The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-10-22

in rail train Of the Union Pacific or
the Northern Pacific or the Canadian
Pacific or the Southern Pacific, he has
traversed II
supposed in my boyhood, from its
size on the map that California was a
few yards across a ridge of land on
which one must walk cautiously lest
he hit his head against the Sierra
Nevada on one side, or slip off into the
Pacific on the otber-CaliforniA the
thin slice OF land. as / supposed II TO
be in boyhood. l have found 10 Dc
larger than all the states of New En-
gland and all New York state aud all
Pennsylvania added together; and IL
Won add them together their square
miles fall far short ofCaliforniA Aud
then all those newborn states Of the
union, North and South Dakota,
Washington, Montana, Idaho and
Wyoming. Each state an empire in
size
But" says some one, Sin calculat-
ing the immensely Of our continental
acreage you must remember that vast
reaches Of our public domain are I'M
cultivated heaps OF dry sand, and the
Bad Lands of Montana and the Great
American Desert am glad that you
mentioned that Within 2Syears there
will not be between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts 100 miles Of land not re-
claimed either by farmers pillow or
miners erOwbar. By irrigation, the
waters of the rivers and the showers
of Heaven, in what are called the
rainy season, will be gathered into
great reservoirs, and through aqne-
ducts let down where and when the
people want them. Experiments have
proved that ten acres of ground irri-
gated from waters gathered in great
Neurological basins will produce as
much as so acres from the d~ownpour
Of rain as e in our regions We
have our freshets and our drouthS, but
in those lands which are to be seien-
tifcally irrigated there will be neither
freshets nor drouthS AS you take a
pitcher and get it full Of water, and
then set it on a table and take a drink
out Of it when you are thirsty and
never think of drinking a pitcherfull
all at once, so Montana and Wyoming
and Idaho will catch the rains of their
rainy seasons and take up all the
waters of their rivers in great pitchers
of reservoirs. and refresh their land
whenever they will.
The work has already been grandly
begun by the United States govern
ment Over 900 lakes have already
been officially taken possession Of by
the nation for the great enterprise Of
irrigation. Rivers that have been
rolling idly through these regions, do
ing nothing on their way TO the sea,
will Re lassoed aud corralled and
penned mp until such time as the farm
r need them Under the same pro-
cesses the Ohio, the Mississippi, and
all the other rivers will be taught TO
behave themselves better, and great
basins will be made TO catch the sur.
plus Of waters in times of freshet, and
keep them for times OF drought The
irrigating process By which all the
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