Because other ranchers hesitate to associate with them they congregate in settlements of their own, and here in Arizona, on the banks of the Bill Williams Branch of the Colorado River, they form almost the total population.

Where are they from?" "Farmers, ranchers, cowboys, from all over this side of the river.

" "Are any of the other ranchers having trouble?"

But facts told by ranchers an' men who were here only yesterday make little of the rumors.

Then the two big ranchers faced each otherNeuman livid and shaking, Anderson black as a thunder-cloud.

He told of the coming of John Prather to Little Rivers while he was absent; of the mention of the likeness by his fellow-ranchers; and of the fears entertained by Jim Galway and Mary.

It visualized pictures of lean ranchers who had brought him flowers in the days of his convalescence; of children gathered around him on the steps of his bungalow; of all the friendly faces brimming good-will into his own on the day of his departure; of a patch of green in desert loneliness, with a summons to arms to defend its arteries of life.

No manager was more thorough in his observation of clerks for promotion than Jack in observing would-be ranchers.

They are growing for somebody, if not for you!" Inside the house he found Firio, with the help of some of the ranchers, taking the pictures out of their cases.

" It pleased Jack to hang the portraits while Firio was putting on Jag Ear's pack; and he made it a ceremony in which his silence was uninterrupted by the comments of the ranchers.

The ranchers have banded together in livestock associations, which coöperate with the Forest Service in managing the forest ranges.

Ranchers there were in corduroys and denims, cowboys in buckskin and flannel, gamblers in the glaring colours distinctive of their kind, business men with closely cropped moustaches, idlers in anything and everything; but amid them all not a friendly face.

But the olden times when the hospitable ranch house of Colonel William Landor was the meeting point of ranchers within a radius of fifty miles were gone.

As out of the darkness of night surrounding, a great horned owl swoops down upon its prey, and as mysteriously disappears, so the Indian had come and gone; and satisfied at last, irresistibly awed as well into an unwonted quiet, one by one, as they had arrived, the ranchers dispersedand the search was over.

Perhaps two miles above the entrance the canyon widens to its greatest width; and in this portion of the little valley,which extends some five miles to where the walls again draw close,located on the benches above the boulder-strewn wash of Clear Creek, are the homes of several mountain ranchers, and the Government Forest Ranger Station.

BAKER, WILLARD F. The boy ranchers in Terror Canyon; or, Diamond X winning out.

The boy ranchers in Terror Canyon.

The boy ranchers in Terror Canyon.

" Fate, however, was still on the side of the ranchers, for while they were at their meal it began to rain.

" To their surprise, the ranchers learned that the Lost Lode was only about five miles from the plains and that it was at the foot of one of the mountains, instead of high up in them, with a splendid valley where the cattle could graze close beside it.

" This grim reminder of their escape caused all of the ranchers to smile, and without further objection the men made themselves comfortable while they waited the arrival of the raiders.

" The boys, however, were destined to meet the ranchers again and to have many strange and exciting adventures, among which the ultimate downfall of Silver Tip was to be one.

And Mrs. Adams spoke of the curious circumstance that the men who put down the lawlessness were unnamed; that all that could be learned of them was that there were ranchers and cowmen who were known by number alone.

This road was made by cattle ranchers, that didn't know nothing about mining, and every miner that's gone over the trail had his mouth set to get further along as quick as possiblejust like us.

Meanwhile the young ranchers gazed at us with wide eyes and the expression on Teague's honest, ruddy face would have been funny under other circumstances.