The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-10-21

acreage you must remember That vast
reaches of our public domain are un-
cultivated heaps of dry sand, and the
Bad Lands of Montana and the Great
American Desert" am glad that you
mentioned that Within % years there
will not be between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts 100 miles of land not re-
claimed either by farmers pillow or
miners crowbar. 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 aque-
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 downpour
of rain as seen in our regions. We
have our freshets and our drouths, but
in those lands which are to be scien-
tifically irrigated there will be neither
freshets nor drouths. AS you take n
pitcher and get it full of water, and
then set it on n table and take drink
out of it when you are thirsty and
never think of drinking 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 400 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 be lassoed and corralled and
penned up until such time as the farm
ers 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 fresbet, and
keep them for times of drought. The
irrigating process by which all the
arid lands between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans are to be fertilized is no
new experiment
1t has been gong on successfully
hundreds of years in Spain, China, in
India, in Russia, in Egypt About
800, 900, 600 of people of the earth to-
day are kept alive by food raised on
irrigated land. And here we have al
lowed to lie waste, given up to rattle
snake and bat and prairie dog, lands
enough to support whole nations of in
dustrious population.
/ Al. 4 f,,I r 1t.
American continent is the Yellowstone
park. My two visits there made upon
me an impression that will last for.
ever. Go in by the Moneida route as
we did last summer and save $50 miles
of railroading, your stage coach TAX
ing you through a day of scenery as
captivating and sublime as the Vel
lowstone park itself. After all poetry
has exhausted itself concerning Vel
lowstone park, and all the Morans and
Bierstadts and the other enchanting
artists have completed their canvas
there will be other revelations to make
and other stories of its beauty anC
wrath, splendor and agony, to be re
cited. The Yellowstone park is the
biologists paradise. BY cheapeninl
of travel may it become the nation
playground! In some portions of Il
there seems to be the anarchy
of the elements. Fire and water
and the vapor born of that marriage
terrific Geyser cones or hills of crys
tai that have been over 5000 year
growing! In places the earth throb
bling, sobbing, grooming qualSing will
aqueous paroXysm. At the expiration
of every 60 minutes one of the geyser
tossing its boiling water ls5 feet in TIA,
air and then descending into swinging
rainbows. "He toucheth the hills an'
they smoke Caverns of picture,
walls large enough for the sepulchr
of the human race. Formations O
stone in shape aud color of Gala lily
Of heliotrope, of rose, of cOwslip, o
sunhower, and Of gladiolus sulphur
and arsenic and oxide of iron, will
their delicate pencils, turning the hill
into Luxembourg, or vatican pic
ture gallery. The so-called Thauatop
sis geyser, exquisite as the Bryan
poem IL was named after, and Evange
line geyser, lovely as the Longfelloy
heroine it commentaries.
i1hA hlltI Npu navy NhuhNltAA tAlbllI
the geyserite enchantment for days
and begin TO feel that there can b
nothing more of interest to see, yo
suddenly come upon the peroration q
= all majesty and grandeur, the Gran
canyon. 1t is here that it seems TO IN
and | speak IL with reverence-Je
, hovah seems to have surpassed him
self. 1t seems a great gulch let dow
: into the eternities.
Standing there in the grand canyo
5 of the Yellowstone park for the mos
part we held our peace, but afte
awhile it flashed upon me with sue
l power could not help but say to m
comrades: "What hall this woul
be for the last jndgmentp See tina
Y mighty cascade with the rainbows q
the foot of it! Those waters congeale
1 and transhXed with the agitations O
that day, what a place they woul
A make for the shining feet of a Judg
$ of quick and dead! And those rail-
4 bows look now like the crowns to L