“It was important to make sure you had a good strong fence. Our answer to that problem was our one hundred sixty acre homestead, one hundred twenty acres covered with Juniper trees and forty acres level enough to raise grain. Posts were not expensive, but when you need hundreds of them, they were not in the budget.”

Ernest Van Matres
Rancher/Farmer Carrizo Plain -1926

Craig Deutsche
Author, “Another Place & Time - Voices From The Carrisa Plains” - 2013