Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba (1883) (14594766730)

Identifier: oldmexicoherlost1883bish (find matches)
Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University



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desert land, and has been redeemed. One ranchman who had acquired a great estate of thiskind chiefly while surveyor-general of the United Stateswas the occasion of drawing forth one of the best horimots of Lincoln. I congratulate you, said our martyred President. You have become monarch of about all you have sur-veyed. The owners do not often live upon their estates;they leave them in the hands of managers, and drawthe revenues. The Haggin, Carr & Tevis property isdivided into a number of separate ranclies, each with itsresident superintendent. The Bellevue Ranch is thecentre and focus of authority. Here are the residenceand office of the general manager, and a force of book-keepers, engineers, and mechanics, w^ho keep the accounts,map, plan, supervise, construct, repair, and give to thewhole the clock-work regularity of a great commercialenterprise. The numerous buildings constitute a consid-erable settlement. There is a store of <2feneral mer- VIS ALIA, BAKERSFIELD, ETC. 411
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412 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PROVINCES. chandise and supplies. A dormitory and a dining-hallhave been erected for the laboring hands. A tower-likewater-tank, surmounted by a windmill, and accommodat-ing a milk-room below, rises at one side. There areshops for the mechanics, capacious barns, and long shedsfilled with an interminable array of agricultural imple-ments. It is worth while to take a walk past this collec-tion of reapers, threshers, sulky-ploughs, and rakes, andstudy out their uses. The immense header and sepa-rator rises from the rest like a leviathan. A wholedepartment is devoted to road-scrapers, buck-scrap-ers, and ploughs of various sorts used in the construc-tion and dredging of the irrigating ditches. The soil is,fortunately, free from stones, and the work, for the mostpart, easy. One enormous plough is seen which wasdesigned to be drawn by sixty yoke of oxen, and to cutat once a furrow five feet wide by four deep. Like thefamous Great Eastern^ it has defeated itself b