The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-22
SEIZE CANADA.
Former Westerner's Great Irrigation
Plan.

Plan.
To The Salt Lake Herald:
Whilst spending part of the hot term
here In the mountains of Virginia away
| from my home in Lexington. Mo,
read an article on the drying M Of
Salt lake in the town paper My ear
~ life was spent in Wyoming (where
l was member OF the first IegisIa-
ture) and in Utah, where often met
my fathers old friend, Captain Hooper,
and still feel the greatest interest Ia
| the mountain states, and their people.
The drying up of Salt lake is a serious
matter to your city in several ways.
| but you are not the only state so
/ threatened. The same causes, irriga-
! ton, etc. are unquestionabiy drying
! up the Missouri river. Some gentle
men In Washington connected with the
| projects for irrigating the arid district
| between the Missouri and the noun
/ tains assure ME that the great
/ storage reservoirs now projected there
Will not reduce the volume OF the Mis-
souri, further. but the water so held up
and distributed will find its way to the
/ river in volume equal to the present
/ flow in streams and by underground
/ seepage. They fail 10 convince me,
and foresee that the irrigation of the
/ arid district between the Rocky noun
! tains and the Missouri river is going
TO make a semi-arid district in western
/ Missouri. Iowa and Minnesota, as well
! as the eastern part OF the states join
/ Ing them on the west Even were IL
| true as they state it, we already need
! an increase of volume In the Missouri,
not only for navigation. but for infiu-
encing the crops along its borders.
/ have shown that there is but one
| place 70 get this supply and in that
| place it is abundant and now going to
waste. That is Canada. The Saskat-
chewan can be brought TO and across
| the Missouri, and the portions of North
/ and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kan
sas most needing ii can be irrigated.
| Canadian waters can be gathered up
and carried to the head Of the Pecos in
/ Texas. and made TO pay their way
4 every foot. These waters are now go
ing to waste in James and Hudson's
I bays.
| In connection with this, a project
/ gotten up by my brother Can engineer)
and myself to relieve St Louis from
/ danger from Chicago's drainage canal
could be put in operation. IL is 10
drain Lake Superior water into the
upper Mississippi through the st,
Croix river and thus put a larger vol
ume of sweet water into the Mississip-
/ pi than the volume of drainage from
/ Chicago. The increased flow from the
| Missouri would tend 10 the same pur-
pose.
But where does Salt Lake City's help
] come in in all this, il will be asked.
do not doubt that a competent
| engineer could carry water from Snake
! river to Salt Lake nor that Snake river
can be reinforced from Canada some
where. Whilst it would be more diff
| ficult and expensive, IL would pay its
/ way, both from what IL would furnish
farmers and stockmen but miners as
well, not to speak of power for saw
( mills. factories. etc.
! But il is said that Canada would not
permit us to thus use her rivers and
/ her share of the lakes. AS long as
she belongs to England this is true.
But England has set a precedent. She
needed the two independent South At
rican republics and reached out and
| took them. We now need Canada; let
us do the same. The Boer war showed
/ the world that England is moribund
and the modern Englishman (the dregs
left at home by long continued emigra-
ton and wars) is but the tenth part of
a man. 1t took ten Englishman TO
/ one Boer 10 conquer those republics.
| Need We mince matters with a nation
/ whose administrators are thieves and
! whose commonalty are decimals of
/ men. and whose nobility are unmen-
| tiOnable Sodomites. as the Cleveland
I street scandal revealed to the world?
The bone and sinew OF Canada, the
/ working people want to join this Union.
| England is using Canada as a cover
/ to make our ownership of Alaska irk-
some, to destroy our seals and to SNUG
| gle the undesirable Monaghan in upon
US. Whilst We have grown to e, 00O, 600
/ Canada has not grown 10 100000 of
| white people. Why should we thus al
4 low England to be a cumberer of
/ ground that we need? Canada, as
| states In this Union, would hold $4,000. =
/ 900 of people comfortably. But if as
English she were TO become thus popu-
/ lous IL would be a most serious menace
| to US. little less than Russia to Ger
many. The back bone of this country
will be the northern tiers of states and
| the Rocky mountain states. The I'M
desirable Mediterranean peoples now
/ floclxing in and the negroes already in
/ will gravitate 10 and stay in the warm
/ er attitudes. The severity Of the eli
4 mate Of our northern states and Can
| ada viii destroy Weaklings and leave
the sturdy 10 survive and people that
part of the earthl The sooner we get
/ Canada the easier IL will be to get her.
! This win be the signal for the fall OF
! England, the troubler of the worlds
peace. GEORGE WILSON.
Fublicist.
Author Of THE Principles of the Sci
ence OF Money"
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