Show IRRIGATION S A writer in in the Geographic Magazine breaks out in apostrophe to irrigation He sa says s The miracle of irrigation which is performed each year in in the arid west is a most impressive and wonder wonder- ful man manifestation f st t on of natures nature's beneficence to m man n. n H Then he explains how the snow falls allS in the iv mountains in the west and how when the spring A t omes the snow melts lIe He does does not sa say it melts Qt Q- Q t he states it in these words z 1 J The heavy 01 clouds and md towering peaks the t- t 7 falling alling alling snow and gentle genUe sunshine s and the thc rushing S x whirl of descending waters waters these these are are- recurring e evidences of natures nature's contributions to the dweller weller jn fn the desert It remains for mans man's industry and f l intelligence ce tb to utilize these generous donations engineer finds fins no field more attractive than for his Ius energies He lie curbs the stream with madams ma- ma f dams and lifts s the waters into huge uge canals t.- t. tater er and land long divorced are arc wedded and andi i fields of grain and orchards prolific beff be- be ff ond c comparison replace the wastes waste of sand and I i ag brush That 1 i is a all true except that the lne engineer does lift the water 1 into the canals he simply simpI arit ar- ar it in its flow ilow from the hills and and l leads lead ads it to i Jt pre re it can be turned upon the land Then we fear this writer although he lie is a flow flow- penman gets things mixed a little He lIe tells fi beneficence of nature in unloading these S t i on the mountain tops Now if it was to toof matter atter of beneficence entirely nature would so that the clouds would drop their moison mois- mois re on the valley valle and at such intervals als as l might n need ed it it tho the world was framed we have no doubt t was ras made very err beautiful Gods God's chosen color i J green reen was spread all over o At the same time timed d laws Jaws were established b by which it might ht b be ept green grcen and that was wa long before man had a aS S Ji here Had the writer tol told about the i S a pumping system of nature he lie would ae ave been clearer had he told how b by an auto- auto atiQ lid arrangement the sunbeams had a a. a fashion of S l. l J g up tip the thc waters waters' from ocean mid loading loadingS S en S on n clouds calling up the winds to waft aft the tS lids shoreward then how nature had also ara ara ar ar- a i d that the higher man goes into the air the theer Z 71 t older er the air grows grow that heat beat expands and cold coM t tp acts hence when these clou clouds s. s surcharged fth moisture strike the mountain tops the c cold ld h e seizes them and compresses them as does 7 human huma hand a wet sponge and their their moisture s squeezed d out out o of them a and q there it lies hes in snow 11 th the spring comes onies again agan melts melt the snow and andon r on OI its downward course again to the sea I J alQ th that t process the world h has s been kept beau beau- I 1 r r. the h dawn davi 1 9 of f f. f creation c h n. n fr f t r writer rIfer t treats e this m noIr Il t S 5 1 fofi d in manifestation O of a t'S o's os beneficence to man It seems to us that tho nature ought to be praised praised for is for g giving ging ing ingman man the intelligence intelli gence ence to utilize this moisture because for thousands thousands thou thou- sands of years for years for a time perhaps so far removed that not only history can cannot riot roach reach back to it but imagination cannot place any starting point upon it that it-that that phenomenon was worked The sunbeams were calling up the water the winds were wafting them inshore the cold of the mountain tops went out caught and compressed them and their moisture moisture mois mois- I I ture fell only to run away and be lost in the desert because there was no human an being to note the changes or to utilize the moisture which is the i i life of the land However the miracles wrought by br irrigation are arc real miracles An acre of land or a thousand acres of land that has laid under the ser serge serge robes obes of the desert for uncounted ages at that touch to of mois moisture ure suddenly awakens flowers and fruits spring fro from n the ground and what was a waste is turned int into a garden of splendor But the tho triumph it jt seems to us is on one of r mans man's triumphs and praise to a beneficent providence ought ought to to he that with these conditions present it was wa's was the thought of the Infinite to br bring ng to the earth a raC race of creatures and give ive them the intelligence intelli intelli- gen gence c to see ee how their condition might be improved im im- im proved and and to put the thc thought in force |