A good many of the so-called bee-ranches of Los Angeles and San Diego counties are still of the rudest pioneer kind imaginable.

A BEE-RANCH IN LOWER CALIFORNIA WILD BEE GARDEN IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.WHITE

SAGE A BEE-RANCH ON A SPUR OF THE SAN GABRIEL RANGE.CARDINAL

It furnishes charcoal and timber for the mines, and, with the juniper, supplies the ranches with fuel and rough fencing.

The country road, white with alkaline dust, crossed the ranch at right angles.

By the flight of a crow it was about a hundred miles from Anderson's ranch to Palmer; but by the round-about roads necessary to take the distance was a great deal longer.

Her words and the cool little laugh suddenly brought home to Kurt the immeasurable distance between him and a daughter of one of the richest ranchers in Washington.

She had grown up on the ranch with him, for her father had been the manager of the ranch for twenty years; and she had grown up with the feeling that Hal Dunbar was infallible and invincible.

Since this account was first printed some years ago, other farms along similar lines have been started away up near Calgary, in the Canadian Province of Alberta, and are said to be doing excellently, one ranch near Midnapore reporting a start with twelve pair, and the pack now counting thirty-seven in all.

This purchase of the "J-lazy-S" ranch by Hawk and Guilford marked the modest beginning of Gaston the marvelous.

In his early youth he had lived four years on a cattle-ranch as a cow-puncher, and had undoubtedly killed two men during that time.

And in the middle of the morning, after taking a temperature, the doctor looked to the rancher with a sort of dull wonder.

We absolutely could not run this ranch without you.

Ranch after ranch he's gained by taking up and foreclosing mortgages.

The Pilgrim he had promised himself the pleasure of firing bodily off the ranch within an hour of his first taking controlbut the Pilgrim had not waited.

We all resumed travel on horseback and reached Johnson's Ranch about the same hour in the day.

When Chuck had idly suggested that Old Heck and Ophelia might be married before Parker and the Quarter Circle KT cowboys returned to the ranch from the beef hunt, he did not know it, but the words he spoke in jest voiced the very thought at the same instant in the mind of Old Heckmiles away though he was.

Still proceeding through a forest of scattering oaks, you presently reach Warner's ranch through a gate.

Out to them went Colonel William Landor, colonel by courtesy, scion of many generations of Landors, rancher at present, cattle king of the future.

The two cowboys the Ramblin' Kid had mentioned, a rancher from the irrigated section near Eagle Butte and "Jeff" Henderson, one of Sabota's henchmen, who was playing for the house, were sitting in at the game.

President Riesinberg called upon Beardsley, a prominent and intelligent rancher of the southern wheat-belt.

If the hounds of the law were so close on his trace, they certainly would never suspect him of doubling back in this manner, and he would have the rancher to himself when he arrived.

The colonel told us Mr. Carr was to be kept at the ranch over night; wasn't to leave it alive, sir, he said.

" "Aren't there any ranches round the Bend?"

Because I aim ter leave this yere ranch afore sun-up.