OTHER WATER BORDERS 



IT is the proper destiny of every consid- 

 erable stream in the west to become an 

 irrigating ditch. It would seem the streams 

 are willing. They go as far as they can, 

 or dare, toward the tillable lands in their 

 own boulder fenced gullies but how 

 much farther in the man-made waterways. 

 It is difficult to come into intimate relations 

 with appropriated waters ; like very busy 

 people they have no time to reveal them- 

 selves. One needs to have known an irri- 

 gating ditch when it was a brook, and to 

 have lived by it, to mark the morning and 

 evening tone of its crooning, rising and 

 falling to the excess of snow water ; to have 

 watched far across the valley, south to the 

 Eclipse and north to the Twisted Dyke, 

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