ca has never seen before.

I thought I knew something of my own country and something of the
possibilities of land available for cattle production, but seeing your
ranges has been a revelation. They are off the track of the tourist.
There is sparse settlement, and they are known to very few. In fact,
they might be, in a sense, called a hidden country, but the whole of
America is interested in everything that offers a good agricultural or
stock-raising possibility, and when our boys come back, not only the
boys of the South, but the boys of America are going to investigate your
properties.

I promised to come back to water development. Practically every question
that I have asked in the main about water has been covered by the reply,
"Water everywhere." Much of your area is watered by rivers and lakes,
and where good surface water is not easily available for stock, your
well water is so easily obtainable and at such small investment you can
afford to have it every two miles over the entire country.

I am told that the windmill will furnish ample production, and at that
narrow depth the light mills, which go well in a light wind, are
available. We have found it very valuable, however, to use the one and a
half horsepower gasoline engines, and from that pumping supply as our
live stock demanded, because you must keep water constantly before the
cattle. Cattle become accustomed to watering at one place, and if there
is no water they will stand around and wait for the mill to pump.

Without attempting to go into details, you should have a proper water
storage at each mill. It is small expense, and with a storage tank and a
windmill it would be cheaper than a gasoline engine.

It is always customary in our country to put salt around the water
holes. I find, as a proposition, your cattle do not have salt at all,
and it is very much needed in their development. Over some areas there
is no lime, and there it would probably be wise to combine salt and
lime, which can be very easily done by using a compressed cake, not rock
salt. It may take these primitive cattle some time to learn how to lick
the salt, but the next generation will be there all right, and it will
have its influence in their development.

It is my observation that under a proper development of water, a fenced
area and proper subdivision fences permitting the protection of one
pasture for winter purposes, forcing the cattle out in summer upon areas
best adapt