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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We absolutely could not run this ranch without you.

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.

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

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.

Across the river to the west lay the level, swampy, fertile wastes known as the Chaco, still given over either to the wild Indians or to cattle-ranching on a gigantic scale.

Well, he's making a fine ranch across the road from you, but hiring all his work done, which ain't exactly according to Little Rivers custom, as you will remember.

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

There were several ranches along the main stream in the valley, which the robbers had avoided with well-studied caution, showing that they had passed through in the daytime.

Below them lay the ranch amid its little hills, dust-of-gold in hue.

Somewhere on the east slope of the Sierra Madre his burros strayed or were killed by mountain-lions, and he found it imperative to strike at once for the nearest ranch below the border, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles.

A third niece, older and now marriedLouise Merrick Weldonlived on a ranch between Los Angeles and San Diego, which was one reason why Uncle John and his wards had located in this pleasant neighborhood.

They were driving a lot of mavericks toward their ranch down the river, when Budd Hankinson saw a steer among them with our brand.

We had to enter several ranches during the day to secure food and water, but made no particular effort to travel.