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Dennis Hudson’s great -grandfather Arthur H. Giles on his grandmother Cynthia Giles’ side was the original homesteader for this farm. Arthur made a trip daily to haul water with a 300-gallon tank wagon pulled by mules. He hauled water for the rest of the community as best as he could. The land never reached its potential. Then the die-back came, still no water. Slowly, totally exhausted, the farmers began retreating.

They couldn’t farm the land and began selling it off little by little in order to survive until it was all gone… that is, except for Dennis Hudson, last man standing. His farm was deeded down from his great grandfather, to his grandfather, to his father, and then to him.

There was another promise to drill a well for the farmers in the late 1960s from someone who can only be described as a modern day “Carpet Bagger.” Dennis’ grandfather Nathan Kinney gave up 50-plus acres to fund a community well. He lost the 50 acres and all rights to the well. The old well still remains north of the school but was grabbed up by another shyster many years ago. It was never used for its intended purpose.

One way or another Dennis’ family lost some 240 acres of the Mobil farm. Dennis has about 80 acres of the original farmstead left… and Dennis wants to farm. The Mobile farm has been fallow for thirty-five to forty years now . Dennis has some memories of alfalfa growing on the farm-stead, some chickens and goats too. There was a well on the Hudson Farmstead at one time, but it gave out in the 1970s. It was powered by a repurposed gas engine. When the old original well failed, the alfalfa died and so did the garden, the chickens and goats were sold off. The desert reclaimed the farmland, creosote and scrub mesquite soon grew everywhere.

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