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Show A Mlincle of Irrigation. If ever man woikttl nilruclep ihey hive worked II, tin here In thoso Western vol-lc)s vol-lc)s If evir sonit thing was creatttl from nothing these men have tlont It 'llilrt)-ttvo 'llilrt)-ttvo )ears ni,o thn Bait Illver vallty, lain which we had driven was all a patched tlepirt, linlnliabltetl save b) a few lean llidlms untl two nr thrto hnrdy traders, whom the sand and cat tus truwdetl down clono tn tho wuter of thn rlvir It wis n thousand miles from tho merest railroa 1 an unknown, desolate, forbl I ling I in, I a tnrt nf the i.rtnt Atntrltan Oeat rt, whlih Havel rs sail would m ver sui,H,rt human lift Jntliv llm Halt Itlier vullty contains a j uitilatlon uf ovtr zjOm It has thrte cllies out I'hninlx, tin tiipllul of Arizona Invlng eleelrl. llghls an eleetllc car line B,iod hotels eliuriliis, nml nthir buildings, nslieiues surround-el surround-el by ttt.b liwus and n wlltleriKss f llnwers More than U,K acres of laid rotln 1 alntiil art lull out In rtirms hluh-h hluh-h eiilltiil.,l with un birds or oiaugiu almunls olives and Has and grain nr 1 ha) llelds Ihniisnnds of ,, title feed III Ihe rlih iiifHitnWH nnd ostil. Ins iinnuin-1,. iinnuin-1,. ml III, hei soil than this on, o dt hi rt villi,') dots nni PklPt niiywl, rt In the w orl 1 ext 1 1 l III nllu i nut t tl. s rt v allevs Hire nut may behol I tin plullllng spit. laele of orange grovts 111 btarlng vvoilh IW'i an aire nn one silo or a feme aid biro i i tus tltsert nu tin othtr bolh lining the same poll the same opiKtrtiinl-lles opiKtrtiinl-lles but only tun lining wuter lino whin a man builds his f, n, e of Cottonwood Cotton-wood posts such Is Iht soil nni su h tin waler that tilt liosls titkn root an I krow Into trees so that the wire t,r nuny oil fantes Is set n running through the ttnttr of large, trrts litre n fHrnu r rarelv iieetip lo use ft rtlllz, r for tht rlvir coir s In lienrlng ri, h silt and spr ads It ov,r his ilelds aid he in ly sometlmts cut two or liiree or mor, eiops h viar from his alfalfa Ilelds an I thtn pntun 111, ni during Ihe winltr wlntir whlih Is In itallts n totitltiual ppilng Ho) btannaru Ilaker, In Thn Cnitury |