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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15

Of experiment stations has aided state
officials and others in making surveys
and inspections to determine the feas-
Utility of large drainage projects and
the proper plans for the work. These
survey Investigations have been car
ried on in 81 of the 46 states.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15
Value of An irrigation System.

In few sections is it possible to find
a better illustration of the value OF
irrigation water to the arid lands of
the west than is found in a little
venture down in Washington county,
in Utah, as reported by the Desert
Farmer About 25 miles southeast of
St George there is an immense tract
of valuable land, which has for cen
turtles been in an unproductive condi-
tion,-arid and forbidding in appear
ance. A few years ago few young
men from st. George and neighboring
towns went up the Virgin river Sc
lected a piece of land and made their
homes there. These pioneers, at con-
siderable expense, dug a canal out
alOng the mountain side, and now af-
ter years of labor and hardship, have
succeeded in getting the canal in such
good shape that the water is in an as
sured condition. Twenty families have
located under this canal, and they have
secured a post-office, established a
school, built a church building, and
are making good living on land
which has heretofore been practically
worthless. This little venture has add
cd 1000 acres of fruit land to the
acreage of Washington county. AS a
measure of the increase in the value
of land, it is reported that some Of
this land in close proximity to the
townsite recently sold for as much as
$1,000 per acre. The irrigation stream
makes home building and home max
ing a reality. There are thousands of
such instances in this western cOun-
try, but we know of no more recent
successful enterprise than the one
above referred to.
Winter irrigation of the Hudson Bay
district, 10 miles below Freeweater,
Ore, is now in full progress, irrigating
water from the big Burlingame ditch
and its laterals covering an area of
about 10000 acres Of fruit and rich al
falfa lands At this season of the
year all the waters of the Walla Walla
and the Tum-a-lum rivers below the
Peacock and Eagle mills in Freewater
are available for irrigation, which has
proved to be a successful plan in this
particular district.
During the past year the depart
ment of agriculture has carried on ex-
tended drainage Investigations in some
of the irrigated districts in Utah,
Washington, Nebraska and California,
this work being paid for in part by
state appropriations. The drainage of
swamp lands in humid parts of the
United States would result in extend
ing or improving agriculture over an
area equal to the states of Illinois, In
DIANA and Ohio. This makes farm
drainage a matter of national impor-
lance. During the past year the office
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15

Owing to the fact that no bids have
Eeen received for the construction of
the Tieton dam in connection with
tie Yakima irrigation project the re-
clamation service has asked authority
for the construction of this work. The
failure to receive bids is mainly due
to the remoteness of the site of the
dam from the base of supply. AS there
seems to be no probability that re-
advertising would result in receiving
bids it would cause the loss of some
time to do this over. The estimated
cost of the structure is about $4,000
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15
IRRIGATION

This department is open to contribu-
tions from any one interested in irriga-
tion. Make your articles as brief and
,onsise as possible and be careful to
give facts and figures.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-07
Advertisers

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in the mot receptive mood in the
surroundings of Home and Family
especially at evening, when there is
leisure and inclination for reading;
experienced advertisers know this
and advertise to reach the people,
TRUTH has the circulation and will
certainly bring you RESULTS.
WuV9 because it has the largest
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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-07
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14
Matfye PLAYER f1 Native PLay

IN AVID BELASCO has announced
the attraction to succeed Blanche
Bates in the "Girl of the Golden
West" at the Belasco theater in New
York would be The Rose of the
ESacho." This is another play by a
California playwright. 1t is the work
of Richard Walton Tully.
"The Rose of the Rancho" treats of
the American invasion of Spanish
California in the late sos 1t will have
no star. The play was produced last
season by a stock company In Los
Angeles under the title of "Juanita."
The author took 1t east and submitted
1t to Belasco, who accepted it. Re-
hearsals have begun at the Belasco
theater. The first performance viii
occur at the Majestic theater, Boston,
early in November. after which the
play Will so to the Belasco theater in
New York city. In the strong cast will
be Hamilton Revelle. Charles Rich
man, Frank Losee, John w. Cope,
Grace Gaylor Clark, Maria Davis,
Frances Starr and Others.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14
Greenroom GOSSIP

Madame Modjeska, it is said, is look
ing for house near New. York. where
she can make her home after her final
appearance on the stage She wishes
to spend her latter years in, the east.
Cal1fornians will have hard time be-
lieving this.
1t was reported last week that Nat G.
Goodwin and Maxine Elliott will be
seen again as co-stars next season.
They have not appeared together since
they played in THE Altar of Friend
ship several years ago. GoodWin's
new play, "The Genius" seen here last
season, has just been presented in New
York-with fair success.
Florence Roberts is playing "The
Strength of the Weak in New York
now. 1t will be remembered that she
gave Los Angeles the benefit of the
play In its crude shape last season. 1t
must have been much improved since
then or else New York is easy"
The managementio of the Majestic the
ater, Boston, where Mr. Belasco pre-
sents David Warfeld in ..The Music
Master" for the opening engagement of
the road tour, received an agreeable
shock last week when they called for
the scene plot of the piece, and in reply
received the following printed notice:
David Belasco presents David War.
field in The Music Master Scene
plot: Company carries everything ex-
cept the hole in the stage. Please have
II ready"
Frank Wilstach is the guilty man
here: silence may be Richard Golden,
but that all depends upon how Lew
Fields. Charles A. Bird, manager Of
the Lyric theter, New York, and A.
Token Worm, press representative of
the Hipprodrome, were walking along
Forty-second street one day last week.
They were observed by Lew Fields, who
remarked: is 1t any wonder that the
Shuberts succeed? They not only have
the early Bird. but also the Worm"
Madame YVette Guilbert is going to
leave the concert platform to appear
on the stage. A new play Is being
written for her. because, 1t is said she
Is anxious to give the stage a new
character a type which at present is
unknown. 1t will be that of the mid
dle-aged woman of 10 or thereabouts
who is feeling the JOY Of living because,
knowing life, she knows how to live.
George Ade is to dramatize "Artle."
the first book that brought him to
public notice. Looks like AIDE was run
ming short OF original stuff. He and
Savage have broken apart. and Dllling-
ham will be the producer of this effort.
AIDE Is also preparing to spring a
novelty upon the theatrical world In the
shape Of a college play in which the
cast will be composed almost entirely
os girls, only two masculine performers
taking part in the production, AIDE
himself styles the forthcoming produce
tion "a girls play"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14

nee is advertised as a comedy drama
but has trong melodramatic colorings.
The story concerns a tramp who had
been an actor (the old joke and a
theatrical troupe stranded in a cOun-
try town, where the landlord of the no.
tel is also the mayor city clerk, pound
keeper, bill-poster, sidewalk Inspector
chief of police and scavenger, has the
garbage removal contract. If there
is not enough of comedy in this the
village "wiseacre" will also ''help
some" There is also a serious side to
the story, and the village doctor is
chiefly instrumental in righting the
wrongs that have been done, and pre-
venting Others which are attempted.
Harry Won Meter plays the village
doctor, Harrison King, the tramp act
or, Agnes Ranken Is the leading lady
of the stranded theatrical troupe, and
Lillian Hayward is her rival.
CHER'S-Today's matinee and to-
nights performances will conclude the
run of THE Prince of Heidelberg" at
Fischer's. This has been one of the best
productions yet offered at this cozy
little familJ theater, and will give way
on Monday night to "Our New School," :"
farce comedy of school life, by Fred
l.. Griffiths. The, characters are a pro-
fessors, his head teacher, a country fat
boy, a city youth, tomboy girl. and
the chorus as school children. The plot
brings about many funny situations
and is full of dialogue. There will be
musical numbers in which the Fischer
chorus will all appear, and they will
have come handsome costumes. The
vaudeville olio will be of the best and
new moving pictures will be shown.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14
Nothing Like Success
n HERE is much money in

IT HERE is much money in a goot
play-if it is a success. Some of
them have made fortunes for
their writers. The London Express
has been compiling figures on some
theatrical hits, past and present, and
the results are surprising.
The extraordinary record of $4,000
performances has just been achieved
by the exceedingly funny farcical COM
edy, THE Private Secretary" Pro-
duced in London in May 1884, it has
been acted continuously since then,
and is now in its twenty-second con-
secutive year Of tour.
During the London run the weekly
profit amounted to 912OO. BY the end
of the second years run $4,000 had
been made in London alone
1t ran over 300 nights in New York
Ga remarkable run for America), and
A. M. Palmer made a fortune out of it.
Similar success awaited the comedy
in Australia, and now there is hardly
an Englishspeakin town in the world
where the inhabitants have not
laughed uproariously at the vagaries
of the Rev Robert Spading, who
doesn't like London" and of Mr..
Cat, cat; t-e-r, ter; m-o-l-e, mole
Cattermole.
Altogether the amazing career of
1.-THE Private Secretary" has resulted
in total clear profit of at least
$500, 600.
Joseph Jefferson's lifelong success,
rip Van Winkle." probably made
more money than any other single
production. jefferson played the title
role no fewer than 5000 times, and
earned the great sum of 1000, ,0OO
For three successive seasons at the
Boston theater it averaged g 1900 a
week in gross returns
Another American favorite, 1.-THE
Old Homestead, netted $3.50, 1000 in
twelve years The famous success
Our Boys ram for nearly five years
at an average profit of G40O a week.
Mr. Barrie's Little Minister made
over 100000 net profit In England
and America.
Probably "A Chinese Honeymoon"
made more money than any other
musical comedy. 1t ran for two years
and eight months, and at the end
OF that period the author estimated
its remaining value at e54, 900. On
the London production alone the profit
reached six figures, and there We're
European and South African compa-
nies playing the piece on tour.
Authors shares of such successes
make fortunes in themselves. Mr.
Pinero received 100000 from Sweet
Lavender" G.. II. Sims has made as
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14
How Favorites First Appeared

TN9E first appearance of several
| actresses did not give promise of
their future success. Florence
Roberts, who recently made big hit on
Broadway, had what to her was ter
rible experience when she first ap-
peared. She made her debut with
Maurice Barrymore, and although she
only had one line to speak she stuck
in that line. and Barrymore was COM
PEELED to speak it for her. The next
evening, meeting her. he asked whether
the line was to belong to him or to her
She answered Mine" with a sob and
stamp of her foot, and ever since Miss
Roberts has been setter perfect.
| Maude Adams, of whom 1T has been
said that If she were to recite nursery
rhymes she still would play to crowded
houses, made her first appearance at
the early age of 9 months in the arms
of her mother, who at that time was
an actress we'll known throughout the
west, but her regular stage debut was
made when she was years old. Her
mothers manager was. anxious to have
her appear in a play called Fritz" but
her father objected. saying he did not
want her to make a fool of herself.
Miss Maude resented this remark
and in the end won his CONSENT to ap-
pear. She was given 100 lines to learn,
and in one evening she had committed
them to memory. At certain time she
had to scream, and was afraid for fear
she would forget, so she ran across the
stage calling out, Mamma, must |
scream now?" which, being heard even
to the top gallery, caused much amuse-
ment.
Odette Tyler made her first appear
ance when IA years old in a pantomime.
She took the part of, a deaf and dumb
princess, Sieba, in play of that name,
taken from Grimm's Fairy Tales" 1t
was not until she made seven shirts
that she was able to speak. In the last
act she spoke one line, Harold, sweet
heart, save me- and the people in the
play, thinking her witch because she
had spoken, were going to burn her.
Miss Tyler's old black nanny, who
was in the gallery, thinking her charge
was to really be burned, cried out:
La w, missy, if your mamma just knew
what they are doing to you'll"
Fay Templeton made her first ap-
pearance when she was years old,
singing up in a Balloon. Boys" and
though she says she was promised a
pair of jackboots If she would go ON
alone and sing, it was weeks before she
did so without holding her mothers
hand.
When Annie Russell was 10 years old
two rival companies of Miss Mutton"
In the the play there are two children,
and Annie Russell was cast for the part
of Jeanne in the Rose Eytinge company.
When Miss Eytinge found out that An
ME Russell never before had been on
the stage she was angry, Little Annie
began to cry, and Rose Eytinge allowed
her to play
Although Ethel Barrymore is de-
acandad from two of the hest known
theatrical families, she did not have a
royal road to success. At the age of
Is she appeared for the first time and
barnstormed Canada, sleeping in
trunk in a cold theater because, as
she says mo one had money for better
lodgings"
Henrietta Crosman first appeared In
1.-The White Slave" at the Pittsburg
opera house. She received the engage
ment while in New York, and she had
to pay all expenses excepting the rail-
road fare.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14

much as e15OOO a year from one of
his popular melodramas w. S. Gil
bert's profits from six of his Savoy
operas have been reckoned at 100000.
,"Pygmalion and Galatea' alone brought
that brilliant dramatist ESQ, 900.
The expenses of popular productions
are often more impressive than the
profits. For example, although 1.-THE
Prodigal Son" cleared only e 5000, the
receipts amounted to $4,000, the cost
of production being 97O00 and the
weekly expenditure 9SOO.
A Drury Lane pantomime is not often
produced at cost of less than 100000.
The late Sir Augustus Harris, indeed,
considered himself lucky If 1T did not
run to e25,OOO before the curtain was
raised on the opening night,
Before the curtains are raised on the
140-odd Christmas pantomimes in that
country some 100000 has to be ex-
pended, and a further e70O,000 or so
must be dsbursed in salaries during
the run Of these profitable ANIMALS
The initial cost of George Edwardes'
musical comedies is very great, THE
Duchess of Dantzic"N cost e 10000 to
produce at the Lyric, and ten months
elapsed before the original outlay was
returned Mr. Edwardes pays out
every week about 10000 i'm salaries,
fees, etc, ON his numerous musical
comedies IN London and the provinces.
one very popular melodrama Will
make more money than a score of Or
dinary "big successes" "The Silver
King" for instance, has earned more
than a million pounds profit in it's
qua rter- r-of-a-century career, whereas
the total profit on score of average
West End successes rarely reaches
e 200, 900.
The principal reason for this is the
Gripping rents of West End theaters
as compared with the more reasonable
The Adelphi and the Criterion are typ
ical houses. Otto Stuart pays ell,OOO
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14

a year for the Adelphi, and the little
Criterion let's at 91O,OOO although the
most that can be squeezed out of 1t Is
about ESQ performance.
Salaries of great artists are Grip
pling, too, especially in opera Maple
son, in order to retain the services of
Adelina Patti had to pay her $1,000
for each representation. Carl Rosa Of
fered Christine Nilsson e250 a night at
Her Majestys, and Jean de Reszke
refused $500 a performance to sing in
English.
The late Dan Leno commanded e250
week. Mr. George Alexander re-
ceived the same amount for playing
The Prodigal SON. at Drury Lane.
With such demands upon his Golfers,
the modern theatrical manager has to
be very astute to make both ends
meet.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14

UNH. he's all right in the tank
towns. but he'll never do in
- the big cities where they
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14

FISCHER 'OuT NtW otHoVa
Chutes-Outdoor amusements.
you can never tell in the theatrical
world.
4 Here's to the application: The Be
iasco presented, week before last, one
of the greatest dramas Of the day,
"Business Is Business" in absolutely
faultless style. 1t is play that makes
one think. and think deeply; 1t is al
most a classic in France, and in Eng
land It has had long and honorable
career. while Crane in the east at
trlbuted to It his greatest artistic sue
cess. Yet It played one week to piti-
fully small houses. And last week, on
came that fool thing, why Smith Left
Home" and packed 'em.
Now. who would have thought 1t?
Los Angeles has seen that farce many
time, and knows it by heart; 1t never
saw the serious drama, and doubtless
never will again. Yet 1t neglected lts
dne opportunity. and threw away its
chance to study and admire a master
piece. -.
less II has occurred many a time, but
this one occasion is wildly remem-
bered. 1t was when "The Admirable
Crichton" was produced. 1t was
thought that this would run for a long
season; 1t was miserably patronized
for one brief week
"The Little Princess" might be cited
as a third example. 1t was fought over
by two houses, and it ran one week.
and Manager Blackwood was glad to
drop it like a hot potato.
The Belasco isn't the only instance
of this. One might refer as well to the
Hotchxiss last week, where George
Howard gave as fine depletion of
''The Man From Mexico" as was ever
shown, yet the people of this town, who
evidently care more for farce than for
anything else, kept away from 1T as If
the house were poisoned.
What can Los Angeles expect If this
thing goes on? How can manager
Judge what to produce? Why bring
out new and great plays at all. If more
money can be made with tawdry and
old ones? It's a bit discoura ging, one
must admit, especially when this town
must depend upon stock companies for
most of it's theatrical offerings.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14
The Weeks Bnls

Belasco-"shore Acres"
-"sherloclS Holiness"
Hotch liss-"A Crazy idea"
Grand-"The Millionaire Tramp"
Vaudeville.
Fischer's-"Our New School"
Chutes-Outdoor amusements.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14

the country a long time before New
York decided to let them act on Broad
Way
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
TAFT MOST POLITE OF MEN
Gave His Car seat to Three Women,
Justice Brewer Told Yale Men.

At the Yale alumni meeting the other
day in New Haven Justice Brewer was
one Of the speakers, says the New
York Sun. He began by referring TO
the many colored costumes which con-
fronted him and added, And those
gentlemen in the striped garb would
make us think perhaps that ttey had
recently retired from the United States
senate"
Speaking of Secretary Taft. he said:
Now, Secretary Taft is the politest
man alive. l heard that recently he
arose in a street car and gave his seat
to three women
In President Hadley's address his
main suggestion, that Yale have fewer
professors and pay them better, was
received with surprise, but With some
enthusiasm. He said rather bluntly:
yale would be better off If one-half
of the faculty were to be dropped q
will not say which half and the pay
of the other correspondingly raised"
President Hadley told a new class
room story of Professor Thomas
Lounsbury in announcing the latter's
retirement from the faculty. He said:
Professor Lounsbury was teaching
an inattentive class. He turned to
them and said: Gentlemen, bear with
me a few minutes. 1 have yet a few
pearls to cast
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
C0mehln
Ross Has
Confessed
Mas Once d Bold, Bad
Man In old Days of
Deadq0ood, S. d. He
Learned to BE an 1Actor
While Dodging "CrIt-
ics' Bullets.

IFrom Our New York Dramatic Corre-
spondentl
Charles j. Ross, leading comedian OF
1.-The Social Whirl" at the Casino thea
ter, New York, who Is known as one
OF the most versatile actors in the
country, being equally clever at bur-
Iesque and serious acting, was asked
the other evening how il was that
there was so much variety in his
work.
Because began as a variety actor"
answered Mr.. Ross.
When l went on the stage there was
no such term as vaudeville Back in
those days a man played anything that
came to hand, whether in the legiti-
mate or in that part of the business
that corresponds to what Is now known
as two a day
I'm the latter we were known as
variety actors because we did a va
riety of things.
when I was little more than a kid
I began performing out IN Deadwood,
s. -. That was when the Black Hills
mining excitement was at its height
and Deadwood was the toughest town
on the map.
Deadwood Dick Calamity Jane
and other celebrities since famous in
lurid literature We're then living facts.
and the halls in which the shows were
given were filed with red shirted min
ers with bristling belts and trousers
tucked into the tops of muddy boots.
Those were eXacting audiences, i
can tell you.
IF not pleased, 4 man would begin
to shoot.
Amid those surroundings in course
Of an evening 1 would do a song and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
Arca Ola In Missouri.

The Arcadia assembly is a new Mis-
souri, enterprise, says the Missouri
Farmers Herald. Robertus Love is
the organizer. Aug. IS to 81 is the first
annual encampment, and the summary
section of the state, where the breeZeS
blow ever from the southwark, is to be
the site. There are Chautauquas with
out number, but this Love affair is to
be the Arcadia, which is entirely diff
ferent. The assembly would be an Ar
cadia even though 1t was held at Hobo
ken or Kalamazoo. 1t will be more so
at place so beautiful and bonny as
Arcadia Some sort of organization
will be effected by these forces which
are working toward the restoration of
the indeI Evidence of men by inducing
people to get out of the clutch Of city
slavery and live the natural l.fe-the
rural or the simple life. John Bur-
roughs' creed has been adopted as the
shibboleth of the Arcadia.