THE SEED IS PLANTED. SOME there were who had smiled when Angel Irosabal had first sown wheat in Paradise Valley, but in those days water-rights were not so jealously guarded, and he had irrigated his fields to suit his pleasure. Martin Creek came tumbling out of the Santa Rosas on his range, and with much ado, especially in early spring, cut across his ranch to the Circle-Z line. To help himself to its bounty was quite in keeping with the code of practice of those early days. It followed, therefore, that his wheat thrived. With passing years he had given more and more acreage to it, for he was shrewd enough to see that it was more profitable to send his flocks into the Reserve than to graze them on land which could be sown to crops. Other men followed his lead. Water-rights became of vital importance, bringing a mass of litigation which still clogs the courts of Nevada. Wheat became an item of importance in the life of the Valley and, with the thriftiness of the Basque, Angel had built a mill in which to grind the golden harvest.
