Show the old settler my aly deir dear san sall these thin thins things s do abt astonish fisli 1 me ile ani when I 1 cor sider hide the lux 1 1 of thousands of people ido alo are arc maintaining es III oui ul sagebrush bet be t and in ill our sand hills hill and more especially the many wiio are making a life of it beyond the river on land which we ve thought was worthies I 1 1 have I ave no words to express my avondet ment at the unpredictable course of human events I 1 had foreseen in a measure that san juan would be peopled bea before 14 re with farms and villages in its wide stretches of prairie land and sand and I 1 was not much startled to see people living all over dt daiy diy y valley inith ith rooms cut nit ml church rock ard and ot er cr rocks i where they were livili living alilce antil in a hila ln la 11 but when I 1 got ot over at ai thompsons Thomp sons arid and the reg regions lons west of il there ere I 1 ws flabbergasted flabbergast d at it the extent and the matute of tile ilie homes and improvements I 1 have been speculating on an how ion long it would have taken our old settlers settlers in san juan to find out anat this once worthless worthies i land is really good cod for and liow to use it to advantage e it would have taken centuries but when these newcomers were bombed cut of their I 1 homes and possessions in the east cast and especially when atiat swarm sward of refu refugees ees broke out of bandage beyond the atlantic and came in I 1 a starving horde to our mountains I 1 they simply had to devise a way of 01 digging a living out of the soil boil or quit livi livans anz alac altogether ether they answered tl ti air di desperate espe rafe necessity I 1 by doing what wo we never would haddi lone done unless we too were compelled for cur very lives to look to the overcrowded earth for something to eat cat we come came down in the rond hy by orte one of those farmers wet west of thompsons Thomp sons and asked him about his operations I 1 told him that for 75 years I 1 had ridden oer that country and considered it worth absolutely nothing let me tell you old man I 1 e I 1 asserted ith spirit the great creator make any country worthless country just be because calle men are too stupid dand and ignorant to know what the land is for is no reason rea son that the maker thereof should be insulted by tile the insinuation that ile he is a poor wor workman kinan anti and has failed in some of his undertakings I 1 der takings I 1 ALBERT AILBERT R LYMAN |