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Thos. L. James
PECOS TRIP I am sending you three pictures that I have just received from West Texas. I thought you would be particularly interested in the one showing the so-called permanent pasture which is on the property of the Balmorhea Livestock Company in which Texas Cotton Industries owns only a decidedly minority interest -- 11% -- and is under the management of J. C. Wilson. I thought this might give you an idea before you go out to West Texas of its appearance. I also enclose two other pictures. The one which is labeled Barstow Farm Creek is a picture of what I believe is the Pecos River today. The limited amount of water that is in the Pecos is impregnated with alkali so as to be destructive to anything we could plant and seems perfectly useless under present conditions from every standpoint of quality and quantity. However, the California salesman who sells the grass seeds for the so-called permanent pasture contends he has a grass that will grow under heavy alkaline watering. I. H. Kempner Encls.