Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-10

n, ma u tso pJiats ahere the rfTs.
coufinfd between high sanas'on,
huff but this would biz i wori
Nhieh. ablie ii woal4 create 4 grea.
smpire " III own. would make ii,
Nile Dam. nith I,s - millions of cost
siak into comparative insignifleanoe
What Can Be Done Today.
mi there ~ osaer means 81 max
Ing the Missouri contribute u Amer
esa prosperity Your correspondent,
v fortunate enough Ii take d trip Of
YoiEe hundred mites np the river On 4
steamer. pstotei tie last oil Tho
otatima 41ser kings. Captain Grant
liafsh famous as / pilot ana river
explorer under Custer. FoFsytae.
Sheridan. Niles, and an important
factor Id many indian expeditions.
There was Mtsie III common In nay.
~unefentfai rip and ouch i one a.
when Captain Marsh brought hack To
bismarck me nisf news III me dread
M Custer Ma saere, whic4 made 2s
widows Of army officers taflonad I'll
Fort Lincoln, Jast across tha river, and
brought likewise 4 scse of wounded
Apidisrs from heHos detached troops.
The Sioux have had their passing and
ranehera and tgsaners ma dwell ard
Nil wit1a%9aI fear Of swift annihilatIon
from narauding braves But from The
pilot hnssse of the little sfeamer
could discsfp, II The not far future, a
Development along tile Missouri. which
would Wofk q YET greater change than
d the past decade. For hun.
drtda of miles me river IL efcompa1aea
by steep bluffs from 200 10 $50 feet high
and from Two 10 three miles apart.
Between these. ,ha river winds. i
stream az from b quarter 10 d half
miles vide. gradually chaging lis
potryc from aide ID side, but forming
great areas ~ bench ian45 twenty,
thirty. ind fifty feet high hundreds
Thousands VI acres vi surprisingly
fertile sol. needing only irrigation.
And the watering of this land turns
III To among tic ea last of DO.
Ieets.
Rleh Coal Beds FOR Pumping.
Every blur If the Missouri showed
! coal vein of from 3 Inches Is IL
feet ID thickness III fact onormous
afeaa Of North Dakota are nnaorIala
splendid Ignite coal. worth ii
mine only i dollar i ion. There
have 4. Tho water Of The Mic
sour. 4 litnitless. c~easless supDly
laat above 4 land. made by centuries
river seainnent and Immediately at
ianf y of the rheapeat known
llesi to pump the water onto tho land
I'D not take an engineer 10 zoe The
and ehcapncta III this III.
lcrtaklnE.
put Why. ] asked myself. Ind il
been ,ionag Why had mol farm. +.
themselves put In vindmllIs and
mail pumps2 Was there, after nj. I
ono tnslrmountahlp obataclee Nd.
Talks with q few Of them showed
hem ~ Ignorant of irrigation and il .
implicitly NJ aro the farmers Of Yer.
ont IN fact they were srainfatln
arners and they spoke of Irrigation
= 4 mysterious and complicated pro- /.
css.
Uncle Sam TO Pump the Missouri
Ms return 70 bismarck Justified NV
onelusions. ! found two government
h.ineefs even then investigating the j,
fohi'm5 and far beyond supplying .
he great areas ~ lower benches, they
foiosa ~ elevate III. water d hun
rcd and possibly two hundred feet /.
" onto The great mesae. left them
reparins fer 4 trip down tho Mis-.
ourl from the Dakota Montana line.
. small skin. III i careful recon.
aissanee af he Old Miutdg. IFS trt.
itaries aud rs laiIdt ii they find
'nallioat IN favorable ii they would
tnl = party q Surveyors Will be
tirou NE project ii once 10 make
aod detailed plans. 10 te rol.
web bH The Installation az giant
ImI# water engines each ~ whies
Il efeat q small river
rh smk % The geyotai,e.. #
iusht vim r~ateuuaef possibilities III
Nort4 atns A rrrlt o1aise T,
. latcnt III she midst n tl,c state. !.
Nattt b which lrr pwn aepie
bnt beginning to eomna sud.
7 tsrtttiiy pr The ages II sforti IN
thk black solf atd Inv water III
: 4 eoptineat fioss bst IL ualAed
ny N wealth The day ) rf,at3
vs. re The land af Laughing Naor .
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