The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-11-03

into the Humboldt Valley and supply
settlers in the vicinity Of Reno. This
project is destined to reclaim about w.
600 acres. The Milk River project in
northern Montana will reclaim nearly
5OO,O 900 acres in the vicinity Of Malta
and Glasgow. At Tonic Greek. eighty
miles above Phoenix. Ariz., immense i'm
pounding reservoirs will provide a supply
of water to irrigate about 2OO,OOO acres
in Salt River Valley, which is already
thickly settled.
Irrigation, Mother Of Civilization.
There is no one thing that %portends
the future greatness of the present civlli-
"a tion more than the efforts now beng
put forth in all arid regions Of the earth,
to make the desert and waste places
ha bitable and productive. Archeologasts
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 plateaus OF
| South America and the mesas OF Mexico,
in the desert where flows the Nile, on
the bleached plains of Arabia and where
tho sacred Gauges courses to the sea,
are found traces Of feats of irrigating
| skill, broken works OF art, ruined tenn
| pies and shrines that equal and in some
instances surpass the boasted skill OF
modern engineering, art and architecture.
AS a nation, America may be justly
proud of her greatness, but if we would
continue to grow and endure, we must
encourage all moves that seek to make
us a nation of rural homes rather than
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 ant
clothing. 1t is III vast agricultural re
sources that constitute our great nati0na
wealth and economic independence Of tn,
rest OF tho world. The source and store
house of this great national wealth i
the land that. through mans induEstr,
and skill. produces all these sta o
food and clothing, these necessities TO
the life and weil-being OF the people 0
the earth. How important it is. then
that this great store-house of wealth b.
preserved and enlarged by the reclama
ton of the arid West.
Ideal Irrigated Homes.
A very small farm unit. says w. E
Smythe, makes it possible for those VIII
TIL the soil to live in the town. TIL
farm village or home center is a we
established feature of life in arid Amer
lea and the feature which is destined t
enjoy wide and rapid extension. Fac
four or five thousand acres of cultivate
land will sustain a thrifty and beautifr
hamlet where all the people may lv
close together and enjoy most of the SC
cial and educational advantages within
the reach of the best eastern towns.
Their children will have kindergal
, tens as we'll as schools and public ill
, raries. and reading rooms as we'll a
churches. The farm village. lighted b
electricity. furnished with domestic waite
through pipes, served with free post,
delivery and supplied with its own dali
newspapers at morning and evening ha
q already been realized in arid Americ.
: The great cities of the western valley
, will not be cities in the old sense. b,
a long series of beautiful villages co,
nected by lines of electric motors. whic
= will move their products and people fro,
place to place. In this scene of intens
, ~ cultivated land, rich with its bloo
n and fruitage, with its spires and roo
e and with its carpets of green and 90
stretching away to the mountains, it wi
be difficult for the beholder to say whel
n the town n and the country begins
a Ii you wish to contribute your part
o bringing about these and countless 9th,
blessings, vote for Roosevelt and Fai
banks!