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28 Along the Rio Grands
uprising comes along, but it's an even money proposition.
I was lucky, and the conditions are becoming worse. Each
time it becomes harder for Americans to leave Mexico.
The greasers hate us worse than tarantulas, and think
tha' we are about two decrees lower in the scale of life.
No one can tell what will happen when trouble again
starts. And it's going to start.
Soldiers at Camps Pershing, Stewart and Cotton were
introduced on July 1 7 to their first dust storm, something
which they had begun to believe was a fiction of the East.
Several of the tents were torn loose from their moorings
and many others were only prevented from flying away
by the caution of the men within, who sat determinedly
on the sides of the walls.
After the dust came the rain, and the tents were
treated to an undesired irrigation. Many of the men toiled
industriously while the shower was at its height, digging
ditches around their tents to carry away the young rivers
pouring over the ground everywhere. It has been so long
since there has been any real wetting in this part of the
country-this was the second in eight months-that many
of the men had decided it would never come. It found
them unprepared.
At the time the storm started I was riding with H. A,
Macrate, manager of the Austin Realty Ccmpany, to a
little place fourteen miles from El Paso called Ysleta.,
Never in the East have I seen a storm that equaled this
in splendor nor in discomfort.
Ysleta is a land of ranches and farms. One sees
more green in a square foot of it than El Paso possesses
in a square mile.
Alonz by the side of the road were numerous box
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Lewis, Tracy Hammond. Along the Rio Grande, book, 1916; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46839/m1/41/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .