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...hundred miles north of Los Angeles, beneath the snow-dusted mountains of the Tejon Pass, the San Joaquin Valley begins its long, level stretch to the northwest, crisscrossed by moist fields of newly seeded cotton. Dotted across the farm land are the horse-head beams of oil wells pumping riches out of the ground. Water rolls through the locks and valves of a vast irrigation network. The lush valley has been drilled, plowed, fertilized, sprayed and pummeled into productivity by a succession of determined refugees from Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas and by a sprinkling of Armenians, Italians and Basques...
...with a friendly urbanity where his predecessors might well have shot the town to blazes. Under his father's no-nonsense hand, Norman plowed through boyhood farm chores, rode the range and punched cattle for a few happy years on the family's 300,000-acre El Tejon Ranch 75 miles north of Los Angeles, went to Stanford University (business administration). In 1922 he married Fellow Student Dorothy Buffum ('"Buffie"), dutifully settled down for a rough tour of workaday jobs at the Times, took over as boss when his father retired...
Twice in recorded history the fault has relieved itself. In 1857, a serious earthquake centered around Fort Tejon, north of Los Angeles. The second movement, in 1906, leveled much of San Francisco. Since then, according to Richter, the fault has been relatively peaceful. Minor California earthquakes have been caused by lesser faults...
Riding through the snows near Fort Tejon in the Tehachapi Range, about 65 mi. northwest of Los Angeles one day last week, an Indian cowhand espied against the white wall of a canyon a black smudge. Hundreds of searchers afoot, scores of planes had been hunting for nearly a week for that black smudge. Guessing what it was, the Indian turned back because he "didn't want to see any dead people." Others whom he directed to the canyon found the smudge to be the bodies of the pilot and seven passengers in the burned wreckage of a Century-Pacific...
...dromedaries had been landed alive in Texas at a cost of $30,000. Troops of them were maintained at El Paso, Fort Bowie, Ariz., Fort Tejon, Calif. Loaded with 1,000 to 1,500 lbs. of supplies, they did not cross the U. S. desert, hard-packed and lava-strewn, so well as they had crossed their native Sahara. Their wily stubborness made them unpopular with the soldiery; they stampeded horses and cattle. Nevertheless they were tested systematically in desert service for several years. In 1860 some of them helped build the famed Butterfield Stage road. In 1863 a dromedary...