Arizona republican., 1899-03-30

gation, though is justifying the req condolences of General Miles accusa- | ton. From a newspaper point of view, this was the happiest and most
 artistic product of the war, compared
 with which all the rest was routine
 matter, available to the dullcst cor
 respondent.
 | MT. Whelpley is returning from a | tour Of two and a half months of the Central American states. A consider
 able part of his time was spent along the proposed route of tho Nicaragua canal. "I am gathering material" said MT. Whelpley flor magazine work. I didn't break into the maga- zines with war story. l believe I am the only correspondent who resisted
 the temptation and I ought to have medal for it." MT. Whelpley was nat
 uarally not asked to exhibit the ma terial he has been so 1aboriously gath
 ering for the magazines. T was
 fitted" he said, flor a trip through Central America by a residence of aI-
 most year in the West Indies, and I
 had been made an immune by an at tack of yellow fever. l have just come from the wettest country in America to the dryest. The annaul rainfall in Nicaragua is twenty-five feet; the average here, I believe, is less than twenty-five inches prefer the twenty-five inches" As matter of fact, the rainfall here is considerably less than twenty-five inches, in fact, not quite a third of twenty-five inches.
 MT. Whelpley missed the dramatic fighting at Las Guasimas and San Juan. He was with General Garcias o1 J 10i,, American forces. The junction was not effected until June 28. MT Whelp- ley remained with the army until the fall of Santiago. He and Casper Whitney, the artist. brought Captain O'NeilIs sword back to Washington He says there ought not to have been great difficulty in locating O'Neills grave. It was with those of several others who fell in that part of the field on knoll. The face of the cOun- try was not liable to change at that point by the movement of troops, though it was no doubt changed some what in the course of months by the wild growth of tropical vegetation.
 MT. Whelpley's experience in Cuba and Porto Rico was pleasant. He speaks in high terms of his newspaper associates, and particularly of Stephen Bonsall Richard Harding Davis, and Whitney and Remington, the artists.
 MT Whelpley was manager of the Helena, (Mont.), Journal, while it was directed by Russell Harrison. He had lived in lMCtana for some years and had become familiar with the great mining camps. So before coming to Phoenix he spent couple of days at Jerome. At first" said he, it seemed to be a counterpart of the old camp at Butte. But 1 soon saw the difference. There is more of a hobo appearance in the men, and it is easily explained There were more hobos in camp. 1 It is too easy now a days to get 1 in. In the old days, when the nearest railroad point was from 60 to 125 miles away, it took a man with some rust ling abilities to gei- into camp and | there were no hobos."
 MT Whelpley is a student of irriga- ! tion and the great stock ranges. as ! wall as a war correspondent. While i he resided in Montana he assisted in i the agitation which reclaimed large 1 sections of that state and made Of the i Gallatin valley garden, in richness and extent, second | among the cultivated regions of the west, only to the Salt | R1V6r valley. lie aSSlSUeQ dISO III sup | the old riparian rights Of Texas with an irrigation law which | brought S1000O0OO of capital into ir- rigatiOn systems The law was mar rowly passed over the protests Of the i who predicted that it was a measure in the interest of capital.
 We have been trying to interest | western Kansas in irrigation" said he, but we are handicapped by a full ! crop every third year. Then the farm CTS who have starved for two years are | as indifferent to the future, as the l man who neglected to repair his roof when the sun shone. because it didn't need it. There is a little irrigation work going on in western Kansas, but it is only an extension of Colorado ir- rigation."
 MT. Whelpley does not believe the lrid regions should waste time in waiting for governmental aid in the way of appropriations. It will never come. Eastern opposition, which is quite natural, will always be too strong.
 MT Whelpley went to Tucson last night to make a study of the eXperi- mental work at the agricultural sta ton. He will return to Phoenix on 
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