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A.a .cootAt tot. - ' :aa ..,,,, --,,,,-- 1,,,,r..,,, ,'',,,,,,st,.,;,:c.:.., ,7,,41,'"''' lifrit'.4,..,...c.,r,i'e4r.44"rn4'7 4"r;-,-, , ',:' vo,..;11, ,::,:!-- ; .. ;':' ,..,, 4,A'-',- '' A ,:!:., i'k YLL---,',..- q11",-- - ,;,,,,,:lte"..4.--4.,:-- 1 ,s .,',,..,'"'"-:-...- '.'. ;',..;:..' ; ..,... ......, .;, ;.'77:".-F4.,:: - . The geographys of Turkey" Is ao looked main es 's greet dfisoseeir, el ) mien and esuld complex that it baffles even the Imag- It was an ination. People have grown Into the be followed ertthout trotng Oren& I ' tele babitiof thinking of Turkel ax a he- the country ,''of the Turk. In front two or three the Sues canal was dug and morreneens country,--- of races of people at most, or Turkish that tints the only Mohammedan dnaet citizens and the aliens. The tact Is or that existed wag the gypt goes that the Turkish Empire, especiallY the Arabs In Egypt. But of Greet races of mime under the control In the north. Waled. unthat cou- Britain and Turkey became reaDyGreat people that have lived An to India. nt,, for n3any centuries. , It belonged important as danger to the anctent races long before the Britain looked upon an overlarten ot -of Turks were ever heard of. It was the Asia. and expecially the tocountry Ts. the battlefield of Persians end Greeks. of the Turks as a menace I existed Suck dancer rem. and dian empire. Babylonians and Egyptians. of the South- I nants of the different armies of the before the diec,overybefore the build- I races of antiquities settled in what is African route and now Axis Minor and Byrie. and it ing of the Sues canal. Since then. I would be. Indeed. bard to tell Just however. Great Britain has looked what races the ditte,rent peoples are upon the possesdon of Turkey as a ) descended from Here Ire a few of the Menke to India; more; It Is believed. force of habit than from ear different races of that country: the from Arabs. the Arrneaszt. the Wirmentana reality. tAe3 lime's, the the Ballks, Caldeami, Invasion of Eorope. Greeka- the -- Jacobites.- Jaws,- - Kurds, In the eeventeenth century the L Lexie. Maronttes. Nestorian. Baboans. were a war-lik- e people. Thor Bamarians. the Tartarw, Turkonans. Turks croneed over into Europe aad at first t The most numerous of these made In Europe their Adrianople and Greeks, Armenians Vienna iTurka seitak They pushed on togOrM113111 In thavcountry there are thou- and forced back by the sands of Ifehammodans who are not lind were Moirever. they the Hungariatis. Turks.- - Borneo( the most bloodthirety Mohammtheir of left people. m...ny . MohammeAans are of the Christian different parts of the Balkan 6 pie speaking of the Inhabit- - edatiein races. For instance Bosnia, south of etates. think ants country generally became the the acrom Danube, Vienna of the as Turks and they mix the Mohamme- of many of Turk 'with the word Mohammedan, home themselvea ,the t dans. pushed They same thing. shore of the Adriatic end established but 'they don't mean the . In Aimee past Anatolia has been under a colony in Albania, These early Mo.. the government of different recap rerions of the Balkan in fact nearly fifteen centuries past hammedane were not all Turks. They were Slave after-t- he Christian- era before the iind Greeks and other race that hat Turks reached Alta Minor at all. Asia Minor with the There were two bodies of Turks that eome over from were thia1--- -of the upon the conquest - entered hammedans and from that day to norther empire They were the been clamed as Turks bemused Turks and the, Ottomans. The have aocepted-the Mohammedan do- they. former came from Mongolia In the neon. The fadt that so many of them cene from latter eighth century...-thMohammedans belonged to a score! tral Asia. especially from the Altai of different races has given rise to al mountains. In the fourteenth century. deal of contuilon. and the great A Great Righway. of these different 'races in What in earlier times gave such an part of Europe and the shore of Asia deal was importance to Turkey was that it cen- Minor has caused people a greatTurks i the great highway for reaching of error as to just who the tral and eastern Asia. There were were. Most of the PeoPit in western northern was three principal route: the first Asia Minor, and along the by way of the noethern shores of the tout of Syria, are Greeks and ArBlack sea through the Caucasus. The menians. Indeed, much more than second wag by way of Constantinople half of the Turkish empire is made of Anatolia. The up of a - acmes the mountains population.- The third was across Syria and northern dietrict that today has the pureet Palestine. This last route was that strain of Turkish blood is Anatolia, in between the Bagdad traveled and treed In times of wir and I the Black Rell. - Hem for commerce by the ancient nations; These there are about eight million. The? Inhabiting the. Mesopotamia. trade routes were under con- - are not all Turks by any means.the Turks. who were said to In- though most of them are ModammeMohammedans have bad dulge In a great deal of petty warfare and robbery. Of all the different more than a score of different races to' These races In that country the Turks. in control In their government. times of peace. are the most indif- - race. have given else to gU kindsTor-ke-ofy t ferent to quarrels and wars. The agitation for their freedom and has one of the most complicated bloodthirsty of all the peoples of that empire are perhaps the Kurds. queetions in human government that face of tha:al The trouble with bt!zed 13coduilt- vaistifauf,loaan earth.: a large t races wan that troofti!esrhks not control them; they could not es- - foreign races, but Russia has tablish among them law and order. power to govern them by means of an and the Turks were blamed for all the army. Such has not been the case In The different races there mishaps of their emptre. The trade Turkey. routes through the northern Turkish have been allowed to do very much as empire were unsafe. but they were the they pleased until they threatened a i only on which were known for the revolt of some kind and then the ancients. In the year 141111 Bs Gama Turks, who are kind and humane In Ii South times of peace, become desperate and discovered the route around Africa to southern Asia. This Was cruel in times of war. 2 it'?"T'E00 . &Ph - ,;. 1 , 'Uf o', or i , 41, MAP rk'' ,,.,, ,1,01. ,,,,v , itosany. OMAN 1 -- 1 4. , a, -- s . eve i 40' joi, 1:71'....e,-.- , t , , A - dli:.11111,:s is Tsterraknegndit re ::::: and any ntlhoar I. heeveejeret whhes tn8P the marry than there et Je sole: etrtuot.t:ttlletate! is between the Jews and Christian". Between the Arabic Jew who mixed indiscriminately with thefrorohas there is really not much It will be remembered that the Arabs are descendants, like the Jews. from Abraham. and that the Arabs look upon the ancient Hebrew patriarchs as holy men of old. Some of he Spanish Jews have embraced the Mohammedan faith, Muatapha Ksinal Pasha is a Moslem by religion; he Is a Spanlith Jew by race. and he has manifested much of a superiority and force that belong to his ancestors. For the Spanish Jews are really a superior class of people.,-ThPolish Jew has lived all his life where class- ified society has been insisted upon. and he Is himself strongly Inclined . to make a social between Mtntett and those of 114 rat of In- ferior financial standing. The Mohammedans believe less in - - ---the Imperial valley. - ' A STUDY Ills; POTENTIAL ENERGY IN NATURE'S STOREHOUSE. Irrigation Ponaibilitica., - If the whole flow of the Colorado the towering eanyou walls.a mint atretels of tho,Obrado Aver In the tbattoly,of , traperOn s .. . 1 river could be utilized for itvigation Leys.,self-egpiattatory map. . purposes. It would be poesible to irri- .yont the only way out is straight Hp. Right (top)Drep in the mai gate at least .000.000 acres of land. in or th.....1 the irtreatedland RightAbottamlstag4ung01274,pototoe's9400king the sits of Ow pr 000wd 1;len Canywn dam- rfilaaaditrauctionthast perhapsany economUtah: and. by ht world . It makes ical methoda of irrigaetin mors nearly sainabl)m winoebrne. I Gjthereeavitlkocirattyhetwat: mai:tarSakate:initokiLeAr c,ede.ifttpeoeortwonhiceeatt nurahtto hae ancestors con1.000.000 acres could he irrigated. WM open. for tourist uso. the great. iraried as to meet the needs of irriga- - !cast la volume. than those a.her brought to public attention'. a few, belongs. If be of th est scenic opportunity of dmeiloa. ttdars ago. the thought uppermost waifHowever& the topography and Power production. Clearly. i nrctod with any existing proy.ets. live- among the Turk, marker; ttion to good and is a Mohammedan. Colorado basin does not permit with the proteetion needed by the Imperial ' Prere,rring under such conditions can the 17-pThe oproolemo or tise Colorado. the building Of the dam. the'Lvalley.--ana home among the Greeks; though That explains to ue Monteith nat n rally the nearest site to Greekaerfered present means to use more than a these Jews in, Kemal Pasha being awhy w . water of the Colorado be made to ,T e. po The descendant of king irrigation, empii the water of small fraction of the thone mom ;Aleh within aeres :was Wnce thou out, sought in to especially remain. Salonika. rigate ducements structures and, avento the tro.i.,1 oy temporary Jews has risen to such Spanigh possibilities ell tilts, Some hun- - er and ow Colorado for irrigation d an fl of the in a temporary channel site would be nearest to Los Angeles, These Spanish Jews had hardly be- - great distinction in the 'Turkish army. !turned make one wonder who1 dreds of thousands of acres will re Colorado river a large Coluoimet of power. The i come cómfortably settled in Alias Mt, only with a steady uniform flow can i!s o th, ii, aoay i10 d am may be built proponly. t or race not been utilised is beforo. be have a Though he will- they by Jew the n f -no wer doubt he irrigated by damming The pualsion for such temporary Black and Bouldcr canyons are the i nor when they learned that their be held in high eeteem by Mohamthey are not taken up now at encol nb4reallultedll.nit11n Pr many Small tributaries whicki now are why lowest of the come Colorado. to new was home canyons into Greek Veer' as streams. rnedans of On other almost. land pristritot,ires impossible and of every every river. Much needs o,,..wasted into' the .,Flood Control. of possessdon. rat, ipertioii,, will have to be provideO.- :I from! dam Bites were found there. The flott newer is thot In the de- - vet to be done bY way of inventigating will be asks whet difference it It etta1leitnuespacity to control the ,Colo---- The which is to money, however, 'Moreover. the. natural levee at the :the irrikation onosibilites from the yeloprnent of the West, the smaller 11,,v,v,r. OUT resont know.edgo of rado. and twithin ,..14 Til EPS of Los An- - ; makes in the restoration of the Holy 'esti:ire Palestine materially will come Oo scems to colorado titer. EV011 with our present whiter enures, here entoced for the ' mouth of the Colorado that separates' th.s engineers: It resemet it reified selet is whether !roam ;Landthat moat by any the Tort from to fn,,tre tho Pollen i so and !ri th. c :.t that while Colorado darn was needed bvt to th gulf from the stilton basin. knowledge. howsver. a tremendous growing reeds of the Country. authority 'one of these degrees or whether it ews who are represented Most' br only in rocent' you, have the low. that at flood time the water is '.t a matter. it to well within anti mooing to build. may be adAtk4 to the ,irrigated , I is all 'combined settled , o,Itiottaires. bytthem with- thoughts of forward looklng men been near the top and ready to overflow. mod, n ( nviDcTrtnot poeibitittes. Givon domain. from the Colorado much of the water turned towards the Colorado sa aniln fact, in 1905, the river really lid However, it soon became apparent i'perry end. below ere tio rooi4y 1,6,iossary fOr construction, ;Out using very or the Glen canyon or Boulder industrial collaborator. in the when basin. with Salton the dokn channel. into that overflow its which flows the :mportance of the Colorado l 4,000,000 of the ultimately evallablo either ,:rk ,,,mw be done; and the sum canyon alum. near smaller the l YallYto ,future. the in .1mperta irrigation. 1 $to...' -t isouthto of the groat the ,itver from 40,o00,000 POwer Potoibilitiett. rootliccri development Lee's At the I Ferry. horsepower. and power resources havo been devel- - i It tookinjury Care Essential. two years and the expendicmodern. .wegL is much greater than the ' self, If a maximum dam were built. r ' In the linthlina of a modern com- ()pea. Another answer is that the tor of millions of dollars to close; eii(111,) is not beyond .. Ho w of th e Imperial valley from inun- -, I about 1.000,000 In a few years the Colorado river would achl,,,,,,,,nt. horsepower monwealth. powetateInellopentable. entered-a-Ur has i Itt,..titot. Tito development-of-re forenteet .,. All industrie s. even agriculture. do- - has boom 'taken for granted that nOrbecome. a ;;;;iabl'e 7 agricultural fli;s1I , will Secondary Strueture& on several generations. river 'would. permit the construction f portents to the industrial west. tretef pends upon the use of power for 'their conoueet could be made of the mightY I tricti prosperous have been, or coiirse, one dam will not 'suffice Al thego needs for eines first of inthe -i be ,must available west dame. the of for steps taken of The with theif remaining existenee. great power pOsisibllities t streariFtiwit flowed through a bunt there, and the valley le develop., the developtnent of the river, lerearea. Therefore. from the very be-- 1 horsepower at a greatly reduced cost. greatest care. Local pride and im.1 the Colorado river are no huge as to trffleo canyon chasm!! of thousand' In g dallys Tot. ttfe dread of the over-- ; ',tor elai. full ) Modiste benefits be have to will dams must be forgotten'',I place; diming, wittatesmarilike program for The only stream of corutequenee that he blyond the ordinary conoeption of less delf'It ond inacc essibility. now of the tr,,, main channel to solo for use the develonirt of the whole rivers would not be intercepted bY the Glen , ill the larger progtam for tomorrow the 'average man. Prom the high- answer today Iles in the Peop;e. continually. Very.large SOMA i t, tt A f r and for the whole section.. State ' nn and should but dam be the Boulder ti dam. seems of by The canyon lands of the wources of the Green river nature real adt.pted. ILna of the flow of theriver. The' are expended anntially to strengthen l. river. A i'natr, hate coverlet Jrnrwirrance in irtew,..or the, would be the Little Colorado. Which linel are art:ficiall the Colorado boudn to the unction with the' Grand, there fCALorado to protect the flows fitfully; it le a flashy the levees and , otherwise be II a unit, The loco of the satiation of over 2 000 feet: frmw-th rottithe--Cotorndo ,.21,...f.n the Glisr river of staff,- - ....rest, costs invo,ved, ' A wise begin- - is of small volume , anti could At low wat er it la still a la rgo- - Imperialea-110river, Glen canyon site if s .. bighlends of the Grand river to the river . though the low water flow floods. Altogether. this works, an r;ent s;ti to control the fl Ix floods ning would reduce greatlyVthe ..rub-- i "rte011ed With II tart inctlPenst" points t con4ition4 are equally Iv I gall,', feasible. 'below the lowest site seotient,costs. junction with the Green. there le a- Dills at times below a lazy 5.000 sec-- I untecessery hardahip upon the peon), which The Olen eanyon dam it bullt tO Every person teho is Interested fall of over 4,006 feet: and the Colo- ond feet: or all of le T he N eed of Power high water. It is an in- - of the Salton basin. If the river Goa !for any canyon dam. Any the of west the development smatter redo below the junction of the tfreen sane flood,at spouting should the need dams tri butar!ee may above 200,000, were controlled by a. dam such aa sue,' ' ;Ian tnestes;lyw,c'tu0141 insist that the Glen canyon site When the river was and the Grand to the gulf, fare over second-Yeebe ems in to .conrse aillaof no help develop time be any through the narrow gorges' treated. there would at with these thoughts' in mind IL be- - miles long in southeastern Utskh with thoroughly investigated before 4.000 feet. The potential power of of its the! and- overflowing the such serious danger as now threatens cent lands. ; THe first siyi immediate came ' apparent that if the first dam inlets into tho many side canyons. location of the dam be decided Upon. the Colorado river Is at least 8.000,000 banks canYons, ' tired la one great dam spanning' the were 'built of its lewlands. The 'lowest the, Imperial valley. would-affoand corn- -, It is interesting to note that thus the up. higher This lake easy tichile Colohorsepower. Even when itrowance is- flow determines the maximum irriga- the will regulate lower reachee controlled It is the need of the Imper- - Colorado which the cost municAtion in a section of Utah and the Boulder canyon site is tieing' made for the. possible irrigation de- tion and power en oncy of this un- - talIn fact. rfor flood control that has' rado river flow for Purposes of irri- of all lower structures would be Arizona which now is practically valley 8.600,000 rut), monster. In its present ut ire gulat- Inoroughty inVesttgated. the Olan velopment. there remain pro.; and valley Power Imperial gation. ro Colorado' .the river reduced. and no expendi-- i accessible. and would open up a coon- canyon site haa received -ct horsepower.' Which repreeents about 12 eel condition- In fact- - "in Init water ' - the problem ' tares- - would -- needbeforet it'lit -country.-"pod-the against per cent of all th potential hydro Surticon to irrigate the and power needs alon e The Most Desirable Site.variable now. Moreover. even a Ivry billties. The scenic wondere along To the peottle of rtah it may be , electric power of the United 'Stat en. soarcely lion acres of land ander canals be- have delayed the agitation Ci Private of southwest the lake. would make the region the. of interest the Is ready te buidditl2e1 casual survey It Ito happens that at teas Ferry low Yuma. MOIVOVer. exeent in a few would, to mention 'again-- - that capital tt-'d o. !cleat the for atiother whole area was that problem perhaon ;showed in 4.000.tourists' paradise. The central and below for dant. Public sentlment. la lo! the Prqvls:onal State of Deseret.' favored localities. no ordinary diver:. code. though it ,Is evident that the and need ot in tion the will would Make ot .500 horaispe-- v power tramendooe this ) 1 ion structures ra withstand the ter- . utilization of the Calorado is not far strong that Congreso plant probablY; by the founders of power. A dam higher up would power available with'les I loss to projected Included the Great Basin and Utah. -to willing' to finance the priklect. The ; of power, suPPIY i rifle giuttony of the Colorado et flood distan, ,, the be more centrally r leeated tor .the the southwest. Los , and Angeles ,. for Coiorado dam be profitable. finsuicially wdl Gasin. and that the rooldbilitico. Scenic hoe , . of the state interested. Problems of the Dam. I would still be served. w:th opportunand itucceesful efforts per-to sistent , powor and irrigation interesta aro in needs . A The real problem Is to secure a dam; or It is probably needlesa the situation haalestrItlee---tetfurtivestudy service down the. Settle the country in the Colorado A dam to hold hack the floods of igrowIng need of water and eleetric en-tthe whole course of the Colorado river eventually several dams, that will hold -many to the eonclusion that a dam l river at a greatly diminlzhed cost. I Basin - indicated the faith that the! Colorado will of necessity be largerfergY.- The immediate question, and In flood time and let It at the Olen ,, ' le a coostantly changing panorama of back of the Colorado. canyon The other projected structures of pioneers had in the district drained bY far than any other . soenic,Wondant, unsurpassed time-- -in dam now; the most Important ons Is, whoreI shall somewhere near Lees Ferry. would elsewhere flow- - down at interest to tho Intermountain prime : ---by.,the Colorado rivet.- - It seems dant be htit.1-,- i -dittioultles air In all.-- he the most 'satisfactory toonistrye gush as the ', on earth. Any major congtruction on short that will make a uniform orGow tnOWIt In addition,-thGorge very boon-thi- s faith of our Utah two perhaps larger, ,at so. the river, above the 9rand Canyon of water throughout the year, When Ibis whole testier Wan location for the hAtial dem. At Los's g site, ire very wools Plaming smaller then noon will bo IustifiSC ' . , ' -- . r, , ,......7-,,ri- , i', ' ' , - ' ', ''' , 1 -, ,:- . ":i''--' gspices ', , . , i;',.',",,;!.,.....i.e.:,,1,0.,...1--,.- - I, 4,414'"'" .. , -- I , ..,.......,. .11. 1 - ,, . 4, , ' ":... . , -- TM SECTION' -- . . , s.,,Z,, ... i31011AGI - ; ' -- - - , 4 ,p4 , 1 AM11,, ' etheas s)A , 7,,,',- ,' , ever-differe- ,s .s , - ' 1 .,,, ,., !.4, ' - '-' ' , . - i t . , -- ,, , . -, ' - ,'- ' ,t - . , icilsti,..... valley-an- modern Successes iii engineering "nue! 7 (inane. have made the congfiestof the i - Untamable Colorado- seem certain,- of accomplishment. So important hail the problem of the Colorado river becomte, that they of a mu - practicallyof the United States, anti of Ccmgretts ch legislatures of the seven .soutiv- western states. a Colorado River Corncharged Mission bee been created. Stith the duty of securing a united most states doderetanding emong the Predirectly interested, by which a river gram for the development of the may be built. Location and Flow. The basin of the Colorado' river In eludes the largest river system lying entirely within the arid regien. It drains 244.000 square miles. lying in states of the Union. The Colorado river, proper. is formed of the Grand and the by the junction tern Utah. The Grand giver (recently named by Colorado-river) legislative action the rises in northeastern Colorado. and flows southwest. until it meets the 'Green river. The Orson river, the largest branch,, rises in the l Wind River mountains of Wyoming, flows southernly direction into Utah. then turn eantward into Colorado and back into Utah. with a total length of 100 miles from its source to its junction with the Grand rivre. The length of the Colorado from the junction with the Green to the Gulf of California 46 hi abase 1,020 miles, making the total head- length of the river from the mouth. waters of the Green to the the -- - about 1.750 utilesThe San Ivan. Little Celorade, the Gila and several the Colo. other smaller rivers enter with the rade below the iunethm Green. ,.7 during flows. river The Colorado most of, its course. through ,narrow and of canyons. often of great depth. beauty. The Grand Can. great scenic Colorado is the greatest yeln of the event spectacle in the world. Discharge. A tremendous quantity of water Ob- flows down the Colorado,river. under years eonalong made tor many that indicate water about 12.000.000 acre feet of Colorado are emptied annually by the During into the Gulf of California. carries a ' water the whole year the which various at silt. of quantity great dark seasons colors the water front. color coffee coler to a distinct red silt thence the name COloradol. The deUT mud tarried by, the river is Caliof Gulf the Posited as a delta in 4 4 I' ; 1 ; s' . - '4 - ,, ' , ,. i- 4 , I , r., P ,, - '' . , r - : . . ,, , ,. BY DR.: .101IN A. WIDTSGE. river has recently .1 come, into national prominence as q treinendoui economic asset,.lthas. become recognized as one of the greatest of the itIO" undeveloped na- ipral resources of the trotted Stales. .The Country at largo, arid oepecially the seven southwestern states through which the river runs, are gravely conis sidering the -- belt manner of making active the gigantic potentialitiee of the 'Colorado rverthe river which for nearly four 'hundred years has been; ... ; le stream el mYeterY, foaming through !, AbyllMal chasms of deathdealinead-. ienture, and beyond the control of man; The urgent need of the Ira; t ",,!,, 4 , ; ..,,,,, ,,,, ': , - ,. - : ,, --- - frE Colorado- lirltl)tbrt-rwt- 1 , ...,.-- ''- ' . , , - -- 'The New. Geography of 116 Near East. I ,, . 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