Show I 1 THE ABID ARID REGION an instructive and useful pamphlet t has bas just been ironed by joseph nimmo jan jun washington on the tle subject of the arid region of the united states the subject is perhaps perli apa more exhaustively in III theae these papers than thin in any that have before appeared A useful map i attached bowing showing by variation of color a comparison of ra rainfall infill in ghen localities of the united staten foil full tables of statistics are furnished furnis lied on the developments of the irrigation question in the west in which a comparative estimate is given of the extent of canals in operation in he be several states and territories west of the ilia missouri Mise ouri colorado the writer has accredited with having baying miles of larga large sized canals and miles of canals of a secondary grade IV om 1 I 1 1 1 1 I 1 4 0 1 1 I 1 A ing ban miles of canal all told and montana 2000 the canals of estimated at it miles utah are of 0 farot grade and miles of second secand trade grade utah ia is likewise given the proper credit of having baying been the first fist in the united states to employ the system of irrigation irrig aion to arid and lands the writer like numerous others before him who knowing nothing whatever about tho the mormons cormons Mor mons felt an obligation to eay say something sensational about them indulged in an atrocity which might cause some of his readers to look with suspicion upon i the balance of his work ina in a paragraph on the subject of transport transportation atin in the west this astounding statement appears it then esgo appeared certain that the low rules rates of or trafim by the panama route and cape horn orn route would confine the railroad traille mainly to first clau els pas pa eister ei iter fl the mails malls and express 1 press packages jt it was also believed thal that t the receipt rella from from local traffic would be large largely exceeded ceded by the he expenditures which would be involved in P line an and 1 I it through traffic indians and morits cormons mormons Mor mons ons for the GOT hal liml then juit just put down a mormon rebellion which had cent cost the country man many more overland emigrants eroff rante had been robbed and murdered by mormon than by I 1 indians those who know how bow infamously fictitious this is will be inclined to denounce the writer off band h and as a dead beat all through As a rule it is only scoundrels of the basest sort that will defame a community in that manner bat but this sounds so near like statements repeated almost daily in the salt SaIt lake tribune that itis it is fairno fair to presume that the author has taken it from the columns of that paper in which cage came the accountability would 0 uld upon the mor murderous derous organ that first gave ia h circulation |