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Show The Great Southwest. In the great arid regions, a fall of rain was the most unusual thing in the world. Some places have gone 20 years without a drop; though that, Indeed, In-deed, is the exception. Yet when one of these rare wet spells came, all sorts of unexpected flowers and plants sprung up from the soil. Their seed had lain dormant awaiting the favorable favor-able moment. And they throve most wonderfully. In other sections, where the cattle ranged, other men had discovered dis-covered that the most unpromising looking soil turned out very fertile when Irrigated. I remember, myself, hunting quail 20 years ago over a dry "wash" on the plains below a canon. Apparently it consisted exclusively of gravel and big stones. I should cot have thought it would grow horned loads. Two years ago I visited the ' jlace. Water had been led to this nibble heap, and on it was one of the Jnest orange groves I have ever seen. Stewart Edward White, In Country Ufe in America. |