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 VOLUME 31

Just before he started on his motor flight from South to North, from a warm climate to a colder one, which is the way of birds of passage, according to the dictionary, E. Alexander Powell went down into the wonderful American Southwest and observed New Mexico with the trained eye of an F. R. G. S. He found a region which has changed more remarkably in the space of a single decade, perhaps, than any other in the world, certainly as regards the United States. Until about ten years ago, government engineers wrote it down in their reports as a worthless desert and the gentlemen who make the school geographies followed suit by painting it a speckled yellow like the Sahara and the Kalahari. Then, one day, a Californian who understood irrigation sank some wells and soused the thirsty desert and turned its good-for-nothing sand into good-for anything loam, and the future of all southern New Mexico was assured. Today they are as enthusiastic in New Mexico about a field of alfalfa as the Eskimos of Labrador are about a stranded whale. In the January number, illustrated from paintings by Maynard Dixon and W. H. Bull. Af



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California is determined that when ships sail direct from European ports to the Golden Gate, after the opening of the Panama Canal, the disembarking immigrant shall meet a different experience from that which faced his less fortunate brother who entered the United States, in years past, through the port of New York. Robert Newton Lynch outlines, in January, California's enlightened policy of welcoming the immigrant. Af



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Beginning the New Year right! Peter B. Kyne's story, “At the Top of

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the Mast,” has a title that expresses its relation to his work; “Tent Mates” is a soldier story by Robert J. Pearsall, a new writer in SUNSET and a good one; “In the Making,” by Isabella Woodland, is a story from a school-room in the

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Latin quarter of San Francisco, full of quaint humor and with an underlying significance for the building of a nation. As for Gröm and A-ya, their pre historic troubles reach a climax in “the Battle of the Brands” which Charles

G. D. Roberts reports with imaginative power. In the second instalment of “The Man Who Won,” W. R. Lighton thickens his plot to such an extent that Cass Burdick says, under his breath: “Lord Almighty! It's a complicated life you've fixed up for us.

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All material intended for the editorial pages of this magazine should be addressed to the Editors of Sunset, 460 Fourth St., San Francisco. All manuscripts, drawings and photographs are received with the under standing that the Editors are not responsible for the loss or injury of material while in their possession or in transit. Return postage must be inclosed. All the contributions and illustrations of this number are fully protected by copyright and must not be reprinted without special permission from SUNSET MAGAZINE.

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