From a distance it looks like a city dump...
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Steinbeck,
Their Blood is Strong...camps are "located on the banks of
a river, near an irrigation ditch or on a side road where a spring of
water is available. From a distance it looks like a city dump, and well
it may, for the city dumps are the sources for the material of which it
is built. You can see a litter of dirty rags and scrap iron, of houses
built of weeds, or flattened cans or of paper…Wherever they stop
they try to put the children in school. It may be a month before
they are moved to another locality." (emphasis added)