The St. Johns herald., 1898-04-16
RECRUITING
War Declared in tb8 Trailer
 office Last Eric daF.

A result of Prest. Mckinley hay
 ing received photograph of the editor
 of the Trailer, with side-whiskers six
 shooter, bowie-knife and Mexican som-
 brero, he teIegraphed him last week to
 organized 8 company and proceed to l Washington at once The President, surmlsing that man with such an ap-
 pearance could wipe out the whole Spanish nation single handed and alone.
 As result of this the patriotic editor opened a recruiting headquarters in tue Trailer office last Friday, and the editor immediately assumed a warlike sttfts ude which frightened all the old sore back horses and breachy COWS out of town. and it is thought that trees on the sidewalks will be safe until the war-like editor marches away to vict- ory. Four stenOgraphers were em- ployed all day long in recording the names of those who rushed to the edit
 OTIS standard. Next Monday the doc- tor-editor will march towards the cap- Ital and to the nations defence, scornIng to ride on railroad train.
 The Clifton "rounders" will join the command and the principles declared to be it's motto by that brave company when it was organized will be carried out.
 When he reaches Washington Gen. Miles will receive his walking papers and the editor will be appointed to fill the vacancy. As soon as this can be accomplished war will be declared and Spain will be ''licked" in the first round.
 Federal Storage Reservoirs.
 National Advocate
 Those who look to the construction CT federal irrigation works as Che soIu- tiJn of so many social and political problems find great eucouragafuert and hope tor the hnaI full adoption of the policy by the government in the recent report of Secretary of War Alger, rec ommending the construction of storage reservoirs In the west. Those who desire the water to make fertile the deserts and enable industrious labor to build homes upon them are not going to split hairs upon the ostensible or im- mediate purpose of their construction. That they will aid navigation by reg ulating the flow of the rivers is lesser, but a sufficient reason for their con- struction. Let them be constructed to subServe the le sSer. and at the same time utilized to accomplish the greater
 urpose, and double triumph will have been achieved. The construction of storage reservoirs, irrigation works and flood protection works in the whole valley is all really one great national problem which the government should seize hold upon as an entirety and devote it's whole power to it's solut- ion, having always in mind the great ultimate end of creating rural homes and bringing gradual industrial efnan- cipation to the wage earners of the 
 Secretary AIger in his report says that:
 Reservoir construction in the arid region would reduce the food height of the Missouri river during the June riSe which is indispensa- ble to the highest development of that section. falling more properly under the domain of the Nation than of the State. and need not invoke government control of irrigation works The government should acquire full title and juris- 1etion to any site it improves and full rights to the water. The total extent of a reservoir system in the arid regions which shall render available the entire flowing streams will not exceed 1,l61.- poo 600 cubic feet. If it's construction was to consume a century in time 1t would represent an annual storage of about He, 900 coo 900 cubic feet or 266,sG0 acre feet. At s5.S7 per foot this would cost $1 .432, ,7l6 per ennum. This amount, distributed among the seventeen arid States and Territories. gives an annual average exp penditure in each of sS4.277. The annual vslle Of the stored water world reyu~- ria Cr nal cost and l.--.l .llisIanos -- @l sfeiass g@Eoa U4 --reo years"