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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1910)
NICE LITTLE GIRL. onderfui: ft. LIBIT MM ment Since Dawn of 'Irrigation tsc- J3y C.J.BlAHCHARD ( 3. Reclamation Jervice .C spirit ol tho west la Dpttralstn anJ progress. It Is the spirit that fired the hearts of our forefathers who erected la the prime val forests of New Eng land the superstructure of the greatest nation on artb. It Is tho optimism and faith which imbued their descendants who carved an agricultural em, pire of unparalleled richness from the Missis sippi valley. Once a wilderness so unpromising that it evoked derision in tho halls ,of congress, the west has become today the lnnd of fortune and opportunity. In this land of boundless dis tances tho altitude is 'etlmulating, the. air is a tonic, giving health to the infirm and courage ,to those who have failed jelsewhere. Its constant sunshine encourages op timism and cheerful ness. The glories of its opal-tinted dawns, the lndescribablo beauty of its sunsets and the nameless witchery of its twilight softly melting Into night are the work 'of a divine painter. Thero is a mental and spiritual uplift in Its mountains, whoso summits are in regions of perpetual snow. Its sapphire lakes, excel ling in beauty those of Switzerland, open up a wondrous field of in terest and pleasure to the sightseer and those in search of rest and recreation. The mon arclis of its forests cast their shadows on the earth before the coming of the gentle Xazarone. Its cation;:, sculp tured during uncounted centuries by wind and wave, are unrivaled iu their - wonderful find varied coloring and in their awe-inspiring depths. vastnes.s of area. In potential and climate. ;md in rivers of constant supply, am t;!t' ping empires awaiting exploitation f.nd development. Hero nature offers to every man his birthright a widn sky, the sunshine, the wind, and a sure reward for intelligent effort. Here things aro writ in characters too vast fur human pen. '1 he late Cow John A. Johnson w-11 the west .symbolizes "homes U"-' the homeless, food fur the hungry, work for the unemployed, land for the lamile.-'s, gold for the penniless, freedom for tho enslaved, adventure for the restless, danger? for the brave, an unknown world to conquer, and room for all." Irrigation has wrought its miracle and 13, 000,00'.) acres reclaimed are annually produ cing harvests valued at more than $230,000,000 and supporting in homes of their own more than 300,000 families. The wealth of that por tion of the country which great statesmen in Webster's day were wont to declare worth less is greater now than that of the entire nation in 18G0. In the swift inarch of national events dur ing the past decade, the development of the west has focused the attention of the world. It furnishes one of the most Inspiring pages In the annals of our commonwealth. It is a story of progress and human achievement a battle with nature in her sternest and most forbidding aspect. Future writers will record the irrigation movement as an epoch in our history the far reaching influence of which overshadowed in Importance any other progressive movement since the opening to settlement of the Missis sippi valley. The reclamation of vast areas of our arid and semt-ar'.d regions, which Is being promoted by the federal government and by large corporations working In conjunction with several states, is of profound economic Importance to the nation. The additional opportunities thus created for home makers are already serving to check the undesirable efflux of the country people to the city. Millions of acres of desert, un leached by rain and storing iir its bosom the fertility gathered there by centuries of wash ings from hills and mountains, are being quickened by life-giving water. Cities, populous and great, have sprung up; rural communities, attractive and prosperous, broad vistas of fertile fields and blossoming orchards whose yields are prolific beyond com parison, replace the wastes of sand and sage brush. Economic forces are at work today in the country, and particularly In the arid west, which are gradually but surely shaping our agricultural development along new lines. In many parts of the irrigated country agricul ture now occupies a position of greater dig nity among the vocations than ever before. Its place among the scientific professions is now recognized and it is calling more strongly every day for the best talent and brains the nation affords. '''';;,rr-;'WT " V" ;', , a , . aai , ... .; A.. tC&tfasiMTiim AMUSING MEMORY CARD GAME p V J X-!: U'; . ..-; '! ;f:, .V. vl OPTIMISTIC f " :;XXX?-'t XXXoXb Xowi into TiiTorr Cvnroir, X'f X XiX:?;. ?' :': ,H U of soil l!!i:' on the i.:is.--a-ie of tho reclamr.ilcn act. critical period in I : . -. ; " o - . ,;fc ..,"; ij id The reclamation service began its work in 10: 12 cm the passage of tho reclamr.ilcn act. The first contract was let in S-te;. lumber of the net year and, on June 17, 1 ffO.".. an iumortant I ri' ct in Nevada was formally opened. Progress Its been rapid rnd the u-.'tivlties of the bureau' have i,een extended to 20 or more proj els, which to date have involved the c.! i'M.!ili;re of r !' ).nnf,0.0. In t,V seven and oti.;-l.a!r yeari of its work the service ha-, built t,:i:. miies of canal. Placd end to end, these canals would reac'i fro il Washingi on . to San Fratuisro and back to New Orleans. Several of these canals carry whole rivers. It. has excavated 17 miles of tunnels. r.efero the end of the year it will have com pleted four of the highest dams in the world. Its excavations of rock and earth amount to the enormous total of CO, 000,000 cubic yards. Its roads have a total length of 417 miles; telephones, 1,127 miles; levees, 70 miles. It has purchased 915,751 barrels of cement and has manufactured in Its own mill 340,000 barrels. As a result of Its work water is avail able for 750,000 acres on 13,000 farms. The gross value of crops produced on the lands irrigated by the government projects In 1910 was $14,038,000. As a result of the work of the government It Is estimated that land values have Increased more than $105,800,000. The reclamation service Is entering 1910 with money and pianB for completing moBt of Us larger and unfinished masonry structures and with about three-quarters of a million of acres of arid land under irrigation. It will finish this year the great Roosevelt dam in Arizona, one of the most maBslve In the world. It has completed the Shoshone dam. In northern Wyoming, the highest struc ture of its kind ever built; the Pathfinder dam, in southern Wyoming, and the Laguna dam. in Arizona. It will for the first time utilize the Gunnison tunnel, whose completion was celebrated by President Taft.last summer. The funds available for construction are somewhat less than In previous years, and the organization, which Is very elastic, has been cut down to fit reduced expenditures. About fifty Bkllled men engineers, experts and tech nical assistants have either sought private employment, have been transferred to other bureaus of the government or put. on ' fur lough, In order to keep the overhead charges consistent with the expenditures. Reviewing the history of the reclamation service as a liole, Its maximum activity and expenditures were In the year 1907. In 1902 the expenditures were less than $100,000, and in 1903 less than $1,000,000. In 190 1 they were $2,500,000; In 1905, $5.000.r.00; in 1900, a little less than $10,000,000; In 1907, nearly $14,000, 000. Then the expenditures decreased to $10,000,000 in 190S, to ubout $9,000,000 in 1909, and in 1910 they will be a little under $8,000, 000. It Is expected that in 1911 they will shrink to about $7.000, 00i, which sum will probably continue to be available during after year', assuming that tho water-right charges are paid as they fall duo. jiiQWL 6TJ)AJf IN 'INK WOJZJU), 7U. i'IIO.VIOY MAW, WYOXIMC? This is the most critical period In the history of na tional irrigation since the passage of the reclamation act, in lvsj2. l!y public notices of the secretary of the in terior, issued last year, hundreds of water-right install ments, involving ap proximately $1,000.- 000. became due on April 1, 1910. That date is a memorable one, not only to the settlers, whose entries are liable to cancellation for failure to make the payments due, but also to the reclamation service, which is concerned in securing the re turn of its investment in the engineering works. It is also a matter of interest to citi zens of the number of sections containing fea sible projects, the construction of which cannot be undertaken without additional funds. As the repayments are made through the local land offices and not directly to the service, some time must elapse before the actual amounts collected are known. On a number of the projects, like Sun River, Shoshone and Huntley, the settlers have already made their Initial payments and will not be delinquent on the eeond Installment until April, 1911, which enables them to market two crops be tween payments. On several other projects, such as the Minidoka, Klamath, Lower Yellow stone, Belle Fourche, Carlsbad, Truckee-Car-son. North Platte and others, the first settlers have had the nse of water for two cropB, and It Is probable that a majority will be able to meet their obligations without difficulty. Dot;'.!' ,d reports from various sources on each of the projects have been received at Washington. The conditions as a whole are described as favorable for a large return to the reclamation fund. On several of the projects there will bs no delinquents. On a number of projects the engineering work Is not fully completed, but water Is ready for large areas and is being supplied on a rental basis pending the announcement of the actual cost of water right. The reclamation service has derived considerable revenue from these sources and at the same time the farmers have been enabled to Increase the areas In cultivation. The following financial statement Is Interesting ns showing the status of the reclamation fund and the amounts which thus far have been credited to It through the opera tions of the reclamation service: Total moneys received and transferred to the reclamation fund from saleB of public lands under reclamation act to February 28, 1910, $58,312,017.02. Approximately $4,500,000 are still In the treasury of the United States, but not yet available. Moneys received under operations of recla mation act from all sources In cash and cred its, for work done, $2,379,475.04, divided as fol lows: Town-lot sales, $103,073.91; mlscellane- "ZAZMirA ijIaxk iccounr iff TIIAZII COVSt TRY collections on water rights. $814,115.34. This does not Include any of the moneys collected for tho water rights wlilvh were duo and ray able April 1. 1010. Among the several largo projects, one ol especial ini located in northern Wy oming. When the springtime showers and sunshine fall upon the snowy peaks of the lofty mountains on the eastern rim of Yel lowstone park a thousand streams will rush downwnrd to fill to brimming the swift-flowing Shoshone river. An important physical change will occur at that time. Tho flood that once, unchecked and uncontrolled, swept madly through the rock-walled gorge will beat itself to stillness against a massive wall of concrete with which man has blocked the canon. A beautiful lake, 100 rect deep and covering toil squnro miles, will appear. In this wonderTul gash In the mountains, with perpendicular walls a thousand feet high, the government has erected tho highest dam in tho world. It is a we.ige of concrete 323 feet from baso to top. Its height can only be appreclate.l when compared with that of some well-known structure. New York's fa- . .. ..11 11.. nnt Pofll'll U.'(thtn mous pint iron minding w"i " - 47 feet of the top of the dam, and tho tip-top of the dome of tho United StateB eapuoi wouiu fall short 21 feet of the parapet. In the summer, when the crops are thirsty, the big gates will bo opened and the pent-up floods will be released Into the river below. 1 Another dam. a low structure of concrete, will di vert the waters through ft tun nel miles long into a canal which for 40 miles passes nlon the upper edge of a broad and fertile valley containing 150, 000 acres. Two years ago It was a desolate .waste. Today it contains moro than 200 farm house's nnd three thriving towns. Ten thousand acres produced crops list 'ear on this project. With 1G farm houses along each mile of tho main highways, tho valley al ready has a sub urban appear and;. More than 250 farm units of 40 to 89 acres each are now avail able to entry and offer exceptional oiiiiortunitics for men of moderate means to secure homes in a prosperous and growing country. Close to the Black Hills, in South Dakota, lies tho beautiful valley of Hello Fourche. con taining 100,000 ncres of grass-covered prairie. Many miles of canals have been laid across Its level surface, and what was only a short time ago tho finest free cattle range in this country is rapidly becoming a compactly settled agricul tural community. An impressive engineering feature of thia project is the Owl Creek dam, one of the long est and highest earthen embankments in the world. This structure, now Hearing completion, Is 6,200 feet long, has a maximum height of 115 feet and contains 1,600,000 cubic yards of ma terial. The Roosevelt dam, which is about com pleted as you read the story today, Is In manr respects the most remarkable structure of Us kind In the world. Its lowering height, 280 feet. Its length on top, 1,080 feet, the Inspiring scen ery In which It Is located and the enormous ca pacity of the reservoir created by It combine to make It one of the most stupendous engineer ing works of modern times. Conceive, If you can, two valleys one 12 miles, the other 15 miles In length, and each from one to three miles wide transformed Into a lake 200 feet deep in places and containing enough water to cover Delaware a foot deep. The Salt River reservoir, when full, has a capacity sufficient to fill a canal 300 feet wide and 19 feet deep extending from Chicago to San Francisco. My one regret Is that the space allotted me Is too little to permit me to describe the charms and advantages of other projects of the govern ment. I should like to tell you of the opportu nities on the Klamath project, located in south ern Oregon, in a region of unrivaled scenic beauty; of the wonderful progress made in the Ilolso valley, In Idaho, and tho promise of even greater advance as the work of the government nears completion; of the Ortand project, In the Sacramento valley, the land of fruits and flow ers; of tho Rio Crande valley, where thero will one day be erected the most stupendous dam in the west a rtglon In which irrigation began before the Spanish Invasion, which will become fruitful and prosperous. Tho beacon of hope shines brightly in th west. It beck'ins the landless man to the man less land. Played With Two Packs of Pasts boards, With Cards to Each Player Must Remember Prophecits. This Is n memory ganje nnd very amusing. It Is played with two packs of cards of any sort, but they must be exactly alike. One pa k is laid in a heap, face down, in the middle of the table. The other pack Is distributed to the players, who lay them, faco up ward, In rows. Each player should havo not more than 12 cards, as It la ibard to remember more than that. Any one can begin by giving either iu prophecy or a characteristic thus; "Who will inherit a fortune Insido of in year?" or, "Who will be the first In 'tho room to wear false teeth?" at tho (Fame time turning up a card from the , center pile. ' Whoever has tho card matching this takes it, lays it face clown on top of the card drawn from tho pile, say ing: "I will bo tho first to wear false teeth." or whatever tho prophecy may have been. The next In turn gives a character istic, "Who hns tho worst temper?" or "Who is tho most unselfish?" turn ing up another card from the pile. This Is matched In tho same way, nnd the process continues around tho circle until all tho cards are matched. Then tho memory test comes. Every player in turn tries to remember nnd repeat all the prophecies and char acteristics that have fallen to his or her share, giving them aloud ns rapid ly as possible. He is allowed for de liberation on any one only the time while ten is being slowly counted, or ten Bcconds by the watch. The one re membering tho most Is tho winner.' ', "V KYV 0 "I linlo a tiWp nw frock; I'O raider nut bn ctenn: I w int to play Kmi more; I think It's uuful menu "To li:iv to ho (lrrjiri1 up; I'll iry out luiili my ejus; I want to ko outdoors Anil pinko sonic mure mud pls! SOME SLIPS OF SCHOOLBOYS: t. IN THE ANTE-BELLUM DAYS Supply of Ready, Money a Matter Indifference to Rich and Poor Alike. of According to George Cary Efgles ton, Virginians of ante bellum daya Showed great indifference in money matter i. Money In the form of coin was rarely seen;' the planters wer In the bablt of writing checks on a slip of foolscap. Instructing the bank to please" pay the amount specified. Kg gltston says: "This custom of paying by check bi strongly commended It self to a certain unworldly parson of my time that he resorted to it on one occasion In entire Ignorance and inno cense of the necessity of having a bank deposit as a preliminary to the drawing of checks, lie went to Rich mond aud bought a year's supplies for his little place It was too small to be ailed a plantation and for each pur chase he drew a particularly polite check. When the banks threw theso out o:i the ground that their author had no account the poor old parson found the situation a difficult one to understand. He had thought that the very purpose of a bank's being was to cash checks lor persons who hap pened to be short of money. 'Why, 1 I'd had the money In the bank,' he ex plained, 'I shouldn't have written tbe checks at all; I should hsve got tbe money and paid the bills.' Fortunate ly tho matter came to the knowledge of a well-to-do and generous planter who knew T'arson J., and who hap pened to be In Richmond at the time. His Indorsement made the checks good and saved the unwordly old parson a deal of trouble." Bride and Groom. He carries two new grips and two umbrellas. He offers her bis arm. Bne carries nothing but a bos of candy, and invariably wears a small hat, a veil, and a corsage bouquet. He's clean shaven, and wears, be sides immaculate linen, a careworn, worried expression. He pulls out his watch, presumably to see how much of the honeymoon Is left. When be registers at the hotel the "and wife" Is written twice as large aa hU own name. She never falls to ask how -many lumps of sugar be takes In his coffee. Judge. BLACKSMITH WAS HONEST ONE Would Not Take Advantage of Farmer Wha had Figured Inaccurately How He Did It. A farmer took five pieces of chain of threo links each to a blacksmith Pieces to be Welded. and inquired the cost of welding them Into one chain. Tho blacksmith remarked; "I chargo five cents to cut a link and five cents to weld a link." "Then, as you will have to make four cuts and four welds tho charge will bo 10 cent?" said tho farmer. 2 3 Honest Way of Figuring. "No, no," replied tho man of tha sinewy arms, "I only make it 30 cents." How did tho blacksmith work this out? Seo the illustration for tho solution. AIRSHIPS BOOM KITE TRADE In France Makers cf Toys Are Pros pering c'lever With Bamboo Frames of Tight Silk. "We aro not taking the Interest in flight that we should," said nn aviator. "France, where the Wrights are estab lished, to our shurae, leads the world in aearonautlcs, nnd in consequence tho French kite business has grown like nn 111 weed. "Kltemnkers have sprung up every where In Franco. Their little shops are full of blue bamboo poles, bolts of scarlet silk and blue muslin, and in show cases lie folded kites that are as big, outspread, as an aeroplane. ; "In studying the air, one must begin with the kite, as in studying mathe matics one must begin with arithme tic. "Tbe French kltemaker is prosper ing nowadays, and clever he Is, too, with bis bamboo frames and curving planes of tight stretched silk. "Howlers" Which Invariably Raise a! Hearty Laugh and Contain Some Unconscious Humor. The schoolboy "howler" is always) popular. The following select ionsr from a large number which were sent In for a prize competition arranged by tho "University Correspondent", aro excellent examples of tho mis-t takes which pupils perpetrate: Women's puff rage Is the stato or suffering to which they were born. The earth is an obsolete spheroid. Lord Raleigh was the first man to seo the Invisible Armnda. Shakespeare founded "As You Liko It" on a book previously written by Sir Oliver Lodge. Tennyson wroto "In Memorandum." King ICdwnrd IV. had no claim by geological right to the English throne. t'.eorge Eliot left a wife and chil dren to mourn hi3 genii. The capital of Russia is St Peters-, burg on thH Duma. The test act of 1C73 was passed to; keep Roman Catholics out of publlc; houses. Henry I. died of eating palfreys. Louis XVI. was gelatlned during thei French revolution. The Rhine Is boarded by woodeni mountains. Gender shows whether a man la masculine, feminine or neuter. James 1. died from argue. An angle is a triangle with only twu sides. Geometry teaches us how to bisex angels. Parallel lines aro tho same distance all the wny, and do not meet unless you bend them. Tho whale Is nn amphibious ani mal because It lives on land and dies In the water. A parallelogram Is a figure made of four parallel' straight lines. Horsepower Is the distance one horso can carry a pound of water In an hour. The magnesium salt In the sea cre ates the effervescence when the tldo comes In. If the air contains more than 100 per cent, of carbolic acid It is very In jurious to health. Gravitation is that which if thero were none we rhould oil fly away. Martin Harvey invented the circu lation of tin; blood. A deacon Is tho lowest kind of Christian. Tho isles of Greeco wero always quarreling ns to which was tho birth place of Homer; Chaos has the most right to claim him. HI3 GAME. There's a wonderful, funny gams I play. And you may If you wlHh; I'm the One and Only Original Great Monster Bathtub Flah! Nurse says It really seems Aa If that bath held oceans and floods And waterfalls, aeaa and atreama. I p1ah and roar and snort and kick And howl and apout and buck. Till nurne thlnka If ahe's left alive Bhe hoa the greateat luck. Jum try a bit of the game yourself. The things you need are few: A waterproof nurae, a great big bath. Strong lunga and a muacle or two. Proved His Relationship. Once the proud duke of Somerset employed the eminent artist of his day, Seymour, to paint a room at his country seat In Sussex. Having In vited the artist to his table, he one day drank to him, saying: "Cousin Seymour, your health." The painter replied: "My lord, I really believe that I have the honor of being of your grace's family. This hurt the pride of the duke so much that he roBe from the table and ordered his steward to pay Seymour and dismiss him. Finding, however, that no one In England could com plete the picture begun, he conde scended to send for his cousin. ' Tho painter responded to the mes jsago in these words: ; "My lord, I will now prove that I am of your grace's family, for I won't come." Schools of Europe. Many schools in Germany and "Switzerland ofTer courses of Instruc tion In tho art of waiting at table. The Lausanne high school goes still fur ther In this direction, and undertakes to teach tbe complete science of hotel peeping. This Includes thorough profl .clbucy In four languages, bookkeeping, geography, training In deportment, the study of hygiene aud knowledge of gymnastics, calisthenics and dancing. USEFUL BOX FDR FISHHOOKS So Simple In Construction That Any One Can Put One Together Keep Lines In Condition. Every fisherman knows how annoy ing It la to find the gut lines of his fishhooks dried Into all sorts of an gles, as happens when they are wrap pod wet around a piece of card or board. To prevent this a New Jersey man bas Invented a case for the books which not only keeps tbe guts moist, but keeps each hook separate, and the desired one may quickly be selected without having to untangle It from tbe Each Hook Kept Separate. rest. This hook box Is so simple In construction that any angler may make one for himself. Take an or dinary tin tobacco box, preferably a flat one, and divide It Into three com partments by inserting two wooden strips with slots along tbe top. In the center compartment, which should be as wide as the other two com bined, place some material which will hold moisture for a long time and have a strip of the same material fastened to the lid. The hooks should then be laid away with the guts stretched out on the moistening pad and the metal extending Into the side compartments. He Was Willing. A very small boy, to whom cake was an unknown quantity, was per mitted to have as a special favor a crumb of his greataunt's famous old-' fashioned fruit cake. He swallowed the crumb with relish and asked for more. His mother gave him a very small piece. "There, dear." she said, kind ly, "I won't give you very much ot, It." i "Ob, I don't mind bow much yon give me, mother dear," w- "weredi promptly. "I like IX"