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grasses, having been depleted by the starving cattle, were no longer 

 able to withstand the rush of the floods, and the gullying process 

 began on a large scale through the very heart of what were form- 

 erly the most luxuriantly grassy regions of the country. When 

 these channels are once established through a given district, the 

 water is thereafter destined to flow through them, no longer 



Pig- 3- 



THE RUIN OF AN INDUSTRY— & familiar sight on depleted 

 ranges, especially after a hard year. 



spreading out over the level bottoms and no longer being avail- 

 able for the growth of the bunch grasses which formerly throve 

 in these situations. In this way, when a valley has once been so 

 gullied as to carry the water in streams, instead of spreading it out 

 in broad floods, the very existence of the richest grazing districts 

 is rendered impossible. A striking instance of this process of ruin 



