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Show V . 11 Trriicitrm ?Abinet KNVT. HROUOH 11 onderfulDevelon- Since 1 rment Dawn of ' throuah manoe, mrouvn natine-- , Airalnit tho world, early Mi. end our courat abating, ort is to work and to wait' nt or 'Viup mm. to get well started for the , wuu IUVO oa- W iuu wor. ijj'l season of the year la the tbti m of all to get out and enjoy the rime nd hills If one haa them, or for those are tbi marine and clouds, us all. of possession tt) as W cannot all be as ambitious wno was up He early rlBing uriagei that she bad. all the work ip early the beds made before the and ione hmllf were up; nui wim even a lew Binutea day In the quiet of the un Interrupted morning when one'a mind rested from aleep prob- iumifreshare and easier 10 worn out. It U said of Victor Hugo that his were written In Just a ireatest novels . ' minutes j - a.ueiore oreaK. eacua. uaj ft time t frmation ink Early Rising Tht early risen are the ones who to joopllin Wings m iu wwria. !, op Id the Qutet, two hours before itlr and bustle of the day, gives !,, ' I If Iff III m 1 I "V 7 A C.J.DLANCHARD w J. t Reclamation Service .:CT Y mm :K spirit of the west JiAJiKlCCOUNrjff aru couitTRY ne It. 5ptlinlnm ami progreas. It the spirit that fired the hearU of our forefathers who erected in the primeval forests of New Eng. land the superstructure of ous sales, water rentals, etc., $1,G94,844.77; collections on water rights, $814,145.34. This dees not Include any of the moneys collected for the water rights which were due and pay hble April 1. 1910. Among tho several large projects, one o! especial Interest Is located In northern Vy omlng. When the springtime showers and sunshine fall upon the snowy peaks of the lofty mountains on the eastern rlin of Yellowstone park a thousand streams will rush downward to fill to brimming the swift flowing Shoshone river. An Important physical change will occur at that time. The flood that otico, unchecked and uncontrolled, swept mudly gorge will beat Itsoll through the to stillness against a massive wall of concrete with which man has blocked the cauon. A beHUtlful lake, 100 feet deep aud covering ton square miles, will appear. ln this wonderful gash In the mountains, with perpendicular walls a thousand feet high, the government haa erected the highest dam in the world. It la a wedgo of concrete 328 feet from base to top. Its height can only be appreciated when compared with that ol some well known structure. New York's f niotis Flatlron building would not reach within 47 feet of the top of the dam, and the tip tos of the dome of the United States capttol would full hort 21. feet of the parapet. lu the summer, wlien the crops are thirsty, the b'g gates will be opened and the pent-ufloods will be released Into the river below, Another dam, low structure of concrete, will di- Is K A v. 4r: the greatest nation on arth. It is the optimism .and faith which their Imbued descendants who f&rVPtl an Uirrlii1t...nl " bit rill" ivunmni of plre unparalleled rlchnes. m..n .i... .......... It Is amazing the amount of work slppl valley. In a few "'. 5-Hat may be accomplished Once a wilderness so unummkin. moments of concentrated thought. If ,. wish to do anything very much !" " . !' ,8 on ln tne ha" f congress, the lo,,a ine 'and f fortune aud ve will find time to do It The piece -, '"" i'i in mis ..in (h letters that alimiM f- c- and of Endless dls- . .ttn and many things about th ne be done without dls- toUM can "'"I"?' th! a,r ta a members the other who have tarblng tonic, health to giving tot yet risen. the Infirm and courage There are many things about cook- to those who have failed bj and baking that take much time elsewhere. Its constant that may be prepared before hand, sunshine encourages opPastry Is much better to be made and timism and cheerfulOne may pre. chilled before baking. ness. The alorien of it pare the flour, butter and lard with dawns, the the salt, put Into the ico chest and Indescribable beauty of take enough for a crust, adding the Its suusets and the tater; this will keep Indefinitely If namelesB witchery of its kept cold. twilight softly melting Such step savers take time to get Into night are the work ready, but save time when it Is often of a divine nalntor wry pressing. Fruit may be prepared There Is a mental lor the day, vegetables got ready, the and spiritual uplift In told dessert made and many things Its mountains, whose ihlch may lighten the day's labor and summits are In regions thus make a smooth running, unhur of perpetual snow. Its ried home. excellakes, Put In the hook, sew on that button, sapphire ling in beauty those of lem that frayed skirt before putting Switzerland, open up the clothes away, then they will be a wondrous Held of In. One Is apt to put a ready to put on. teret and pleasure to prment away without attending to the sightseer and those the bit of mending and forget It until In search of rest and It la wanted to wear. Constant nion lUlance Is the nrlce of belna-- alwav. s forests cat v... tt i . . .nH in rA. M"8 their shadows on the 1 earth before the coming of the gentle Nazarene. Its canons, sculp tured during uncounted centuries by wind and wave, are unrivaled In wonderful EASE, have health. their and 11U AVE And Yakima pkojzgt. WASmfGroir spirits Kht aa air. varied and In Ana more than wisdom. their coloring The reclamation service began its work in mora than wealth. depths. .Its deserts, ln vastness of area. In potential wealth of soil 1902 on the passage of the reclamation act. A merry heart that laugh at care. and climate, and ln rivers of constant supply, The first contract was let in September of the are sleeping empires awaiting exploitation and next year and, on June 17, 1905, an Important Reminders for the Housekeeper. development. Here nature offers to every project in Nevada was formally opened. Rsh may be scalded much easier man his birthright a wide sky, the sunshine, Progress has been rapid and the activities V flfst dipping them In of the bureau have been extended to 2G or boiling wa- - the wind, and a sure reward for intelligent Iff. effort Here things are writ in characters too more projects, which to date have Involved the A tabiespoonful of turpentine boiled vast for human pen. expenditure of $CO,000,000. In the seven and wtn the clothes will The late Gov. John A. Johnson well said one-haladd greatlr tol years of its work the service has built He I 4.215 miles of canal. Placed end to end, these whitening process. the west symbolizes "homes for the homeless, A good agency for keenlna the air food for the hungry, work for the unemployed, canals would reach from Washington to San the cellar sweet and wholesome Is land for the landless, gold for the penniless, Francisco and back to New Orleans. Several white wash made of these canals carry whole rivers. of good lime and freedom for the enslaved, adventure for the wter. It has excavated 17 miles of tunnels. Adding glue to It is only a restless, dangers for the brave, an unknown Before the end of the year It will have comnage, as It furnishes an organic world to conquer, and room for all wuer which pleted four of the highest dams In the world. Irrigation has wrought its miracle and 13, putrlfies and Is most Its excavations of rock and earth amount to npieasant. 000.000 acres reclaimed are annuauy prouu Charcoal Is recommended aa an ah. cine harvests valued at more than $260,000,000 the enormous total of C0.000.000 cubic yards. Its roads have a total length of 417 miles; ww of gases in the milk room or and supporting In homes or tneir own more telephones, 1.127 miles; levees, 70 miles. wigerator. Keen it thr mnttnnni. than 300.000 families. The wealth or tnai por & In It has purchased 915.751 barrels of cement which great statesmen in a powdered itate, renewing oc- - tion of the country has manufactured In Its own mill 340.000 and unu w were wont In hot Webster's day cionauy. esneclall barrels. As a result of Its work water is avail'en unwholesome odors are likely less Is greater now man inai oi me Uur able f6r 750,000 acres on 13,000 farms. "feet milk and hnttr nation In 18G0 The gross value of crops produced on the ear bolllna: water noured thmnirh in the swift march of national events dur lands Irrigated by the government projects In of the siains will remove thm. the development Ing the past decade, 1910 was 14,038,0"0. As a result of the work K has focused the attention of the world. of the government It Is estimated that land most of Some Use's for Salt. the inspiring pKf It furnishes one values have Increased more than $105,800,000. Is a water ts a RDlendld rarirtA for In the annals of our commonwealth It The reclamation service Is entering 1910 -a achievementhuman and throat. Salt water snuffed Into story of progress with money and plans for completing most of th nature in ner nirruwi nose la a great relief for cold, hnftio Its larger and unfinished masonry structures aspect, 'nrhl.hllna ""na and often for a headache. and with about of a million of tne irngaium u7 salt or salt water rubbed Into Future writers will record acres of arid land under Irrigation. '" onncn on I umiui mots of the hair three times a in uui year the great Rooseve't :;..;n;;of which overshadowed In damIt Inwill finish this win stop falling hair. one of the most massive In Arizona, movement II 4Ka ..LI . hiLrtance other progressive anv UI,nnejr 18 ournlng out pn a It has completed the Shoshone In the world. 0 the opening to settlement uirow in a Handful of salt. dam, in northern Wyoming, the highest strucan. ui reciamauuu The vallev. sprlnklod on brighten hlch Is ture of Its kind ever built; the Pathfinder Minn ,,n and keen downcarpels emi-ni- i Mia final mlion of our arid ami dam, in southern Wyoming, and the Laguna . .....r.,it,l hv' tne ieurrui h""' ""Ping. . I"""' dam. ln Arizona, It will for the first time mntnnctlon ...,,i the Gunnison tunnel, whose completion utilize economic h aeveral states. Is of profound was celebrated by President Taft last summer. . onfo to the nation. The funds available for construction are The additional opponumn somewhat less than in previous years, and the Hominy Muffins. organization, which Is very elastic, has been S CUtlf III nf . .,11. ..I L. . v. nai hi I,uuuru ct't down to fit reduced expenditures. About iiuiuiu to the proper . fifty skilled men engineers,, experts and techIn la hnsnm the consistency for I the city. ' in.rhe.l by rain ana nu ub """wast tan utth nical assistants have either sought private rul of m.- molted butter, a saltspoonfertility gathered Slid employment, have been transferred to other Ing ... hlllS BBIT on frnm bureaus of the government or put on furOI II1UK. cupiui water. thl in order to keep the overhead charges i. lough, tiiui ri rnnnuiiv a a run. miirkenrd by up; have sprung and great, with the expenditures. " consistent populous nulf f in which four hai Cities, W and prosperous. d two tenspoonfuls of baklni rur8, m r and blossoming Reviewing the history of the reclamation L Last v H,i two broad rom service as a whole. Its maximum activity and pro "o bake in hot buttered muffin orchards whose y Ida sage expenditures were In the year 1907. In 1902 arj the the expenditures were less than $100,000, and parlson. replace In 1903 less than $1,000,000. In 190? they were To Remove " $2,500,000; in 1905, $5,000,000; In 1906, a little WMtt Economic t Stains, grM frtni,, klndn of obstlnfite spots, country, and I at t culjriy our less than $10,000,000; In 1907, nearly $14,000.-00" CnffllU nn.l In.decreased to VnPWInes. Then the expenditures In lt'f viiullliiir, ni iii- wblffh rBadlm ' '"era Im fin "Kcountry agrlcul-man$10,000,000 ln 1908. to about $9,000,000 In 1909, I,.hk Holoront agricultural developn will bea little under $8,000,-00ln, especially for fabrics parts of the ot greater dig- - and In 1910 they j P that ln 1911 they will Is It expected ' roIors- ' Apply 'he tre now occuple jlttoj pr bpforei 'nis to the to about $7,000,00(1: wnlch sum will shrink is a,,J," apot Wth R sponge or nity among flflc professions ' the fo be available during after ftron(fIy probably continue "inuu h minute i ni, its place among 'i ... the water-righ- t that assuming "nn "f with water or alcohol now recoi RnT charges years, alent and brain. ' .'"M are paid as they fall due. , nvsrv dnv for In Is e vm more ' (I. the natlen affenls. J v X.ti .u ' Its rock-walle- """7 j i opal-tinte- (PAr&TJacr QtjmpscuiMAriM Service,, VALIEY, XfXlCO 7, WW d X.XB-- Av " IZCZZr ' g f ' vti.r three-quarter- s . M .v-sl- - '""- 1. ".- - w well-heate- """'"YiK J 7' y - . ntt-"H- T'V;,t jvc ..,.77 V If 1 h vert the waters through a tunVU miles nel long Into b canal 411 for which miles passes along the appcr r4 i edge of a broad and fertile valley 150 cuutalnltijf 000 acres. Two years ng r- '...Mil'' i KIWIART s tVi !" it was a desolate 7YP : THE. waste. Today it f Sit i Optimistic more contains POfPCT0j. than 200 farm 1 houses and three thriving towns Ten thousand ! I . t!y acres produced crops last yeal " I. ' r V .'VC' on this project t ' This Is tne most 16 farm With .1)'" critical period in along houses the hlBtory of naeach mile of the tional Irrigation main highways, since the passage the valley aV of the reclamation ready has a subact. in 1902. By urban appearpublic noticeaof the ance. secretary ft the lnv More than 250 terior, issued last farm units of 49 year, hundreds of to 80 acres each water-righ- t Installare now avail-ablments,' Involving ap-me. to entry and jHGfuztTDAM WORl, ' proximately $1,000,-000- , offer exceptional became due on oonnrtuVittea foi April 1, 1910. That date Is a memorable one, men of moderate means to secure homes ln a not only to the settlers, whose entries are prosperous and growing country. N liable to cancellation- - for failure to make the Close to the Black Hills, ln South Dakota, payments due. but also-- ' to the reclamation lies the Tieautlful valley of Belle Fourche. service, which Is concerned In securing the reprairie. 100,000 acrea of turn of its . Investment In the engineering Mac? miles of canals have been laid across its works. It Is also a matter of Interest to s level surface,, and what was only a short time of the number of sections containing feaago the fniot free cattle range In this country sible projects, the construction of which cannot Is rapidly becoming a compactly settled agriculbe undertaken without additional funds. As tural community. the repayments are made through the local An impressive engineering feature of this1 land offices and not directly to the service, r reject is the Owl Creek dam, one of tho long-esome time must elapse before the actual and highest eurthen embankments in the amounts collected are known. On a number of wt rld. This structure, now neaiing completion, the projects, like Sun River, Shoshone and Is 0,200 feet long, has a maximum height of 115 Huntley, thesett!ers have a'rendv mode their and contains 1.C00.000 cubic yards of mafeet initial payments and will not ba delinquent terial. on the second Installment until April. 1911. The Rnosevelt dam, wMch Is about comwhich enables them to market two crops beas yon read the rtory today, is in many pleted tween payments. On several ether projects, respects the most remarkable structure of Its' such as the Minidoka. Klamath, Lower Yellowkind In the wcr!d. Its towering height. 280 feet, stone, Belle Fourche, Carlsbad. Truckee-Car-son- , its length on lop. 1,080 feet, the Inspiring swn-trNorth Platte and others, the first setters lu wb'ch it Is located and the enormous cahave had the use of water for two crops, and of the reservoir created by It combine pacity it la probable that a majority will be able to to make It one of the most stupendous engineer meet their obligations without difficulty. Ing works of modern times. Detailed reports from various sources on Conceive, if you can, two valleys one 12 each of the projects have been received at the other 15 miles in length, and each milen, The conditions as a whole are Washington. from one to three miles wide transformed Into described as favorable for a large return to the reclamation fund. On several of the a lake 200 feet deep In places and containing enough water to cover Delaware a foot deep. projects there will be no delinquents. On a The Salt River reservoir, when full, has a number of projects the engineering work Is not fully completed. but water is sufficient to All a canal 300 feet wldo capacity for ready ' and 19 feet deep extending from Chicago to large areas and Is being supplied on a rental basis pending the announcement of the actual San Francisco. cost of water right. The reclamation service My one regret Is that tbe space allotted me-Ihas derived Considerable revenue from these too little to permit me to describe tbe charms sources and at the same time the farmers and advnntsges of other projects of the governhave b.en enabled to increase the arias in ment. I hould like to tell yon of the opportucultivation. The following financial statement nities on the Klamath project, located in southis Interesting us showing the status of the ern Oregon, in a region of unrivaled scenic reclamation fund and the amounts which thus beauty; of the wonderful progress made' In the far have been credited to It through the operaPoise valley. In Idaho, and the promise of even tions of the reclamation service: greater advance as the work of tho government Total moneys received and transferred to nears completion; of the Orland project, In the the reclamation fund from sales of public Sacramento valley, the land of fruits end Cowlands under reclamation act to February 28, ers; of the Rio Grande valley, where Micro will 1910, $58,342,017.02. one day be erected the most Approximately $4.600,OOo' dam are still In the treasury of the United States, In the west- -a region In which Irrigation but not yet available.' before the Spanish Invasion, which will begun berome fruitful and prosperous. Moneys received under operations of reclamation act from all sources in cash and credThe beacon of hope shines brkltiv In the its, for work done. $2,379,475.04, divided as folwen. It beckons the landless man to the me Town-lot lows: sales, $103,073.91: mlscellane- less land. 4' n ,.vB-.'- " i '( ' .1 ' e w con-tainin- g grass-covere- d cltl-aen- n ' y s ntui-endou- s . i f |