"He still has the appropriation, or rather I'm supposed to have it with this ranch.

Because Menocal controls the Mexican vote hereabouts, which is about all the vote there is, why, nobody has ever disturbed him about that water right.

And he's using that water, belonging to me, to irrigate a lot of bottom farms along the river, for which no water can be appropriated, the Pinas not carrying enough.

I rode over one day and looked at those farms--all grain and alfalfa.

Well, he'll get this ranch back, anyway.