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Show / ' 1180 lot A ( summoi1 Slammor ) ( fallow fifflow ) , ami only got a crop and ( 'Jkrni Jkrni ) ( 'ite-vueyoAliel-yet itevueyoAlielyet ) 11" . ( B . 4500 . ) 0iiflicycarLhey do ( farm fai-iii faiiii ) itl ( the flie ) ( success siiceess ) of the crop depends oil tlje ( iWtfli'all iWtfliall ) . He believes ( they tliey ) can dry ( farm farill ) ( with witli ) ( 'fiftdcn fiftdcn 'O"t-6011 Ot6011 ) ( inches hielles ) , ( "but but "Wit Wit ) to ( make IIIake ) it profitable you ( ought olight ) to Slave twenty inches . ' ' ( R ( A500-4-501 A5004501 ) . ) Lately ( iu iii ) the ( San Smaii ) Juan country ( there fliere ) have been ( "a a ) good many ( years yetars ) ( when Mien ) there ( isn't isnt ) fifteen ( inches ilielles ) of ( rainfall J-ahtfi-ill Jahtfiill ) . ( He I-To ITo ) ( doesn't doesnt doesii't doesiit ) believe that ordinarily a great ( amount 1111ount ) of ( precipitation precilAtation ) conies ( in iii ) a very short space of ( time tinie ) , ( in hi ) ( twenty-four twentyfour tweiity-fonr tweiityfonr ) hours , ( with witli ) a rapid ( run- run ) off . In that country a ( big hig ) rain is ( an all ) ( inch hich ) or an ( inch itich ) and a ( half lialf ) . When ( he lie ) left the ( country emintry ) in 1923 , ( there flie"re fliere ) were very . few ( farms flirins ) that ( had bad ) been cleared for dry farming ; ( and -fand fand ) they had been abandoned . ( ( B R ) . 4501 . ) There ( Avere were ) some , to his knowledge , ( from froin ) which the people , . had moved away to different parts of the country ; which were not being operated and farmed . He ( doesn't doesnt ) ( know latow ) whether this would be ( abandonment Ztbandonment ) , or ( not 110t ) , as they still owned them , and probably fig ¬ ured on coining back . There was also ( land hand ) in the ( Montieello Alonticel-lo Alonticello ) country , which was neither irrigated nor dry farmed , but used for grazing . The assessed valuation of that land in 1920 would average probably about two ( dollars dolhars ) an acre . The ( mountain niountain ) ( range rai-ige raiige ) , patented ground , would probably be ( assessed -assessed assessed ) at two and a half dollars ( an -In In ) acre . ( R . 4502 . ) |