Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-11-09
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Just At the edge Of this city neal
Hank Martins homo is . camp O
| U. s. Geological Surveyors sent os'
here by the Government to hunt
| sites for water storage reservoirs in
Nevada.
They are here on their prelimin-
airy work by reason of the good
hard work Senator Stewart put in
on the Irrigation bill in the Senate.
The Salt Lake Tribune in speak
ing of the work remarks:
| OF the geological survey Major
Powell says:
1--WE have begun to begin.
That beginning means a great deal
to the region between the two great
mountain ranges of tho continent
When it shall be finished, We shall
know about how much water is us
ually taken up by the sun or car
ried out through natural channels
to the sea.
We suspect that it will be dem
onstrated that there is enough to
make fertile all the level and (except
for want OF moisture) ell the pro-
ductive land in this basin.
Some can never be reached by the
v alter, but millions of acres can. II
the men of the Eastern States re-
allied the opportunities presented
| in this arid region, they who arc
glad to be sure to receive six OF
seven per cent on their capital .
would not wait for the Government
survey.
They would be their own engin-
GERS in the field and would be pre-
pairing for themselves and their
children's inheritances.
If some ship were to arrive at
Boston bringing the news that out
of sea an island had been diccover-
ed possessing moro fertile land
than all New England; that more
oyer with the land there were mar
| velous mines of silver and gold ;
threre would be q grand rush to the
new land.
But Just those conditions exist in
our sister Territories of Idaho and
Nevada, and they wait but the tax
ing.
Only five days away from Boston
all these features can be found, and
yet We suspect that, take them as
they come, not half the men and
women have any but q vague idea
| in what direction these places lie
from their center Of the world; and
should some enthusiastic Western
man show them the map and ex-
plain the facts to them, the MAORI
| ty would turn away with an incred-
ulous look and in low tones remark
to each other:
"He's another Of those Western
liars"
A thorough survey by Govern
ment corps of engineers, carried
| out and q full report made, will at
tract the attention of Eastern peo-
pie. We only dread that the re-
port will not be what it should be.
1t should be in tho briefest space
possible, that the reader would not
be discouraged before beginning to
read it, and then it would be q vast
convenience if, in speaking Of wat
or, it could be measured in miners
inches instead of gallons.
Land az it runs in this BASIN re-
ouires, one acre with another, an
inch of water for successful culti-
walton, and this basis to start from
will be a. good as anything the sur
vey will establish after years OF ex-
pertinent.
OF the miracles that can be
worked with water beyond the
Rockies it will probably require .
hundred years yet to determine.
Our friends in the East who depend
up on the rain and snow for their
moisture, who are in wet seasons
flooded and in dry seasons choked
for rain, will about Fifty years hence
begin to study the question Of why
they should loose their crops through