TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 203 



Some Outing and Other Reminiscenses 

 of Bygone Days 



In traveling along the fine 

 macadam touring route leading 

 to the famous Terrell Wells 

 Health Resort, and passing fur- 

 ther south, along picturesque 

 farms, country sceneries and 

 hilly regions, one comes to a 



they involuntarily remind us of 

 Indian villages in the days of 

 Custer, only that, instead of be- 

 ing made of buffalo skins, the 

 roofs are covered with modern 

 tin sheets; and these small huts 

 are seen scattered all around 



Tin Roof Hut or Mexican Laborers in Jungle Around Mitchell's Lake 



quite recently wire-fenced en- 

 closure of a swampy Tule lake, 

 which is just now, in April, 19l6, 

 surrounded by numbers of queer 

 and picturesque Mexican huts, 

 which the Mexican laborers had 

 built for the purpose of dwell- 

 ing there during the clearing of 

 the iungles and converting the 

 land into fertile fields, and their 

 appearance is so unique that 



the brush. They are very prac- 

 tically arranged, and are easily 

 removable from one region of 

 the cleared brush and mesquite 

 trees to other points of the wild 

 pastures there. This fenced-up 

 swamp extends on both sides of 

 the road, with a fine new water 

 tank on the western side of the 

 road, and is a separate walled-up 

 portion of the Southwestern outlet 



