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The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21

age of alkali is enormous, the lines
OF tile are $50 feet apart.
In Fresno, California, much alarm
was felt oyer the appearance of sur
face alkali on some OF the best lands
worth $500 and $500 an acre-but
the government demonstration Of
ditching and flooding on the twenty
acre Toft-Hansen tract has shown the
process simple, practical and cheap.
Nor is there any waste of water in
this process. On this tract an ample
supply Of water is flooded over the
land and crops planted. The water
descending into the soil dissolves
large quantities of alkali near the
surface and carries it off in solution,
but not in sufficient quantities, how
ever. to prevent the drainage water
being again used for irrigation on
lower levels. II his report Of this
Fresno demonstration Mr.. Means says
Land so tiled even if badly alkaline
can be returned to profitable cult
vation in six months if heavily irri-
gated, and within one year can be
Gsed for the production of any crop
suited to the climate"
At the recent irrigation congress at
/ Ogden Mr.. Means delivered an address
/ N this subject in which he said that
he results of the governments work
/ clearly shows that the large areas OF
kali land in the west can be ree'aired
1t a cost far below the actual increase
n the value Of tie land, and that those
'ands injured by seepage water cen
be returned to fertility, and the dan
Ger Of the rise of alkali entirely obyi-
7ted. 1t is thought that the time will
soon come when drainage will be as
common in the irrigated districts a.
are the tile drained fields of the mid
lie west.
The alleged Washington SCENTS
states that he has seen water from
Salt River, Arizona, show 1871 part
+ soluble salts in 100 900 parts o
water-acutely dangerous to plan
growth.
The division Of soils last July is.
we'd a pamphlet showing that the Al.
-erian Arabs are growing figs, pome-
granites. melons. tomatoes, cabbsgc
nd other plants sensitive to alkali by
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21

cred hat the trouble yielded easily to
simple treatment. Science has already
solved the problem and the growing
population Of the arid region will have
no such discovery to make as the
anonymous Washington scientists pre-
diets.
who is the man who made the
statement" said Secretary Wilson
when the matter was called to his at
t%ention. Didn't give his name? Well
he must have something of lack of con-
fdence in his ability to back up his
statements. There is nothing in them.
The soils bureau of the department
has been studying the alkali problem
in the west for years and u expert
ments have shown that ordinary I'M
der-drainage coupled with irrigation
flooding will reclaim the worst alkali
lands. theoretically this has been
known for a long time, but We have
gone to work in a number of instance
in Utah, California, Arizona and other
western points and have practically
demonstrated the proposition. The
department scientists have studied ou
alkali conditions of typical irrigated
districts covering over three million
acres of land"
AS a matter Of fact the valley OF
the Nile has not escaped a%lkalizatioa.
Large tracts have been abandoned fo1
years because Of the excessive alkali
and it is only recently that sciene.
has proceeded to reclaim these lane
to agriculture. Thomas H. Means, l.
charge of the alkaif reclamation wori
OF the department of agriculture, r.
Gently made a trip to Egypt. +,
found tremendous areas undergoin-
reclamation. Lake Abukir Situate
near the Nile delta, is an old bed c.
2 $4,000 acres lying three or four fee
below sea level. Before reclamatioE
commenced was a dry salt plain j.
summer, upon which absolutely moth.
ing would grow and in winter was GOV
cred with a few inches of strong a
kali water. Today one sees gree.
fields, luxuriant crops of cotton. corn
clover and grass upon this once barre.
desert. The reclaimed land is word
from 5000 to $500 an acre. In anothe
region of the lower Nile delta Nj
Means found 1913, 900 acres undergoing
a system of c~analization, flooding an,
washing i the excess of alkali salts
The first and second years after tn
washing commences, grass, cotton
clover, rice. ETC., are planted. MI
Means says in his official report:
There is a great deal of land O
this character in lower Egypt, and it
reclamation is being carried on Il
most places with success and at a pro
fit"
The thing of land for alkalin
washing costs even less than drai1
thing as practiced on eastern arms
In the government demonstration a
Salt Lake City, where the percent
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21
FEARS ARE
WITHOUT
NDA
ssAlkaIi Problem" VIII Not
Prove a Menace to Work
Planned by the u. S.
NO DANGER FROM IRRIGATION
q Correction of Miscellaneous
in 4 Recently Published Ar
ticle on Subject
Washington, D. C.. Oct. II.

dSuIlSlOHs u. -, OCl. II.
Managing Editor Silver State, Win
nemucca, Nevada.
Dear sir:-The enclosed may inter
est you in view of your reference in
October Sd issue to the alkali prob
lem. This threatened danger from
alkali seems to bob periodically. Just
at the time that the irrigation bill
was about to come to a vote in con-
gress a similar article appeared in a
number of prominent papers, and con-
siderable alarm was felt lest the gov
eminent should be undertaking some
thing which after it was done was
likely to prove useless. l hope you
will read over the enclosed and il
it has not already come to your no.
tiee, make any possible use of it.
Very truly yours,
GUY E. MITCHELL.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21
INDIGESTION

is the cause of more discomfo, t thar
any other ailment. If you eat the
things that you want, and that are
good for you, you are distressed
ACKER'S DYSPEPSIA ia BLETS will
make your digestion peri ect and pre-
vent Dyspepsia and its attendant dis
asreeaDle symptoms. You can safely
eat anything, at any time, if you take
one OF these tablets afterward. Sold
by all druggists une .er a positive guar
antee' 70 cts. Money refunded if
you are not salts fed. Send to us for
a free sample. W. H. HOOKER & CO.
bunalo, N. y Sold by Brown Bros.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21

using irrigation water which contains
from 400 to 500 parts of soluble salts
in each 1eO, 900 parts of water, the
gardens being freely irrigated and wei
drained.
The alkali problem in the west is
one with which the irrigator AID the
engineer must contend, of course, but
with the available information and
knowledge of the practice of irrigated
countries thousands of years old, SUP
%plemented by intelligent scientific work
there is nothing in the situation to
cause alarm to the most conservative.
The country must realize that while
national irrigation is something OF
an experiment in this country, irri-
CATION itself is old, has been in ex-
tensive practice for twetny years
and that there are at present nearly
eight million acres artifeially watered.
Now that the government has come
upon the scene, a new economical
problem is presented, not whether
water will irrigate crops proftably, but
whether the nation can reclaim desert
land and find settlers and home
builders who will go upon it and take
il off the hands of the government
It the cost of it's Improvement. On
u~uestionably, in the opinion of those
| who are interested il the work, At ian.
With the work economically done,
land will be furnished with a good
water supply for $40, S12 or SIS an
acre. making it Immediately worth to
the farmer from four to six times the
cost.
But in this connection the govern
ment should be improving, to the
greatest possible extent, its prop
erty, and when it has made the i'm
provements-given the water to its
land-it should transfer the land to
the actual settler under the old
homestead law. But at the present
rate of land grabbing which is going
on, under the desert and other land
laws, of every available -
tivatable land which it is presumed
will ever come under government irr1-
cation it can not be very long before
there will be little opportunity left for
the nation to improve its own.
Unless congress shall repeal these
statutes, the national irrigation
program cannot be carried out in th4
intent in which the irrigation law was
enacted.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21
Ram S for Sale

We have four hundred good two and
tatee-year-old VI arino rams for sale
Call on or wrI1s 10
G 0RBEIL BROS,
S-6-r Winnemucca,
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21
Confessions of a Priest.

Rev. Jno. S. Cox, of Wake. Ark.
writes, "for II years 7 suffered from
Yellow Jaundice. l c, suited a num-
Der of physicians and tried all sorts
of medicines, but got no relief. Then
] began the use of Electric Bitters and
feel that l am now cured Of a disease
that had me in its grasp for twelve
years." If you want a reliable med
icine for Liver and Kidney trouble,
stomach disorder or general debility,
get Electric Bitters. It's guaranteed
by Brown Bros. Only soc.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21

Paine's Celery Compound. II did ~,
a world of good. My digestion has
never been so good in my life as it
is today. Since using Paine's Celery
Compound l have learned of hundreds
OF others who have used it for the
same trouble with splendid results. ,
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21
a Love Letter.

Would not interest you If you're
looking for a guaranteed Salve fCn
Sores, Burns or Piles. Otto Dodd Of
Fender, Mo-, writes: Il suffered W it'll
an ugly sore for a year, but a box
OF Bucklin's Arnica Salve cured me.
the best Salve on earth" Csc at
Brown Bros Drug Store.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21
THE ALKALI IN THE ARID REG1o.,

A recent interview published in a
number of papers to the effect that
soone ror later alkali problem will
result in the undoing of the west is a
statement which has alarmed many
persons who are fearful that the gov
eminent, in embarking upon Irriga-
ton development, is launching into
an unknown dangerous enterprise. a
well known scientist, too modest,
however, to allow the use of his name,
states, in an interview at Washington,
that genuine arid countries are always
ruined sooner or later by irrigation.
Permanently successful irrigation is
possible only in what we call humid
or semi-humid regions. where the
drainage is natural from clouds to
sea. : When the water from irri-
gation soaks down a few feet into
the surface soil and then slowly by
capillary action rises to the surface
and is ~evaporated, it lifts with it lne
salts and there follows an increase CT
salts or alkali near the surface. = = .
The roots of most crops hug the up
per few inches of soil where the al
kali accumulates and in time kills
them"
Science will have a great problem
before it" he continues. when the arid
regions have by short sighted boom
ing been filed up with a population
which finally discover that what at
first seems to be a most successful
process of farming is a delusion.
> . Thousands of fine farms have
been abandoned because of alkali ris-
Ing in the soil. Thousands more will
be abandoned in the same way, and
unlike the abandoned farms Of New
England they will never be sought
again by any one desiring to get back
to mothe- earth. Babylon fell by the
alkalization Of Mesopotamia. The val
ley Of the Nile has escaped because
there takes place there every year q
thorough flooding, which washes down
through the lowest depths of the soil
and cleans it of all salts that are OBJ
noxious. There are few places in oul
western country where this can be Sc
cured. . Unless some remedy is dis
covered for removing alkali the result
is disastrous in the end, and it in
eyitably soon or late"
A O misleadin interview was
probably never printed. And it con
tains enough basis in fact to make i
appear highly plausible.
Alkali there is throughout the west
In may places in such proportions a
70 cause alarm and fear for the fl
ture Of irrigation. until it was diseov
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21
Sick Headache absolutely end

permanently cured by using MOKI
TEA. A pleasant herb drink. Cures
Constipation and Indigestion, makes
you eat, sleep, work and happy. Sat
isfaction guaranteed or money back,
% cts. and so cts. Write to w. Il.
HOOKER & CO., Buffalo. N. Y, for .
fl &c samplte. For sale by Brown Bros.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21
Charles E. Kolich
Had Nervous Indigestion
14es Eiahth Street. St. Louis. Mo. AUGUST as. 100

Mr.. Kolich says: Il had no Ape
lite; food did not taste good, and my
tomach was full of gas continually.
My indigestion became so bad my
eomach refused the plainest food. /
became thin, nervous and gloomy. By
advice of a very good physician | tool
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-21
Young Rams for Sale

roR 1.-Two hundred yearling
Rambo Iillet rams from registered
s.oek at $500 per head. Also 60G
Merir.o rams. 2. 3 and 4 years old,
Price $40 To s10.09. according to
age. Apply to W.. r. JENKINS co.
ha'tle Mountain. New. Jy10-Oct30
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-25

Republicans Up Against Trust Facts.
The Republicans have never ceased
to worry about the facts in regard to
prices. wages and the cost OF living
under Dingley bill trust rule ns pre-.
sented in the last Democratic campaign
book. Notwithstanding that with each
attempt to get away from or disprove
these facts they work themselves
deeper into the trust 1iire. yet they
are foolish enough to continue their
spasmodlc struggle. Mr.. Hill. of Con-
necticut, made n desperate effort last
Saturday to prove, by the table of
prices lii the Democratic campaign
book, that the prices of the articles
on the free list had advanced more
from 1896 to 1902 than did the prices
of the articles on the dutiable list lie
took all of the eleven articles on the
free list and showed that the prices
of these had advanced 20 per cent.
Then he selected twenty-one articles
from the ia on the dutlable list, and,
amid Republican applause. showed that
the prices Of these rose only 15A per
cent from 1896 to 1902.
Judge Griggs, of Georgia, chairman
of the Democratic Congressional Com
mittee, got after Mr.. Hill on Wednes-
day and simply pulverized him. Not
only did he select another list of TWEEN
ty-one important articles from the cam
paign book list, the prices of each and
all of which are controlled by tariff
protected trusts and which advanced
an average of II per cent from 1896 to
1902, but he showed that all but of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-25

We perceive also in current revela-
tons of the protectionist spirit, the
tendency of superstition or false
doctrine to grow more intolerant and
eXtravagant with time. Won Hoist
has shown beautifully low this work
ed in the case Of slavery in the South
From being thought n temporary evil
1t came TO be held as. first. an eco
monte necessity. then social advan-
tage, and finally n divine institution,
big with blessing to black and white
and against which 1t was sacrilege and
treason combined to lisp syllable
So we have seen protectionism grow
from the ''infan,-industry stage, II
policy TO be apologized for MS q pass
ing necessity. until it has become the
sacrosanct thing we now see it to be
regarded York Evening Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-25

A horse will leave musty hay I'M
touched i'll his bin. however hungry.
He will not drink of w:iter objection
able to his questioning siiff or from
bucket which some otior makes of
fensive, however thirsty. His intelli-
gent nostril will widen, culver and
query over the daintIest bit offered by
the fairest of hands with conxings
that would make n mortal shut his
eyes and swallow mOuthful at a
gulp. A mare is never satisfied by
either sight or whinny that her colt is
really her own until she has certi-
fled nasal proof of the fact. A blind
horse now living will not allow the
approach of any stranger without
showing signs of anger not safely to
he disrcgar1ed The distinction is evil
IDENTIFY made By his sense of smell,
and ut Il considerable distance. Blind
horses as n rule will gnllop wildly
hbotit n pasture without striking the
surrounding fence. The sense of smell
informs them of its proximity Others
will when loosened from the stable go
direct to the gate or bars opened to
their accustomed feeding grounds, and
when desiring to return after hours of
careless wandering will distinguish
one oiitlet and patiently await Its
opening. -Detroit Free Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-25

One of the troubles of the farmer To-
Gated in sections where the snow fall
Is heavy Is getting to his stock after n
heavy fall of snow. All of us are ia
miliar with the scene of farmer shov-
cling snow all day when the barn con-
tains several horses actually suffering
for exercise. The use of pillow like
that Illustrated. which may be readily
fashioned at home, would overcome all
this trouble. The plow should be made
of heavy planks of any desired size,
and should be higher in front than Mt
the back; eighteen inches Is a good
height for the front. The top is shown
iii the lower Illustration, indicating
how three boards are placed for the
best support. The sides should be
braced with two long Iron bolts with
nuts. The handle should be fashioned
as Shown and made with ferule and
a crooked piece of hoop iron. Ar
ranged as Indicated the plow may be
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-25
the 90 per cent advance in price
showed by the eleven free list articles

the 90 per cent advance in price
showed by the eleven free list articles
was due to the enormous advance In
the prices of sisal and binder Irvine,
and that the very high prices of these
two articles was due to the cruel war
in the Philippines.
! Again, in the list of ia articles on
the dutiable list Mr.. ELL found one
the price of which was higher at one
time in 1896, than 1t was in 1902. This
one was wire nails. Judge Griggs
showed that the high price of Wire
nails in 1896 was due to temporary
pool of the wire nail makers, which
collapsed before the end of the year,
and that the average price during the
four years of the Wilson bill law was
only S1.TO per keg, while the average
price during the last four, years of
Dingley bill. billion-dollar trust domi-
nation was $293 per keg.
The Republicans are more at home
III suppressing discussion of these trust
facts than when attempting to dis
prove them by butting their heads up
against them. Addition, division and
silence should be their motto, as LET
we'll enough alone" is their slogan.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-25
GAVE LUCK The CODY.
Senator Teller Misses Chance to Make
n Fortune.

a Fortune.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, will
never forget Christmas day, 1880. 1t
was on that Christmas morning he al
lowed to slip through his hands a
chance to make million dollars with.
out putting up single dollar. Two of
Senator Tcller's friends proposed to
purchase the Robert Il. Lee mine Mt
Leadville. They We're able to buy it
for 100000. On Christmas morning
they called around TO see Mr.. Teller,
told him what they proposed to do and
urged him to take Il one third interest
in the property.
But haven't any money" protested
Mr.. Teller.
at makes 10 difference he was
told. You can give your notes, and
before they come due we'll take from
the mine more gold than will be nee
essary to pay them"
but suppose we don't realize our
expectations: suggested the Senator,
with caution.
Then we will put up the money to
meet the notes, and you need not trou-
BILE about Them
Senator Teller was assured that his
friends knew exactly what they had in
hand, but he didn't go in. He thought
as he had not the money TO put into
the undertaking he had no right to
reap the reward, If there was to be
one. He was assured that they want
ed him in the deal, but no persuasion
could get him to accept the offer. One
month later the Robert E. Lee mine
had yielded 100000 of gold, and in
a,ycar total of S1.50O,O0O was taken
out. 1t proved to be one of the richest
pockets of gold that has ever been
found.-Washington Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-25

over in Il corner of Europe hundreds
of dark-skinned men are digging up
buried cities, and the wise ones have
found beneath one set of ruins another
and below that still another, and no
man can say how many cities and GEN.
turtles lie still further beneath the
ground. Above, the sands shift with
the wind, the sun shines, children are
born, grow up and die, and the works
OF man crumble and decay. Nothing
formed by mans hands endures. 1t is a
far cry from the buried cities to bed
side In Cincinnati, where d man lay
dying and gazing into the dear face Of
a sick woman who had been carried to
his bedside to take final look at the
man she mad ardehtly loved through
the long years. Mamma said the
dying man. you have been a
coed wife and mother. You have
never failed me. and | have ALWAYS
loved you. You are good woman"
Philip" she said, and there We're tears
In her voice. all that you can possibly
say of me can say of you. You We're
always good TO ME and to the children.
You have made your wife happy"
Nothing formed by mans hands en-
dures. But love lasts for the ages, Tho
kindness and sympathy and tenderness
that makes q man and woman CLING
together, fills their lives with hope and
happiness, is a fire that warns human.
ity. 1t is pure gold. Time and adver-
sity do not destroy it. 1t is more beauti.
full than field of flowers, and 1t BIOS
SONS and spreads and blossoms again
In other hearts, until who shall tell the
limits or the life of one good deed?
When this man lay dying lie didn't
think of his mednls, his fame, his posi-.
tion, the material things that had come
into his life. They were as are tho
buried cities, bulldcd by man, enduring
for a while, to be lost in the future,
But the flame Of love burned strong and
clear in those last days, and those who
study mankind and realize tile short
ness of life and the vastness of eter
nifty must know that the true greatness
of the man lay In that treasure that
cannot die-love for his family and for
humanity.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-25
Mormons and Republican..

The whole Mormon question was in
jected into the debate in the Senate
on the statehood bill last week. when
1t was developed that there is n large
Mormon constituency In Arizona and
New Mexico, and the startling state
ment was made that no Mormon could
run for high political office without
the consent of the first presidency of
the Mormon Church." This debate was
significant in view of the advent of
the Mormon issue when Apostle Smoot
shall present himself for admission to
the Senate. The Republican leaders
in the last presidential campaign made
a political bargain with some of the
Mormon apostles that IL the Mormon
vote was cast in Utah and other States
for the Republican candidates, there
should be no further legislation against
polygamy. Senator McComas charac-
terized the prohibition of polygamy as
contained in the Utah enabling act as