By using the water of this stream during the flood season, a period of some weeks in spring and early summer, Bryant would be able very considerably to augment the supply from the Pinas.

It was necessary to join the two sources in a unified system of laterals that would efficiently serve the tract; and therefore the whole enterprise required study, innumerable measurements, calculations of dirt moving, of water distribution, of dam, weir, and gate construction, of soil analysis--a cooerdination of the thousand and one matters concerned in an irrigation project that are preliminary to breaking ground.

So early and late he toiled, and with him Dave Morris.
The boy indeed did enough for a man.

And Bryant would sometimes arise from his drawing board where he worked after supper until midnight, to go and affectionately gaze at Dave sleeping the sleep of exhaustion.
One afternoon, when the pair were at work near the southern boundary of the ranch, Ruth Gardner came through the sagebrush to the spot, a mile from Sarita Creek.
"I could see you, just black specks, from our cabins; and since you don't visit us, I made up my mind to visit you," she announced.

"I've noticed you down here for two days past.