He, however, has been using the water on ranches he owns down the river.

A canal from the Pinas along the mountain sides to Perro Creek would be expensive to construct, possibly prohibitive; it appears the natural line; and I suppose this deterred him.

I've located a new and practical course for a ditch on the mesa, have surveyed and mapped it in detail, calculated the cost, and compiled a statement of estimates, and can build the project for sixty thousand dollars.

The tract of five thousand acres can then be sold for fifty dollars an acre, or two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Shall I stop, or do you wish to hear more ?" Now it was the banker's turn to smile.