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Show f?U X VOL. LEAVER CITY. UTAH. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 25, 1890. Ill, NO. 47 Idea of a possible extensive violation of transition of tho Persian desert Into a British $oIl-wcontemptuously dis- land of great fertility is due to this conmissed in i he early stages of thewar.. But tho stant sourco of water supply. From the scanty and emasculated dis- waer has boen obtalned only 'through AMERICAN FORCES CAR ING EVERYwhich are dribbling from- the the most indefatigable labor. patches THING BEFOItfc THEM. . A well UWnk IiV t lie foothills to a front, it is diilicult to form an opinion of the tru' situation. The Boer inva- dep. h any where froth lC() to 300 feet. New York, Nov. 23. A dispatch to ders ate occasioning constant surprises. When t his 'taps the vein of water, anthe Herald from Manila savs: r They have already cut off two portions other sh aft Tj sunk a coupleof hundred The general opinion here is that of the Ladysmith relieving force-froyards flintier down tlio slopp, w.hlch is army will never again come their base of supplies, and with great in reality a gentle descent of. the table A canal 'or together in any considerable force with rapidity are advanoing on Pietermaritz- land from the mountains 1 he forces tinder burg. , him in command. mbterratiean aqueduct is Mlten excavat(Jen. Ltjwton and Gen. Ydttng is followed let wceiLikc two shafts. At a simiUNCLE SAM KEEPI5 AWAY. Jog jojcapidlyomhis hoels in o lar distance farther down anotlif r shaft no bong that insurgent capital can he Washington, Nov. 23. It is felt to bo Is sunk lin'd likew Isagnhiierlcd with t lie again established. unwise for the United States to initiato 'second, and so thechnal or corineatigh, 4tk the sending war ships to South Afri- ' as It is called; h carried for ttilies. As Captain James C. Castner of-t- lie h Lowes scouts, is making ca now. There can be little doubt that the cohneaugh Is giveti just fall enotiph (infantry-wit.forced matches through the mouii.ains such action on our art would instantly to ad in it of a free flow of water It grad.from San Nicholas noftheast. General be followed b tho naval powers of the ually approaches the surface until, when- Young, with his cavalry andWMuccaointnentaird-Fimic- li, Russian and Tt draws ueaTThe land to bo Irrigated, ibebes, is moving rapidly frbm Aritigay German fleets would follow each other the stream eorhes forth a pearling, bub- through difficult passes to Trinidad. 'there to the serious complication of tho ling brook, dancing in the brilliant rsun- Uhine as l rushes:on its mission to re-They are close on Aguinaldossmall par-- , situation. ty. A third advance Is being made on jdeeinthe steHle waste places of Nature. For miles it goes through whhi was at the road toward Vignn on the coast. omrtime a desert1 but -- which ' under the With Agulnaldos personal army dismagic influence of thU elixir of llfe, be- posed of, the only insurgent forces left comes a garden of tho 'gods. It feeds intact are possibly the Muscardus, about tountains ardurid which in latiguorous LOGO in number, Ip the mountains west tirdotenco repdsh tlfdlarkeyed beauties .of the railroad, Pio Pilar's -- two thousof thb harem; it furnishes tiie biiilis, and men, who are east of Manila iu the those luxuries of the Orierii;' It waters mountains near Antipalo, ahd General Trias force of about 2,000; In Cavite The great subterranean riversof the v.onderfui gardens where in dkzzliiig West 'which slowly worn! the! r silent 1 of iisioii, bloom throughout the year, province. . hundreds of eel ..bcneaihahe sur- the rose, chrysanthemumrnarsisis, dnh- Tire military problems- now- - facing us way, face of the earth, have their counter- Jia, tuberose, 'white lily ' aiYd ustar, be;are easy of sett emeu t except iij .lie on the other side of tho ginbo. dsides fantastic shrubs and rare exotics, .case of Pilar, who cannot easily he sur parts The Caspian bea Is fed by many heavy with rich perfumes. Here grow irounded. "These Streams, Tike , to perfection tlitT'appie, peachy pear, Ail our troops in the north 'are living those of our own arid region, tako their nectarine, pomegranite, Albert, ' melon mff the country. sources itiThu mountains which itrecov-ere- d and grapo, andmanv unknown tropical with perpetua1 siidw: " The water fruits in such abhndaute as to bewilder from thjs melting show percolates down and amaze the. traveler. to a deep-lyinWhere the Soil admits of percolation, impenofraiable strata, where it begins its underground pas- the land is flooded in small squares from sage to the sea. ' Nearly the whole of lateral ditches. On such land; barley," a3 4 $ - Ag-minald- os m , I "' 1 f -- -- $nb;br-ranearrsttraui- sr J 1. g, 1 Persia is naturallydeserr. There is a scan rainfall and tho rivers are SQ few j tial irrigation from tills source is very London, Nov. 23. The fact that fresh limited and serves only .a S nail portion portions of Natal are 'being overrun of the country. Centuries ago the Perdaily by the Boers is 'producing exas- sians stumbled upon the idea of tapping peration in that colony and intense hu- - ,tho underground streams or r prings at e initiation in Great Britain, where the the bases mountains and the - . ? of-th- - "te wheat and otiier cereals are grown to great perfection. - Again, Urrlgatiou -- Is accomplished by Vuetwork of' ditches and furrows.' The mills which grind thegrajn aro run by tho; current of tho ' " great irrigation ditches. The cities oMersia secuTe tho water 1 necessary for domestic use from thbse -- |