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Traveling
and grading streets for this development that is
offering 2½ acre lots for sale. Several Trailer-houses
dot the area where purchasers of the land come to spend
a weekend, now and then. Two houses appear to be
occupied; but just occupied! The Tracels of Toto-Gates,
or Trail-bikes, ribbon this part of the desert. Scarcely a
can remains on the desert floor that has not been
widdled by bullets. Nowhere on this desert does one see any
sign of responsibility by human beings here.
The smoke plume of a forest or brush fire, that appeared
to be to the east of Castaic Junction, cast a pall of
smoke over the Antelope Valley at sunset. A stiff
west wind held this smoke to the center and south
portions of the valley. It was quite cool in the evening.
I had been following the trail of sheep most of the
distance from Tehachapi. Sheep that were moved from
Tehachapi, to Antelope Valley, followed the same desert
road that parallels the Los Angeles Aqueduct, as did I,
although I saw signs of where the herders and their
flocks had camped; I came upon none. One could see where
the sheep were watered and fed alfalfa hay turnouts. For
the trip from Tehachapi probably took three to four days with
a large band of sheep.