Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1889-07-15

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by Prof. wl.sEs, Assistant C0nlasisssonsr
% Axrieultgrs. "ths Powell Meridian" Ia
L01ar " The pabllc oficsr 10 whose hands
Ihs wogk q Girsct!ag irrigation has eesa
committed ~ gsasral consent
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Corporal Tanner. referring 20 money
needed ~ soldiers: dam the surplnsi"
sxel4ims Major Powell. referring 20 water
needed ~ ss.tlsra
TAe Work o. dammiBg the surplus water
viii not be prosecuted By the government.
but accurate and elaborate surveys Val
be made leading up To IL. 80 that tie prae-
teal business OF erecting dams and sxea-
waiting aoq Usdu eis can be begun and car
riee on BY States or territories. or by set
tiers themselves
Congress Iast winter auth srized the
Of 4 ~tr
withdrawal from pre-emption and settle
ment, and hundreds OF these cztchnent-
basins have already been wiped Of the
books OF eligibility. A proniRsnt men,
Der Of Congress tells me that, on the re
convsning OF that body. he will offer =
bill tempors y Withdrawing from settle
ment tho whole sgid region that is
irrisabls-not less .hin ]. 2oo. 900 square
miles OF iand-ftr moro than the entire
cultivated area OF the country
This, OF course, will loo withdrawn only
To be given again 10 the people. when IL
shsll have been put In a state TO be rem
dered fertile by water. When Major
Powell, and his lieutenants. Capt. Dutton
and Prot Thompson. have determined
and indicated on maps just where the
irrigable lands lie, and tho limit OF the
eatchment- basins, and the amount and
duty" OF tho water falling Within them,
then settlers will probably be orco more
allowed 10 take homesteads withiu the
charmed area. and mortgage them for
their modlcum OF fertuizing water.
Whether the hard work OF building the
dams where the THEOLOGICAL Snrvey has
outlined them and OF enclosing the canals
of service, shall be done by municipalities
or by corporations, Is. OF course, as yet
unknown.
In week or two the Senate Com mittee
with Stewart OF Nevada At its head. will
start from St. Paul TO make n tour OF the
arid region, Accompanied by Major Powell
who will visit, inspect and direct the score
OF surveying parties already put in the
field. They will go to California and
return by the Southern route, finding
parties at work in almost every State and
territory.
BY the time Congress meets, an
encouraging showing will be made, OF
catch basins outlined, rivers measured,
seepaxs estimated, and methods sug-
gested.
Major Powell announces an estimate
that is everywhere regarded as conservs-
tive, that tho irrigable land of the central
Wost, now wholly barren. will mako eight
States like Indiana; and Col. Hinton, an
expert OF the survey, estimates that
twenty acres Of this land. cultivated I'M
der Irrigation, will produce as much as
one hundred acres of land under the aver
age Indiana culture. This would enable
the whole irri gable area to support forty
times the population OF Indiana-say
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