Tllfc ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1921
F1VX?
JUDGE BARTOW'S
IRRIGATION PLAN
1 GETS PUBUCIH
LINCOLN NEWSPAPER ALL
I P OVER THE SCHEME
IIET
Ing wheat fields thut could be, if the
moisture were available. Yet they
laugh at the man who paints a pleaus
ible method of supplying this requisite
moisture. 1
Judge Bartow Has a Vision.
Judge H. C. Bartow of Gordon, Neb.,
is the roan who has Conceived a vision
of a feat so big that beside it the
Panama canal rinks into insignificance.
Judge Bartow has a vision, not ' a
dream, of turning the dry western
parts of Nebraska, Kansas and the
uaitotas into fertile, pioducing awl
rich Agricultural distr ict by diverting
food waters trom the Missouri river
wnich do millions of dollars worth of
damage in the lower Mississippi valley
each year.
'think of itl Each smiiicr the great
Judge H. C. Bartow, once of' rierve. water shed of the northwest pours its
S. D., but now of Gordon, Neb., de- i flood waters into the Missouri vhat
p;te countless discouragements and n o" e cresi uown w wws vuu t.u-
apathy on the part or the cities that
Alliance Slated for a Place on the
Canal to Save Flood Waters to
Make Fertile Fields
he proposes to benefit, is go.ng ahead
undaunted with hi big irrigation
pcheme. He has enlisted the sympathy
if not the services of the Lincoln Star.
which for two successive Sundavs has ! cultural area a section
published maps and long articles anent ' 000,000' acres cf land.
ing lo?s and damage, along its entire
route. This same water under the
plan of Judge Bartow would be used
to turn Groin the dry plains of the
mkldlewest and add to America's agri-
of over 16,-
the vis'on cf the judge, who hopes to
get through congress an appropriation
to finance the building of a canil to
force millions of tons of water uphill
and at ono and the same time irriHte
three or four arid states and save the
lower states from mill-ons of dollars
of flood damage annually.
Not ro many months ago, Judge
Bartow appeared in Alliance and of
fered to this city the honor of holding
the headquarters of the association
which was to push this project through
to completion. It was proposed to or
ganize and secure memberships from
those who would be benefited. The
chamber of commerce held a couple of
meetings with the judge, and the mem
bers listened. with awe and a certain
degree of respect to the unfolding of
the vision, but that's as far as ,it ever
got.
The Star began by Minting that Mr.
Bartow was either the biggest chump
on record or a man equal to Solomon
The second article of the series is in a
much more-sober vein. The newspaper
predicts that the day will come when
Nebraska will recognize his services.
The headquarters of the association
are to be established in Lincoln, and if
sixty thousand members are secured at
$5 a throw, the survey is made, con
To Construct a New River.
Briefly the Judge proposes this-to
build a dam across the Missouri river
about six miles below the mouth of the
Yellowstone in North Dakota, where
these waters all come together from
the great water shed and skim off the
flood waters that come along, for irri
gation purposes. The irrigation canal
proposed would be 1,000 miles long
and serve a strip of land, 23 mi!e3
wide. It would run from North Dakota
to South Dakota, from thence across
Nebraska by the way of Alliance to
Julesburg, and down through Kansas.
It is estimated that there are about
21 million acre feet of flood waters
that come together in the great water
shed of the northwest at the mouth
of the Yellowstone river. Judge Bar
tow says that a natural reservoir can
be found east of the Yellowstone,
south of the Missouri river and north
of the Little Missouri that will hold
37 million acre feet.
Make Water Bun Uphill.
Skeptics laugh at the suggestion
that this volume of water can be
forced into a canal that will run up
hill, so to speak. The same people
laughter at the idea of a Culebra cut,
in the Panama canal. With the enor-
srress aroused and the project goes mous nower of the Missouri river now
through, the time may come when Al nt hand it is estimated that 3,123,000
, a. 1 . 1 m-, 1 1 1 I J ....
liance may regret her apathy. The
Star says:
Prophets Without Honor.
Twenty years ago people laughed at
horsepower can be developed and can
be used for any purpose needed liter
allv to move a mountain-if necessary.
The altitude of the canal then at the
mouth of the proposed Dig reservoir
the suggestion that man would con !wouId be i 900 feet. The water would
quer the air and surpass the birds in th h t be forcC(i to an altitude
flights through clouds and over moun- f 2 43() f t at D;ckinon jj. D., then
tain peaks. Today it is an everyday
occurrence that no longer attracts at
tention.
Human nature, however, remains the
same, reople are stiu laugnmg wnen
... . . t (II Jm
men with imagination ana vision sug- , rht, , ,d the run to Woun(ed
from there to Mott, N. D., at an alti
tude of 2,424 feet, then to Morristown,
S. D., where the altitude is ,2,233 feet.
From here the canal will lead to Pe-
S. D., at an altitude of 2,200 feet,
gest new ideas. People today are
laughing when told that worthless land
in western Nebraska, Kansas and the
Dakotas can be turned into land worth
as high as $1,000 an acre. People are
laughing when told of the audacity of
a certain man in planning to build a
Knee, creek on White River, S. D.,
thence to the head of Wounded Knee,
creek near Albany.,
IncludeEfght Nebraska Counties.
At Albany the canal would enter
Nebraska. In Nebraska it would run
new river across four states and to i Tnrou"n in iouov:ng counucs; oneji
utilize flood waters of the big rivers of dan, Box Butte, 'Morrill, Cheyenne,
the middlewest, which cause enormous . Deuel, Ferkins, Chase, Dundy. It
damage each year, to the advantage of I would cut the edge cf Sedgwick coun- J
the dry soil of the western parts oi ly, i.oiorauo, ami enier jvunsua in
the four states named. , -i Cheyenne county. The following Ne-
Yet these same people that are b:r.s!:a towns would be directly on the
laughing today, frankly will admit lou'e of t!v3 proposed canal: Hay
their conviction that the whole future ?vr.z Eu.-hyillc, Antelope, Dunlap,
of this country is dependent upon wa- ..emir.;; ford. Bore?., Alliance, Eonner,
ter. They will paint pictures of roll-j jr.ee, Bridgeport, ' Guthrie, Alden,
Broadwater, Dalton, Lodgepole, Chap
pell, Barton, (Julesburg, Colo.), Ve-
nango, Imperial, Benkelman. The first
Kansas town on the canal would be
Bird City. , x
The farmers in these towns and
counties named, are constantly de
pendent on the rainfall for their crops.
A drouth means their ruin. From
careful experiments it has been found
that one inch of moisture each week,
during the twelve gi owing weeks, on
any of this land, will make a good
crop, regsrdles of climatic conditions.
There will be enough water in the big
rerervoir to supply several times this
minimum of necessary moisture.
400,000 New Farms.
With all these millions of acnes of
land available for cultivation, it is
estimated by Judge Bartow that 400,
000 farms of 40 acres, each cpuld be
had. Each farm would make a good
living for an ordinary family and each
ten mi'.es of thi land would support a
food town. Approximately 100 new
towns could spring up along the course
of the canaj. These 100 new towns
would mean that much more business
for the industrial centers of the mid
dlewest. Judge Bartow conceived the idea in
the spring of 1012 at Fort Pierre. S.
D., while sitting on the porch of a
dinky hotel. There had been a drouth
that year that had ruined many farm
ers. Not a drop of rain had fallen for
months, yet a mile from where 'the
judge sat on the porch, floodwaters of
the Missouri were causing damage un
told by erosion of valuable land. Judge
Bartow knew that his idea had vast
possibilities. He began to study the
problem and interested others in the
vision that he had, amorig them being
Theodore Roosevelt. Late in 1912
Roosevelt wrote Baitow that "it does
not make ahy difference what it would
cost, it would be worth it," in com
mending the judge upon his efforts to
put the thing over.
So in 1912 Judge Barton organized
the Great Plain Irrigation Project, of
which he is now president and which
now has 7,000 enthusiastic members
all over the United States. The asso
ciation has already spent $16,000 on
a preliminary' survey of the entire
route of the proposed canal. Engineer
ing costs for practically half the dis
tance of the canal have already been
secured. State Engineer Lea of South
Dakota, estimates that it will cost$80,
000,000 to run the canal to the Ne
braska line from the reservoir in
North Dakota. It is thought that it
will cost as much more to extend down
across Nebraska to the south line of
Kansas. .
The association is now seeking the
official support of the governors of the
four states, North and South Dakota,
Nebraska and Kansas. When this i
recured plans will be made to go ahead
with the permanent purvey which will
cost about $25,000. It is planned to!
raise this amount of money by start
ing a campaign for (50,000 members In
the association at $5.00 each. I
'The permanent survev will indicate
the exact fcenefits which will be lj?-i
rived from the project, and estimate
the total cost of the project. The
sociation will then take the matter
up with 'President Harding and ask
him to submit it to congress with , a
reimbursement to the association of
the cost of the survey. ;
Judge Bartow means further to sub
mit to President Harding a -proposal in
connection with this project which may
turn out to be a compromise of the'
soldier bonus problem. In short Judge
Bartow suggests that the government
issue 4 per cent, thirty-year bonds 'to'
pay for the construction of the project !
and that all the farms created as a
result of the project be given to the
soldiers w;th the provision that they
pay for them in a period of 30 years.
Charging $100 an acre, the soldier
would pay $3.33 an acre a year.
Employment for 1,500,00 Men.
Furthermore Ju.'ge Bartow claims
that if the project is begun, it will at
once relieve the unemployment prob
lem in the whole country. It Is esti
mated that this .project would keep
1,500,000 men busy for three years.
The whole country would feel almost
immediately the benefit of the project.
Fifiuring the cot of the whole pro
ject at $100,000,000, Judge Baitow
says that we should remember that
the cost alone of three snd one-third
days of war in 1918, to the United
States, would pay for the entire pro
ject. At the time of the armistice,
the war was costing this country $'.K,
000,000 each day.
Another, phase must be considered.
The Ohio river thaws out first in the
spring, thei Mississippi next and then
comes thcgold Missouri, with her silt
and mud, washing on to them and al
most always causing a slopover some
where along the line. In 1912 it broke
outsomewhere in the neighborhood of
Cairo, III, end did $K.".000,000 of dam
age In one night. It has cost the gov
ernment $r.0,0'.)0,000 annually for the
last r.ixty years to try to take care
of the flcod waters of the lower Mis
sissippi valley.
Relieve Mississippi Floods.
The Bartow project would remedy
the flood condition and would remove
one-third of the strain on the lower
Mississippi dykes. It can be said then
that it would prevent floods for all
time along the lower Mississippi in
Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and
Louisiana.
What else would the success of the
project insure? It would materially
increase the annual rainfall of the
whole western parts of the Dakotas,
Nebraska, Kansas and eastern Wyom
ing and Colorado. It has been proven
definitely that land cultivation tends to
increase rainfall.
Cheap Electricity for the West.
"The 3,500,000 hydro-electric horse
power developed at the big dam would
be utilized to operate an electric road
along the entire 1,000 miles of the
canal and to light the 4,000,000 farm
houses and furnish power to all these
farms. It would means that all towns,
cities and hamlets in the western partf
of these four states would have cheap
electricity.
In 1S60 the population of the
United States was 44,000,000. In 1920
it was 110,000,000. Jit that rate of
growth in the next sixty years this
country should have 220,000,000 peo
ple. Where shall they be placed? It
is safe to say that the project would
be an outlet for 20 to 25 million peo
ple. ( Headquarters in Lincoln.
Judg Bartow is now in Lincoln to
interest Lancaster people in the propo
sition. It is planned to reorganize the
association, which wiUbe known in the
future as the Great Plains Irrigation
Project and Irrigation canal. The
headquarters of the association accord
ing, to Judge Bartow will be estab
lished in Lincoln. The judge will seek
to obtain mostly soldiers for the C0.000
new $3 members who will be given
every opportunity to acquire farms un
der some sort of long time arrange
ment, as soon as the project h an as
sured fact.
"By making this survey out of our
own pocket," Judge Bartow declared,"
it will not harm anybody. The survey
is absolutely needed to tell the quick
er id cheapest way of getting the
water from the proposed reservoir.
By having the survey perfect in every
way, with 60,000 members of the asso
ciation backing it, we hope to attract
the attention of our congressmen and
senators."
F.x-Scrvice Men First.
"It is a chance a great chance for'
thousands of our brrve soldiers who i
and today are looking for a chance at '
economic independence. I believe that
the soldiers should be the first bene
ficiary of this project. If I have any
thing to do with it, 1 will employ only
ex-service men and give all prefcivnce
to ex-service men," the judge declar
ed. Perhaps the reader may smile when
he finishes rending this article, but
Judge Bartow is smiling too. Across
his weather-beaten clean cut face, the
face of a westerner, wherein are set.
two kindly blue eyes. fiiits a smile of
confidence. The judge knows he is
right. He has pointed out the course
of the-future prosperity of Nebraska.
For eight long years he has been im
bued with this idea, until it has be
come a part of hiin. And his enthu-
j siasm is contagious. It's catching. The
I judae is converting people to his view
point. The day will come when Ne
braska will recognize his services.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Filed for week ending May 2$. 1921!
William H. Poland to Izzie Boland,
lot 5, block (J, Wyoming addition, $1.
R. W. Real and wife to.C. J. Bonja
min, lot 7, block 2, First Addition to
Alliance, $5,700.
Goodform
Hair Nets
TWO
for
25c
TWELVE for $1.50
Can you guess the number
of GOODFORM Hair Nets
in our window?
Each Hair Nej; purchase en
titles you to a chance on a
Hand-tooled Leather Bag:, a
Sterling- Silver Pen and
Pencil or One Dozen Hair
Nets '
Holsten's
Farmers' Union Picnic 1
And Organization
Meeting at Bcrea
There will he a big meeting and
picnic held at Bcrea, Neb., June 7,
1921, for the purpose of organizing
the county. The Berea local has laid
plans for a big clay of sports and
rpeaking. There will be baseball,
horse racing and other sports.
C. J. Osborn, the newly elected
president of the state union, will be
present and give a talk on unionism
that will be worth going a hundred
miles to hear. He is a man gifted
with sound principles and a splendid
speaker who is said to have few
equal.
The meeting will be called nt the
Berea Garaire at 2 o'clock p. m., base
ball immediately following and after
the game other sports in their order.
Bring a basket of good eats. Dinner
will be served picnic style.
Mis Mabel Young rrcnt the week-'
end in Denver.
STATEMENT GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS
' My 23, 1921
Mr. HAPPY
ARTV :
I .TOO FEEL GAY
ENOUGH TO SHO -
These meats agree
VITH METhIS SPRING!
HERE'S some food shopping
advice: Bvy meats that
agree with you at prices that
agree with your food allow
ance. This is a polite food
market where your orders get
prompt attention.
HAM ANLf BACON
SPECIALS '
Morris Supreme Ham,
per pound r3.)tf
Swift's Premium Ham,
per pound. 35
Armour's Star Ham,
per pound..: ,3."
Sliced Bacon, Swift's
Premium, per lb..50
Dacon, whple or half,
per pound, 28 up
Pot Roasts, per lb..,15
Bologna, per lb..r 15$
Watch for Mr. Happy Party!
BETTER MEATS
CHEAPER PRICES
THE MODEL i
MARKET
116 WEST 4TH ST.
PHONE C
j
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
e
1. Water . ,
2. Water Extension.
'3. Water
4. Water Extension.
5. Water Extension.
6. Water Extension.
7. " Totals- Water
18,000.00
2,000.00
55,000.00
20,000.00
10,000.00
10,000.00
..1115,000.00
8. Light :.
9; Total Light and Water
10. City Hall I
11. City Park
12. Refunding :
13. Funding .
14. Sanitary Sewers u .
15. Sanitary Sewer Extension.
16. Drainage Sewer. ...
17. Drainage Extension
18. Paving Intersection....
19. Paving Intersection .
J $ 20,000.00
.$135,000.00
. 8,000.00
. 5,000.00
. 11,000.00
. 47,000.00
.$ 45,000.00
. 7,000.00
. 55.000.00
. 10,000.00
.$ 20,000.00
. 25,000.00
School
School
School
School
School
School
School
School
bonds,
bonds,
bonds,
bonds.
. 5,000.00
300.00
3,000.00
2.000.00
20,000.00
15,000.00
22,000.00
250,000.00
29. Total School
4320,000.00
. SUMMARY
Water and Light Bonds..
General Bonds 1'
School Bonds .-
$135,000,00
233.000.00
- 1 320,000.00
16,000.00
2,000.00
55,000.00
20,000.00
10,000.00
10,000.00
$113,000.00
ft .
$ 20,000.00
$133,000.00'
$ 8,000.00 :
5,000.00
11,000.00
47,000.00 ,
35,000.00
7,000.00
55,000.00 -
' io,poo.oop
$ 20,000.00
25,000.00
20. Total General $233,000.00 $223,000.00
$ 5,000.00
3,000.00
3,000.00
2.000.00
20,000.00
15,000.00
22,000.00 '
Not sold
$ 70,000.00
$133,000.00
123.000.00
i 60,000.00 "
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7-93
5- 06
7-10
1-10
12-19
6- 21
1898
1911,.
1915
1920
1924
1931
VI
SL
vf
1918
1926
1930
1939
1939
1941
7- 10 4V4 1915 1930
1-04 6 1914 1924
8- 11 ' 6 1916 1921
12-16 5 1921 1936
5-19 5 7c 1924 1939
5-09 4i 1914- 1929
5-18 5 1921 1933
7-19 5 1924' 1929
12-19 6 1924 1939
7-19 5 - 1924f
J-20 6 Ve 1925f 1940
7- 89
5- 92
8- 92
9- 99
6- 07
2-12
6-13
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
6
1899
1912
1912
1914
1927
1932
1923
GRAND TOTAL
Amount added whenever
.$688,000.00. .
$326,000.00;
$250,000.00 school bonds are all BoId-.
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Total amount whenever $250,000.00 school bonds are all sold.
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3
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$16,000.00
1,000.00
$17,000.00
$9,000.00
9
$ 1,000.00
, 55,000.00
20,000.00
10,000.00
10,000.00
$ 96,000.0,0
$ 11,000.00
$20,000.00 .$107,000.00
$ 8.000.00
5.000.00
$ 1,000.00
$ 11,000.00
47,000.00
$ 34,000.00
7,000.00
55,000.00
10,000.00
$ 20,000.00
25,000.00
$14,000.00 .$209,000.00
$ 5.000.00 -3,000.00.
3.000.00
2,000.00
1,000.00
16,000.00-
$ 19,000.1)0
15,000.00
6,000.00
$30,000.00 $ 40,000.00
$26,000.00
14,000.00
30,000.00
$70,000.00
$107,000.00
209.000.00
40,000.00
Annual Sinking Fund, 5 basis
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$ C0.48
1,663.20
604.80
302.40
302.40
$3,538.08
6,715.36
1,723.68
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$ 1R0.97
4,987.95
1,813.80
355.50
320.40
$ 50.00
2,475.00
900.00
500.00
C00.00
$ 230.97
7,462.93
2,713.80
855.50
902.40
$ AG
1.87
.68.
.21
.22
$2,933.28 $ 7,640.62 $ 4,525.00 ; -J , $12,165.62 $ToI I
I C04.80 ,$ 097.59 495.00 $ 1,402.59 $ .38
$3,538.08 $ 8,638.21 $ 5,020.00 $1.26 $13,658.21 $lu
'' . . .
$ 332.64 $ 509.74 $ 550.00 $ 1,059.74 S 26 1
1,421.28 1,670.85 2,350.00 ',,-.. Afiltit i'.OI
$1,028.16 . $ 3.5C0.48 $ 1,530.00 ' ' $ 5,090.4 $ 1 27 '
211.68 ' 270.90 350.00 ' 620 90 16
1.663.20 5,759.60 2,750.00, ' 8.509.CO l5
302.40 S55.50 . 600.00 . " 955.50 J4
: . 1
SLo.oo $ i,ogo.oo $1,000.00 ' $2,000.00 $ .50
756.00 1,818.75 1,500.00 2!318.75 58
$6,715.36 - . $14,945.82- $10,630.00 2.66 $24,575.82 - $ 6.17
$ 604.80 $2,000 $'2,793.88 $ 950.00 " ' $ 3,743.38 $ .94 I
453.60 . 1,055.85 750.00 " . 1 805.85 45 ' I
665.28 ' 376.93 800.00 676.98 .17 1
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$1,723.68 $ 4,226.21 $ 2,000.00 : .50 $ 6,226.21 $ 1.56 . I
$356,000.00 $11,977.12
$ 7,560.00
2.000
$2,000.
.$19,537.12
1 ftr. t
$ 8,638.21
14,945.82
4,226.21
$27,810.24
$ 7,560.00
$ 5,020.00
10,630.00
2,000.00
$17,650.00
$15,000.00
$35,370.24 $32,650.00
1.26
2.6
.50
$T42
$3.75
$lM
$13,658.21
24,575.82
6,226.21
$44,460.24
$22,560.00
. $67,020.24
, r
$ 3.42- I
6.17 1
1X6 I
$11.15
$ 5.63 I
.$16.80 I
La .A
.a ..... . t One each year. ,
1 Refunded by No. 12,
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