B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 19, 1900. V 4 GUNNISON TUNNEL IS READY Pretident Taft to Open th Big: Irri. gation Project a sn miles or mammoth tube Haa Takea Foir an m Half Yrirt ( Work t4 SR, OOO.OOO, bat la E. ected to Reatore 1B0, OOO Acres. I " ' A dosen or mora years ago the traveler through Colorado who took the narrow gauge train at Ballda for tha wonderful ellmb over Marshall Pass and through the Black canyon waa aura to have hla atten tion called to a great red brick hotel, which aeemed strangely out of place In a half-asleep town of a thousand or so. Tha hotel was typical of a day that Is tone In Colorado. Every brick In It was hauled over the, mountain by wagon at a time when there seemed no end to the mineral wealth of the state and when for tunes were made and spent In a year or a month. Now Colorado has discovered that there are other ways of getting rich than by reining and that agriculture Is one of them. Tha western part of the state has for many years had aectlons famous for their fruit In fact tha Rocky Ford can taloupe Is a native of the 'state. But the great problem has been water. That problem the government la solving, and one of the many duties that will fall on President Taft on hla western trip will be t open the great Qunnlson tunnel, the first project undertaken by the United States reclamation service. This six miles of cement lined tube has cost Uncle, Fam more than $r,O0O,ono. but It doesn't follow that he will not get all orj most of It back directly and a great many mora millions Indirectly. The tunnel Is to 'water 150,000 acres, and perpetual water rights are to be sold only to actual settlers who have ten years In which to pay. with out Interest. Multiply 160,000 by 3T and the problem of financing the tunnel Is solved. 1 This region where It la predicted M.000 persons will soon make their homes Is the Unoompahgre valley, through which runs tha disappointing river from which It gets Ita name. The river at one time furnished enough water for Irrigation purposes, but gradually it died out. SetUsrs who had built up prosperous farms moved away and young orchards were abandoned. Finally there were 40,000 acres under cultivation and perhapa four tlmea that much land ly ing Idle Just as good land, but useless without water. ' Ten miles awery through picturesque acenery, delightful to the visitor, but useless to the farmer, ran the Gunnison river, mountain fed and rock lined with a never falling supply of water. There was the problem to Join tha wasted water of the Ounnlson to the wasted land of the Un compahgra valley. The state tried it first and spent some $X,000 drawing up plana to show the prac ticability of the 0,000 foot cut through granite and sandstone. It waa twenty years ago that Colodado began lta work, and now the federal government has fln- k lshed It after four and a half years of actual dlgglryg. The two gangs working In the bore met on July 6 of this year at a point In the tunnel 10,813 feet from the Gunnison river end. With that the hardest work is over and now all Is In readlneaa for the presi dent to start the flow of water. The tunnel Is the most remarkable feat ure of thla great enterprise. It runs west from the Gunnison river for S0.600 feet. It la lined throughout with cement and meaaurea Inside 11x13 feet. From Its west ern end runs tha main canal, which Is thirty feet wide at the bottom and eighty three at the top. With an average depth of ten feet of water this means about 1.S00 cublo feet a second. Irrigation la the, chief, but not the only use of the tunnel and canals. After leav ing the bore there is a drop of S72 feet, and thla will be used for a power plant which It Is confidently predicted will light with electricity all the farmhouses which are expected soon to spring up. One thing the government is determined en, and that la that only Teal settlers ahall come Into this newly watered ter ritory. As a matter of fact there is now m land onen for free settlement, but the i control of the water rights gives the fed- 8 eral authorities the whip hand In regulat- j ing the district. Jay ' The statement of conditions obtaining In me vauey imn irinmi mm ,.-,. v.-. of tha purchase of unwatered lands. The limit of lartd privately owned, for which water will be furnished to one head of a falmly, Is ISO acres. Land privately owned must be listed with th Water (Users assoclstlon before government water I will be furnished for lt The one restriction which prevails on all lands to which government water Is fur nished Is that there must be an act-.ial bonaflde settler on the lend. These lands cannot be held Indefinitely for speculation by nonresidents, nor can they be held by nonresidents and rented to others. Purchasers of land watered by the gov ernment will be allowed at least one year to establish themselves as residents or to dispose of their holdings by private sale. Lands not so settled upon or disposed of are to be sold at auction, after due ad vertisement under the direction of the Water Users association. The holder of an irrigation homestead entry proves up on his land after five years In the regular way and completes paying for his water In ten years. In case of sale or relinquishment, another actual settler must take the place of the original entry man on the land and must spend a complete term of five years on the home stead, though, of course, only ten pay ments In all have to he made on the water rights, no matter how many times It changes occupants. Tne reclamation service, besides build ing the tunnel and constructing the canals to bring the water from the tunnel's moulh over to the Uncompahgre river, has ac quired all tha Important canals and irri gating systems from the Uncompahgre. These will be reconstructed this fall and coming winter into one comprehensive and complete Irrigation system. Fruit la the thing these farmers who don't hava to depend on rain expect to grow rich on. Marvelous stories are told of tha Colorado apples and peaches. But it Is not enough to have your water ready on tap; orchard heatera are used In the spring to prevent the frost from killing the blossoms. Moreover, the irrigated orchard of Colorado looks very little like the old-fashioned orchard of our New England forefathers, where pigs and cat tle rooted In the grass and email attention was paid to the Individual trees. "Clean cultivation" is what they call the western system. After the first year or two tha ground between and under the trees is kept perfectly bare. Not a blade of grass, , not a weed Is allowed. With that and spraying the eager farmer to be Is assured that he can send his fruit to market with the guarantee of not a worm to a carload of apples. Sugar beets, onions, alfalfa, everything In fact, except corn, these are aome of the crops that can be raised In this once de serted district, but It Is the fruit farms that turn out the stories of salea of fl.SOi) worth of peaches or 11,000 worth of pears to tha acre. oooocooooooocoooocoooooccoooocoocooooooooooouo 3 1 ! m ALE F TFURMOTUOS n. j 'sa'rixvV a j. raw 'aw Of the 150.000 acres Included in the Un compahgre Valley reclamation project nearly 100,000 acres Is land which has long belonged to private parties. The other M.000 acrea lies for the most part above tha lines of the canala built from the Un compahgre river many years ago and Is more or less rough, remote and Inaccessl i ble. The greater part of the government land was filed upon as homesteads as soon as It waa certain that the canal would bo built. The balance has been withdrawn from aottlement. None of this government land la now open for settlement. None of It will be offered fur settlement until hltfh line laterals are built to water It. The greatest opportunities In the Uncom pahgre valley are and Kill be in the way SIXES THAT BECOME NINES Novel DvtIoo of a a Inventor's that Becomes Nearly Perpetual Motion. Is the figure "6" lighter than the figure "9?" Or, to put it In another way. Is the figure "" heavier than the figure "6?" Still again, will figures, so placed on the spokes of a wheel that such figures will be "9s" going down and "6s" going up, keep the aforesaid wheel revolving con tinually without any motive power? Theae tthoughta were extracted from tha mind of a man who watched what purports to be a perpetual motion device In full oper ation. The machine is the Invention of W. L. Saunders, 1004 Fort Dearborn building, and he has had a copyright and patent on everything connected . with the device In order to protect his invention from possible rivals. He does not state to what use his Invention will be put. The machine is about eighteen lnchaa high and twelve Inches at tha base. It Consists of thirteen glass spokes running from a steel and cork axle, and at the end of the spokes Is. a blown glass affair with the figure "9" on It from one point of view, from another point of view It haa the figure 6" painted on It. The machine, so called. Is guaranteed to run aa long as the materials In it with stand the ordinary wear and tear. It la Inclosed In a small glass case, put there to show that no wires make the device go or that no other unseen articles are used to make the perpetual motion device keep Its momentum. The glass wheel and the glass blown bulbs with the figure "9" or yt" painted on them turn to the left con tinuously. Back of the wheel Is a card which Is supposed to Inform the Inquisitive person who Is wondering why the wheel turns without any visible means. It reads aa fol lows: "The '6' going up on the right be comes a "9' going down on the left. The ' being so much more than the overbal ances the latter, causing the wheel to turn continuously." Some of the people believe the card, othera don't, but at least the card Is as near as anyone has come to a true solu tion of the problem of the little wheel's motion. Chicago Inter-Ocean. IT'S SIMPLY WONDERFUL The business we have been doing the past three weeks ha3 broken, all previous records more new accounts opened than in any three weeks in our business history. This SEPTEMBER SALE has given to people the oppor tunity to SAVE from 25 to 50 PER CENT on their furniture, carpet and stove purchases, and the manner in which people have been buying indicates VERY CLEARLY that they appreciate GENUINE BARGAINS when of fered by THE PEOPLES STORE. There are hundreds of articles that are GREATLY REDUCED in price awaiting you at this store. Remember, your money has a double buying capacity during this great September sale. BUY YOUR HOME OUTFIT (taring thla sale. You will SAVK from "5 50 KK C'KXT, averaging fully 33 'a I'KH CHXT, If you make your rturtiiases wow. CASH OK EASY 1MKNTS. THREE ROOMS FURNISHED $7f ZZf COMPLETE FOR IbBHJ TERMS t7 CASK. tS M01TTXX.T. Our home outfits are the only outfits In the city that are complete home outfits in every sense of the word. They Include, besides the neces sary furniture, carpets and stoves, such articles as window shades, lace curtains, crockery, tinware, etc. goods not found with outfits elsewhere. O $26.50 FOR THIS GUARANTEED STEEL RANGE o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o TURKS 92.50 Di, , " , ktkk L. A NOE offer ever Unquestionably, this Is the greatest bTbhl. made to tW public of Omaha . These fotreTt are made of itive guarantee of glv ng B RUaie that Insures lasting ".T Vu8 SoflffUh duplex grates, and are September Sale of Carpets and Rugs Ingrain Carpets, extra heavy quality, Brussels effects, worth 73c, silt price, per yard .4O0 Zxtra Brussels Carpets, our usual $1.00 -quality, noted for its strong wearing, sale prloe, per yard 70o Brussels Bugs, size 11x9, mnde of extra heavy grade of Brussels Car peting, very handsome pattc.-ns. worth $17.60. sale price 110.73 Wilton Velvet Bugs. These handsome rugs are closely woven of a guaranteed quality of Wilton Velvet Carpeting, worth $27.60, sale price avr.Bo rSPall ' $13.50 handsomely nickel trimmed, FOR THIS MASSIVE SIDEBOARD TEX MS 91.00 CASK. BAX.ABCB "BAST." Exactly like llliixtrHtlon ami positively the most remurkrthle SlhKHOARD value that we have offered for some tliiuv They are finished In a beautiful quartered oak affeot and are rubbed and polished to a piano brilliancy. Thev have a large French bevel plate mirror of high brilliancy. One small drawer la lined for silverware. $10.75 BUYS A BEAUTIFUL BRUSSELS RUG rvrn-M ai.rio CASK. BALANCE "BAST." These rugs are made of a special grade of Brussels cnrpetlng that Is noted for Its strong wear ing ouslitv. The colors are woven Into the fabric and will last as long aa the rug-itsclf. These rugs are an actual $17.50 value. W Pay Freight to All Stations Within 800 Miles of Omaha. C0 "7SS BUYS THIS BEAUTIFUL f0a9 CHASE LEATHER COUCH v The frames are of solid oak, highly polished, and the upholstering is in genuine chase leather that Is guar anteed to wear bttter than genuine leather. These couches ure a most remarkable value at tho above low price. We Positively Every thing We Sell Ho Matter What tha Price. We are now showing a complete Una of base burners, heating stoves and rangea. Wa are sola agents for Oold Coin bass burners. All sold for caah or oa very easy pay-ments. Ws guarantee to save yon much money If yon attend thla SEPTEMBER ALB of furniture. Your Credit Is Always Good Here. The Best Values in the City. $26.50 run v-uir nriiiT.nti ruirr run ima ccnuiiruL unHot LEATHER BED DAVENPORT TEBMS $3.50 CASK, BALANCE "EAST." Positively the greatest BKU DAVKNPOKT value ever of fered you. The frame Is of solid oak, highly polished, and the upholstering is in genuine (Jhase leather. 16 rARNAM STREETS. OMAHA. $14.75 FOR THIS HANDSOME BRASS BED Kitwura ai sn flin. a A T.1HCI! EAST." This is positively the very best BllASS UKD proposition offered In the city. They have large, two Inch posts, strongly reinforced, and the entire bed is heavily lacquered and can be had In satin or polished finish. o o o o o o o o o o O: o o o o o o o o o o C) o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Woman's Work Activities of the Organised Bodies Along tha Lines of Un dertaking of Concern to Women. Lifelong- Bondage to dyspepsia, liver -oomplalnta and kidney troubles Is needless, guaranteed remedy. Lrug Co. Electric Bitters is the 60c. Hold by Beaton 3 V II All Five Toes Have 5reathing Rooml There ara mora chil dren's ills caused by improper hoes than you would ever imagine, and such ills are not only found in corns, bunions. enlarged joints, etc., but often the entire nervous system is effected. This has hn ikmnKatlrallv demonstrated rerwntt. - , . , ' i - It voor child ja fretful irritable, five its feet at least soma Consideration by trying jmt once a pair of "WOLFE'S-COLUMBUS" GJ3ZQ SHOES for Children V X00 win aots the Improvement Immediately, because these : MJUlf miM DUUIOn Dltun', Hn Th.. .11 I.. In oive the bones and moacles of ths foot a chance to develop and grow. Relieve the strain oa the "V"" vromoim a correct walk and oamac. Be aidea th.lr healthful Tr " TT ne nou economical, because of thair . wmn quaiitiea. Our (oaraaVMi "Good " w. w flu, - ui nrst sua dealers sell 'am. Th Woll Bros. Sao C. COLUMBUS, OHIO. Bu authority of the Board of DIrtcors, the education committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs makes the following announcement:' A scholarship of $1,500, to be held at either Oxford, Cambridge or London uni versity, for the year beginning October, 1910, will be awarded to an American wo man by the General Federation. The scholar shall be selected from among the graduates of American colleges of good standing. The age of the success ful candidate, when she enters upon her scholarship, shall not exceed 27 years, and she shall be unmarried. She Is expected to enter either upon undergraduate work for honors or upon research work in which ever of the above named universities she may arrange with the committee of selec tion to register. Kach candidate competing for the schol arship shall take in October, liKiS, the same qualifying examinations as are provided by the Khodes Trust for the college men who are competing for the Cecil lihodes scholarships. She must also file with the undersigned secretary of the committee of selection, and with her state federation of ficer with whom she haa her Initial corres pondence, duplicate copies of credentials In retard to her good health, her mental and normal qualities, her literary and scholastic attainments and her promise of distinction. Admission to examinations will be al lowed only upon the written certification of a candidate for this privilege by the national chairman of the General Feder ation, whose address Is given below. This permit will only be issued upon the request of a state federation president or chairman of education. Therefore any college graduate wishing to enter this competition must first make her can didacy and fitness known to one oaf the two federation officers of the state whose addresses are given later. If her qualifica tions are deemed adequate to warrant the great courtesy ot examination acconu-u by the Hhodes Trust, then this offUer may formally present her name to the national chairman of education for a per mit to enter the examination. The examinations are given- in mathe matics. Latin and Greek. The trustees I have decided that any candidate from the I'niled States who pasties the qualifying examination in mathematics and Latin shall be eleglble, although he may not pass the examination In Greek. The same rule will be applied to the women candi dates for the scholarship. The examina tions are to be held October 10 and 20, next, in every state of our country. Announce ments regarding the time, place and gen eral conditions may be obtained from thd secretary of any university in the vicinity of the candidate. The papers are read and rated at Ox ford by official examiners and returned to the national chairman. The committee of selection then submits the names of the successful competitors to the state edu cation officers, who determine which one of their candidates shall be deemed In scholarship and promise of distinction to beat represent the Interests of the state. The final selection between the various 8tate candidates shall rust with the com mittee of selection. Any s'.ate may sub mit a candidate, but if the chglce shall finally rest between a candidate from a state which has contributed lowa-d the scholarship and a candidate from a non-contributing state than preference ahall be given to the candidate frurh the contributing Hale. In this state, the application may he made to either Mrs. F. IL Cole, 1S10 Spen cer street, Omaha Neb., r to Miss M. Josephine McHugh, 2219 Dodge street, Om aha, Neb., who are respectively the presi dent and chairman of education in the State Federation. Full credentials must be sent with the applioatlon. After the local officers have given their written ap proval of the candidacy, the permit to en ter the examinations Is granted upon Its presentation lo Miss Gill. A copy of all credentials should be filed at tho same time with Mrs. Potter. Their addresses are given below. ' Miss I.aura Drake Gill, chairman of the Education Committee, G. F. W. C, 1326 19th St., Washington, D. C. Mrs. Frances Squire Potter, secretary of the Committee of Selection, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. A decided innovatum In local Young Women's Christian association work was the visiting of the stores and office build ings of the city where young women are employed, by the association's board of directors last Thursday. The object of the visit was a desire on the part of the bourd to personally meet the business men of the city and present to them the work of the association in Its greatly broadened scope as It Is to be can led on during the coming winter.' Several thousand copies of the prospectus were distributed and time was granted by employers for discussion of them. Wholly inadequate quarters have greatly limited the associa tion's work In the past, and It Is not yet generally understood how extensive It is to be now that the new building makes It possible. The Society of tht Fine Arts will open Its winter's work Thursday, October 7, when a meeting will be held at the Public Li brary. Mrs. Howard Baldrlge will act as leader, her subject to be "Tha French j Salons of 1909" and "Artists' Life in Paris. Mrs. Baldrlge has spent the sum mer abroad, much of the time having been passed in Paris. She will return home about October 1. a hard spell of weather and a long winter. In Bummers before a mild winter there Is always a fine crop of apples. The present condition, by the way, too, means a hard winter for the lover of applejack. "As a clinched I might say that the cab bages are onto the fact that we are going to have a record-breaking winter. When a man says 'cabbage-head' to mean an ig noramus he doesn't know what he Is talking about, for the cabbages are the wisest of vegetables. Every head of cab bage on my farm this summer Is growing thick, tough leaves and all because they are providing warm coverings for the cold weahtre that they know we are going to buck up against this winter. New TorK Press. Teachers to Get Vacations. DES MOINES, la., Sept. 18 (Speclal.) State Superintendent Rlggs has fcent let ters to all county and city superintendents asking them to use their influence to have the fall vacations fixed so that tho teach ers can attend the state teachers' conven tion to be held in Des Moines Jor Novem ber 4 and 5. The convention has annually been held during the holiday week be tween Christmas and New Year's, and thla year Is changed to an earlier date as an experiment. If Vacations are fixed at that time teachers can attend without losing time. Bible lu Kverr l.anaoncej. According to the lOMh report of the British and Foreign Bible society the Bible will soon be printed In every lan guage and dialect known throughout tha 1 world. Complete Bibles or portions of the Bible were Issued last year in 418 differ ent languages. During the year six new translations were added to the list. Be sides these languages there are complete Bibles or portions of the scriptures made In embossed type for the blind In thlrty one different languages. At $ 3"And Upward AreFini sheo WITH Mamma mumJinammS nimsi isi isii 'Jl-I.,' L I... JJ,:.J - I.. I .I...IL1 N 'II i .1 II I . 1NDN-ELA5J1D r pf?3 Hose Supporters U GUARANTEED TD OUTWEAR ANY CORSET GET YOUR DUDS IN ORDER Jersey's Hard Winter Prophet Sounds a Chilly Warning Note. Columbus Roarty of Greenwood Lake,, a noted New Jersey weather prophet, has thrown a chill Into the natives by announ cing a hard winter. Before giving out his private tips he was in earnest confab lth the corner grocery "man. Columbus was Inquiring about the market quotations on goloshes and ear muffs, and drove a hard bargain by trading a fat pullet that had stopped laying and set of mosquito screens for the cold weather protectors. The prophecies of Columbus Roarty he refuses to call them prognostications or even predictions have been accepted for thirty years as only a little in advance of fact. He la so sure about the weather that he always buys his winter supplies In summer and the reverse. 11 his prophe cies are based on signs from nature. After he had traded wltb the grocer he gavt out the signs: "We're going to have a mighty cold win ter," said Columbus. "Everything points to a cold fall and rlproarlng winter. For one thing, have you noticed this season's corn. Every ear has grown long whiskers. and that's a sure sign. The corn seems t have the sense of a Morris county granger In this respect. A wise farmer II grow i good crop of whiskers as winter advances The harder the winter the longer and thicker the whiskers. Tha same way with the corn. I've never noticed longer breex ers than they have thi.sseason. "You may have noticed too, that the sunflowers blossomed early. That means that we will have an early frost and early snow. We will have a billiard of the lVSs brand along about the middle of Novem ber. Then, look at the apple trees. I can't remember when we had such a poor crop. 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