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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1900-05-11

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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1900-05-11

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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1900-05-11
THE DAILY EAGLE.

Entered at the Postoiilce at Bryan,
Texas, a. Second Glass mail matter.
BY CONNOLLY, PALMER d CARNEs.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE:
Per Week, Toe. Per Month, Zoe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-11-14
PROTECTION FOR BIRDS.

1t may be ill-timed to appeal, in view OF
the display during Ladies Week, to the
lawmakers at the Capitol, for assistance In
routing the distinctly feminine nuisance of
bird slaughter in the cause OF millinery.
However, with the pride that every loyal
Vermonter feels in his State, from its
Ethan Allen days down to the present, 1
wonld ask, What can be more in line with
our record of just laws than legal protec-
ton for the song birds of America?
Vermont does not cover 30 much space in
the corner of the map, but its influence
upon this universally agitated subject may
become unlimited, il our Lawmakers will
lend serious ears to the cause of bird
slaughter and It's effect upon the country
Statistics show that many kinds OF our
sweetest songsters are becoming extinct;
many OF our insectivorous birds are no
longer in our orchards and fields. Who is
there among us but would miss the CHEEKY
spring notes of the robin and blue bird !;
the merry, little sweet summer song Of the
warbler, or the inimitable burst of Joy from
the bobolink as he poises above our clover
heldsY Turning from the pleasure we de-
rive from their presence, note these facts
regarding the financial value OF this last
mention bird:
"The bobol.nk's food is chiefly the grubs
and other destructive insects OF the fields
and meadows. and therefore the bird must
be very beneficial agriculturists. Sup
pose that a pair OF bobolinks arriving in the
State on the fifth of May remain until the
fifth of September before returning to the
Soulful and that by the fifth OF June their
brood OF four young break from the egg
shells TO tarry with us until their parents
depart. Let US suppose, further, that the
birds are awake each day, or mainly inter-
ested about securing food, from five O'Clock
in the morning until six In the afternoon
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-11-14

United States recognizes the value and
importance of reforestipg lands OF the
kind in question, and the department
of agriculture, through the division of
forestry, has formulated plan for es-
tablishing and developing forest plan
tations in cooperation with the owners
of such lands. Nature should not be
trusted alone with the work of refor-
esting. She may be material assist
ed by planting trees of special value
for wood or timber, or uses about the
farms, or for commercial purposes.
The department makes an agree
ment with the land owner to the eff
feet that, after personal study on the
ground by its agents, it will prepare a
plan for planting and caring for forest
plantation of specified number of
acres, for the purpose of promoting and
increasing the present value and use
fulness of the land, and to develop and
perpetuate a plantation of forest trees
thereon. The department will super
wise the execution of this plan so far as
may be necessary. If the area does
not exceed five acres the department
renders all services under the agree
ment wholly without cnarge, but will
not contribute to the expense of plant
ing and caring for the plantation except
to defray the expenses of its agents,
and will not participate in any profits
or returns which many arise from the
growth. II the area is larger than FIVE
acres the department will make the
preliminary visit of inspection without
charge to the owner, and the subse.
quent cost is divided on a scale of wise
liberality to "the party of the second
part"
Vermont farmers ought to be further
encouraged TO engage in this work OF
tree planting by the State government
Their own interest might wisely be
supplemented by a bounty of some
sort to be paid at the end of five years
of growth and development, after in.
spection and approval by competent
representative OF the State, and fur
Their bounty after ten years of growth
and care. On this or some similar
plan the work of restoring these lost
lands ought TO be at once taken up fol
serious consideration, and at the EARL
est day expedient put into execution.
Something of this sort ought to be
the outcome of Senator Cudworth's
bill, and positive action in the matter
ought not to be longer delayed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-11-14
MOyin' the Capitol.

The gentleman from R...s." arose with
solemn air,
Wiping the sweat from off his face, the
hay seed from his hair,
And said: II have a little bill, the which I
wish to read,
Aud hope when tbs reported on, you all
will be agreed
To vote that it shall pass: WHEREAS, as
everybody knows,
Montpelier's hard to git to, 1 hereby do pro-
pose
To move the seat OF Government that is
mean ter say
To change it to some other place that amt
80 fur away.
That isn't all I've got sgin the place where
we're a-meetin';
The people here are much too sharp, too
grsspin', and too cheatin';
Things at the stores they cost too much,
more then we kin afford,
The boardin' houses and hotels they charge
too much for board.
And when a Teller wants to git his bottle
filed, yon know,
There amt no quiet, private place to which
man kin go
And git drink upon the sly except that
public place
The Agency which all of us consider
disgrace.
And so BE IT ENACTED, that some other
place Ne chose
In which our seat OF Cover 'ment may peace
fully repose.
that pint 1 am dumb,
But let it be where board is cheap and not
80 fur from hum.
And II no other can be found to ante up
the dough-
II there's no nearer city where the Capitol
can go,
II Burlington and Rutland refuse to give
sh!llin',
just come to US and you will find that Bar
kis he is willin'l
We amt much on poperlation-but we've
got the Bread Loaf Inn,'
Two meetin' houses, and stage, barber
for your chin,
A lawyer and three notaries, blacksmith,
and dressmaker,
And if you move the Capitol, old R.....
she will take her
The air is quite ssluberous; therell be no
pesky noise
or screechn' locomotives there'll be no
girls and boys
A-shoutn' round the Capitol; no 'lectrc
cars, no riot,
No clangn' bells, stuck up hotels
Rs.s.. is alters Quieu
We've got two stores where you kin git
your crackers an your cheese,
An cat 'em on the counter, or anywhere
you please;
There's nothin' to disturb ye II you should
want to sleep;
Our merchants will not swindle ye, and
table-board Is cheap
We've got no aristockrssy, mo shoddy' and
no shsms;
We don't allow no gdmblin, 'cept by the
sheep and lambs:
And should you ever want to wet yer
whistle when tits dry,
We've got place where any one kin git it
'on the slyi'" -WINoosKI.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-11-14
Finding Fault with the Paper,

The Newport ETpress publishes the
following, which also appears to refer
to the North Troy Palladium:
NEWPORT CENTER, Oct 10Th.
Mr.. Hildreth:
l thought L would take a little
time and jest let you know what the
people are saying bout your paper. it
is in evry ones mouth thet reads it
how poor it grows. it amt felt to read
my man blows me evry time l git one
be cause | wanted him to take it. when
our time is out we never shall take it
again unless you take ont those pic
turs and show bills and medicine cut
things tibet has been in one year. ii
is shame fer people to pay out their
mony fer such trash. the troy amt nc
better. the same peice in this weeks
paper the wus in the last. they is lot
OF my naghbors finding fault with the
paper. it was a nice paper years
o. the want evry trash in it thet
come long and slurlng evry one even
the - be cause they read rite
you Can take notice of this letter OF
not. set butterfeld 10 and it dur
him good. what do you pose church
people care bout your shows you have
evry night Jest keep out sum of yonl
trash if you want eny one to take your
paper. this is the truth. who ever
cares what you see when gone. WI
dopt,O
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-11-14

the taxpayers in general. Thy there
fore recommend, and bill is pending
in the Legislature to carry this recon-
mendation into effect, that a State
board of appraisers be constituted who
shall appraise the property of railways,
including their franchises, and that TIE
average rate of taxation in the Slate at
large, on property in general, officially
ascertained, be levied on the property
80 appraised. 1t is not proposed in this
bill to make a similar appraisal of the
property of telegraph, telephone, ex-
press n other corporations, for the pur-
poses of taxation, or to change the
basis of taxation. Why this dscrimin-
tion2
1t undoubtedly occurs to most minds
that board capable of appraising the
property of the railways, OF adequate
ability and experience, maturity and
intelligence of judgment, to do the
work in question properly, would be
composed of men extremely difficult to
find, and when found to enlist in this
service. 1t is clear, further, that when
this matter is considered in all its bear
ings, and if other property owners
were brought TO obedience to the gen.
eral tax laws with the same rigidity
or observed them With the same
fidelity as do the railways in reportin 9
their gross earnings for taxation, the
rate the railways are now paying aud
the average rate of general taxation
would be many degrees nearer together
than they are stated to be by the COM
mittee, if indeed the rates did not come
to close approximation.
1t would seem that the recommends
lions of the committee ought to have
been directed toward means of reform
ing the evils they disclose They pro-
pose, however, to allow fraud, perjury,
evasion and official dereiction to con
tinue or to shift the burdens of taxation
from the money lender 10 the borrow.
er, and to punish one class of corpora
tions which are faithfully observing
their legal obligations in the matter OF
taxes by doubling their tax rate in or
der to bring it up to an alleged average
rate of general taxation that is the re-
suit of evasion, concealment, and vari-
GUS devises for escaping taxation, OF
legal exemption of much property, and
of official appraisals in violation of law.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-11-14
Restoring Worn Out Lands to Value,

There is something in Vermont agri-
culture besides breeds of COWS, milk
and butter. And this something per
tains directly both to the interest of the
farmer and the people at large.
There are some 5000 square miles of
territory, or in round numbers 100000
acres, within the boundaries of Yer
mont. OF this area some hundreds Of
thousands of acres are non-agricultural
lands, from which the forests have
been stripped. They are a dead asset,
legacy of folly, wastefulness, greed
and improvdence. They are fit only
for tree growing, and in more en-
lightened period their forest growth
would have been harvested with refer
ence to their preservation as perpet-
ual source of revenue of constantly
increasing value and Importance. Their
reforesting would add, in few years,
many millions of intrinsic valuation to
the State, and other millions in the
less tangible but no less important
matters of climatic amelioration, OF
water fall for the crops and the resup-
ply of the springs that are the sources
of the shrinking streams, and in the
pleasing prospect in summer time
that lures the visitor up among the
hills and mountains.
The restoration of worn out, brake
and briar infested pastures to fertility,
and the rocky ridges, swales and hill
sides to forest growth, is as important
and far reaching matter to Vermont
agriculture as strains of Jersey blood,
as systems of feeding or methods of
butter making, or ways and means of
tilling the soil profitably. These mat
tiers ought to engage the active atten-
ton and study of properly constituted
board of agriculture. They have, fur
thermore, direct bearing on all other
interests and industries besides farm
ing, If these unproductive and I'M
slightly lands amount to 100000 acres,
or ten per cent OF the States area, the
sum is an enormous one to be with
drawn from the States productive ca
pacity. But the probability is that this
waste area is nearer 100000 acres, or
one sixth OF the aggregate acreage of
the State. If one-tenth, or one-sixth, of
farmers herd of COWS was unproduc-
tive he would speedily remedy the re-
sulting deficit in the product of his
dairy. Ii Vermont has l 200, 900 acres
or half that area-of waste lands, that
might and ought to be restored TO pro-
ductiveness of some sort-and that she
has there can be no questionable gov
eminent OF the State ought at once to set
about restoring this vast asset to value.
1t is gratifying to note that in the bill
recently introduced by Senator Cud-
worth this matter is brought directly to
the attention of the Legislature. It's
importance needs no enforcement. The
scheme, by means of reforesting, to re-
store TO use lands fit for nothing else
but tree planting, or tree growing, is
not visionary one. 1t is an intense
ly practical one. These lands are better
suited TO wood production than to any
other purpose.
1t is interesting to note in this con-
nection that the government OF the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-11-14

address of the road commissioner elect
ed for the ensuing year"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-11-14

Bills introduced.-S. 1872, provides that
the report of highway commissioner be filed
with the State highway commissioner on or
before Sept. 10, each year. Any town fail
ing to comply shall forfeit its proportion Of
highway money; road commissioner to be
fined $40 II he does not attend one county
meeting each year The selectmen shall
assess at least 10 cent tax for repair of
highways and five cent tax for permanent
roads, Stones in the highway must be re-
moved once in two weeks and commission
ers must cut all brush on highways.
Passed.-S. 80, to incorporate the village
Proctorsville Telephone and Telephone Co.
II. 236, TO incorporate the Washington
County Telephone Co.
Billf introduced, IS. 100, to provide need
ed accommodations at the Industrial school,
Appropriations $500.
Adjourned.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-02-14
LANDS AND SOILS.

The lands Of Yuma County comprise the river
 bottoms and valleys and the uplands or mesaS The
 bottom ands are moister and slightly mere fertile
 if, indeed it is possible to make comparisons
 where all are so wonderfully productive and prolific
 The upIands or mosas are warmer and, perhaps,
 lightly for betterthe cultivation ofthe citrus fruits
 Yuma contains vsrietv of soil The valley land
 of thel Gila and Colorado rivers have for the most
 part deep sedimentary soil of brownish, gray
 sandy loam, resting, in most places, upon gray
 cla, subsoil at depth of from ten to twenty feet below the surface, The clay subsoil forms hard pan which is imperyious to wGter These soils have
 been slowly formed by the decomposition of shales
 sandstones, marls. Hmcstones, ttc., mixed with or
 glnic and vegetable matter, washed down by the
 mighty rivers and have been gradually deposited during the course of centuries. The fertilizing
 brownish mud held in the wat cIof the Colorado and Gila rivers resembles that from the Nile. and it's quantity varies from O.1 to O.5 per cent,
 though the water " hen even considerably discolor- ed by mud is good drink, resembling in this res pect the Missouri river water. \ chemical analysis of the sediments of the Colorado and of the Nile exhibits a wonderful similarity in the constituent plItS OI 6dCll lLdJ O CilC COIOluuO CALiiDLIInS trifo less potassa, most phosphoric acid and car
 bonadc of Iimestcmr beds through which the Colo rado passcs In other respects the scdiAJlt of the Colorado is almost identical with that of the Sile. It will be noticed therefore, that when this water is used for irrigation it is superior to artesian waters since it is constantly supplying the land with the richestfertilizing clements The soil of the valley is extremely rich in dedomposed vegetable matter and uncoiubined carbon, readily absot ping the aerial gases, such especially, oxygen, which en-
 tering the soil dccomposes tAo organic matters so that they can be taken up and nourish the plants which may De considered leading featur3 in u fertility IL also readily takes up and retains moisture while the frmness of its particles affords every facility for pereolation and the activity of capillary action. Tn Is mechanical composition it's particle are in Q state of very fine division which renders it more productive than coarscr soils ,quirics heat readily H the daytime, and the loss of the heat at night i. very gradual that it re- mains always warm and is not subject to sudden changes of heat and cold. Besides its essential con- of water, organic vegetable matter, ! sand and clay, chemical ana 7ss shows that lime soda magnesia, iron, arnmoE a and available forms of nitrogen phosphorie acid and potash enter into in the proportions best adapted to add to it's fertility though, of course, as is always the case in soil analysis, it's composition varies in 4Forcutl caltjcs and i, not always constant
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-02-14
FOREST LIEU SELECTION. q
U. $. LAND OFFICE, Tucson, Arizona.
 Februarv 5. 1900.


 February 5, 1900. Notice is hereby given that Thomas O. Poland, whose post-Offiee address is Ven- tura, Ventura county, California, has made application to select under the Act of June 4, 1897. (3O Stats, 36) the following tract of unsurveved land in Cibola valley, Yuma county, Arizona:
 The SEH of the SWH and the NWZ of the SW14 of Subdivision 16, and the NWA of the SEA of Subdivision r of the Cibola valley, Yuma county, Arlzona. con- taining 120 acres as said lands and subdivi- sions are shown, designated, and delineated upon the map of said valley entitled ''Sub- divisions and Irrigation map of Cibola yal- ley, Yuma County, Arizona, made by John A. Barry, survey or, November. 1S99," filed in this office November 25, 1899, by Stephen B. Sealy and others, Desert Land claim ants, and according to the map marked Exhibit A" attached to the application for this selection.
 Within the next thirty days from the date of the first publication of this notice protests or contests against the selection on the ground that the land described, or any portion thereof, is more valuable for it's minerals than for agricultural purposes, will be received and noted for report to the Commissioner of the General Land Office. | MILTON R. MOORE, Register. | First publication February 4, 1900.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-02-14
FOREST LIEU SELECTION.
U. $. LAND OFFICE, Tucson, Arizona.
 February 5, 1900.

U $. LAND OFFICE, Tucson, Arizona
 February 5, 1900.
 Notice is hereby given that Thomas O. Poland, whose post-offiee address is Ven tura, Ventura county, California, has made application to select under the Act of June 1, 1897, (3O Stats, 36) the following tract of unsurveyed land in Cibola valley, Yuma county, Arizona:
 The NW14 of Subdivision 2, the NEH of Subdivision 23. the E13 of the NEA of Subdivision 10, the NWA of Subdivision 9, and the NWT of the NEH ot Subdivision of the Cibola valley, Yuma county, Ari- zona, containing 600 acres, as said lands and subdivisions are shown, designated and delneated upon the map of said valley entitled "Subdivislon and Irrigation map of Cibola valley, Yuma county, Arizona, made by John A. Barry, surveyor, Novem- Der, 1S99,' filed in tlis office November 21, 1899, by stephen B. Sealy and others, Desert Land claimants, and according to the map marked Exhibit AZ attached to the application for this selection.
 Within the next thirty days from the date of the first publication of this notice protests or contests against the selection on the ground that the land described, rany portion thereof, is more valuable for its minerals than for agricultural purposes. will be received and noted for report to the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
 MILTON R. MOORE, Register.
 First publication February 14, 1900
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-02-14
WHY IMMIGRANTS SHOULD COME TO YUMA

WHY IMMIGRANTS SHOULD COME TO YUMA
 COUNTY. Because the climate is perfect.
 Because the soil is fertile and prolific.
 Because land is abundant and cheap.
 Because home can be made with little labor.
 Because so great variety of products can be grown.
 Because the yield is large and the prices always remuneratve.
 Because life is luxury in land where the sun shines every day.
 Because there are chances for poor man which he can never hope to find in older countries.
 Because the country is advancing and property values are increasing.
 Because, unlike Southern California it does not require small fortune to secure 6 piece of land.
 Because capital does not block all the av- enucs to wealth, nor crowd the poor man to the wall.
 Because Uncle Sam has yet many farms in Yuma county waiting for occupants.
 Bscause churches, schools, newspapers and railroads are fast developing the neral and material clements of the Territory.
 Because good land is becoming scarce, and if you don't catch on now, your last chance will soon be gone.
 Because the country is one of the few regions of the United States that yields the products of the temperate and semi-tropic zones.
 Because the worker receives a fair con- pensation for his labor, and the 'rustler has field for the display of his energy and en- terprise. Because there are neither blizzards or tornadoes, earthquakes nor inundations snow-sto; ms nor cyclones.
 Becaus. the vast and varied resources of the country are yet to be developed.
 Because the wealth ofits mines, it's farm ing valleys, and grazing lands. will yet bull up great and prosperous county.
 Because a man can make Q livelihood Ter, with less labor than in any other part of the United States. Because there is health in every breeze, and strength and vigor under its cloudle"s skies.
 Because the settler need hot spend life time in felling trees and grubbirg our stumra
 Because vegetation is so rapid that in two years the home is surrounded by growth of trees and shrubs which would require five years to develop in a colder cline. Because fortunes here await the ventIre some, and health welc ,mes the afflicted. Because the country has brilliant future and you want to be in the "swim.' Because in it's pure, dry invigorating air, E epidemic diseases cannot live or germinate. Because it's people are generous, liberal, lospitab.o and progressive.