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Show big population of the Republic, ho seeks accept t ho inclosure, and believe me a through the passage of this Infamous sincere well wisher of The lilacfe :7777 bill to add millions to the' annual diviA. R. II. dends of the com panics whien he serves Ilfs bill, like- - nil-- , others 50 loyally. which seek to fasten more firmly the HATTERS.1 fangs of corporate greed upon tho people, should bo snowed under so far this time that it will take more than two By Guy E. Mitchell, Sec. Nat. Ir. As. J summers to tliaw it out. - mum . XVATEU STORAGE, SALTLAK V lrp u Lu A n O p por t u nl t y fli for tli e I) U pla y o f A m e r I can Statesmanship Reclaim the Desert. Lilli Salt Lake City, Jan 14. 1900 I)eak Eimtou: As 1 sit at my desk' up among the clouds In the sixth story - block till s Sunday morn o f t lie ing, far removed from the noise and bust-tiof street life and with nothing but the occaslonartlngPng of the elevator bells and the Incessant twitter of the snow birds1 basking In little t he sunshine on the window ledge to disturb the poetry of my soul and the self, prose of my other and every-da- y e gray-coate- d ebu-syructi- water. on 777 ORIENTS I, I KRIGATION. ; - - ; In the tiny Asiatic province of Araara are found on a small scale some of tl & most perfect irrigation systems in exisi-enc- o and irrigation there has been practiced since the world was. young, Every-thin- g . the little state is on a Lilliputian basis. The con ntry naturally in -- is-cu- . ' The keystone of wouid be reduced. western progress is water, and the of storabasins to save that Water storage for the reclamation of arid lands was a subject .recently discussed in a lecture by lion. Frederick II. Newell, tile Irrigation expert of the Ge ological Survey. Mr. Newell has probably made us close a study of the subject of irrigation as any man in the country and lie views the question from a very broad standpoint, having reached' t with eorres-pondin- g up into small foot-hill- s valleys, and farming is highly i n tensive. Nature has eu t on t maiiy small cany on s a i id s t o n o' and e a r t h e uv dams have been constructed across them,, fo ml i hgs to rag el akes wliicli c a tc h t lie rains and hold them to later water thethirsty soil of the fertile little valleysbelow, w'here the precious fluid is I ed thro u git jmalLdis tr Ib it ting dan al s, JThw; rainfall Is not many inches, but on, the uplands the Turkest an alfalfa and - i - , his conclusions after traversing nearly every foot of the great West and obdrough resisting vetches are grown serving the operation of different irrithe crops of the 'valleys-my mind has taken on a sympathetic gation systems and the effect of various supplementing nd furnis h i n g forage for ihe ponies and. tone and my heart beats with a feeling state and local law3 and regulations. the broad tailed sheep. of pity Intermingled with profound reExpansion of territor externally, he gard for the man who has, so bravely, says, Is distracting attention frdra probpatiently stood up against the religious, lems equally as great, if not more imSTOP TIIE FLOODS. political, social and othor obstacles so portant, involving the extension of agFrom 1858 down to the present day,, manifestly present, until the .significant; ricultural areas and the utilization of said GoverribTMcGoFdiorAFTzona in a legend, Vol. IV, No. 2, has been giv- mineral resources well wit lij n 7th"ep resen a legitimate place on the title page ent limits of the United States. '1 hero recent address, the oflicers of the U. S. of a Beaver newspaper. With a regular- is an ample field for statesmanship in di- Engl near Corps have been ad vocating the building o f re servoirs as a means of ity second only to the rising of iSunday recting the utilization of untouched op- protection and not, for the purpose of d mornings sun, iho Blade litids its way port unities, since we still have the-onland s h I g hi y a p predated. of our entiro country existing as irrigation. They have claimed that to N o. wniy to regulate the volume of I am glad to see you drifting back onto vacant public land, rich in possibilities. the broad and well blazed7 path of Re- As a u i its t a n ce, fully n i n e- e n t h s o f e water and prevent t he annual destruction i f not of ife, was to control the-flopublican journaiismI know that ynttr .v as t e x tent of A r i zon a , N v a d a a n d a d - property ofAvafers at the head of the stream d ay s w II be hap p e r, your sleep more jacont areas remain in the hands of tl.e Much of the soil from which it caufe. They have claimpeaceful, your conscience easier, your general government. ed that it was practicable to impound labors less arduous, - and should those is under a -- one-thir- 1 -t 1 1 1 1 1 1 whoso toes you happen to tread on in spTead I n g T ib aw f u t rut lis of Ilf e be f bye your readers, send you over the road- -r as Is often the fate of newspaper men you c an in eo t your tnakc r w h t h e k h o wled g e i i at y b u h a v tT p e r f or mod a t east a portion of your d uty. By iho way! I often wonder how an n long ed i tor of a d e mocratlc papo withstand .the awful strain necessary In holding together a democratic argument long enough to got it on the .press, and 1 1 1 1 1 1 , rca Isum e 1 1 in e s li n d tn y s o f 1 admiriugthem for the vast amount of energy shown in the undertaking. But what I started in to do was to ask that you credit the amount of the Itj-elos- ed check to my snbscrlpt lon account fbh ."and have I nadrTiiirtiyMrl f ted-ofto politics. Please pardon the digression. ' n highly productive irrigation, when e t h c more r u ggedkpor t i o n s contain ihtFwaters in Mpring-timd come,-anthe snow meltsV'anil great mineral wealth which can he profitably developed when labor and easy allow it toescape gradually instead of iu great devastating floods. Now', the transportation can be had. The west is full of great mining - pos- advancement of civilization sibilities. What Is needed for their de- tiie conservation of these w'aters not velopment is good transportation and only valuable, but ne cess a ry for agriculgood labor. 7 Both of these items are to- - tural purposes. d ay I n man y seciions.beyomJ all reaso liable expense Because t lie sitAVIiy? KA1LROADING PATENTS. uations are arid, the country supports A single firm of patent lawyers, C. A. no population of Its own, atid as everySnow & Go,oUWashington, D C., liavo thing must be transported at tremen- in tiie la3t yefft 1,030 patents dous cost,- labor brought in, demands for t heir cl'ents.procurcd niat-.of them for Give- - such sections Immense wages. C. A.' Snow A Co. inventions. water for Irrigation, and the valleys li a v o b e e n a c c s t? j o f r h i r o a d: i n g p a t n t s would be settled by farmers, living for th r o u g h t i i e Fa t n t O fli e e. li u t t h e y i n this locomotion is better than the m iners would be, cheap, natu rail y sis t that oxica r'ti n g Lh cm.forb yJ eJ a t ter. pr or t li e rail roadsW ouldf ol ov a s Tap I d ag- cess the invenior often dies before lie 00 ricultural community, and transporla- gets his patent. w li 1 e 1 tint-rain- IiasT-lnac- . - - y ' rt-ject- ed 1 1 1 ." -- 1 1 1 5-- s |
