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Show WHERE THEY BUILD FENCES j ACROSS ROADS. 1 Tho roads of Arizona dlscloso one ' most peculiar habit The." change their location so frequently that they may well be called nomadic One day 1 the track may be straight; the next, it runs Into a new wire fence. Tno traveler mu3t turn at right angles and skirt the fence for a mile or two until the newly inclosed pasture is circumvented circum-vented In so dry and sparsely settled set-tled a country the counties cannot afford to maintain many roads. Ac-cordlnglv Ac-cordlnglv roads Just grow. If the man whose land they cross happens to want to fence in 200 or 300 acres, i he does so, and says nothing. The first that the public knows about It may be when an automobile, dashing along at night, suddenly runs into the wire and is smashed to pieces. After , talking with a man who was in tho '. back seat whon a reckless driver who , was actually beheaded In this way, I and who on another occasion was 6av- cd from a similar fate only by the i catching of the barbed wire, on tho i rods of the windshield. I was gglad . that It was not our habit to toko chances by riding fast at nlghL It 1 seems strange to an easterner that i there should be no redress under such ; circumstances, but In Arizona a man i has a right to fence his land, and that ends tie matter. The fences always i Irritated me. Not that I mind a fresh i tear In my coat every time I went through a fence to look at the potsherds pots-herds of an ancient village, but I always al-ways wanted to cut the wire and take my horso through when I was on horseback That will not do, however, how-ever, even though one carries wire ' and pretends to mend a break. The ! fence in this country Is a sacred Institution, In-stitution, and to cut It is a grave of- i fense. Why should it not be sacred? In many cases It 16 actually worth 1 more tnan the land which It sur- rounds. Land Is chonp, only $1 or S2 an acre In many places', while fences cost work and cash. Ellsworth Huntington, Hunt-ington, In Harper's Magazine, |