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O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA. FEBRUARY I, 1894.
NUMBER 30.
je Local News of O’Neill as Caught
by the “Kids.”
■ATHER interesting notes
pu of General Interest Published While
News Is Still News.
Az Perry went over to Butte Monday.
Gene Cress visited Sioux City Monday.
51r v. Alcerts ie confined to his bed
,itli rheumatism-_
The Frontier and New York Trib
jie both for $1.50._
Holt county bus tour men who are
,er iQQ years of age.
John Morrow left Monday for Lin
jId to attend school.
John Wcekes returned Saturday from
lbusiness trip up the road.
J. J. King went down to Ewing Mon
hv to take some depositions.
Purely vegetable. Hood’s pills.
52-52
Mrs. Ed. Gallagher entertained the
igh-five club at her home last Thursday
wing _
The Kensington club was entertained
T Mrs. John HcHugh last Saturday
I'.ernoon. _
Dick Clapp and wife left for Massa
husetts yesterday, where they will re
ide iu the future.
The Daughters of Rebekah gave a
rtrv pleasant party at the Odd Fellows’
til last Thursday night.
The pupils of the public school were
iven a half holiday yesterday to attend
ie irrigation convention.
We learn by letters written by Mr.
lathews to his family that he is very
inch taken with California.
Mrs. C. AV. Cook came down from
luskville yesterday morning and will
risit with Mrs. T>. L. Darr.
Mrs. S. C. Sample, who had been vis
ting friends iu O'Neill for a week, re"
irneil to her home in Butte Monday.
Wiieu in need of coal go to Biglin's
ml yard, tie keeps the best coal in
»wn and his prices are reasonable. 26 tf
Billv Pollock is making a very read
me paper out of the Peoples’ Advocate,
Wblished at Ewing, and of independent
politics. ,
A radiator exploded in the school
muse yesterday. No damage was done
m the hoys and girls in the room were
•illy frightened.
On January 29 County Judge Mc
»iian issued a marriage license to
Ailliam Shannon and Miss Sarah Pink
both of Scottville.
FOR SALE—10 head of farm horses.
^*nt to close them otjt at once; will
*11 them for $30 to $7() per head.
*”3 Edgar Thompson.
Judge Bowen went down to Lincoln
uesilay on business. The Judge ex
*cls to trade some Holt county land
°r Lincoln property, to which place he
* thinking of removing.
It the master commissioner
U"gh and Kautzman—what
fctrious
Wit'
•evil
affair
an il
pair!—have demonstrated their
cry “good Lord!” “good
to suit any emergency.
It ia very
to
. painful to read the Sun
' ®t McHugh attemps to be funny. He
*h°m as much humor in his system
•rattlesnake and lacks the brains to
t“»t intelligently before his readers.
Atkinson Graphic greeted its
trs last week in a bran new dress of
"West style and
,11" trimmings
•Pend. it ;
Her.
most modern cut,
and furbelows to cor
ueater and better than
p,,.8 'ai*‘es of the Episcopal church
,11,aa "vster supper at the residence
T- Dobbs Monday evening. A
at|d profitable time was had:
for the guests and profitable for
church.
! Sanfi
°fd Parker, Spencer’s backbone,
Je,lin ll|>°n us Tuesday. Mr. Parker
&t tile IlDtllrimr kxntnnnn tn flnnn.
hri « -- hanking business in Spen
L 8 nourishing, and that he hopes
ltd ° ^ U,'*° t0 ma^0 farm loans.
c°unty real estate security would
00 money for investors.
! The
hum1 a<*e,’endePt may find amusement
^ mipating uie action 0f Thk Fkon
(tictJeara hence in regard to tlie dis
^--hip, but it will not have the
V
en Ike time
nfluencing us in the least.
,#rriffl0>iriEK W‘" ^e f°un<l supporting
comes to elect a judge
o fitted for the position and capa
serv'
flnS the people in his judicial
II, 1J' His name will be selected by
rtPublicans
Sion
of this district in con
assembled.
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Don’t forget the dance at the rink
Monday evening, February 5, 1894.
Everybody invited to attend.
The Star-Journal says Ainsworth has
a resident who lias not taken a bath for
46 years. We will lay a few sheckles
that be votes the independent ticket. '
Ex-President Harrison will soon visit
California for the purpose of delivering
his first course of lectures on political
economy before the Stanford university.
For sale or rent, on easy terms, a good
farm, 160 acres, four miles from O’Neill;
all tillable land, 115 acres were under
the plow last year. For terms and fur
ther particulars address, Wilbur Seed
Meal Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 80lf
Several exchanges down the road are
engaged in a little controversy as to
which is the best town on the Short
Line. Time employed In that way is
utterly wasted. O'Neill is situated on
the Short Line.
We will give away on Febuary 22 a
handsome parlor set of furniture to our.
customers. It will not cost you a cent,
so if you are not lucky enough to get it
you cannot lose anything by trying,
Call at our store for particulars.
24-8 _J. p. Mann.
Dr. Foote, of Omaha, assisted by Drs.
Blackburn, McDonald and Slurdevant',
removed a tumor from Mrs. Frank Bit
ney, of Atkinson, yesterday. It was a
very difficult surgical operation but was
successfully performed and the patient
is doing nicely.
McHugh escapes censure from the
alliance. The reason is self-evident:
in the first place he is one of them, and
an independent was never known to
censure an independent. In the second
place he never did anything of sufficient
importance to merit a severe rebuke.
He is harmless.
The supreme court of Indiana re
cently made a decision which declares
the saloon, even though licensed by the
state, a nuisance, and that the proprie
tors thereof are liable for damages for
injury to adjacent property depreciated
either for sale or rental, by the presence
of the saloon.
John McNichols was down from At
kinson Monday making an effort to col
lect rent the Jew owes him. The Jew
has occupied John’s building about 81
months and has paid the magnificent
sum-of $5. And still Kaiitzman says
people who (ray their debts are a detri
ment to the town and county.
Postmaster Riggs has been informed
that the daily mail route from Spencer
to O’Neill will be extended to Butte on
July 1, 1894. This is a good thing for
O’Neill as well as her sister city, Butte.
It will give them a daily mail from the
outside world. This is the route that
was petitioned for a few weeks ago
C. P. Webster of the Nebraska Loan
and Trust Co., Hastings, was in the city
Wednesday. Mr. Webster is quite en
thusiastic over the irrigation project, his
company being interested in this county
and gives as his opinion, that if the
scheme is feasible there will be no dif
ficulty about securing the necessary
funds to push it to a successful termi
nation. '_
The editor of the Ewing Advocate
remarks that the business of a Holt
county sheriff has never been interfered
with by the appointment of a master
commissioner. The Advocate may be
innocent of intent to deceive, but it is a
fact that a master commissioner was
aopointed in Holt county a couple ot
years ago and there was no “reason
assigned” why such officer should be
appointed.
The “Shamrock and Rose,” presented
at the opera house last evening by the
Academy Dramatie company, was wit
nessed by a crowded house. The play
was presented in a pleasing manner and
to the satisfaction of the audience,
evidenced by the hearty applause that
punetuated the performance. We have
not the space to go into details jind
speak merited words of praise for the
individual actors, but pronounce the
effort a success that Manager Biglin and
his company have cause to be proud of.
After the pdrformance Father Cassidy
dined the players at his residence.
Independent: When Judge Kinkaid
emphatically declared in court last Sat
urday that he would “not appoint any 1
masters in chancery ai all this year,” the
Meredith-Dickson-Uttley-Adams- Scott
gang, and the poor, unclean, editorial
mendicants, were knocked into smither
eens like a bomb had burst in tbeir
midst, and their (to them) shrewd
scheme died abornin’. Now if the inde
pendent members of the board of super
visors will manife|t sand enough to set
down bard and flat on that gang of edi
torial scabs and defenders of tax rob
bers, they will receive the eternal praise
of every honest man in the county.
Our attention has repeatedly been
called to the methods of the principal
of onr city schools in his desire to in
culcate his principles of political econ*
omy into the studies of his pupils. This
may be all right but we doubt if It is
what he is supposed to be drawing his
salary for. But when, in addition to
this, he requires his scholars to relate
the biography of prize fighters it is time
to call a halt.
William Wisegarver was in the city
| Tuesday and called upon The Frontier.
| Mr. Wisegarver subscribed for The
Frontier about 14 years ago and has
not missed an issue in all those years.
Mr. Wisgarver, of course, is an old
settler, and one that has made money
by cleaving to his Holt county farm
through grasshoppers, famine and
other vicissitudes that beset the path of
advance civilization.
Once upon a time Tiie Frontier
mildly protested at tbe action of the
supervisors in employing one John Mor
row as assistant expert on the county
records. We were roundly abused for
it. After Hayes took charge of the
treasurer’s office this man Morrow was
appointed as clerk. The settlement
committee, who are now checking up
Hayes’ accounts. And that the work of
Morrow, did for Hayes, is so full of rank
errors that our charge of his utter in
competency is fully verified. His ser
vices have been dispensed with and he
has gone away to attend school at the
earnest solicitation of his friends. For
news that is reliable consult The Fron
tier, $1.50 a year in. advance.
Emery Baitezore appeared before
County Judge McCutchan'Monday with
his adopted son, Alva Baitezore, aged 7
years, and asked that he be sent to the
reform school for the reason that he had
set fire to the complainant’s hay stacks
and barn,and that he was an untamed
and all ’round ungovernable kid. The
judge examined into the merits of the
case and concluded that the youth was
eminently qualified to enter the reform
atory class, and was about to make an
entry on his docket to that effect, when
the boy’s uncle, Price Pabcock, appear
ed and agreed to undertake the task of
civilizing the urchin for a short time,
when he will be sent to his father in the
southern part of the state.
The Sun’s comment last week on the
master commissioner appointment, or,
rather, the non-appointment, was about
as senseless and ridiculous as anything
we have seen for some time.
In the first' place The Frontier
did not apply for a master commissioner,
.nor did it know that a master commis
sioner had been applied for until we
read it in the Sun. In the second place
TnE Frontier has no attorney, neither
has it any foreclosure cases in the dis
trict court. We have expressed our
yiews on this question before and it is
not necessary at this time to dismiss tbe
action ot the court, although we reiter
ate that the cry of “sheriff’s excess” is
mere buncome, balderdash, senseless rot
and tactics of tbe bushwhacker.
Dr. Shore, formerly of O’Neill, but
now of Washington, recently performed
the rather rare,, difficult and dangerous
operation of ligating the Common Ca
rotid Artery. The doctor Was called to
see a boy who, by some accident, was
shot, the shell entering the eye, totally
destroying that member; the wound was
dressed and the patient made as com
fortable as possible but no hope was en
tertained for his recovery. Some days
afterward a messenger was sent for the
doctor on account of profuse bleed
ing, and upon examination the shell was
located and found to be'deeply imbed
ded near the ear. On removing the shell
(which had injured the Common Ca
rotid), the doctor found that he had to
deal promptly with hemorrhage of that
vessel, and without professional assist
ance he promptly exposed the vessel and
tied it, and after the lapse of more than
two months the patient, we are inform
ed, is doing well, the incision in the
neck being about healed and the pros
pects are fair for a complete recovery.
Owing to the anatomical peculiarities,
bifurcations and branches of this artery
and the necessity, often, of tying it
above and below the wound, and the
skill required in making choice of a
proper place to ligate, and upon which
the ultimate success of the operation de
pends, speaks well for the doctor's skill
and ability, and the case is well worthy
a place in the medical journals. It is an
operation that few surgeons would un
dertake without professional assistance.
The renowned Sir. A&tley Cooper per
formed this operation the second time it
was eyer successfully performed, and
thirteen years afterward he had occasion,
in the interest of the profession, to suf
ficiently dissect the patient upon whom
the operation had been performed, to de
termine nature's mode of establishing
the collateral circulation and to observe
the changes wrought by nature in con
sequence of the operation. ,
A Large Attendance And a Sacceas
Ail Session.
NORTH NEBRASKA . SOCIETY,
Beneficial Basalts Cannot Fail Whare Snob
Interest Exists.
This great gathering of representative
citizens of North Nebraska, was the
result of a call issued by the Holt County
Irrigation Society, and from the success
of the convention, and the general inter*
est manifested and the unanimous senti
ment in favor of irrigation, the society
lias cause to feel well repaid and assured
that its efforts have not been In vain.
Thu Frontier has the space this
week to give but a brief synopsis of the
work of the convention, but next week
will give the secretary's report in full.
The convention was called to order
Tuesday at 3 o’clock and Judge Kinkaid
elected chairman and T. V. Golden
secretary.
Upon motion Mr. Murphy, of Urown,
Mr. Selah, of Holt, and Mr. Gale, «f
Rock, were appointed a committee on
credentials, and also to report on order
ot business.
Mr. Gillespie made an extended report
on his findings concerning tbe practi
cability of an irrigation ditch from the
Niobrara, Stmke and Bordman rivers.
'From the examination made by himself
and Mr. Meals, he was cleaily of the
opinion that an adequate ditch could be
made at a comparatively small cost.
Messrs. Gillespie and Meals, It will be
remembers 1, wore sent out some weeks
ago by tbe Holt county society for tbe
purpose of making findings, collecting
data, securing water rights and report
same to this meeting. That a wise fore
sight prompted this move the value and
fullness of the report fully demonstrated.
I. A. Fort, of North Platte, president
of the Nebraska State Irrigation Society,
then addressed the meeting upon the
subject under consideration.
VV. G. Price, of the United States
surveying corps, wns introduced by the
chairman and spoke at some length.
0. W. Potter, of Brown county, re
sponded to the call of his county and
made a very spirited and patriotic
address. He said he was instructed by
the citizens of Brown county to say that
they were ready, willing and anxious to
do their share in the matter of making
an irrigation ditch to water Holt, Brown
and Cherry counties,
R. H. Clopton, of Keya Paha county,
spoke for his county,.and said that the
people of bis county are fully alive to
the interests at stake and ready to lend
a helping han'd.
Thomas Carlon, of Holt county,spoke
upon the future of irrigation and held
his audience in close attention while be
discoursed pleasantly an Instructively for
some time.
Ur. Gale, of Rock county, wanted it
distinctly understood that Rock county
was “in it” regarding the irrigation
ditch. She was not only “in it’* but
wants “in it” and is going to stay “in it.”
After Mr. Gale's remarks the conven
tion adjourned until 7:30 p. m. After
re-convening at 7:30 a committee of five,
on resolutions, was appointed, consist
ing of the following named gentlemen:
Mr. Carlon, of Holt; Mr. Gale, of Rock;
Mr. Mastick, of Brown; Mr. Cloptcn, of
Keya Paha and Mr. McCafferty, of Holt.
The chairman in a neat speech then
introduced the speaker of the evening,
Hon. E. R. Moses, of Great Bend, Kan.
It was an eloquent and exceedingly in
structive speech, a synopsis of which
we will give next week.
Mr. Heath, of Lincoln, editor of the
Nebraska Parmer, also addressed the
convention.
Wednesday morning was a business
session, and the proceedings were in
itiated by the appointment of a com
mittee for the purpose of organizing a
North Nebraska Irrigation society.
The committee consisted ot I. A. Fort,
as chairman, Dr. McDonald, of Holt;
W. D. McCord and Mr. Carr, of Keya
Paha; A. H. Gale, of Rock county,
after which the meeting adjourned until
2 o’clock.
The afternoon session was called to
order by the chairman, who introduced
Mr. Emery, of , Kansas, who ad
dressed the meeting for an hour. J£is
remarks were well received and ho sat
down amidst great applause and cries
of “go on!” “go on!”
Dr. Johnson, of Sioux City, also made
a short talk, after which the permanent
organization was effected by electing
Judge Kinkaid president, T. V. Golden
secretary, and allowing a vice president
from each local organization. The
committee on resolutions reported and
the report was adopted. They read in
favor.of the government taking charge
of the enterprise.
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The following delegates were In at
tendance yesterday:
Brown county—E. B. Maatlck, W.
D. McCord, P, J. Murphy, H. ltuby, C.
W. Patten.
Key a Paha county—J. T. Carr, U, C.
Millay, K. U, Clopton.
Sioux City. Io.—G. A. Mead,’J. Per
rin Johnson, W. G. Price.
Atkinson, Holt county—8. W. Tower.
H. Fullerton, 8. Scrutore, 8. Woods, 8.
Bober, j. Stewart, W. Baker, J. Fuller
ton, A. L. Morse, Dr. McDonald, F. J.
Jones, J. Price, J. Allison, H. A. Allen,
Geo. McArthur.
Btuart, Holt county—Frank Dobney,
Philip Eidman, L. A. Jillson.
Paddock, Holt county—It. E. Bowden
W. 8. Griffith, P. J. Lansworth.
Saratoga, Holt county—Peter Greeley.
Verdigris. Holt county—Robert Gal
lagher, J. W. Wagers, John Mofflt, Wm.
Ord, Wm. Stewart, Barney Stewart, E.
H. Smith, W. W. Page, James Mullen,
James Newberry, J. L. Tanner, 0. A.
Munsen.
Shields, Holt county—John Tostman,
P. Gahegan, It. J. McGinnis. J. B. Don*
oboe.
McClure, Holt county—J. H. Willson,
John A. Canton.
Scottvlllo, Holt county—J. L. Biddle;
Steele Creek, Holt county—F. W.
Phillips, Thos. Crow, W. H. Wilson.
Rock Falls, Holt county—W. F.
Clevlsh.
Iowa, Holt county—G. M. Waring.
Grattan, Holt county—P.Barrett, Jno,
Ke|ley, Jno. Coffee, Sam Wolfe, Jno.
Fallon.
Inman, Holt county—D. L. Pond. .
Chambers, Holt county—J. L.Ooppoo.
Conly, Hole county,—C. M, Smith.
Swan, Holt county,—J. D. Jones.
Emmet, Holt county,—J. Gaughen
baugb.
Sheridan, Holt county—A.T.Phllllps.
Obituary.
Wynn—At her residence, two miles
east of this city, on Wednesday morn
ing, Jan. 31, 1804, at 5 o'clock a. u. of
Bright’s disease, age 61 years.
Mrs. Bridget Wynn was born in Coun
ty Sligo, Ireland, in 1883. In 1852 she
came to America and settled in Scran
ton, Pennsylyania. She was married in
1854, and in 1879 she came to Nebraska
with her husband, at which time they
settled on their farm adjoining this city.
The deceased enjoyed good health until
the past year, during which time she has
been a sufferer from Bright’s disease of
the kidneys, and which was the cause of
her death. She leaves on aged husband,
two sons and two daughters, all of
whom were at her bedside when she
died, to mourn her death. The funeral
will take place tomorrow morhlng at 11
o’clock from the home of the deceased.
Tub FnoNTiEn tenders its condolence
to the relatives and friends of the de
ceased. _ _
7—A Seven Sooial.—7
The “King’s Daughters” will give a
Seven Social in the dining room of
Hotel Evans on Tuesday evening, Feb
ruary 0. An interesting program con
sisting of vocal and instrumental music,
also recitations, including the beautiful
“Songs of Seven” will be rendered by
our best talent. Lunch will be served
immediately after the entertainment.
Every seventh person on entering the
door will be presented with a souvenir
and the person having the most sevens
in their age, including day. month and
year of their birth and age at present
time will also receive a souvenir. The
proceeds are to be used for the improve
ment of the cemetery.
The entertainment will commence
promptly at 8 o’clock and seven minutes.
Admission seven cents. The public
are cordially invited.
Hot A Bad Idea.
What’s the matter with a telephone
line from O'Neill, via Spencer, to Buttef
It would cost in the neighborhood of
$3,000 and would be a paying investment
for each of the towns mentioned. In
many of the eastern states there are tele
phone lines connecting small towns that
compete with the telegraph lines and
pay well, and with the enormous busi
ness that would naturally be done be
tween Boyd county and the outside
world a line would not only pay for
itself in u short time but would also pay
handsome dividends on the capital in
vested.—Butte Gazette.
Next week we will offer the lowest
prices we have ever made on overcoats
and cloaks. We will sell
$ 5.00 garments for - - - 9 8.85
| 6.00 cloaks or
f 7.00
$ 8.00
$ 9.00
810.00 “
$12.00
$15 00
$2000
$25.00
overcoats for 8.95
•* - 4.65
*• 5.34
“ - 5.95
“ 6 65
•* - 7.95
“ 9.95
“ - 13.35
" 16 65
Many of the above prices are not first
cost but they must go regardless of cost.
This offer ends Feb. 10.
50-2 J. P. Mann.
Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Busbart, died Sunday, January 28,
after five hours sicknes. The remains
were shipped on Tuesday to Milford,
Nebraska, for interment. Deceased was
three years of age. Three other chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Bushart are very
sick but hopes are entertained fur their
recovery.
HO KAN’S OOLUHN.
The following lines are said to hate
been picked up on the streets Mondays
Who killed Till FllOimaii?
“I," said the First National Bank With ft
vrhoopl
"1 put It In the soups ■
I killed Til* PitowTlMH."
Who will dlsr Its Bravo?
"I," said tho Jew. with a bound,
"I'll plant It ten feet under ground I
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I will dig Its gravo.
Who will throw It luf
"I," said llonest Jehu Mileage,
"I'll do it tho first trlulagei
I'll throw It in."
Who will oover It up?
"We," said the supervisors,
"Wo'U oover It up toe-nails and inoisOMi .
We'll covor It up."
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Boyd County Press: A few evening*
* young couple not n thouiend mile* ' »
•way wore compelled to burn a rolling :>i%
pin In their endeavor* to keey warm. V’
No Man venture* the assertion that M
this is not the first case of a rolling 'pin , ^
being burnt.
The blundering Jew, who edits the
sausage mill that turns out bologna man
ufactured from bleeding parts of the *
English language, by which he labors to
express the suspicion of an Idea, says
that the ‘‘county alliances should throw \
nS their Inaotlve lethargy.” Just what '}
kind of lethargy he would have them
adopt he leaves his readers to guess, but |
It Is fair to presume that he would favor
an active lethargy. Now Webster says'
lethargy Is preternatural sleepiness; , ;
morbid drowsiness; continued or pro
found sleep fipm which a person can
scarcely be awakened; dullness; Inaction. 41?
It would be an Inspiring sight and well
worth the price of admission to .see the
county alliance possessed of active ‘‘pre- -
ternatural sleepiness” and laboring with
a severe case of active '‘morbid drowsi- V;l||
ness," or wrapped in Morpheus’ arms in Mf
a masterly active “profound sleep." Men ;i|
with the frame of a mastodon and about
as much brains, occasionally attempt to v £
edit newspapers and express premature,
ill-begotten ideas with the cats and dogs ||
of the English language and nomadlo ff
hieroglyphics, and still people wonder ’’;V
at crime. , >, .
Practicability of Irrigation. '-JM
Editors Frontier-At the last meet*
mg of the irrigation convention held on
January 17, there was an article read on
the underflow of the Elkhorn Valley -
and in discussing the practicability of '
the plan to develop the underflow. The
chairman of the convention mode the
statement that the development of the '7 ’
underflow has been tried and found
impracticable. . u
Mow 1 want to show your readers, and Slyr
also the members of that convention, by r
this article, that it is a success and it Is ,
now in use in a large number of places .'V
in this and other states and hoe been
found reliable in every respect, and
there Is no doubt in my mind but that .
it is practicable in the Elkhorn Valley ,
and will be one of the main links in the '
chain that will make the canal through
the Elkhorn Valley a success. Three of
these sub-canals are now flowing in the
Arkansas valley. One of these, the first
constructed, has been flowing four years
discharging DO cubic feet per second, or
224.41 gallons or over 18,440 per minute,
or over 806,400 gallons per hour and all
the proprietors of most all the canals in
that valley, large and small, are figuring
on providing for the work a supply of
water from the underflow.
On the South Platte, near Ogalalla,
Neb., the same method met with signal
success. The water having been flowing
in the sub-caual for more than three
years. A new canal, or a system of
sub-canal, tapping the underflow of the
South Fork of the Republican river in
northwest Kansas is well under way.
Near Limou, Colorado, a Denver
company has invested a half million
dollars in irrigation works which em
braces large storage reservoirs fed in
part by the underflow from the Big
Sandy.
For 28 years the valley lands of
Creek, a branch af Salmon Creek,
abundant crops by the underflow.
1889 the water of Pine Creek
diverted from its bed for mining
ations. The result was entire fnilure
crops. Ou Clover Creek, a branch
the same Pine Creek, the water in this
creek was several feet below the surface
of the ground of the adjoining land and
by a set of dams, so os to bring the
stream almost even with the surface,
the stream was so raised as to afford
sufficient water to irrigate crops.
These are illustrations ot the fact that
throughout the plains of Kansas. Colo
rado and Nebraska this method of
securing water is a success and that it
will be the reclamation of large areas of
land which would be without water
supply for irrigation but for the employ
ment of this method can scarcely be
doubted by any one who will carefully
study the facts of surface characteristics
of the Elkhorn Valley and divides its
draws, and their outcrops, its springs,
sand beds and dooIs together with an
intelligent consideration of the facts to
be drawn from a knowledge of wells
made by private enterprise throughout
the Elkhorn Valley show forth its sub
terranean resources as clearly and with
as much certainty as a man’s character
may he judged from his face. . .
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