CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-11-03

into the Humboldt Valley and supply
| settlers In the vicinity of Reno. This
project Is destined to reclaim about 200.-
600 acres. The Milk River project In
northern Montana will reclaim nearly
100000 acres In the vicinity OF Malta
and Glasgow. At Topto Creek. eighty
miles above Phoenix. Ariz-. immense i'm
pounding reservoirs will provide a supply
of water TO irrigate about 100000 acres
in Salt River Valley, which Is already
thickly settled.
Irrigation, Mother Of civiiiz,tioa.
There Is no one thing that portends
the future greatness of the present civili-
za tion more than the efforts now being
put forth in all arid regions of the earth.
to make the desert and waste places
hnbitable and productive. Archeologists
tell us that where they have found mans
struggle hardest. there they have found
the highest types OF civilization that are
dead and gone. On the high plntcaus OF
South America and the mesas OF MEXICO.
| in the desert where flows the Nile. on
| the bleached plains of Arabia and where
the sacred Gnnges courses TO the sea.
are found traces of feats of irrignting
skill. broken works of art. ruined tenn
] pies and shrines that equal and In some
instances surpns~ the boasted skill OF
ufpueru tuHlneerlug, art anu ufSntectute.
As a nation, America may be justly
proud of her greatness. but IL we would
continue to grow and endure. we must
encourage all moves that seek to make
| US a nation OF rural homes rather thnn
| a people of great cities. We should
strive to build up more homes with sur
roundings of simplicity and truth. where
coming generations may grow to matur-
ity, uncorrupted by the superficial gilt
ter and gilded vice OF the city.
The United States leads all other coun-
tries of the earth In the production OF
wheat. corn, cotton, wool, beef, pork.
| mutton and edible fowls. Millions of
people across the seas are dependent
upon this country for both food and
clothing. 1t Is our vast agricultural re-
sources that constitute our great national
wealth and economic independence OF the
rest of the world. The source and store
house of this great national wealth IN
the land that. through mans industry
| and skill. produces all these staples OF
food md clothing. these necessities for
the life and well-being OF the people OF
the earth. How important 1t Is, then.
that this great store-house OF wealth be
preserved and enlarged by the rcclnma-
| ton Of the arid West.
Ideal Irrigated Homes.
A very small farm unit. says w. E
Smythe, makes II possible for those who
! I'll the soil to live in the town. The
| farm village or home center is a well
established feature of life in arid Amer
| lea and the feature which is destined to
| enjoy wide and rapid extension. Each
| four or five thousand acres OF cultivated
land will sustain thrifty and beautiful
hamlet where all the people may live
close together and enjoy most of the So
cial and educational advantages within
the reach of the bcst eastern towns.
Their children will have kindergnr-
tens as well ms schools and public lib
raries. and reading rooms, ns well as
churches. The farm village. lighted by
| electricity, furnished with domestic winter
through pipes, served with free postal
delivery and supplied with Its own daily
newspapers at morning and evening has
already been realized In arid America.
The great cities OF the western valleys
will not be cities In the old sense, but
long series OF beautiful villages con-
nected by lines of electric motors, which
will move their products and people from
place to place. In this scene of intense
Is cultivated land, rich with it's bloom
and fruitage, with 5ts spires and roofs
and with its carpets OF green and gold
stretching away to the mountains, II will
be difficult for the beliolder to say where
the town ends and the country begins.
II you wish to contribute your part In
l bringing about these and countless other
blessings, vote for Roosevelt and Fair
banks!
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