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Show f- - mf $ r iraiit AVonderful U-f- - Irrigation Wokn Built Before Seiior IMacia TellsJIow the Discovery of America The Spanish Conquest -- (Speeiul correspondence ) "'-- if 1890. Senor Washington, Nov.-ll- , ho Is a visitor to this Ramon Estacia country from Peru can talk - very inter esiiigiy about his homo under the I Equator, the land of the Incas and associated with Pizarro and his Spanish I am in the United Conquistadores. to study Sta es, said Senor Estacia, the results of your plunging. civilization and to note those American inventions - whlclrwould help us in my' country. The discovery of A n erica destroyed Pe-r- u as it did Mexico. 'The Peru of today is a small part of die ancient emolre. At'the time of the ConquesU the Spaniards found the land in a hfgh state of cultivation. While naturally in largo part a desert, owing to very scant or no ralii fall between the mountains and the poast, the natives, by the superior wisdom and foresight of tlioir Incas had distances and brought , rendered arablo vast stretches of water-immens- e enun--'Tryr-Th- o- ancient irrigation of Pern vyasveryAvonderful. Water wis conducted by moans of canals. and subterraneous aqneduc;s ex- ecuted oii.a grand scale. They - were t built of largo slabs of freestone nicely . without fittod together cement. -- The water supply camo from someelevated lake or. natural reservoir in the heart of the mountains and was fed at Intervals by other. basins. which lay on tho route along tie slope of tho Sierras. Passages , wore cutthrough rock (and the Peruvians had :no Jrcftriools) almost in passable mountains were turned; rivers and morasses were crossed and apparent ly imposiible feats of engineering were acwater for. complished simply tosecn 4 . . tho irrigation of fields' and gardens. Some of those canals woro very long. That of Condosuyu was between 400 and miles in length,. . By latent ducts or sluices, the life- giving fluid was led to tho tillable lands In some along tho lino of the canals. Instances the land was flooded., while in others the water was made to run In fur rows' between the- roayjof' growing maize,' tobacco and other crops. Each occupant of land was allowed a certain quantity of water by the law of the Empire;; Overseers for the government had charge of each district and saw that every man received his' proper amount, 5 10 - t near-Casamas- ca, " - bo accorded. a very j prominent place for both precious and basemetalsr In. all of tho organized mining districts. Including San Francisco,Star, Rocky, Beaver Lake, Bradshaw, Lincoln, Granite and Newton, ttfe extent ofininemlizatIouJa-si- m ply wqVulerfiil. .. . The J ast .named isin the east end of the county, adjoining the famous Marysvale district, of Piute county, and is throughout its entire area, giving, In' hs undevel-ope- d state, as great premise of fuTure itnportance as any district in the Mate.In the Newton distric , tvelyo miles from .Beaver Ci y, traversed by. ihe Cendation. ter fork of North creek and Pole canyon,, At the coming of tho Spaniard the is the three mining claims Eureka, Alland everywhere teemed with evidence ton and Humhold , constituting the of agricultural wealth, said Senor Sultan' Consolidated group. reflectively, Today the greater While only a mere prospect, so far part of tills paradise has rover: ed to its wtork goes, the Sultan original arid condition. Jlore and t here glvesont the most flattering promise of where some did dirt-fille- d and long forbeing a v ry valuable properly. Well gotten tunnel leaks a little moisture the defined veins of gold bearing quartz-havrank vegetation of our. tropics, been uncovered at several with the surrounding arid wastes,, ou the properly, but the principal work shows thepower of irrigation. has been done on the center claim at the .. This gives rise to the reflection . that apex of the ground located." Here a fif-- the Spaniards, wherever their1 star of shaft has been sunk on a vein of or for led wealth chivalry rapacity white quarVz wlich assays from 8.00 to them, have destroyed and never created. S20.00 per toil In gold. ri he vein at Their coming has always been a curse 11 inches and gradually widto the people they conquered. Chivai-ri- e ens out to 40 inches at the buttom of tjrrf and recklessly brave, they yet conshaft, a contact vein between lime and' sidered the civilization and population porphry. The quarii Is free milling' of the New World as but barbaric and and in any of it free gold can be seen and lit for . destruction. ' only pagan with the naked - ff - Destroyed Peru. ancTthat the canals were kept in repair. That the government understood the danger of floods and took 'stops to prevent them is shown by some of the works still extant. Notable is the still visible tunnel While tho waters of t his Jake were-usedor irrigation. the heavy ntlus and melting snows of tho mountains would cause atk overflow. To protect the Irrigation works and the settlements along the route, a tunnel was excavated in the mountains 40 give an outlet in another direction to tho waters of the lake when they rose.ib a height to threaten inun- - gcld-beurin- V: g C- - - . Es-tac- la e ly-fo- ot the-surface- -- But these native tribes; people; The apex of thly vein is on a very mountain which admits of tapping battledjylfdrNature, learnedjhn secret steepore body at a depth of y of success ind conquered under tho the driving a tunnel 280 feet, the moiith of Tiiev most adverse circumstances. v t made use of mountain lakes and natural he tunnel befug above and convenient1 reservoirs!. wherein were stored the wa- to oneof the best mill sites in the coun, located ground. Amide ters of the rafny season atuf the melting ty also snows, to ber used dur ing the dry sea- water and timber isat hand and on t he ' . gronnd owned by the company. son. Wo have today in California, ColoraThe Siiftaii Consolidated Mining y was incorporated in July last io do. Arizona, New. Mexico,' Utah and the Northwestern states, millions of .acres handle tltis property and loujoco shares of land the ' productive capacity of of the stock set aside for the purpose of w h i ch is beyond comp j re,' "" w inch' can development, none.of which h as beenJ and wil be reclaimed eventually,. Great sold. By a resolution of the Board of mountain gorges formlng'natural reser- Directors, t lte minimum of Ice of this1 voirs, can be ued for storage purposes stock was set at per share. and the land, useless today; will become 1 CAPITALIZATION: an empire of agricultural wealth, worth ; The company Incorporated for 300,0f.0 far moro than tho rich mines adjacent UitVstock being :divided into 300,000 . . ' to them. shares. 200, C00 shares being held by tho incorporators named above and 100 The Sultan Consolidated r 000 shares reserved as treasury' has just issued the following prospec OFFICEPS: tus: Location of .mines, Newton Mining Clarence K. McGornlck, President, V. M. White,.. j District, Beaver County, Utah. O. II. Peery, Secretary-Treasurer- ,, When tho history of mining in Utah Tho Board of Directors being the above f comes to be written, Beaver wili R. with L. Colburn and J. E. Farr. county ernments benighted and heathen had V i M " eyv gov- Js . 20a-fetla- , - on-the- - - com--pan- . 4 - - . ( Vice-Preside- nt, 1 I |