Show ironi I roni hii biily cf abuit 14 MAJOR POWELL overshoots THE MARK professor powell in his talk on irrigation to the constitution makers at helena the other day made the very singular assertion that rain water collected in reservoirs or tanks aa he called them and used for inn purposes obviate the necessity of any other fertilization that the water itself was a fertilizer aej land BO irrigated might be planted without any alternation of crops for a thousand years and not fall off from its original degree of productiveness it would be worse than idle to enter into a technical discussion dincus sion of the subject but this much of science can be comprehended without any great research by anybody with ordinary something cannot come of nothing there mast be flour put into the barrel before flour an be taken out thera must be honest horse sense in the cranium of an erudite before any such product can esaue this is abao true of the cultivation of the soil plant food mast either exist in the soil or be supplied before the wheat and the corn can extract it and subsist upon it there are three rare products which are positively under all essential to plant growth these products common rain water does not contain in sufficient quantity to maintain a thrifty crop where simply enough of the water is used for the purposes of irrigation and at least two of those plant food compounds could not in the nature of things find tasir way into rain water in any appreciable quantity we affirm therefore without hesitation that the scholarly professor who has come west to tell the people here how to irrigate and fertilize their land has allowed his enthusiasm on the storage of water to outstrip his knowledge on the raising of crops he is not noted for scientific inaccuracy but in this instance he is clearly in arror lie may bo able to successfully unload such theories upon those in the east who are highly skilled in the usefulness of erudite sophistries sophis tries bat he will biot help hia pet project by attempting to force these ideas upon the practical farmers or tha sturdy ditch makers of the west THE best answer to oar correspondents strictures on the water question will be found in an interview had with sir athwell bim belf and published in this issue in that gentleman treats the question as certain of satisfactory solution nevertheless there are many who agree with A citizen of oden in bis belief that the project will not prove a success As expressive of this view we give apace to the letter which of the two opinions is correct the result will have to determine meanwhile the matter having been decided so far as the city is concerned it is only lui to give mr bothwell every chance to carry out his plans his scheme is a bold one and its difficulties should not lie increased by predictions of failure HOBBIS BS shrewd an observer of current events as one will meet in a long days ride and withal a gedal gentlemen rejoices with the rest of as in agdens new depot and thinks we deserve it though devoted to salt lake and ean guine of lier future he aada he junction is bound to become a bum city such praise from a salt laker is in sweet contrast with the usual wail from parties interested there WITH TUB highest regard for the prestige of the united states congress but earnestly desiring an element of in that antiquated cave of the winds known aa the united states senate we endorse deacon smiths domination of colonel murat IJ alstead as successor to standard oil henry B payne and chopo he may get therewith or without the advice and of the senate 1 I NEVER heard ogden recommended as a summer resort remarked a lady just about to enter he cars for san francisco last evening bat I 1 will say that neither the coast nor the mountain resorts hae ever shown me a more glorious sunset and a more perfect evening than this another reminder that we have been too in presenting our advantages A YORK lecturer baa been describing to a chautauqua audience a recent tour to mount atliss in northern greece and told of monastery life in the peninsula where woman has not set foot for centuries he was a remarkably peaceful community a pal argument from cause to effect at which his lady hearers grew righteously indignant WITH inon BO plentiful in our surrounding mountains that were ft not for the metals marcellous marvellous marv ellous cohesion it would roll down in great bodies and overwhelm shall be said of the enterprise of a city whose merchants import dail some of them in lota of two carloads from thou bind miles beyond the mississippi THE DENVER papers are loudly praising the luscious peaches offered for sale in their market as coming from utah nothing equals utah fruit outside of utah except that bame fruit picked from the treba right here at home F M eab an attorney at law in smith center kansas baa heard of the illustrated and ogden and rites that be ia seriously contemplating visiting ogden with a view of locating or investing libbs dally estranger et ranger of yesterday came to ogden last evening he bays he likes the metropolis better than the capital and we have no reason to dispute liin |