Show creating forests Forts ts the denver colorado tribune speaks of the arid western plains plain and the feasibility them arable and forest land from a point less than ihan than two bundred hundred miles west missouri river at kansas city to the base of our great mountain chain there Is ia bur little timber which Is scattered along banks ot 0 bome some ot 01 the larger streams aud and is ia unfit for lor building purposes creven or even for fuel fuei the soil latitude aud and climatic conditions would be bet favo favorable ralle ralie to forest growth if water was not very scarce the river beds are sandy and in them the supply of nf water hed bed from the mountains speedily disappears without wi much b the soil the surface of the plains is to t o coated with a matting of tough and tangled grassroots grass roots that a hard bard rain prolonged for nour hour falls to moisten the earth to the depth of an inch aud and thero there the result Is that though the ravines and arroya are ara temporarily flooded the uplands upland are as aa dry and parched as evor ever after aner a few hours of succeeding sunshine the remedy sugs for this evil is plowing which will destroy the texture of the tangled grass roots and expose to the air a mellow and loosened soil experiments in illinois iowa and nebraska abundantly prove the efficacy of the settlement on and cultivation of wild lands deuse dense groves and young forests having sprung up in what twenty years ago was as treeless a region legion as thoe tho e of colorado after fore tore loreata tits sits come copious showers and the wilderness wil wll dorness soon blooms perhaps also something might be done with artesian wells the mountains furnishing the water supply we do not nov know why the suggestion might not apply to many or of the apparently arid valleys of nevada irrigation renders fruitful the most uninviting soils of this deate state and the p plow an aud and ar artesian wells weila might make gardens of many of our deserts de serta ef enterprise af aft r 01 it ib one great with us that lawyers of the tho highest sta eta are unwilling to serve sere au as judges on a small salary or that whence do elect them thy they resign ani and go 0 o iu into practice again cincinnati times |