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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-08
THE COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK, June s.-The cotton market
today opened steady at unchanged prices
to an advance of points on covering.
There were no cables from Liverpool and
the weather remained good. but the mar
ket continued steady during the early ses-
sion and held about to points net higher
Trading was very quiet.
Futures opened quiet and steady. June,
1885 bid; July. 1854; August, 1919: Octo-
Der. 1910; November. 1898 bid: December.
1914; January. 10.47; February. 1O.49;
March, 1856.
The market at midday was quiet, but
steady. with prices about to points net
higher Spot quiet; middling uplands.
IL 20; middling gulf. las. Estimated re-
ceipts at the ports today, 1000 bales.
against 1O,S19 last week and II, 238 last
year. For the week. 5000 bales against
1881 last week and 112 40 last year To-
days receipts at New Orleans. 1886 bales,
against 2,S4S last year, and at Houston.
1.029 bales against 2.O29 last year.
Spot closed quiet: middling uplapds. u.:O:
middling gulf, 11.45; sales, 1880 bales.
Today's Cotton Summary.
Quotations furnished by Atwood Violet 4 Co.,
members New York and New Orleans cotton ex.
changes. Washington branch Office 713 14th street
northwest.
NEW yopY corroN uvcry .Nou
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FLYING AMERICAN flag.
Steamer Empire Carrying Arms for
Guatemalan Rebels.

A report has been received at the State
Department that the steamer Empire has
been fitting out at Corinto, Nicaragua. for
revolutionary expedition to San Jose,
Guatemala. where a revolution Is in prog
ress. The Empire, 1t Is understood, is n.y.
ing an American flag. She has taken on an
immense amount OF ammunition and has
several good guns.
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Grain and Provisions Summary.
THE BALTIMORE MARKETS
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Nd. June S.-wHEAT-DulI;
spot, contract. sa1aas9+4; July. SASSY: August.
50; steamer No. red. sIaSiL; receipts 3 53a
bushels; southern on grade. s2Has9H.
CoRN-Easier; spot, 56Aa56z; June. 56zsa56h
JUL. 56%a565A: September. 565sa565l; steamer
mixed b2ta525s: receipts. 24s52 bushels; southern
white corn. 55a57; southern yellow corn. 54sa561k
OATS-Firmer; No. white 42ha43: No.
white. 42a42M; No. mixed. 4Ia411a; receipts
1852 Bushels
RYE-Duii; No western. esa6ehs export 7oa7l
domestic.
HAY-Ffrm. unchanged.
GRAIN FREiGHTS-yery quiet, unchanged
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FOREIGN BANK BUSINESS.

LONDON. June s.-BuIlion amounting to
f26. 900 was taken into the Bank of England
on balance today.
PARIS. June s-Closing: Three per cent
rentes, 90 francs 372 centimes for the ac-
count. Exchange on London, % francs 179
confines for checks.
BERLIN, June S.-Exchange on London,
20 marks 49E pfennigs for checks.
Discount rates-Short bills, 3A per cent;
three months bills, 31a per cent.
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T6cAL i11nAHc1AL NEWS.

A noticeable thing about the trading at
today's meeting Of the stock exchange was
that there seemed to be q good supply OF
Capital Traction stock, to be had at fk63k
and also gas stock appeared to be in
abundance at COZ. There was not much
done In either of these securities. and the
same might be said Of the rest OF the hist.
When the bond list was called one Of the
brokers made a bid Tor 10000 Of the
bonds Of the Potomac Electric Light Conn
pany. He was willing to give 1881. The
bid for a thousand-doliar bond was. half Q
point higher.
A bid Of f06k was made for any part Of
10000 Of the bonds of the telephone COM
pany. and that was also the bid for q single
bond. There were no offerings Of such q
lot either In the case Of the telephone bonds
or In the case Of the electric light bonds.
A single bond OF the former was offered at
It has been rather expected that some ar-
nouncement would have been made BY this
time In regard to the supposed funding
plan Of this company, 1t being generally
supposed that something Of the sort would
be done in order to provide for the noat-
ing indebtedness incurred In making tho
recent enlargement Of the plant here and
In Baltimore.
The money for this purpose was ad-
vanced by the parent company, and the
general idea has been all along that when
anything was done the present issue OF
bonds would be taken up or refunded As
the bonds cannot be redeemed until July,
1909. and are not due until twenty years
later, 1t is evident that II any funding
scheme includes a disposition Of those
bonds 1t will be deferred for three years,
or else will be carried out with the con-
sent Of the holders.
The latest statement Of the computed
loss of the fire insurance companies that
had risks in San Francisco Is 1896, DOT, 600.
This amount represents the risks carried
by lit companies.
The first estimates of the IRE losses
ranged all the way from Sits. 100000 to
SOS 100000. The amount now estimated as
the liabilities OF the insurance companies
may be reduced from two sources-frst, In
cases where the property was totally de-
stroyed by the earthquake before the fire
reached 1t. and second, from salvage
Mr. Albert s. Galley, the assistant
cashier of the Lincoln National Bank has
been elected cashier Of the bank.
Today's Government Receipts.
National bank notes received today for
redemption. 81 .O61 ,731. Government receipts:
From internal revenue, $792. 619: customs
81. O31. 713: miscellaneous. $177.S sos: Expendi-
lures $1,74O,000.
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It has been well understood for some
time that the Philadelphia Company and
It's subordinate properties would require
some 100000 during this year and next
The United Railways Investment Company
which controlled the Philadelphia Company
when 1t made its plan for the purchase of
the majority of the common stock of the
Philadelphia Company, made provision for
this increase of stock. Under the plan as
formulated by the United Railways I'M
provement Company any increased stock
of the Philadelphia Company will be Of
fered pro rata to the stockholders of the
latter company.
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New York Stock Market.

Furnished by w. b. Hibbs & Co.. banker
and brokers, l4l9 street, members New
York stock exchange, Washington stool
exchange and Chicago board of trade.
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CURB QUOTATIONS.

Furnished by e n. Chapman & Co. TO- B.
Chapman. manager), members New York Stock Ex-
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Closing Quotations

At the close OF the stock market the fol-
lowing stocks had changed In price since
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Todav,s oovernmert Receipts.

IUuHys 0uVerH1ueHt Nece1PtS.
National bank notes received today for
redemption. 81 .O61 ,731. Government receipts:
From Internal revenue, $792. $40: customs
81, O31, 713; miscellaneous, SLIT. sos. Expendi-
lures S174O,OO0
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-03-24
Government Method in handling Problem of Reclaim
 ing Arid West Proves Winner
Obstacles the Way of Carrying Out the Reclamation Services Plans For the Full Control and Utilization of
 the Colorado River Removed

of its cardinal tenets must be. From the events which have transpired we can safely conclude that it is the gov ernments purpose to use the waters Of each drainage area in irrgating the arid lands In that area. Also that these waters will be used at the place or places where 1t can be done to best advantage. And also that the full utilization of the irrigation resources is to be reached by the construction of storage reservoirs at mos; advantag- eous points in the drainage area under consideration. Such policy is busi- ness like and direct, and strong at ev- cry point. It would expend the peo- ple's money in the most advantageous way and bring the largest blessings possible to the desert regions of our country. But such policy would come in contact with the state laws, and in some cases, conflict with them. None of the principal drainage areas are altogether in one state, and the largest one. the Colorado, is in sev- en states and territories. And 1t is in handling just such problems as are in- yolved in the utilization of the waters of the Colorado for irrigation, that we see the best illustration of the course of the Interior Department in following out the letter of the National Irrigation law, and at the same time loyalty ob- serving its spirit. As might have been expected, when the Reclamation Ser vice started into business, they found the promoter with hls irrigation scheme practically omnipresent. No feasible scheme could be found in all the West but had already been exploited, and at least q water filling" recorded, and sufficient work done to hold 1t down. :" Water claims had been filed under state laws to an amount that would vastly exceed the flood of every stream in the arid states. Each one of these
 claimants was representative of "pri- vate enterprise and must be dealt with as such. The government, there fore, soon found 1t necessary to formu- late policy with reference to the pur- chase of property for use by the Recla- nation Service. And right here was where the crucial test was applied to the governments irrigation policy, and where the officers of the Reclamation Service proved themselves loyal to the spirit of the National irrigation law.
 The government decided that the only water right 1t could recognize was the right of the act1ai user of the water to the water necessary for the irrigation of the lands he had already reclaimed
 That beneficial use was the only basis of water right Also that all com panies or parties engaged in delivering water for hire were common carriers, and owned no interest whatever in the
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-03-24

The National Irrigatlonal Act was passed by congress and signed by Pres
 ident Roosevelt on June l7th. 1902.
 On the morning of June 18th l9oZ, a number of gentlemen of eminent stand
 ing in the engineering world met in an office in the Interior Department at Washington city and organized the
 National Reclamation Service, and
 took up the work of carrying out the
 newly enacted law, both in letter and in
 spirit. In order to do this successfully
 or at all, it was necessary, first, to
 adopt broad and comprehensive pol
 icy in consonance with the spirit os the
 law. and then to follow line of action
 in keeping with its letter. The spirit of the law is that the waters tn the streams of the arid states belong to the lands tributary to said streams, and on which said waters can be used. That file to said waters can only be acquir- ed by an owner of some of the said tributary land, and then only by mak- ing beneficial use of said water in the irrlqation of his land. Also that where the waters of stream were put into such beneficial use, those first in time should be first in right. While 1t was comparatively easy to see what the spirit of the Irrigation Act called tor' and what such policy as would carry it out would lead to, it was also easy 10 see what the difficulties were that the officers of the Reclamation Service were called upon to contend with in re- allzing such a goal. The Act itself specifically recognizes the rights to the use of water established under State laws. and directs the officers Of the government to honor such rights. To anyone conversant wifh the various water right laws of the states compos- ing the arid West, and aware ot the claims made under such laws, 1t seem ed that the Reclamation Service was put up against such conditions as would render them powerless to act except in a very limited way and only under such circumstances as offered no ln7 ducements to private capital. In the presence of such conditions it was therefore manifest, that the Reclama- ton Service must proceed along sound lines If its operations were to fulflll the hopes of those who looked upon 1t as a new economic force for the welfare of our Nation. The only fair method of judging anything Is by its results, and that Is the way we propose to discuss the National irrigation policy of our government The policy formulated by the master minds who organized the Reclamation Service has never been made public, so far as we can learn, but, nearly four years have elapsed since the organization of the Service, and We can now fairly infer what some
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-03-24

water they were delivering. Having
 thus disposed of the question of water ownership, 1t naturally followed that the
 only basis on which the government could purchase irrigation works was the actual value such works would be when included in Reclamation project for the lands formerly served by these works. The decision of the govern
 ment in this matter, made 1t very clear indeed that there was no 'easy money there for the promoters, or any opportunity for graft in that line.
 So the ubiquitous water claimant, the bogus promoter. and the man with the hold up scheme, found themselves powerless to impede the wheels of pro- gross. Having thus disposed of the class who thought they saw "easy money in the Reclamation fund, the next thing to consider, was how con- flictng state laws could be reconciled and the broad plans of the government for the handling of each river system and drainage area, as separate prob lem could be realized, Just as in the other case of water claims under state laws, it was necessary that the govern ment lead the way. Careful meas urements covering great many years have been made of the discharge of each of the streams of the arid land states, and the government officials were thoroughly informed of the amount of water in each stream that could be depended upon, and just what the irrigation resources were in each of the drainage basins of the West
 As a necessary first step in this mat ter, the Secretary of the Interior with drew from entry except under the Rec lamation Act, large areas of public land in each drainage basin. and plan ned projects that would use the entire irrigation resources of each drainage area on lands tributary to its rivers.
 In doing this, he was. therefore, per force, compelled to ignore state lines, and follow typographical divides It therefore followed that the plans for each drainage area would include the use of the waters at the most advan- tageous points, and the location of stor- age reservoirs where the typographical and other conditions indicated they should be placed. In the case of the Colorado river, the government has apparently decided that the best place to use Its available flow in its present condition, is in the Yuma Project, and the Imperial Valley, Also that the proper places to locate the great storage reservoirs for the full utll- lzatIon of the irrigation resources of the Colorado drainage basin, is at Gore canyon, and In Browns Park, in the State of Colorado, The successive developments which have taken place
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-03-24

oardo streams are feeders for, Colefa- doans will be deprlyed-ef-z valuable asset In it's Hood waters. This can only be prevented, lt Is argued, by local people gaining priority rights over the government by building reservoirs on all Colorado streams"
 We feel certain there was some thing doing" in Colorado when this de- cision was received, It didn't take a Solomon to see that if the government could prevent the construction of res- ervoir in Colorado to lmpound water
 1t had planned to use in another state.
 t could plan to use the unstored flow of the Colorado at Yuma and in the Imperial Valley, and compel the ac- qulescence of Colorado in the construc- tion of impounding dams at Gore can yon and Browns Park. A fortunate incident to the solution of this matter is the fact that there is about 24O,OOO acres of land in Colorado that can be irrigated from the Colorado and its tributaries. One project had already been proposed at Grand Junction, Col orado, and the people there are clam bring for the government to go aheadf] with the construction of their works. It is entirely likely that a hint was dropped where the Colorado people could find 1t, to the effect that all the water at present available in the Colo rado river was already provided for by the Yuma project and Imperial Valley irrigation rights. At any rate it is now announced that Mir. Moffatt has chang ed his original plan of building his rall- road and will keep out of Gore canyon altogether, leaving lt for the reclama- ton serNies-to build -an--imS Sounding-- dam there whenever they are rear N do so. This removes the only serious obstacle that has ever interpossd against the carrying out of the govern ment plans for the complete utilization of the waters of the Colorado river and its tributaries for the reclamation of the arid lands within its reach. This outcome also fully vlndicates the hon. esty and wisdom of the policy the Rec lamation Service has followed since its inception. These events prove that the money of the people is being used honestly and with the very best busi1~ ness judgment. Also that no graft obtains, nor is it possible to work a hold up game on Uncle Sam. The fact that this great irrigation fund amounting to more than thirty millions of dollars cannot be reached by either the "erafter" or the hold up," has led to the venomous attacks on these of- ficials In the past But their integrity is now so well established in the minds of the people, that attacks on these men will hereafter be ascrbed to sore headed bunco men and their friends. The Reclamation Service has abund- antly fulfilled the fondest hopes of It's friends, and its splendid policy for the redemption of the deserts Is proving successful in every respect.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-03-24


 most clearly the sound basis on which the governments irrigation policy Is founded. The State of Colorado, more than any other state in the arid West, has water laws that conflict with the spirit of the National Irrigation law. According to the Colorado Con- stituton, it Is held that all the waters of Colorado belong to the state of Colorado, and an estimate has been made by the auditor of that state, that the flood waters from the streams of Colorado are worth S265. 100000.
 The geographical position of Colo rado, and its position with regard to at least two of the great drainage basins on which the Reclamation Service must operate, soon brought about a controversy over the waters of these drainage basins. We refer to the Rio Grande and the Colorado. In the case of the Colorado 1t cropped out when the government sought to secure Gore canyon and Browns Park for reservoir sites at which to construct impounding dams to catch the flood waters of the Colorado drainage system.
 As soon as the governments plans were known an old defunct railroad scheme was resurrected and both res ervoir sites immediately became the only places in Colorado to build rail- roads. The government appealed to the courts and then the fat was all In the fire. A most violent campaign of abuse was entered upon by the leaking newspapers of Colorado, and all kinds of villificatlon and abuse heaped upon the officials of the Reclamation Ser vice, even Secretary Hitchcock him. self not escaping the general onslaught. After time, and while the excitement was at fever heat, the Colorado courts decided against the government and in favor of the railroad company for pos session of the reservoir sites. Just about this time President Roosevelt's attention was called to the matter and he ordered the government to dismiss the suits. It is evident now that this was not done to abandon the reservoirs to the railroad or that it was decided to permit the flood waters of the Colo rado to run to waste forever No, for Uncle Sam had Joker up his sleeve Mr. Moffatt and the railroad people were not looking for. The following Associated Press dispatch, which was published in the papers of February 18th, 1906, shed some light on the matter and disclosed the nature of Uncle Sam's Joker;
 WATER DECISION
 DENVER, Col, Feb 26.-The Audi tors office has received information of a ruling concerning flood waters in the Colorado which, It is believed, will bar individuals and irrigation companies from using the flood waters In this state under certain conditions.
 Recently the Elk Creek Canal com pany made application for the right to construct a reservoir site on the Elk creek in Conejos county. The Inter Tor Department refused the application because as stated in letter conveying the decision of the department the storing of water on Elk creek, would ln- terfere with the flow in the Rio Grande in New Mexico and lessen the supply of water running into the Eagle dam.
 The decision is interprsted here as meaning that no rese kors can be
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-03-24
Dairyman's Meeting

There will be a meeting of the Im- perial Valley Dalryman's Association on Monday April 2nd, 1906, at Water Company No. l office, Imperial, to which all the dalrymen of the Valley are requested to be present, Would be very glad to see representatives from Brawley Holtyllle. Calsxico and Fl Centro, The business of import ance is to elect officers for the coming year and any other business that may come before the meeting.
 H. J. FULLER. Presiden
 H. R, KYLE, Secretary.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-03-24

w. A. Van Horn made the fihst ment of cream ever made from Ely tro, last Monday. It was to thfz fornia Cream and Butter Go. at ! & geles. The establishment es cry will german s..ey sary. f e.~
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-13
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cheap, paper-bacls volumes that came Ayine
all over town from the store Of Mr.. Mysterious
were the right sort of books TO introduce into
families?
Then, too, he had illustrated papers some
of them intended for boys and girls
Should not children study their grammars
and dictionaries and leave picture papers for
grown-up people? asked the squire, the deacon
and many others.
Well, the growing popularity Of the store,
and the gradual increase Of the business, did
not allay, the feeling of curiosity that con-
tinued alive, and was becoming intense, as
time.
What he was about during business hours
people could see for themselves; but then he
spent great deal of time in ways that the
Buzzians could not understand.
He went to church, it is true; and even tn
social meetings. But-another strange thing!
he never would speak at these gatherings,
though many people attended them, week
after week, just because they were anxious to
hear him say something that would clear up
the mystery that surrounded him
They heard what other brethren had to say;
but they had heard this before. There was
no mystery about the life Of any inhabitant Of
Buzz, nor was anything done by one of them
that all the others did not know.
1t was this that made the conduct of the
newcomer so strange, and, az some of the best
people of the town felt themselves compelled
to say $50 justly suspicious and mysteri-
ous."
After some time. when Mr.. Jones had be-
come better acquainted with the citizens-the
talk about him still continuing, and the curl
osty to know all about his occupations rather
increasing than abating--one of the villagers,
who had frequented the store good deal, and
became pretty well acquainted with the pro-
prietor asked him, boldly, one day, 'if he
had any objection to telling how he spent his
time"
Certainly not" responded Mr. Mysterious.
81 spend it equally in two ways:
"First In attending to INV own affairs.
"Second Strictly letting alone the private
affairs of other people.
A good example for all boys and girls, men
and women, in the town of Buzz, and in all
other towns and countries. to follow.