CHAPTER X 



GOOD-BYE TO ARIZONA 



TEN miles northwest of Tuba is Willow 

 Spring. Between Tuba and Willow 

 Spring is Lee's Ranch, the former home 

 of the renegade Lee, and just beyond is Moen 

 Ave. At all of these places springs gush out 

 of the cliffs. A missionary resides at Lee's 

 Ranch, and Navajo Indians have small, poorly 

 cared for gardens at Moen Ave. Willow 

 Spring is the last of the series of oases border- 

 ing upon Tuba and the Moen Copie in the 

 northerly course that we were to follow. Be- 

 yond are the Cottonwood tanks, McClellan 

 tanks, and Limestone tanks, cavities in rocks at 

 the foot of canons that catch and hold rain 

 water. Sometimes after long dry periods some 

 or all of these tanks are empty, as water evap- 

 orates quickly here. Always the water to be 

 found in them is stale. 



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