.
Children's Games How Moonlight Nights Are Enjoyed The Popularity of Baseball Among the Filipinos My Domestics Play the Game The Difficulty of Putting Out Fires Need of Water-Storage for the Dry Season Apathy of the Public at Fires Examples Showing the Loyalty and Devotion of Servants When Fires Occur.
Remnants of the walls still stand, and at one corner are fully ten feet high. About a mile below this fortress, were discovered two large native water-storage tanks or reservoirs, which, when cleaned out, were capable of holding many hundreds of gallons of water. Further down, on the plateaus beneath, several large pits for the cooking of mescal were discovered. Cooking of Mescal.
He pointed out to me that the climate was fine, and the land so fertile that with a proper system of irrigation and water-storage it could support tens of millions and feed not only itself but a great part of the outlying world. "But where are the people?" he asked.
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