OTHER WATER BORDERS 



the shining wall of the village water gate ; 

 to see still blue herons stalking the little 

 glinting weirs across the field. 



Perhaps to get into the mood of the 

 .waterways one needs to have seen old 



/Amos Judson asquat on the headgate with 

 his gun, guarding his water-right toward 



\the end of a dry summer./ Amos owned 

 the half of Tule Creek and the other half 

 pertained to the neighboring Greenfields 

 ranch. Years of a " short water crop," that 

 IS, when too little snow fell on the high 

 pine ridges, or, falling, melted too early, 

 ^mos held that it took all the water that 

 came down to make his half, and maintained 

 it with a Winchester and a deadly aim.J) 

 Jesus Montafia, first proprietor of Green- 

 fields, — you can see at once that Judson 

 had the racial advantage, — contesting the 

 right with him, walked into five of Judson's 

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