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Show SPLENDOR OF THE ADIRONDACKS. ' The Outlook is enthusiastic over the splendors of the Adirondack mountain region. It tells how wild and beautiful it is and varied. From its upper peaks there are traces of Arctic vegetation and bird life, while in the south foothills the migrating birds of the South .come to spend their summer We suspect that is all true, although if the'Adi-rondacks the'Adi-rondacks were transported and put on the broad back of the Wasatch range behind this city they would not make much display. It is only in a degree that we appreciate things. Well, that region has been put in a forest reserve and now some men want an opportunity to utilize the water for electric power purposes and necessarily put up here and there a reservoir, but the law is dead against it. They will have to have a fight in the Legislature to get the right to use that water. It is said that there is 600,-000 600,-000 horse-power in the water. Our thought would be not to run exclusion into the ground. A reservoir would add beauty .to the mountains, would add humidity to the air and would be a great place for fish, and that water that has been loafing down to the sea through the ages, singing sing-ing on its way, might just as well be harnessed and made to do a little work as not. Power is getting more and more a feature and water power saves fuel. The work of man must go on. and if we were to give the men of New York a little advice it would be lease that water power, obtain ob-tain for it a little revenue, and with that revenue beautify the Adirondacks and make them the great summer resort of the world. . The only possible objection is the charge that when a reservoir is drawn down in the summer they make the surrounding region unhealthy and almost uninhabitable. That we cannot understand how pure water in a reservoir, kept in good form, can finally cause epidemics of diphtheria and other diseases. dis-eases. If it is true, then it would seem to us that the water itself, as it runs down its various channels chan-nels is loaded with danger. |