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The station at Carissa Creek was a good representative of this, and likewise of many others.
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Carissa Creek itself is one of southern California's
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streams, like so many in Arizona, beginning and ending nowhere in particular--without either source or mouth apparently. Issuing from a sand-heap, it terminates in another a few miles away; but just here at the station is a shallow creek--a few yards wide, by six inches deep--tainted, of course with alkali. The station itself is the adobe remains of an old stage-station, whose roof was all gone, and as a substitute the enterprising proprietor had thrown some poles across, and covered them with willows and coarse grass. This turned the sun somewhat, and the easy-going proprietor said,