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Show Irrigation Neheme. Chicago, July IS. An evening paper says- "There la on foot lu this city a gigantic scheme for irrigating irri-gating over three hundred thousand acres of tbe richest laud In Southern California, which is to be accomplished accom-plished by collecting tbe waters from thu mountains in immense storage reservoirs, conducted thence to the land by a system ot pipes, ditches aud tlumes. Wiiat Is now practically a desert will be made to blossom llKu Itiverside,KedlanJsiiCS Angilc or Pasadena." |