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the river, up a little ira- end on to the plateau atofee.lt is a 
wheat country up there, when there is -ater enough, and last season 
there was not. I would not like to be a wheat farmer. I like to 
feel the rain once in a while. Those great rolling plains are not 
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with a certain charm, but I -soul4 get dreadfully tired of' them. We 
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plugged along through Moro, Shaniko, Madras, all the same, little 
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towns,and if there ^as not a grat wheat warehouse in plain sight 
you uld never guees ’"hy people had settled there. We ^ere headed, 
for the Crooked River, but there was no sign of river or water any¬ 
where, though we did once pass through a little pocket of irrigated 
1-nd where it was not necessary for the jackrab^its to carry canteen^. 
Suddenly w e came on a great chasm in front of us* It was a great 
crdtek in the basalt and at the bottom, several hundred feet below, 
there were small pools of water. While we were looking at it, two 
boys came up out of the chasm with a wagon of water, hauling it # 
i miles distant. This was Crooked River. 
On the south side of the Crooked we came on a very differ¬ 
ent kind of country, '’’he soil was sandy and the growth sage and 
-junipers, many of which were quite large, and water everywhere. It 
came in ditches and great stave pipes and they raised alfalfa and 
fruit*I should like to se the country in the spring when the natural 
flowers are in bloom. At Redmond we turned west and ran to Sisters, 
in the Dechutes Nat. Forest. Here -e got a fire permit from the 
local ranger and pushed on to n old Spring, four miles, -here a 
little brook seeps out from under the road. T he Sisters country is 
the best we saw, irrigated and bearing heavy crops of alfalfa.The 
timber is largely pine, for we are at a high elevation. We camped 
here and the next morning set cut for MKe.nsie Pass a few miles 
west. At the summit there is a construction camp and they are cut¬ 
ting through the ridge. There was a big steam shovel in the read 
and w e had to wait till the mail came along, when they pulled out 
wagon of water, hauling it j t ] ' 
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and let us pass 
