Show A GREAT SCHEME corporal tanner is reported to be the one amt successful in getting away with the surplus major powell Is reported aa 0 a troublesome question with tha exclamation dani the surplus the corporals labora concern the gold in the nations treasure house which he would among alio count rys defenders the majors anathema is directed against pans of water which runs to waste where the national domain Is parched and barren with the pro gramme of the latter gentleman our readers are already partially familiar his business ander government appointment is to make surveys of the various parts of the country where basins and reservoirs can be constructed such sites will be it they have not already been withdrawn from preemption pre emption and settlement and they are to be reserved for the purpose of water storage in the actual construction of dams and basins the government at present does not propose to engage A correspondent of the ban francisco cull after a talk with the distinguished explorer on the subject writes major powell announces an estimate na conawa alve that irrigable dmd ot the west now wholly bar en will make eight mates like indiana and colonel an expert 0 the bun cv that tn enty acres ot this labul cultivated under irrigation will produce aln nuha loo acres 0 laud under the average indi ana culture thin would enable th irrigable area to support forty times lie population ot indiana bay bennett connected with the interstate inter state land toa n co as agent and second to none on the road in cleverness and fertility of resource edits the chichen a epich monthly devoted to alie aultry in teresta of the areal west the thoroughly ehly over its large field and always looks and everything it does not all digit unil can be lad for fifty cents a year THE blurt of monday evening exhausted itself at last evenings adjourned meeting the great party had a single representative senta tive and he the chairman of the committee to audit the truo teea accounts religious reli sious creed Is briefly expressed by himself in the words 1 I believe in god the almighty as far as 1 have got many a roan alio preaches by lie hour does not tell as much |