The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-16
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M. IA. MURDOCH, Editor

THAT COLORADO COMMISSIONS CONFESSION.
A scientist expert just in the proportion he tails CT
being practical Scientific deductions worthless ex
cept utilized by practical Conclusions Of theol
lists are worth about as much per dozen eggs when
not furnished gratuously. which they generally are.
Colorado officials becoming uneasy over claim made
by Kansas that the Of the Arkansas valley IN
this state were are being greatly damaged by the
confscaton of the river by Colorado ditch
companies have been getting several varieties Of moves
or of late Among others note that during the late
rise commission Of experts ordered to fol-
low the flood for the purpose of asceranng what be
came Of it. There had been succession Of cloud
bursts and extraordinary precipitation along the east
ern slope where the Arkansas energies from the
tans and the augmentation proved little short Of food
The commission followed the Of the tide from
Canon City in Colorado to Arkansas City the line Of
Oklahoma We only such excerpts Of their report as
appeared dispatches which to the effect that
by the time the rise had reached through Kansas there
was nothing left of speak Of that the entire volume
OF water had disappeared hence Kansas had been sus
tanning no damage as her got but little of the
water even when the river was full These impractical
scientific chumps did not know that their conclusion
from actual observation is just the Arkansas Val
ley farmers have claimed just what the Eagle has
tended and just what this state is going to try prove
to the satisfaction Of the Supreme Court of the United
States Of course the flood disappeared before it reached
Arkansas City, and all the more quickly because the
valley lands were short Of water from the fact that the
usual flow of former years has been stolen by Colorado
ditch companies The contention OF the original Arkan
sas Valley farmers was that their crops were noceaby
and greatly benefited by "subirrigation from the fact
that when during the spring and early the Ar
kansas river was full the percolated the
sandy the valley miles either side, reach
ing by ndltraton capillary attraction the of
the crops of our cacareous and sandy soils This fact
which was never questioned became all the obvious
wber the later dchenterprses Colorado spectators
diminished the volume OF the annual flow and not until
the effect became serious did the people who had been
benefited take legal steps to hemslys from ruin The
admission OF the Colorado commission is Kansas eonten-
ton The conclusion Of that commission forth in
its report verifcaon of the Eagles od-time
claim. the dspersement Of the spring floods of
the Arkansas river through adjacent and wide levels
which big corn grass crops Had the
waters been retained between the banks no benefits
could accrued General Grant once observed that
al that was necessary to render the Arkansas river
navigabe up through Kansas to furnish it with
copper bottom But Kansas did want the for
naygab purposes Canteope and sugar beet and other
ineopers Of Colorado are growing expense
OF Kansans who bought their good faith of Uncle
SAM little dreaming that the miners the mountains
west Of them, would after having utilized the Of
his river for washing gold these same waters
out Of their original channel into arid sage barens be
almost totally to the original beneficiary to the com
muny which for years felt secure in its riparian
rights