Menocal, who owned it and deeded it to me, pretends he isn't responsible for what the man said.

Five dollars an acre! It's worth about fifty cents for winter range, and no more." "If it could be irrigated, it would be a bargain sure enough at five dollars," Lee stated.

"And there's another water right for the place you said when I was here before." "Yes, there is--on paper.

Water was appropriated out of the Pinas River, but that's eight miles north of here, and it would cost a hundred thousand dollars, if not more, to build a dam and a canal along the mountain side.

No, sir; that appropriation was just some more of Menocal's tricky work! He jammed it through the land office thirty years ago and, they say, never did any more to comply with the law requiring delivery of the water on this ground than to have a man drive around pouring a bucketful out of a barrel upon each quarter section." "Some pretty shady transactions were put across in those early days," Bryant commented.
"Well, ain't matters just as bad now ?" Stevenson asked, quickly.