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,rodDced fru= Eore humid regions.
and are not e.cnco.icai In their
xzte- requirements Selections Of
dro1gks-rsss<zirg varieties may
azkepcsssbse = great extension csshe
presen. irrigated area Methods.
too. OF cn,tiEztioo znd irrigation
hzvt nuch to do wsit The quantity
OF water used Flooding Is = rule
requires zo-e Ez-sr than l-rlgz.ing
IL surroxs. and !. Azs h<ra obs<-vsd
tia, grass and grasz, <EscA are Is
rz,iy irrigated by flooding, produce
n.o-e thrifty grusrh OF ditch banks
ard higher ridgss and knobs WHERE
the roots are supplied fron beneath
rather than from the surface This
isct has led II some localities 70 the
adoption 0: the rill system with
such crops As cover ali the land
TheLaramieriver
STORAGE IS atype o:tfe west
REsERvIoRs era rivers whose
NEEDED waters are used for
irrigation. PTo;es-
sor BuEum's tables and diagrams
show thz. the river furnishes the
greatest supply OF water in May
and the early part OF June, and
tina, al crops excep, native
hay require the most water
later in the Sezson-the latter half
of June and the frs, half OF July.
This means that irrigated farming
1,als lie Laramie Iiver must be
limited 70 native hay and the small
area OF other crops which can be IL
-igz,ed with the summer flow O;
the river. unless the spring foods
are stored for the use OF those crops
requiring later water. In Wyoming
this Is not 80 grea, hardship as a
like condition would be in some
other states. The fact that the
greater part OF the land in that state
is beyond the reach of wate. makes
stock raising the leading industry
OF the state. and the great need OF
that industry is winter feed for the
stock which runs on the open range
during the summer months. But
native hay is light crop, even
when irrigated and storage reser-
voirs would make in possible to cul-
tivate an increase Of area OF other
forage crops which yield much more
heavily than native hay.
Professor Buffm emphasizes the
fact which is brought out by almos,
every recent writer on irrigation,
that the present system OF giving
irrigators title to the use of con.
tinuous flow Of stream of given
size is not necessary and is more
over wasteful. He shows that some
systems of rotation by which tn,
owner Of 70 acres can have the US,
Of larger head than one second
foot for short periods during tn,
season will more nearly correspond
with his needs and result in a grea
saving OF water.
The bulletin can be obtained b,
applying to the Secretary of Agri
culture. GuY +. MITCHELL.
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a New Jersey school teacher de.
creed that boys and girls who
whisper must kiss, and FIVE old
maids donned short dresses mex,
day and tried TO be admitted to the
schooi.
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The platform a.
SENATOR dopted by Senator
woLcorT's Wolcott's state con.
PLATFORM. vention In this city
on Thursday con-
fains no reference TO silver or free
coinage. Even the mask of inter.
national bimetallism has been
thrown aside, TIE platform gives
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Any one vino can locz,e the Den
rer Republican politically 1ill re-
ceive large reward by calling upon
the editor Of that paper.
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The outlook fo- England Il the
Trznsvzal 5 brighter than I; has
ever been, b-, .te Boe- have II.
yet been whipped and I they lose
the final battle English supremacy
viii sill be = thing o. the future
e1.s..i3'- siss--. -c:-r
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Side tickets are just wha, Repub-
.ican leaders like 70 see and rhey
will do more 70 re-elect Wm. Nc.
Kinley than anything else.
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1t is not at all strange that some
Of the indians go on the war path
when all kinds oftreaties made with
them are broken and they have tc
suffer through the negligence and
thievery Of some government de.
paYtment.
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The Aontezunia Journal definite
ly fixed itself in the Republican
ranks last week, by copying an ed
itorial from the Colorado Springs
Gazette without comment.
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TIE postal stezi IL Cubz IA.
grown, upon investigation, to s5oo. :
ooo- 4 pzrt of the COS. Of 'beaev-
oleat assimilation.
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Incorporation is a very essential
factor in the growth and pcrnanency
OF all towns. Dolores should have
it, for it will add population and in
dustry.
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IRRIGATION INVESTIGATION.
Experiments a. the LARAMIE. ",oming. e,
pertinent Station.
Storage Re.ersops Needed.

The Department of Agriculture
has in press an interesting bulletin
prepared BY Prof. B. c. Bufum,
showing the results ofhis irrigation
experiments FOR the past nine years
at the Laramie, Wyoming Expert
ment station.
Professor Butfum states that the
time has now arrived when many
irrigated districts have so far devcl.
oped that scarcity of water is keen
ly felt, and the good of the commun.
ity demands that there shall be no
unnecessary waste of the limited
supply. The knowledge lacking in
irrigation. and which must in some
way be obtained before our water
supply will be either wisely or cor
rcctly used, is how much water is
required to secure the best results,
and when and by what means i, can
be most economically and efficient.
ly applied.
Some OF the cx.
HOW periments have been
MUCH made with view to
WATER, determining the ef.
feet of the use of a
greater or less quantity of water upon
the crop return of a given area. Prof.
Buffum presents tables showing the
crop returns from various plants on
which different quantities Of water
were used, but they arc not conclu.
sive and more experiments are
needed. In general, however, the
tables show larger yields where
larger quantities Of water were used,
but the increased yields are not in
proportion TO the increased quaint.
ties Of water used. The varying
conditions affecting the quantity Of
water needed by crops are fully dis.
cussed In the bulletin. Most plants
cultivated In the arid Yves. we're IN.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
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Marx Hanna may not be the
Whole thing ii the Republican cam
paign this fall bu. ne zilI y as nez-
il as any body.
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E-ery Deaoc-z, who car posi-
bly, do 50 Should attend ,he @zss
convention At Co-1sz OF Saturday.
Mar zs.
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The Dolores Undertaking Co. o. ID.
Pyle Manger, is prepared to handle ev.
erything in the undertaking business in
this section. 6tf
Best workmanship is assured by Ralph
Thompson & Go. OF Mancos, in all paint.
ing or papering. See them before let.
ting your work. Att
Latest designs IN wall paper and low.
est prices. quality considered. at Thomp.
son Goa, Mancos. ATT
When IN Durango you should stop at
the Inter Ocean Hotel. Chas. Fleck, pro-
prietor. Tho table 10 supplied with ev.
erything the market affords and you are
sure OF being treated courteously ss well
as having good comfortable bed to
sleep in. Rates el.50 and 800 per day:
opposite Union Depot. 16tf
The Iner- Ocean Hotel is the place TO
stop when you 60 to Durango. Good beds
good meals and courteous treatment are
assured you. lCtf
Rodgers 4 Bro. A. /. silver ware st
Woods. Mancos.
Stop at tho Inter.Ocean Hotel when
In Durango. lGu
Parties desiring any painting or paper.
ing dono should address Ralph Thomp.
son ut Mancos. All work promptly at.
tended to. Estimates furnished. I3tf
Best In the world-Ssth Thomss eisht
day. one.half hour. Csthedrsl gong strike
mantle clocks ut Woods, Mspcos. lats
Old papers IL cents q hundred.
Seth Thomss alarp clocks a. Wood.
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Msncos. lwe
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Old papers i5 cent? o hundred.
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The Dolores Undertaking Co. o. d.
Pyle Manger. is prepared to handle ev-
erything in the under taking business in
this section. 6tf
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Best workmanship is assured by Ralph
Thompson & Go. OF Mancos. in all paint.
ing or papering. See them before let.
ting your work. Att
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Latest designs In wall paper and low.
est prices. quality considered. at Thomp.
son & Goa, Mancos. AFR
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Best In the world-ssth Thomas eight
day. one.half hour. Cathedral gong strike
mantle clocks at Woods. Msncos. 43tf
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-24
What Bryan's Election Would
Mean.

(By Hon. Henry W. Palmer.
Y F BRYAN is elected we may cer-
tainly expect: First--Repeal of
l. the Dingley tariff. Second-Free
coinage of silver upon a ratio of
16 to /, without the consent of any
other nation. Third-A surrender OF
all authority in the Philippine islands,
and an undertaking to defend any
government that Aguinaldo may es-
tablish from all foreign interference.
In the light of the experience of this
country, after the repeal of the Nc
Kinley tariff and the enactment of the
Wilson bill it would seem to be i'm
possible for any sane man to be willing
to go through ii again. Can the manu-
facturers and merchants who failed,
the farmers who were sold out and
the workmen who sat idle while their
families lacked for bread be fooled or
cajoled or frightened into voting the
country into another panic of 1893? If
so they have chance.
II anv devotee of tariff reform can
convince himself that tinkering with
the tariff will not bring the same re-
suit in 1901 that it did in 1898, he viii
perhaps concede that If the currency
is deprecated by admitting silver to
be coined free and to be made legal
tender for debts, the resulting disturb
ance of business, readjustment Of
values and destruction of confidence
will end in universal bankruptcy If
Bryan is elected free coinage of silver
is sure within three years thereafter
Enlightened by the disastrous history
OF all attempts to depreciate the cur
rency in all countries, the people voted
in 1926 that they would not sanction
that dishonesty or be a party to ma
tional dishonor. VIII this verdict be
reversed in 1900?
The time that has elapsed since 1896
has proved all arguments of the free
silver advocates, including those Of its
chief apostle, Mr.. Bryan, to be false
absolutely and Enthusiastically false. He
argued that the price of silver and the
price Of wheat were bound together
and rose and fell together. Since that
time wheat and silver have parted
company. While wheat has steadily
advanced silver has steadily de-
| preclated. He argued that prices
never could go up until free coinage
and the government fiat raised the
monetary value of silver. Now he ID
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-24
An Admirable ReDIy.

"%HE PUBLICATION of our
governments reply to Ger
II many's demand for an i'm
mediate punishment of high
Chinese criminals not yet located or
tried shows that the same broad spirit
of justice combined with practical wis
dom which has marked the early
stages of our Chinese policy still guides
the later developments of it. In plain
words, the German demand is accepted
in legitimate purpose but rejected in
unfair method. The United States will
not make vengeance its first motive
nor will it participate in any pro-
gramme broadly limiting at spolation
If Germany with its immense army
wants to disregard the implied protest
Of the United States and go on with
its evident programme of revenge the
field is open; and the United States, as
a neutral, will withdraw. 1t holds no
commission to interpose a restraining
hand. 1t yet has its own affairs to
straighten out with China and its own
rights to enforce and protect. Steps
toward this end it can take in it's own
time and manner. 1t will not be q
party to injustice nor an acquiescent
accomplice to outrage.
But if Germany wants to continue
the concert Of action which has pre-
vailed in the dire extremity of the
earlier situation the United States
shows plainly and with unselfsh in
terest the lines along which this can
be preserved. First find an authorized
representative of the Chinese govern
ment with whom to consider the pre-
lminaries of negotiations for a settle
ment, thus affording the other side a
chance to be heard and then go ahead
with all fair demands, keeping in view
the honorable purposes stated in the
American note of July 3.
Meanwhile the American naval force
in the Orient is to be increased as q
wise guarantee of continued protection
of American interests.
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economic methods TO all kinds OF manufacturing
cntailng the employment Of thousands Of young
men-in fact, all the young men who have re.
Gently graduated from our technical institutions.
These young men are not all OF the same capa.
city, although few Of them are not industrious
and ambitious. Their industry and ambition as.
sure them Of permanence In their employment
and their greater advancement is measured by
their capacity. II was said by one Of the great.
est genuses Of our time a man who lifted him
self from the humblest Of early environments to
a position Of great influence, and he possesses
great wealth: Nobody can revile at laws or
politics or social institutions for any difference
in intellectual character between any two young
men. That difference represents a higher than
any earthly power, and the young man who is
blessed with great intellectual gifts may Justly
be the admiration but should not he the envy
Of those who are less fortunate than he; nor does
IL become any politician TO attempt to raise any
political issue by reason Of the success which
attends ability, which is Heaven.given gift"
o
President vreeland who not many years ago
was a brakeman and before that drove a grocery
wagon, said in speaking Of his own career and
experience that he more and more persuaded
that under our form OF government the oppor.
tunities which awaited every young man were
only to be measured by his capacity and his in
dustry. This was illustrated by the experience
which was met with the great works az Preston
The work were constructed under the supervision
OF an American engineer. They are to be in
charge Of a young man who, though Of English
birth, had his scientific and practical training
in one OF the greater Of the industrial corpora
tons of the United States The American system
that looks to the establishment Of the most per.
feet economies or prevention Of waste, the pay
ment of high wages to skilled artisans, the EN-.
ployment OF the best labor saving machinery, is
to be adopted there. And in all the more i'm.
portant technical journals Of Great Britain which
have reached this country within two or three
weeks there is acknowledgment that il Great
Britain is to maintain her share OF commercial
and industrial prosperity she must go to school
in the United States or bring American indus
trial school masters over there to teach the
secret of success that has seemed so paradoNi-
cal to them, since, although pay the highest
wages and the best salaries, and at the same
time employ to the utmost labor.srvng machin'
cry, nevertheless we are able to turn out a pro
duct fully as good, generally better, than the
product Of like English manufactures, and to
put it upon the market at a less cost.
"T don't agree with Mr.. Croker President
vreeland is reported to have said, 'for, in my
| opinion, we are at the opening of an era wher
the greatest Of all opportunities await young
men,"
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would necessarily show a reduction In
the exports and purchasing power OF
the island as compared with the cor
responding period in former years.
1t Is the more surprising, therefore,
to find that the island has during the
four months since the enactment of
the law, sent to the United states
three and quarter million dollars
worth Of her exports, as against ST.
$4,000 worth i'm the corresponding
months of 1899, $1,1S3,0OO in the cores
pondIng months of 1897, and S1,360,oOO
in the same months of 1896; and that
its people have been able to purchase
fIcm the United states during that
period S2.525000 worth of our exports,
against S1.132, 200 worth in the cores
ponding months of 1899, S629O0O worth
in 1897, and $5S7, 600 worth in the cor
responding months of 1896.
The table which appears elsewhere
on this page shows the imports from,
and exports to, the island, in its COM
nerce with the United States, during
May. June, July and August of 1896
1897, 1899 and 1900, respectively, and
the total for each period, and thus
enables a comparison by months and
by the entire period both with 1899,
when the island was under the Ameri-
can flag but subject to the general
customs laws of the United states,
and with 1896 and 1897, when the is
land was Spanish territory. 1t will be
seen that every months since the
enactment of the new law shows a
marked increase over 1899 and a still
greater increase as compared with
1897 and 1896; while the total imports
from the island in the four months of
1900 show an increase of 63 per cent.
over 1899 and ia per cent. over 1897,
| and the exports show an increase of
1913 per cent. over 1899 and 3O1 per cent.
over 1897.
This Is a sufficient answer to Demo-
cratic criticisms of the Porto Rican
revenue tarilL
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-24

"~HE NUMEROUS attacks in
the lower coal fields by mon
Il on strike and their sympa-
thizers upon men at work,
eliminating in the deplorable affair at
Shenandoah and in the interposition of
the state militia to preserve the gen.
eral community from terrorism and
riot, present an issue regarding which
the judgment of sober public opinion
is undivided.
The right to work is as sacred as the
right to strike. Violence or intimida-
tiOn put forth to obstruct men in the
exercise of the one right is just as
much a violation of law as would be
similar violence and intimidation is
put forth to obstruct men from quit
ting wors at the termination of their
contracts'with their employer. Every
American citizen must have the un-
tramelled right to choose for himself
whether he shall work or strike and
the invasion of this right in either
direction is IA blow at liberty which
can not be tolerated if American free
dom is to endure.
No man whose purposes, conduct and
associations are peaceful and circum-
spect has any reason to fear the pres
ence in any place of American soldiers
to preserve order. These soldiers are
all citizens who have of their own free
will entered the military service and
taken oath to obey the orders of their
commanding officers who in turn are
subject to civilians put in places OF
high authority by popular vote. Their
relationship to a community is exactly
that of a police officer in more tran
quill times. They represent and they
enforce the law when the local author
tiles have expressed their powerless-
ness to do this unaided.
1t is fortunate that in this commun-
ity the number of men careless of law
is comparatively few. But everywhere
obedience to law must be enjoined upon
every citizen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-24

NUN NUN rs operations OF
X the Porto Rican tariff law
"A show an increase of more
than one hundred per cent.
in our exports to that island as COM
pared with the corresponding months
of 1889, and more than thirty per cent.
as compared with the corresponding
months of 1897 or 1898.
The act went into effect May l, 1900,
so that the figures for August, which
have just been completed and made
public by the treasury bureau of sta
tistics complete the record of the
fourth month of commerce between
the island and the United States un-
der the new law, and render prac-
ticable a comparison of the four
months term with corresponding
periods in preceding years.
The corresponding four months in
1899 cover a period in which the is
and was under the American flag, but
Suhjects to the customs laws of the
United, States which relate to foreign
countries. The corresponding four
months in 1893 were the war period
md do not, therefore, furnish a fair
Iasis for comparison. The correspond
ng four months of 1895 and 1896 pre-
cent normal conditions in the COM
nerce between the island and the
United States when it was Spanish
crritory.
1t is therefore now practicable to
contrast the commerce between the
United states and Porto Rico during
our months operations of the new
aw with a corresponding period prior
o the enactment of this law when the
island was under the American flag
and also with corresponding periods
when the island was Spanish terri
tory, and to determine whether the
enactment of the new law was fol-
lowed BY an increase in our commerce
with the island. 1t will be remem-
hercd that the discussions in con-
gress a few months ago and the state
ments made by delegations from, and
officials in. the island, indicated that
he island had, as a result of the
storm of August, 1890, practically
nothing 20 sell and nothing with which
to buy, and it was supposed that the
first few months under the new act
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-24

In declaring that the American young
man is being robbed of his chance in
life Mr.. Bryan forgets how one young
man, residing in Nebraska, has in four
years bridged the distance between
comparative obscurity with poverty
ami international renown with the
largest bank account in his residence
city, The American young man with
the right kind of stuff in him needs
no commiseration from Bryan, Croker
and Co.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-24

The right to strike cannot exist with
out the right to work. Wanton de-
struction of the latter by capital Is
criminal, but it's destruction by labor
is suicidal.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-24

"If there is any one who believes
the gold standard is a good thing,
or that it must be maintained, I
warn him not to cast his vote for
me, because I promise him it will
not be maintained in this country
longer than I am able to get rid of
it."-William Jennings Bryan in a
Speech at Knoxville, Tenn, Deliv-
cred Sept. 16, 1896.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-24

Not single nation disputes our pos
session of the Philippines. The only
organized opposition to the consumma-
tion of the Paris treaty comes from
Aguinaldo and the Democratic party.