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to his team. Luncheon is spread on a table of velvety 

 softness, the thick carpeting of pine needles on the dry 

 earth. Two hours pass quickly and the journey is con- 

 tinued. The pictured rocks and fantastic shapes of the 

 next twenty miles entertain the traveler. The Indians, 

 father and son, carved high on the jagged face of an 

 immense granite cliff, the cow's head, the battleship and 

 the combat, a novel picture made by shadows, and ever- 

 changing, so engross the attention that the evening 

 camp is reached without weariness. This stop is about 

 forty miles from Gallup and is at a Jesuit mission in 

 a valley where there is water all the year. The priests 

 of the mission take the best care of the unknown guest. 

 Food and lodging are free, but a donation is a pleasure 

 to the traveler after he has been there a few hours and 

 observed the result of their labors. Early the next 

 morning the journey is continued. All the forenoon 

 is spent in climbing to the top of the divide between 

 Gallup and Ganado. There is an ever-changing pano- 

 rama behind one as successive heights are reached. The 

 morning sun sending long lance-like beams of light 



TRADING STORE OWNED BY LORENZO HUBBKLL. 

 KEAM'S CANYOM, ARIZONA. 



into the canyons brilliantly illuminating bold cliffs that 

 stand out in strong relief. At the summit the long 

 stretches of the descent come into view. The winding 

 way of the stream of living water that flows by Ganado 

 is seen as if but a few miles away, though thirty miles 

 distant. Many flocks of sheep and goats, the property 

 of the thrifty Navajo, are passed. The hogans (homes) 

 of the Indians and their summer villages are frequent. 

 Here much interest is excited, especially among the 

 children, who look for candy and stray coins of silver. 

 Toward evening Ganado comes into view. The large, 

 low, one-story store building of Mr. Hubbell, the ad- 

 joining buildings, the public well with its old-fashioned 

 bucket 8,nd pulley, the river and the ford make an im- 

 pressive scene that is not soon forgotten. 



However far you may travel you will never have 

 extended a more hearty welcome than at Ganado. 

 Whether friend or stranger, Mr. Hubbell will meet you 

 with the characteristic hospitality of the West, putting 

 at your disposal the best the place affords. You are at 

 home at once to enjoy the strangeness of the surround- 

 ings. In the evening the sun, slowly setting, lights up 

 the sky with a wealth of splendor unknown in lower 

 altitudes and denser air. The brilliant colors disappear 



as the night comes on with its entrancing charm, the 

 cool pure air, the brilliant moonshine. 



Ganado is famous for its Navajo products. Rugs, 

 blankets, portieres, sashes, kilts in the woven line, and 

 baskets, plaques, jewelry, Moqui and ancient pottery 

 comprise the stock in general. It is in the blanket 

 rooms that the visitor is delighted. The richness, 

 beauty and durability of the genuine Navajo blanket 

 have never been equaled by a native people anywhere in 

 the world. It is here only that the old native patterns 

 of these blankets can be seen, and here only that perfect 

 reproductions of them in weave, pattern and color, 

 woven and finished by the best native weavers, can be 

 bought. There are only a few weavers now living that 

 have sufficient skill to weave portieres in pairs where 

 design, color and proportion must be the same in each. 

 The passing of this skilled craft, one formerly very 

 necessary for the comfort of the tribe, adds an interest 

 to the strange beauty of the goods. 



Ganado is more than half way to the Mesa at 

 Walpi, where every other year that most peculiar of 

 all religious ceremonies, the snake dance, is held. The 

 way is pleasant, though a rather hard day's drive. At 

 Keams Canyon on the main road to Walpi", Mr. Hubbell 

 has a branch store dealing largely in Moqui goods. 

 Farther on the government schools and military post is 

 passed and late in the evening the Mesa at Walpi comes 

 into view. 



One who visits the snake dance at Walpi feels well 

 repaid for the long drive through the mountains. The 

 stops at the priests', Ganado and Keams Canyon, each 

 at the end of a day's drive, rests and refreshes one with 

 the comforts of civilization. 



After the return trip is finished and you are home 

 again it is to Ganado, the trading post in the heart of 

 the Navajo reservation, that your mind will oftenest 

 revert. You will never forget Mr. J. L. Hubbell, the 

 Indian trader, the greatest blanket man in all the West. 



RUFUS ELEY. 



IRRIGATION INVESTIGATIONS IN UTAH. 



The office of experiment stations of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture has just issued Bul- 

 letin No. 124, a report on the laws and customs under 

 which water is diverted, controlled, and used in irriga- 

 tion in Utah, prepared under the direction of Elwood 

 Mead, chief of irrigation investigations. The object 

 of the investigation is set out by Mr. R. P. Teele in the 

 opening paragraph of the report, as follows: 



"All the studies of irrigation lead to one conclu- 

 sion that some public control of the water supply is 

 necessary to the best use of the resources of an arid 

 country. In the very nature of things conflicts will 

 arise, and when they do arise some power beyond the 

 conflicting parties must come in to define their re- 

 spective rights. The most important question in irriga- 

 tion in this country is, Who shall be the arbiter when 

 such conflicts over water rights arise? Or, is it not 

 possible to create a system of water administration 

 which will anticipate such conflicts and render them 

 impossible? This report is a study of these questions 

 in the state of Utah. This state is not a new field, giv- 

 ing free opportunity for the creation of an ideal, but 

 one in which rights have become vested, customs have 

 grown up, and legal principles have become established. 

 It is, therefore, necessary to study the history of the 

 state in its dealings with water, both within and with- 



