Show DANCE AND SUPPER IS A SPLENDID SUCCESS SU CESS tito two hip big frio lances dances and supper i which kion given I 1 lat last monday night tor for thomi who worked vor luil tit at the clunn clean up till of if wag tin sue cem tito committees who gathered tile klio 1 1 clhoa ice acu broam cetteo and other good hotl for tilt great spread urb to bo complimented on their virve tive work thoro w wis is enough and to lo ti pino tile whole town turned out to rejoice over tile good work vork chioli lilii been performed noil 11 wils in ill gilb last of and ci enjoyed lloyed it it is the wish of a majority of clio people now that tim y im been put in good shape for tile city council to tiki pioppi to linao tilt phiet kept ili hi good ron lilion lit fc tio t ho cites expense and somo hoine ite nution lion will likely in 13 taken on tile matter nt lit the council mooting monday night ia n to plant growth crowth 1111 vs are arc dinall or Nv wanting for t tho losi of 0 antor by evaporation from face is diminished thorns ar aro 0 cam commonly mon ly developed like him so HO ninny many signs signs keep off as it to lesson tile chance of injury to the plant lit in it region flinto living is is rm P that every aid must be sum bum boned to protect lifo life during long port periods m Is or of drought nn an arid urn may seem almost al moat free from beg 1 ita tion it rainfalls rain falls small aln i up everywhere iho with their green color ittia ut wit cooki wittier wither fig away in tile dry period wo may wo see that of K iotis possess great aront vitality thore ja no thriving for such IB commonly noni occurs in well fat regions the KIT plants aro are thinly seat toted such boltonn Bolt oin pr produce AtiCe useful plants trevo tire aro squall and their wood is hard and knotted they cast 11 little tt 10 nhai i ado loon oil me dry adro ground rho lie so HO abundant in our own dry basin finds little uso use except as nn an interior inferior arowood the cactus nud yucca troas are typical of tho the deserts do harts tito uni nials of deserts fire generally of it tl dull till kroy gray not easily soon or oa tho dull gray surface nur faco many 0 tham ire ro fleet of if movement ino liko like tho the or of great endurance under a squall hipply or of wafer liko like the camel thao it 11 are arp sluggish ire am of often ten venomous liko like tho the tarantula tho the scorpion and tho the rattle snake human inhabitants are tow and mi miserable ah compared tho the more favored races brucon of tile world wold Th their theira eirv food supply auprly Is in ti canty and of little enrio ty their arts arifi arb anro I 1 etive for raw law I 1 ta 11 to it H it anro ro of rov ands afi twy ey P nna eni furance without bilich life would lie be impossible under alib daft unties around them they blare aitt oil intelligence for fo every advant itro 1190 that their delort homo home affords fords nf but they cannot riso rise above a alow low stag of 0 development ninny many of ht tile tho wandon aff tribes of tho sahara find tho the struggle for existence 0 KI o hovora that they and thir animals aro are often on tile of starvation III must from place to place to lecure food banca they do not build louses but liro jiro in tents that can easily tic be carried about na its thoy they move frim fri m ono one ground to another an othor As AB a result of their wando wand wins rin habits alie aliey havo have coll coilio to to ile bo excellent hor horseman semon and show great endurance in surviving tho the hardships chev ofton of tun have leavo to suffer buffer but bilt on in account of boiar nearly destitute thoy have tilt the habit of taking what they want from tiny any passing str stranger a tiger whom they can plunder they havo have thus thua preserved into illo modern dern dinies a rudo rude mannor manner of lite lifo which must enve been prevalent in the early history of mankind but which has been given up tip in ili tho the recent centuries by alio people of anoro advanced nations among whom theft is ia now punished its as a crimo crime tho alio papago indians living in tho tha region south of the gila river in youth south western united states and northwestern mexico move from place to with tile the failing and flowing of springs they ari noted for strength aimed endurance and abstine ner the tha q son indi indians 1 living on tho the desert on tho bordere of the file a gulf alt of cali california iro r n in h have ave no cotses and are arc noted at aa runners tile tho inhabitants of deserts ks orta are arc compell ad rj to battle not only with the dryness and lack of vego vegetation tation but are arc forced to meet tierce fierce liottard liot tand which very f frequently reque ady occur 4 ur where thiro them are arc no thick brush or to lire uk tho foice of if tit alin winds mid hold the sandl to tho the earth defors tire ire tho the charef haunton haunt of haild detles alil cl i pilo pile and unal ilo as aa tt livel dillong ulong au forea a tiong krong wind their lit ia wavelike thoy they ore are huit hu it up till on one hide while tile the other side eido is d burying a troa or ov jovn n a it use on on mw tide ide i and utter W warda adi on oh the opposite bido a th ci and band pilo binom along with very litte interruption a windy sindy nu ikert ik ert tract extends fram noi nol thern arlica tic iciola loss A ai in explorers nud awl tr travelers oner offer vivid ot of ral continued on sixth pago pabo 1 ARID REGIONS continued from frem first pago page etheze desert storms stor ins ono or of those lasting a whole day was encountered by dean stanley on tho the borders ot of tile re red A sen sea imagine nil all distant objects entire entirely lost loat to view tho the shoots of sana band hooting along tile tho surface of the desert like a of water walor abo whole nir air fillod filled though 1 invisibly with a torn post of band driving in your faco liko sleet then follows an account of tho 0 of f tho the caravan tho Bc Bo dowins covering their heads with their shawls and tho cannola patiently facing tho the blast if tho the above oxton sivo area of land bo be reclaimed by some moans means covered vegetation and foross there would bo be disadvantages to tho the Orl traveler velor an attempt to reclaim a part of the sahara by means of driving artesian art isian wolla wells lins liaa boon been made which would distribute water to tile the pit relied land little lias hu been lioard heard of tile attempt there seeming booming to bo be obstacles in tho the in tho the shape of a hard pan below tho surface of tho t ho soil boil could these projects bo be successfully carried out hundreds hun dreas of thousands of acres of alint abat is now a desert could be reclaimed and turned into Inhabit inhabitable ablo farm farming ingland land it is a habit of odours ours logo to go over to egypt fur for examples with which to illustrato illustrate our point of view but ut our own country furnishes one of tho most interesting and most extensive examples of arid regions regions and what whai ia is being done to reclaim thein that there is no need ot of going to egypt for an example of this sort eort tho great arid empire of tho the west lies before us ua full of unlimited possibilities tho the grout groat eat cat region known at tho timo time when developed prior to the middio of tho the eighteenth century there wore practically very low ideas among tho world pertaining to arri irrigation gation T the lie ne comity for building canals from which to convey water to farms was not urgent enough to bring tho process of irrigation on a very extensive scale before tile the atte attention of parties not immediately concerned and it was not until after 1847 that any attempts were mado oven even on a small email scale to irrigate ir in 1847 a generation ago chomor tho mor mons mono seeking a now new homo ih the wilderness settled in the eastern custom depression of the groat great Das Bas inand have ha vo since that time transformed part of it by irrigation into a fertile garden spot hence they art arc known as the pioneers of irrigation that we may form somo some definite ae finite idea as to the location and of our arid and regions along with what has been dono for its reclamation I 1 shall give a brief brid description of what was known only forty years ago as tho the groat american desert but now bettor known as the great interior basin |