Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26
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looked upon as absurd, while Nebraska Is
reported as safe as Pennsylvania. There is
every reason to expect, from present indi-
cations that Taft will carry Maryland. and
his chances in Kentucky and Missouri are
as good as those OF Bryan in oklahoma, in
spite of the fact that the latter state has
generally been conceded to the democrats.
Altogether the outlook at the beginning Of
the closing week of the campaign are
brighter for the republican ticket than at
any time since the campaign opened.
Omaha and Irrigation.
Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota farm
ers are very wide awake to the opportuni-
ties which are offered by the work of the
reclamation service said c. ]. Blanchard,
statistician of the reclamation service. who
has just returned to Washington from an
extended visit to the larger irrigation works
Of the government.
9TH irrigation works which are now In
operation in territory tributary to Omaha
are especially attractive and the farms are
being taken UP rapidly by as fine a class
Of young farmers as can be found ary-
where. A pleasing feature of this settle
ment of the new lands is that these pco-
pie, the sturdy. industrious and intelligent
classes from the Mississippi valley, are
being induced to remain in the United
States instead of going to Canada. They
are progressive and their new homes are
quite unlike the rude shacks of the old
time homesteader. The projects which
properly may be classed as Omaha projects
are the following: North Platte project in
Nebraska and Wyoming, embraces a total
OF SOO,O 900 acres; Shoshone project on the
Burlington in northern Wyoming, 100, 0O
acres; Huntley project In Montana, on the
main line of the Burlington from Omaha
to the coast. $4,000 acres, and the Belle
Fourche project In South Dakota, on the
Northwestern, with 1oO.0OO acres. These
projects when completed will contain $4,000
acres actually cultivated. Proportioned
into farms of forty and eighty acres each
of these projects will provide homes for
5000 families on the land and will insure
an increase of an equal number of the
population of the cities, towns and villages
nearby. 1t is difficult to approximate the
value of this newly created market for the
manufactured products of a commercial
and manufacturing center like Omaha 1t
should be worth SIC, 10000 o a year at least.
Desert is Vanishing.
"The desert is actually VANISHING, settlers
are really taking up homes where only a
short time ago there was desolation. Sage
brush wastes ave given way solely TO
cultivated fields and bountiful harvests
have been garnered where only a year ago
the coyote roamed unmolested. In this
brief statement are summed up the evil
dences, II any were ever needed, of the
beneficsnce ard wisdom of the law which
launched the government into the work
of making productive it's waste lands.
Conservative thinkers are declaring thai
the plans of national irrigation, IL carried
out, will swing the pendulum of population
back from the city to the country.
:"Irrigated agriculture calls for the high
est intelligence and for technical s',lL. It's
rewards for intelligent husbandry are sc
bountiful that they are not comparable
with those obtained by like efforts in the
humid country.
while in the humid country the farmers
action are governed by the within OF natur,
which may or may no provide the rain and
sunshine as needed, In the rainless country
the sunshine is perpetual, The irrigation
canal which he controls and utilities n
lieu of rain makes him independent anC
guarantees his crop It's necessary moistur,
when It is required. His prosperity rest
upon the solidest Of foundations. A splen
did part of this life Is that ne can live gu
Of doors so much of the year. The sam,
share Of clear skies and dry air that hai
made southern California attractive is en-
joyed in many parts Of the west"