Show the other day we saw a net picture IV e of a boat any picture of a 0 ests the writer butchis but this wasa S a specially designed boat such as is used in very rough water on western rivers rivers but what interested us most was the reading matter below the picture it seems that 12 are to explore the lower colorado river and are taking football helmets along as well as life jacket sund expect to survey the territory to be covered by the boulder reservoir rj needless to say we got a laugh out of tile the football equipment to be used in running rapids we also alo wondered N why liy the dozen surveyors did not write to washington and got a topographic iv map of the region which this writer helped to make more inore than ten years azo ago we decided that the plan was mere merely I 1 y another publicity stunt as the region was accurately mapped years v ago and the boulder reservoir will wil I 1 i t not cover any part of the river si tating such elaborate equipment if t the he figures used in applying for grazing permits are arc used on the assessment ses rolls also we will bet there will be a big difference over past declarations of livestock holdings in this county how about it why not collect taxes on the livestock a man declares he owns when makine r ra his application for a grazing permit who can read the signs 0 of the ijames limes many are now attaching special significance to the many and varied disasters which are striking ir all over the world floods on the pacific jacif le roat roast land and snow slides quakes sea di disasters s asters blizzards AG 46 temperatures temperature and a new disease of plague proportions in various parts of north and south america and another dust storm in the southwest are only a partial list of unusual aces taking place the western hemisphere is not alone in its suffering as turkey and china are experiencing blizzards and floods |