St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-13

lost art by here atd there some venture
some son OF toll pluckily lackling the
1stump-covered land and struggling
plant crop.
The main purpose of the trip was
ended when we left Yakima, aid the
visit to the slope was one Of sightseeing
merely, including boat ride down the
sound as far as the quaint town of Vic
toria. sitting among the younger cities
OF the sound like an old, wrinkled face,
adorned with modern head gear amid
bevy of fresh young faces whose beauty
needed no articles of millinery to sup
plement the faded charms of youth.
Around the plain, homsly. simply utill.
tartan buildings of the frontier post of
the Hudson Bay company the modern
architect has put a frill of handsome
modern villas. serving only to empha-
size the semblance OF antiquity of the
Older portions of the city. At Port
Townsend the feet of warships and
cutters lay at anchor getting ready to go
to Berlng sea and enforce the agreement
made with England relative 10 the pro-
lection OF the seals. One feels little
patriotic tingle running along his nerves
as he sees these proud ships, eXpen-
Siye lii construction and expansive
in maintenance and repairs, devoted by
watchful and solicitous government to
the prevention of the extinction of the
amphlbious seal, in order that the
daughters and mothers of Amerca may
hp Shill HEaIi from, ], \ ri, ~, Il
the transfer TO their backs of the coats
OF the seals. The fact that not one
mother or daughter in a thousand can
afford the SealSkin sacque, and that all
this expense Is incurred that the wealth.
ler may be more elegantly clad. is one
OF those minor Incidents too inSignili-
cant to be regarded in the great and be.
nehcent schemes of truly parental
government. 1t is feature which only
some fellow With absurd Democratic
notions OF the equality of all the people
before the law would ever think of.
There is something suggestive. howeve r
IN the contrast between the zeal shown
for the preservation of the seal ana the
calm Indifference with which the gov
eminent saw the determination of the
buffalo, whose shaggy hides furnished
winter protection to the great common
atty.
The natural and therefore the com.
mon system OF irrigating is what is
called the gravity system. under which
water is taken from the river at Its
upper level and carried in bitches, hav-
Ing All incline sufficient to give the
water movement, carried and diStrib-
uted by the force of its own gravity over
the lower and slipping land. At Pros
ser. at the lower end of Sunnyside,
Fred Reed has utilized fall in the
Yakima river TO furnish power to drive
pumps with a capacity of 1880. O)J gal
Ions of water each day, which force the
water through IL steel pipe up the slope
to the irrigating ditch, which skirts he
foothills. and under which lie 5000
acres of land made arabic by the water
thus obtained. At Moxie, near Yakima.
artesian wells have been drilled which
furnish the water for large tracts of
land, and in other places windmills
raise the water of wells into tanks,
whence it flows by gravity. ANY of
these systems involve large prelimi-
nary outlay of money, which must be
recouped in prices for the land made
arabic and in water rents
There are large areas now in all these
valleys under ditch, and only waiting
for occupants. Men are largely intiu-
enced by their first impressions. and the
difficulty the promoters of these irriga-
ton schemes will have to meet will be
the impression made by the intending
settler when he comes from the S25 to
$40 improved acres in the Mississippi
valley, and is asked $50 to s75 an acre
for desert1and covered with sage brush.
Telling MIN that the average cost of
putting the land under ditch is S35 an
acre will not remove the impression,
but he must be taken to the vineyards
and orchards OF the valleys; shown the
actual demonstration Of what the land
is capable of being made to produce;
given the figures of yields and prices
and cost of production, before the re-
pugnance raised by what seems to him
all absurdly high price for the Ian can
be removed. The five years that must
elapse before the orchards come into
profitable bearing can be utilized in
growing crops of potatoes, Irish and
sweet, tobacco, barley and other cereals
and vegetables, or strawberries and
other small fruits. thus furnishing
means of support in the interim. But
this all requires some capital, which, if
supplemented by industry and pluck,
insure return offered by very few re-
glons. When one reflects that from the
Rocky mountains east to the great lakes
is an immense scope incapable OF rails
Ing fruit, the problem of market for
the products of these valleys becomes
an Insignificant factor.
can understand how, in the days of
the departed boom, you could sell your
little evening papers for five cents,
said 10 the publisher of one OF them in
one OF the coast cities, but in these days
OF stress should think two-cent pa
per would have to be the rate. We can't
make twO-cent rate, he replied, for
the simple reason that we have no
pennies on the coast. Later was max
ing some pur chases at tobaccOnist's,
when some one paid for purchase
with lot OF pennies, which the pro-
| prietor received protestingly. Phi have
10 send them to the postofice, he said,
| 10 get rid of them. Pennies are getting
| pientier now, he continued. because
some of these big retail stores are max
| ing odd-cent prices on their goods in.
stead of the regular nickel shades, but
they are nuisance: people amt used
10 them, and the only place we can get
rid Of them is at the postotfice. In what
| the tobaccOnlSt saw only nuisance, l
SAW the most hopeful sign l had seen of
| returning prosperity to the coast. The
| penny signifies much; it stands for
thrift, prudence and economy as the
nickel standard Of change stands for
| speculation, extravaganza and unthrlft.
When people use pennies it means that
they are counting the cost; when they
use the nickel it means they are. indif-
| terent to it, and such Indifference leads
quickly to conditions in which. panics
and their consequent distress find their
prolific source.
Washington is Republican and hence