Bloodstained Oz
“Something about irrigation ditches, which—in light of the hard, dry earth—seemed about as sensible as knitting sweaters for sheep.
On the rare occasions when the rains came, they swept through quick, splashed enough water down to flood the plains for a day or two, and then they were gone, leaving the land even more ruined than before. The cisterns might be filled, but the ground was so parched than it sucked up every ounce.
Irrigation ditches were only useful when there were rivers and st...reams with water to divert. But there wasn’t so much as a creek within ten miles of Hawley, Kansas that hadn’t gone dry as a bone.
Some days the prisoners were set to work harvesting what little could be grown in the soil, the pitiful wheat and corn, but more often thistle and scrub to feed the livestock. If not for the labor of the prisoners, no one at the work camp would have eaten, not the inmates, nor the guards, nor the warden.
But these ditches . . . far as Hank Burnside was concerned, he might as well have been digging his own grave.MoreLess
On the rare occasions when the rains came, they swept through quick, splashed enough water down to flood the plains for a day or two, and then they were gone, leaving the land even more ruined than before. The cisterns might be filled, but the ground was so parched than it sucked up every ounce.
Irrigation ditches were only useful when there were rivers and st...reams with water to divert. But there wasn’t so much as a creek within ten miles of Hawley, Kansas that hadn’t gone dry as a bone.
Some days the prisoners were set to work harvesting what little could be grown in the soil, the pitiful wheat and corn, but more often thistle and scrub to feed the livestock. If not for the labor of the prisoners, no one at the work camp would have eaten, not the inmates, nor the guards, nor the warden.
But these ditches . . . far as Hank Burnside was concerned, he might as well have been digging his own grave.MoreLess
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