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In Pursuit of Vanished Days 139

not waiting to hear the answer my startled faculties were
trying to devise. So it is not alone the unappreciative gringo
the
who has permitted passing of our adobe days.
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Adobe de Saturnino Carrión Mountain Meadows Road,
San Dimas
Loud-voiced turkeys and peeping chickens make their
home in this adobe, which boasts one of the finest sites among

Adobe de Saturnino Carrión. One of the most attractive and best
preserved adobes in (Southern California.
while their owner lives in
all Southern California landmarks,
ready-cut
a commonplace house in back of it, cut off from if
of
not unconscious the beauty of the pristine California land-
scape which lies before it.
Standing upon a slight elevation, with another higher
rise of land to the west of it, the adobe of Saturnino Carrión
looks down toward Puddinstone Dam from Mountain Mead-
ows Road where that pleasant highway sweeps swiftly through
a broad unpopulated plain bounded by low hills. Here the
natural flora has remained undisturbed. Sage-brush and aro-
matic schmizl cover the plain, out of which rises a tall tuna