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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Harry A. Lawton 



PRIMITIVE WATER-CARTS IX USE ALONG THE MEXICAN BORDER 



Tn some portions of Mexico the maximum rainfall approaches world records, but in the 

 north, along the border, water rights are at a premium. Feuds, accompanied by the use of 

 dynamite in diverting irrigation channels, have occurred in the cotton-growing lands of 

 Lower California and Sonora. In many cases the supply of water permitted to flow through 

 the irrigation ditches is calculated down to the very minutes per month. 



300 square miles ; but by an international 

 agreement a part of tbe water goes to 

 irrigate land in Mexico. 



Fort Bliss, one of our largest perma- 

 nent military barracks, is built just out- 

 side El Paso. 



JUAREZ, A CITY KNOWN CHIEFLY FOR ITS 

 BATTLES AND GAY AMERICAN TOURISTS 



Juarez. El Paso's sister city across the 

 Rio Grande, like mo>t Mexican border 



towns, is known chiefly because of its 

 pitched battles and its bizarre methods of 

 entertaining sporty American visitors. 

 Whatever it enjoys of life and prosperity 

 it draws from Yankee tourist patronage. 



A wooden bridge spans the river here, 

 and El Paso street-cars loop over into 

 Mexico — when the looping is safe. 



Thousands of tourists swarm across 

 this bridge each year to play the races, 

 have a fling at keno or chuck-a-luck, or 



