He was going to "make money and marry a Spanish woman." People mine here for water as for gold.

He had been running a tunnel into a spur of the mountain back of his cabin.

"My prospect is good," he said, "and if I chance to strike a good, strong flow, I'll soon be worth $5000 or $10,000.

For that flat out there," referring to a small, irregular patch of bouldery detritus, two or three acres in size, that had been deposited by Eaton Creek during some flood season,--"that flat is large enough for a nice orange-grove, and the bank behind the cabin will do for a vineyard, and after watering my own trees and vines I will have some water left to sell to my neighbors below me, down the valley.

And then," he continued, "I can keep bees, and make money that way, too, for the mountains above here are just full of honey in the summer-time, and one of my neighbors down here says that he will let me have a whole lot of hives, on shares, to start with.