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ice very good indeed as to quantity. Charley's 

 clientele was typically Southwestern, and 

 seated about the tables were Mexicans, cow- 

 punchers, wool freighters, and ranchmen. 



Holbrook is the county seat of Navajo county, 

 and though its population is but five hundred, 

 it is a town of considerable importance. As 

 towns go, in this thinly settled section of the 

 territory, it holds a position here similar to that 

 of a city of a hundred thousand people in our 

 more thickly populated East. Winslow, on the 

 western border of the county, with a population 

 of two thousand, is the largest town in the 

 county, and the only one that exceeds Holbrook 

 in size. Large railroad shops are situated at 

 Winslow, however, and a considerable propor- 

 tion of its inhabitants are men employed in the 

 shops and their families, and they are not, there- 

 fore, as are the people of Holbrook, perma- 

 nent residents. The entire population of 

 Navajo county, including Mexicans and a good 

 many Indians, is somewhat less than ten thou- 

 sand, and its area is considerably greater than 

 the combined areas of the States of Massachu- 

 setts and Rhode Island. 



Holbrook is the center of an extensive cattle 

 and sheep country. Great cattle and sheep 

 ranges lie contiguous to it, stretching over 



