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is that unmeasured distances are invariably 

 gauged by travelers in accordance with the 

 speed of their mounts. One riding a good 

 horse is certain to underestimate; one riding a 

 poor one as certain to overestimate. 



At length Hatch, a small village chiefly of 

 log and adobe buildings, was reached, and in 

 due course Panguitch, the county seat and chief 

 town of Garfield County, which, together with 

 Hatch, lies in the Panguitch Valley. This, like 

 the upper end of Long Valley, is situated at 

 too high an altitude for successful fruit culture 

 — or at least no fruit has yet been successfully 

 grown here — and the settlers devote their at- 

 tention to livestock. It is well watered, spread- 

 ing out into wide and fertile fields green with 

 alfalfa. 



South of Panguitch the country may be desig- 

 nated a log cabin region. Many of the cabins 

 of the first settlers still remain and are still oc- 

 cupied, though gradually, as prosperity comes, 

 the people are moving into small but more pre- 

 tentious homes. Panguitch has a population of 

 one thousand, and with its comfortable frame 

 and brick buildings, good stores, an ice-making 

 plant, and a really good little country hotel, the 

 people live with as much comfort and possess 

 as many of the conveniences of conventional 



