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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 22. 1910. MIRACLES OF IRRIGATION States Um erurueol Minidoka praW. ZJ1S i t lm t of a Ins unless he r's a liltla arrep. I ahead, unless he oevelops hie own in- 52 I And the splendid thlc about II ail Is tinets of s"lf preer atlon to the point that co lJM3lvW1nal a fU on more thanlwhene he ran anake mite ft hls finuia. Waste Land Turned Into Productire Soil Through Thii Agency. i u. ..... ti. j. 7'"" fc " """ ' """'-r y .i I in i, ,, - , -,f ir rr liri M lt Iitl t ? ( at en cf this IrrlESte hod. This out up these areas Into muil fartns fid ir'ves a pour n.i a cras?' to ge. p'oe iv h' wo. Tle est is r.o place fnr a loa';. bnt tvr- tha. Is nov rlce t-ne o tv- wrs Ta lT-r ..l tr fW- ! h-w h fiot rrwf'.P-e bo fnrr. The tu, ta tio arfacf ft- a mtn altbmil money. Hut tha: Is true of arty plscr. The man wlihou. moner will wort tor a m'ar, in the Ms d be will to-k fo- e. aalerr It tJ-e wrr 9:4 r-.'r-v he tas te t-t- I then he will work for a aaUrv and coitt Inue I to work for a aalmy and continue to work f m- waree wherever he nes; north, east, ' rowllr or west. ( I Mt for the titan with a little money m i il iih sd, for the man with a Job Hint pavr, little something, and who haa utiv for llvltiii. which don't ootiMime all be rorkew. then the west ta knottier I island of Hesperides and the men. w ho I come, sre other .lasons; othrr Argonaula, j and the vessel of their litdlvtduHl hopea are f"ethtrd with olde anriisies. V..7;VTi.,'... J WEALTH CREATED BY WATER Trojerta In Man Cover Mllltoaa of ,rrrn of Hitherto Desert tkat Sow fro, Mr, Homta aa4 rivntr (or Settler. A lit " -r'"ii if.. . , m. m , :. ... . ' ' . .-' '' :' By LLONAKIf KOWLKR, Sljeilal (JommlHPlontr of The Omaha Bee. BLRLKY, Idaho, May 21. iSpeclaM Out here In the wc .-t they speak of Irrigation mm a miracle. To the man who cornea from the bread, graln-ralMn( plain of the mldwcct, U erna nothing than a miracle. Think of living upon five acre ff land; hardly enough for a barnyard Imck home, and realising from It an Incume of thounands of dollars each year. In the Wenatuhre valley of Wsxhlngtou I have i-ri'li land, walked upon It, that the iMKhler of the hank told me wan wrth II. Wl .in aoie; worth that htcau.-n It i.il! a dividend 12 per cent on tlml valuation. Some of this lun.l I- ... ttnti'lltvabli 1 fertility. In the Weiiad in valley I hase reen ono tree produce frt -elRlit Ihix.-k of applra; each liox of which w.m worth 11 50 on the tree. If oin- plants but seventy live c" rheso frees to the acre ami haa an average yield of forty-eight hoxes for each tree In the orchard, here Is a return of J.'i.aTO an acre. I'lve actta .of such trees Would yield 127.004 a year; a tidy fortune. lti the Hogua river country of Oregon thlc rt of thing I equally true. In Pans I have hud a Fnntli waiter, at breakfast, in the morning, ask mu. "Veel M'Sleu In Amer.cane half so apple Hood rovelre?" He meant to ak me if 1 would have Hood river apple for my breakfast. Hood river Is In Oregon, on the Columbia river, forty mllrs from Portland, and I was in I'm .a (i,W0 miles away. 1 nese Hood river orchards are worth from ti.imo to (5.000 an acre In bearing 'roes. Across the river at White Sulmon, In Washington, I pur chased ten acres f this land, without Ir rigation, at $228 an acre. It Is not even fenced. It haa never had a plow atuck In It. It I covered with the original sage- brush. ' And yet the local banker, the man who lives there, told me In confidence, that If v' could get ten acres for $22i an acre I would be getting , a bargain. J j st now the development of the west Is (.entering In Idaho. Millions of dollars are being spent In that statu on Irrigation pro jects. The Bruneau extension of the North MEMORY OF AN INDIAN WAR South Dakota Grand Army Marks Some Battlefields. SULLY EXPEDITION AGAINST SIOUX On of tha Moat Important of the - Casnpalarna that Broko tho Power at tho Great Indian Federa tion ( Northwest. SIOUX FALLS. & D.. May a.-tSpecial.) Tbe stats encampment in June of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of South Dakota, will inaugurate a move ment having for Its purpose the making of the necessary appropriation by congress for the erection of monuments marking the principal battle grounda of the expedition of General Sully against the Sioux Indians In UM. Thla expedition had much to do with bringing peace to what now are the states of Montana, North Dakota and South Da kota and transforming a wild Indian coun try Into a land of homes, churches and schools. , , . At the last encampment of the South Da goia Grand Army of the Republic Colonel L. C. Ives of Morristown was appointed a committee of ono to travel over the route followed by General Bully and hla expedi tion and locate tbe several battle grounds of the campaign. Colonel Ives, a few days ajo, completed, the Journey and now Is pre paring his report, and upon thla will be bused a memorial to congress asking that money be appropriated for the erection of monuments at points which have become historical by reason of the conflicts waged there between the warlike Sioux and the soldiers of Uncle Sam, who were engaged in paving the way for civilisation to be tarried to this part of the northwest. Veterans of SaJIr'e Army. Colonel Ives waa accompanied on the Journey by Captain S. 8. Campbell of Sen . ttnel Butte. These two men marched with General Sully on hla memorable campagn, accompanying the expedition from Sioux Falls to the close of the campaign. As members of the expedition they were par ticipants in the battle of KUdeer moun a. Xalns, tho battle of Plat Top Butte and In the long running fight between the soldiers aird the Indiana weatward to the Yellow atone river. The South Dakota Grand Army of the Itepubllc desires to have the government erect the monuments as a tes timonial of appreciation of the men who lost their lives in that memorable cam paign. The two veterans who went over the route of the Sully expedition traveled in wagon. Fortunately, Captain Campbell had kept diary of every day of the march of the Sully expedition, and thla valuable tecord was utilised in following tha route of the Sully expedition, which extended from Sioux Falls in a northwesterly direc tion through the northwestern part of South Dakota, southwestern portion of North Dakota and westward into Montana. The KUdeer mountains, situated in north western North Dakota, are in the region in which Theodore Roosevelt afterward en gaged In ranching and acquired -his life long love for the west. While Ueueral Sully and his command was encamped on the Heart rivet', near the present town of Dickinson, he received word from his scguts that the hostile In dians wera camped about seventy-five miles to the northwest. The command, consisting of 1,000 men and a battery of eight guns, began the march at once and met and Iwttled with tha large force of Sioux at .ie base of the KUdeer mountains. The battle began at daybreak and con tinued throughout the day. although the ckbone of the Indian resistance was broken when the troops captured tha In dian camp. When asked a to the number of Indiana participating In the battle, Cau lln Catnpbvll replied: Well, we didn't know exactly, but from what I could see with a spyglass, X Judge there were enough of them to eat us if we had been' fried." Ions In Fall strength. As . matter of fact, the Indian army Included the greater part of all the Sioux warriors in the country and a general rep Jitntatlon from all the other Indian T bea. Uln living in tha northweat. A jrt.eat'j&anv "f the Clous engaged In the Ti-utle of Kildeer mountains twelve yeexs ' .- - : i V -X THE GSXJ& MINIDOKA. BftM Hid Twin Falls project will reclaim SOO.OK) acres of land. On the North Bide Twin Falls yroject 24".i-.o acres of land were re canned. And the j Icld of apples, a '.one, fi-oiii this land, boxed and pla.ed enl t end. would i eai h two and one-half times around thf world. Tli IJruneau extension will re lalm twice as much land. Tho I n. ted states Koveritment Minidoka project is one of tho most remarkable of those efforts towards supplying a land of hungry people with homes, hope of Indi vidual betterment and a prof liable employ ment. This project reclaims 218,isi acres of the most Tortile land on earth, it Is located i.2u) feet above the sea level in the south eastern .portion of the stato of Idaho. The water for Irrigation Is gained from a na tural watershed of Kreat hills and moun tains covering an area of H.UJO square miles. And this enormous watershed has an annual precipitation of fifteen to six teen Inches per annum. The United States reclamation service estimates tne average run-off amounts, annually, to 7,200,(1000 acre feet. And an acre foot la a sufficient amount of water to cover one acre of land one foot deep. The storage dam of the Minidoka project, constructed by the 1'nlted o'tatts govern ment for the rac. aiming of this vkst area of country is ,300 feet long by fifty feet high. Its headgates and measuring devices for laterals are built of concrete and the value of the lands when irrigated range to from JiO to tM per acre; mark you, from $50 to 50J per acre. . If we take the lower figure, then the value of the lands reclaimed amounts to over eleven millions of money, if we take the higher figure, then the value of these lands amount to over one hundred fifteen millions of gold. So that It is easily 3,000,. 000 of wealth created from absolutely worthless sage brush land. later participated In tho Custer massacre, and the tactics adopted by them In the KUdeer mountains fight were the same as during the Custer massacre, but without avail, as Hernial Sully kept his men on the move and charge after charge resulted In breaking up the circular formation of the Sioux. The date of the battle was July ra, ism. When night fell the Indiana were scat tered attd their camp destroyed. Then one of the most merciless of Indian campaigns commenced. On August 8. following, a de tachment of General Sully's force met and gave battle to, a band of kux warriors at Flat Tt Butte. In this engagement Colonel Ives received an arrow through his thigh. He still is the owner of the arrow, which is among his collection of western curios. The head Is of beaten, steel., and was fastened to the arrow by, means of thin strips of bark. - The expedition crossed the Little Mis souri river near the town of Medora famous in the 70s as the place near which the celebrated Marquis de Mores had his Immense cattle ranch and continued west ward to a point near Glendlve, Mont., where two supply boats awaited It, and the wounded were given treatment. As the re sult of the expedition marching through the Indian country and inflicting severe punishment upon the redskins, the power of the Sioux waa broken for a number of years, and not until the commencement of the trouble culminating in the Custer massacre twelve years later did they re cover from the losses Inflicted upon them by General Sully and his command. Many Veterans Interested. Veterans of the Sully expedition are scat tered throughout the states of the middle west and northwest, and although they now are bent with the weight of years, they will be glad to know that a movement has been Inaugurated to have the govern ment pay proper tribute to them and their comrades who lost their lives during the campaign by the erection of memorial monuments as a tribute of the nation to the valor and fortitude displayed. NEW HOPE OF CANCER CURE Possibility of Discovert oar Natnrea Remedy for a Dread Affliction. In the treatment of cancer cases it has been noticed by physicians that once in a long time cancer seems to cure Itself. Phy sicians therefore diligently sought the cause of such self-cures. They had hoped thus to find nature's cure for cancer. The dis section of cancers has shown at times that very many cancer cells that once appar ently had been active had healed. Nature evidently in these cases had attempted to cure the disease itself. A case of nature cure came under the attention of Dr. Kugcne Hodenpyl, the pathologist of the Roosevelt hospital, New York City. It was that of a woman who after three operations for cancer of the breast had developed malignant cancer of the liver to such an extent that her death seemed imminent. Suddenly something happened and she gradually became well, the malignant cancerous grow th having en tirely disappeared. There developed, however, a dropsical condition which required a constant re moval of accumulated fluid. With this fluid Dr. Hodenpyl began experiments, and in the current number of the Medical Record he describes the results. In nearly every case where this fluid was injected into malignant cancer there was beneficial results. The tumors receded, many of them disappeared entirely, and many patients were sent away apparently cured. Dr.' Hodenpyl wrttes; "The greater number of the forty-seven cases thus far treated were distinctly un favorable, many of them hopeless and in operable. Many of the cases are still under observation by the writer or by other phy sicians In and out of New York. "The records of the cases treated, the technique employed and the leaults ob tained will be placed at the service of the medical profession as soon as time permits, together with Uie results of various ob vious control experiments which are now In hand under the direction or with the concurrence of the writer. In the mean time thla preliminary communication is made, first, in order that the attention of the profession may be called to the possible significance of body fluids from the rare cases of those who have recovered or are teeoverlof from carcinoma; second, to cor- tkTJl ' Ir - ii OTtC or THE 2XRMHAQX. LATERALS TOZES TROTT ITS SOCTRCIi To entirely understand this, you must realize that these lands, before they are Irrigated, are absolutely valueless. In the construction of this Minidoka project the government had to build over 200 miles of main canals and SM miUs of lstcruls, or i"0 miles of ditching. Your mind will cGsiiy grasp that this gigantic task Is only smaller, in ratio than the building of the Panama canal. The power developed by the building of this dam amounts, at its maximum, to 30,000 horse-power and when the settlers on the great Minidoka flat shall have paid f.jr this land and ita water In full, then they, and not the government, become the owners of this tremendous electrical gen erating plant. In the building of this one project, the government expended over J.1,000,000. y the expenditure of this ta.OOO.OOO of money, it must be recollected that It has created approximately $1)3,000,000 of wealth. The United States government is doing no greater work in any of Its depart ments today, than the building of thtse irrigation projects in the west. Our United States government public document, ls- rect the false impressions which may have been conveyed by the premature and un authorized news items in the dally press, and finally, to secure an opportunity to remind physicians practically Interested in this study that the urgency for this treat ment of hopeless Inoperable cases Is hardly Just either to these patients themselves or to a method from which it Is hoped to secure new resources and new light through deliberate and reasonable tests. "It Is not my purpose to announce at this time a new cure for cancer, but to call attention to the remarkable selective pecro tiling effects upon carcinoma cells of the ascitic fluid from a recovered case of car cinoma wherever in the body of the patient this fluid is Introduced. Ths nature and significance and the practical Importance of the substance contained in this fluid and the ultimate value of this method of treat ment of carcinoma are to be finally de termined only by a continuance and com pletion of the various correlated series of Investigations, chemical and biological, now under way, or by Buch tests as other ob servers may undertake." Snnn Shots. Life Is about tho best test of one's stay ing qualities. As a general thing, a man with the wrong kind of religion criticises the other kinds. Although a girl's face may be her for tune, she can't raise any money by turning up her nose. 1 It is very rare thut a challrfgo is hurled ittto the teeth of a person who keeps his mouth shut. A girl is a person who can be happy with a bad case of indignation if she has a good case of spring hut. Another difference between an under writer and an undertaker is that the for mer Insures against fire. Sometimes a boy who is afraid to go to bed in the dark has a father who doesn't come home until daylight. There are some who get rich because they can't help It. and others who remain poor for precisely the same reason. After a woman has met her social obliga tions at home, her husband begins to enter tain the bill collectors at his office. One of tha hardest things In this world for a woman to understand is why a man hates to carry an unbrella with a tassel on it. In a few thousand years more the people of this world may tolerate tha whole truth and nothing but the truth. If they keep on improving. Dallas News. When you want what you want when you want it, and want it in a hurry, ad vertise for it in ue Bee. acreage: TRACTS FOK THE INVESTOR OR FOIt THE SMALL FARMER THIS Is our specialty. From One to One Thousand acres. This business is made to serve your Interests. No sum of money, however small, is two small to get our best attention And no sum, however large, is too large to tax our capacity to TO I'll ACE AXD PLACE WITH PHOF1T TO THE INVESTOR. We would like to have you write to us for our booklets, literature and other informa tion. We are sure that you want to know about IDAHO. It is the last West and tbe rap idly growing section of the United States. Here you can make big profits on small In vestments. Land can be bought on credit. Write Rijkt Now, Write T0J17 GRAY & GRAY INVESTMENTS. POCATELLO. .IDAHO . v. , 4 ' Hi ayl - . ;: ' 1- W-- fc w- r:-;-yyt ajrfl (J;Li f-Lr .iJLi f, . ; TBE. BIG' TWIN" FALLS UAH AT TUCKER , IHAHO. yj0Vf eng "massive .coTFucncwiaroiPosiTrYr.icoiTrRoi, or sued by the reclamation service, says that the various projects in Southern Idaho, con tain over 2.000,000 irrigated acres. The Twin Falls South Side project. 40,000 acres; The Twin Kails North side project, 225,000 acres; the Salmon River project, 80,000 acres; the King's Hill project, 20,000 acres; the Hood YOU can make more Idaho than in any e - t-s-w -j m jf m m f - W ' ' ' vmAminttmHmmammmmmm F(L , Y r ern state. May 28, 1910, occurs the great opening of Oakley Townsite. Laying round and about it are thousands of the most fertile acres in the west. This country has been farmed for thirty years. The products ot the soil are most profitable. No guess work; no chance just the opportunity to make the best of life in the easiest way. Write to us about the investment opportunities of Oakley. We are glad to give you any information about Cassia County; the richest county in the state of Idaho. We want you to know what we can tell you. Write right now. Don't delay. May 28, 1910, is " YOUH LUCKY DAY.)' We want you to know about Cassia County. We want you to know about Oakley. We want you to know about Idaho. Write to us. Write right now. Booklets, letters of infor mation, are absolutely free. BOOKLET FRKC Tla-aMa - V-K-,--, ,.N- aMfcr o -'W : ' ' atjT J mJ .:. II . - tit V River project, 150,000 acres; the Qoose Creek project, 50,000 acres; the Twin Falls West end project. 60.000 acres; the 'win Falls Shoshone project, 10,000 acres; the Dettrlch project, 60,000 acres; the Twin Falls Bruneau project, 1,000,000 acres; the Bruneau project, 80,000 acres and the United money in other west OAKLEY INVESTMENT COMPANY OAKLEY (CASSIA COUNTY) IDAHO imu) ThSTu ill 111 I!..!. I IgajW lailMllll 3 tan a 1.1a comparison shows the remarkable similarity betweeea the trade poal tions of Omaha and FeeateUo. mailroada eonvege here and every opportunity Is present Xcr any aJert man who seeks comfort ease and plenty. LOOK AT THIS RfJAP Y 'Of HAVE (tot to know about To- catelM, It offer the most su preme opportunity for Invest ment, sate. iM'cure, and hoan4 to pay that the entire west ihnwi forth to day. Pocatello l e city: In every nen.e of the word PcoateUo ta a city. Small yet, to he sure, hut it Is tire renter of a vast lndastrtal area, ell ef which unit pay tribute to this earer, earnest growing- city; tire en trepot for all mining, afrrlculturnl and commercial wealth of Idaho. And I want you to know about po-a-tfllo. That's why I'll send a wonder fully beautifully hook free of any sort of eost. I am not In the real estate business. Bat I no own prousrty In Veoatello and I want to see it trrow. know that you will want to Invest money In Pocatelln when you know as much about It as I do. That's why 1 want to send vou tliN frre book. I Invested mv mnnev in Ftvate'lo h ruf I abaolutelT knew that tt would stow to be a Mf city and I nlo know that every lnule family that comes to Pocatello will raise the value of ,ny property. X kaow that you will come to Pocatello. once vnu know the supreme chanres that await the earnest, aober, Industrious young man. Remember, then J. FREE els to rnf(nrLr - cwt. Wheat on unlrrlgated bench land, 30 bu.Bb.eli to the acre. Present price f 1.50 per cwt. Oats and barley, 60-115 bushels to the acre. Preaent price $1.75 per cwt Alfalfa, 6-9 tons to the acre. Present price $8-$16 per ton. Timothy, 6-6 tons to the acre. Present price $15.00 per ton. Apples of noted flavor have been raised In abundance for twenty five years. Present price $2.00 a bushel. Peaches, plums, apricots and pears of equal quality and value are raised. Strawberries and raspberries seem to be native to this soil. Grapes are grown every year. Garden truck. Is raised In abundance with keen markets at the construction camps. Many experienced orchardlsts have bought land in the project on their Judgment that this Is the garden spot of Idaho due to soil, climate and the certain water supply. Sugar beets havo been grown and matured, and with the present railroad facilities for transportation, will be a valuable source of income. Beet seed ac cording to experts, can be raised In this valloy. Dairy and poultry products, although easily raised, now fall to meet the demands of tbe market. Sl3 tee1 oust mi za a riEs book and that I want yon to have It with out exomce. of course 1 own prop erty, in i'ocutnlln. Of course I will profit by the ernwtli of the city. The dnvs ff pure altruism aren't kere, not yet. Hut that doi'srr't hurl the vine of tfr Jkook to ynu. The oover alone would sell for fifty rente In any art tj' The pictures are really beautiful, and the Information In It is valuable to anv man who seeks to better his condition. Flense remember tlrnt the country on'l d'i it all. l'lense remember thut Idnho hss no more room for drones than has anv other state. Plena remember that wliei you come to Idaho you'll have to work Just as everyone else does. Hut It's a pU-asant place to work; beautiful scenery, pure water, and good neigh bors. The soil la the most fertile on earth. And t can put yo In the way of making a great deal of money where now, perhaps, you are havlnrr to be satisfied with a living. Write for the hook. Io it now. You've trot to know about Pooatello. And the men who know first ere the hum who will win most. Write rifht aowl Write todayl INGERSOLL 1 Pocatello, Idaho FREE i Wheat on Irrigated land, 4(1-80 bush- the acre. Present srlc 11 fin WRITE TODAY