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Show th btt maa sn KLtms n rmjc thus homu. DESERET EVENING- NEW - JUP UN Sit. NOV KMUF.K 4 111 1 SALT f KITH SATURDAY PART THHKK LAKE CITY UTAH TEX PAGES WWW Our Mighty Water Supply What the Rainfall Means The Run-of- f. the Cut-oWhere the Rains Co Our Underground and the Fly-off ff rr Reservoir Ship Canals for Everywhere What Railway Freights Cost The Consumer One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Per Year Per Family v rat-- , I nitl Mate from the rata (wall Im mile lose, and of , They provlds for through. Ail this nKn tt-,t j the water whirs arks tiw or nwe wrhub fatto tn OH the li.w of tho rivers xjUiaui . u t h t TSo distribnUon of this suppl). Sow. would nuke mm kmc them. of se .kt, TSry pro- standardizing ever. la awry assma lirnw a liar north j Itwu i'tiiU,Jdp!ua to Utei uiV f, greet resmutts akomr the Mia- - i n l Miomn They treat aad aoutb acroas tbs I'sited State MMppt, ,ti ,ing, and Irrigation and of tbo I that It will Marl lata ktotusw, la, aad J Ol It I'MiKKtiKt'l V! t . 1 U KB our water power. They t.f nt mors than half of alt I So rata that! ,n ,j4lUn ( ths water ti laila dev.lnpirv the making, by nutans of falls will So found east of that l ie j,Very year we hate another k .at aun- - iM of interior of TSo aeerwgs precipitation over that ' p1y UB,irriround. whk h ha, a.cumu- " which shall sup- tract la inches per annum It is the UlrJ an4 f,j t,y the ra i, atn.w arm. reduco our our rail and 1 humid rogtoa of neat country From that This wa- htch fail from time to t. i line about M nillee westward is aaotn. t,r u always muting Inti the amout t rr'.t,t rate to the merchant Snd the er territory which may bo called semi- - h, M rcut (M u Is equal to th- - .ntire consumer According to Ir McGee, means an annual sarin In th scln-tnhumid, where the rainfall Is about Ai rainf Ul of the fitted etate. i r con. Inches. and the whole remainder, ; transportation I ha I at s ahum rt more (ir tu the run-of- f fr rs of a lutllloa dl-trof our ooun- - j ynn, ur- - then thr.e-.iUHButting of about tw There la so mu. h of U f r every dae of the year, an anIncludes the arid lands, where the fare y the earth th-.- t tt I,.. . , ,, saving In flood damages of 111gua,. si era precipitation la only IS Inches. twisted that If It were m ,aJ, .iistitb- - 't"'1 annum, and a saving the The other tract Is the region of the utvq t would wrap around ..in eiobe nu w1'-shins deoerts. the mountains and of the , qveloi of wwtrr M away of our soils of ine-hal- f t m tittkiu-a- s ID IdttlOS reclamation pn.jevt a It Is a country of U estimate that lt N an enurmou ell watered spots. bat also which 11 un.hr thf fruiw th ; extensive tracts which are bone Jrv. SUtr t a tlfr pmr cretml, of 1 f t ,uM. it tpib a anmtMr krmit in Nevertheless, we have, all told, an tt be raw I to mirf.u und fl huUJ follow, v' to Id nual rainfall equal Mississippi It id tliPe vret our i rmjtitry 115 l.NWNt WATFHWAY8 tTiftt rltfrt Wr hate measured the quantityIt a dfptb ot I? ifft. H Where does and Knit that It fall f watr, it ontiina ll.m t ubu phi The pt hi fop thla have ! k these or rfUgh to buiUI a rantf iri ! Wo two Hh-tgo I shall worked cHit lit 'onnrtim wuh ti tll you th efittet j ?uj, Inland wio and five mile high throned j gh of etry waterway fprtthin ! the twt authority I! the MlwotMif pl olly fnm m P.iul iD jjh' with h bureau f aotu tf the mind i Atcnrultural (limriiuftit St, Iajuis and on to Nr nr trWans HnatoP New harp that It ran plit o vision hi mu! that ckar land romvnlttw f rivm amt the ard pairdrp follow TliH urdrKround Wgtr rune frm he ran the drop to the eklra of have matter bad bur' tr th under aa tv of awamM yrfa. to the how els rf fdd mother earth and mar Ha h. to t.umindu of and in ume we mill have m dUHhn, ntl He divides tile rainfall Into three the ahkh will add en a ttououul 111. I 0 th sur- run-ofths fly off and tho rut-of- f to th t heapenntff of all 1 la All th t r.u ks ai.tl Hrm.sci of md d of nil the water that fall, fuf f and to imraaan of .ur the ur. tuu-r. ti. with ,it ami frght says he. flows Into the sen through the thrr an r uh p k eUnh tk tin nd it;l p, hut a Ml be f rnormota Th1.. river and the smaller streams. w tr r like .1 In th f iiiout nPhtry adumtat"r tn the deft-ne.f A smaller amount soak is the run-oulode of thnmg' h huji. our wui.try. ML W. T. JTGI X. f UK r Into the soil and satursts the ro. k ,, Huti'i vv it-are i Aftvt t t,. stored It thin oonrerned, and finds Its way Into the sen bv leak- - whnh our art, Man Ht IK and there are fw oiuntries v. hirh compare Chief Authority on United Stale Waterwatw I . It-It Is this that pels tho rig out Into the streams This is the cut-oThe remainder, whl.h Is bv plants In great d gr c. and thl that far the most of the supplv. evaporates fumi,hcs the l.ttg.r part of our (able IN GTOX. D. C Unclg rainfall averages about 30 Inches the and goes into the nlr to fall again as suppiy, lit some places thn uatei h Is This is the pumid up and us-- d for irrigation ,ml up to the United Mates over. The last way to min This to the t in other it flow on being t ipis-d- . of hts waterways. The measure this Is by acre feet that to. writer which. In connection with number of from the oceans, loads the clouds and and ultog.ther a certain it Is very valuable, by covering of presldentutt platforms acres with water one foot tn depth. drops again upon the land will t'nnrres !e asked mt oniv to cun- both parties during the coming cam- The yearly supply measured that way to so large that tf yen The the forest that they may ait as paign will have plank providing for would cov r i.Ouo.Ooo.Oiio acres, which could free It Into rube s mile square a p ns' to retain this underground their conservation, and the questions tn area Is equal to Mi states the size It would suflb-- to build an lee vail a water, hut to hold It Im k in other Ohio, Virginia or Kentuiky or In mile hLh and a mile wide all the way wavs of Irrigation, drainage and a notional of 1 hemes of Dn le S mi for con- - j te rwnys whir h have a draft of six feet, volume o in Mississippi rivers, run- ernm New York to Detroit. The run- TMa Turnip from the Great Northwest Welz It fill lbs. ' It Took It Tom oil canal stem will be canvassed from ning and night all the year off. If ao frozen, would mike such a i trolling the w tie r supply embrace the me our whole country la bo cut up by day Mater to Make It or All 30 Horses Could Haul, the Atlantia to the Pacific and from tanada to Mexico. The matter la alstrvama that a (rent system of canals ready before Congress. There has been and rivers could be mads by which tbs introduced into the senate a bill proheaviest of our freight could be car-- viding that five hundred mil lion dolrled by water. ,,J , lars be spent within the next ten SOME MIGHTY IMPROVEMENT. 1 years upon the control of our water resources, and the scientists tell me The plans of the commlaslon, as I that It this is done It will result in a hown to me by Dr. McGee, provide for -saving to us. of one thousand million deep waterway from the Gulf of Mex--- o dollars per annum. The propoeed ex- at Syracuse, One of the Noted Works of Sculpture of the World Statue of His 'Soldiers and Sailors Monument to the Great Lake, and a deep and pendlture is to be made at the rate iitimioua Atlantic Interior passage t of fifty million dollars per )ear. It Famous Indian Chief. n New England to Florida and the . will cost us each year about slxty-lw- o .i!f of Mexico. Dr. McGee says that cents per capita, and the saving will inula could be built connecting the be at the rate of twelve dollars per lower Mississippi with ths Rio Graads capita, or twenty times the amount H.ooO at This of ineuns . the expenditure. Brownsville, Tex., snd another gys- - , tent In the northwest by which freight ! per cent profit, which, even In these times of multimillionaires and could be carried from the Columbia river to Puget sound. The projects em- trusts, is a fairly good investment. The man at the haid of the brace the deepening of the Mississippi j movement In the senate is Frantls G. and the Chicago drainage canal and i Newhtnds, who has for jears ranked Illinois river so that our as the leader of our Irrigation and could go from th Gulf of Mexico right , as reclamation projects, and who. lr. Into the Great Lakes. All sorts of oceans, W. J. McGee, the secretary of the Intransportation could go the same way. land waterwa) commission, says. Is a Another provision Is for the Improve- quarter of a r nturj In advance of ment of the Ohio. This, It U estimated, on subsuch the average statesman would result In a saving In freight of jects. like a hundred million dolsomething IN' WATER. BILLION'S lars a year. A third I the deepening' and Improving of the Missouri, no that' But before I take up this great boats drawing 10 feet could g from tho. for the regulation of our rivers project 1 want Mississippi at the gulf as far as Great to give vou some idea of the Falls, Mont., a distance of 2,000 miles. water supply of the United states, and Dr. McGee says that the Tennessee the part it has in the welfare of every river might be Improved so as to give1: man, woman and ihlld of ns The man slack water navigation for who know more about this than any and that barge other in the country Is lr V. J Mcbarges. Is him the from greatthat and waterways of equal depth might Gee. it comes bo made all along thtC Atlantia er part of my Information been coast from New York to Florida, There Imnng the past week we have are many natural waterways there and talking about the rainfall of the We it where goen and states t'nlted the land Is such that canals could be rivers have discussed our mighty easily dug. and the schemes for their ImproveWHAT THE CONSUMER PAYS. ment. and Dr Mi Gee Ita laid before me the piatis for great serie of Have you any Idea how much money anal, which when cornpletid will reyou have to pay to the railroads? It; sult in a saving of hundreds of milcomes out of you In the price of lions of dollars in freight transportayou buy, in your own traveling, , r everv tion and In the cost to the general business Our great Irrigation sections of the of the country, which is based r wed. wh.re sn acre or so will supThe sum we anconsumption. give some Idea of port a family. nually pay for transportation Is about the vdlue of water in the production d as much as the value of ell,' that of food Dr. McGee, tells me the products of our farm. It equal. verv pound of plant food we use has t,7(X million dollars, making a tax upon, one thousand required oil the average the soli equal to 21 25 per acre for the pounds of water to make It So that entire mainland of the United States., if you eat four pounds of vtg table, tw'o tons of Taking the Improved lands. It la equal lodav it would just take to a tax of 25 25 upon every acre. and. water, or all that four horses could even It takes food It with our population. It Is that to mak comparing haul, more water to make meat and eggs, equal to 230 per year for every man..' comes woman and child In the Union. for the food of the animal from the soti, and in addition they Thirty dollars a year Is 22.50 a month. drink many times their o'u weight Suppose you should receive a bill every is everv tear Every pound of bread month of 22 50 from the railroads, or of used 212.50 per month for your family of equivalent to two ton of water of a and pound five. Wouldnt It Jar you? Well, that Is by the growing grain, to fifty from to thirty beef what you pay. equal tons of water, whieh the animal has During the year It costs on the avereonsumed directly or tellindirectly age every family 2150. Now the averag exactly I cant cost of living the United States over through its food, con" how much water each of you d not more than 2450 perst family, so thr t sumes In this way every year, hut if of our Using-cogoes to th. you should eat two hundred poundof railroads. of bread and two hundred pounds meat you will have consumed altoE. DALLIN, Utahs noted sculptor, paid a short visit in this city perished in their countrys cause. The monument as it stands at the bank of the WATER FREIGHTS VS. THE RAIL tons gether more than four thousand ROADS. and of water in one shape or other, week, fresh from new triumphs in eastern art circles. He returns at Erie canal and the bronze tablet to the memory of the soldiers are shown in the These ura that wine1', this Is without given roo by figures to the scene of his recent activities to continue his work. One of the photographs reproduced herewith. The memorial tablet to the memory of the He tells me, moreover, tlu you use for drinking or bathing. sailors is shown on the monument as it stands in its extensive base structure, all the cost of wa'pf tanpnruu2on U. t have more or less Moreover, as first pieces of modeling to claim the attention of his wonder-workin- g tin food, we have more or less water, and the average, only about of stone. is water which regulate fingers will be the completion of a monument to so. aftei all. it of rail transportation, and that tl of feet be erected within Mctwenty The be le bread Dr. our monument of the will to basket the pe-pof the the size Plymouth gift Pilgrims society greater part of the heavy freight mlgl Gee say that we have an annual water the historic Plymouth Rock on the coast of Massachusetts. The statue will be that of Massachusetts, together with the Improved Order of Redmen. Dallins be taken by watir, leaving to th ra! th lighter freight, for whit'. supply big enough to make focal for a of Massasoit, the Inuun chief who welcomed the Pilgrims when they took up their wide information about the Indians of both the west and the east fits him espec- roads billion people, and he estimates that at hlgh r price are paid, aud which la t.-- ' life world. in new was the It this chief increase will we who of of rate members signed on behalf of the the current ially well for the execution of this woik. far the more profitable. As It Is not ,t have that ponulatlon In something like his tribe the famous treaty of peace more than they ea lasted unbroken for over twenty years. While here Mr. Dallin took occasion to make an inspection of the work of his the- - railroads have This supposes that all the 200 years Is, bsbeved that this ay and It carry, The shown as sketch in the figure, by clay, a photograph of which is reproduced friend and fellow-artis- t, water he proporiv eared for. and that M. M. Young, who is now in New York. Of special tm of canals ould so Increase tl Is what Congress Is now asked to do. above, will show the chief with his peace pipe and in an attitude the ra'lroads would oil ,4 suggestive of interest to him were the statues of the maityr brothers, the Prophet Joseph traffic nilthat ond more than they could d have TTNCLK BA MX WATER SUPPLY good will. It is to stand when completed over eight feet in height on a huge Smith and Patriarch Hyrum Smith, erected within Temple square. Of Mr. Dallins Their business would ray better OJ -r Vow let tie look at ft supply block of solid granite. work three splendid examples are in this city, the Angel Moroni, surmounting the dividend would bo corresponding' of the United Males work Perhaps no recently has attracted wider attention to Mr. Dallins work the eastern spire of the temple, The Signal of Peace in the city and county Increased. It Is the Idea that the rai Willis Moore of the weather bureau has estimated that our annual than that erected at Syracuse to the memory of the soldiers and sailors who building and the Brigham Young monument. . , (Continued on page twenty-six- .) i- )fr o r- a VAf lr . . 1 .. e r. tr -- f,-- fr y. lr . jp-O- of.ur A dtvt-lonp- high-brow- h tl-p- e j t f. rks One-thir- ff tin-hf- t lh fd r ff WASH fiv-n- e fly-o- ff e lo-s- ' -- Crowning Achievement of Cyrus E. Dallin . men-of-w- ar the-good- s upon-you- one-thir- 1 Vfl 1 1 one-thi- rd CYRUS one-four- th t- tr ) |