THE DESERT AND THE ROSE 185 



small town outlook, shakes his head and proceeds 

 upon his way — his way being - the Borderland Route, 

 running from El Paso and past the Elephant Butte 

 Dam and so on and on. By this route pass numbers 

 of overland tourists, day by day, right through our 

 town. The eastern tourist's first cost is costly, if he 

 is to be caught and held month after month as that 

 other community holds him, but he pays — richly, 

 full measure running over. 



