The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-05-29


ravenously of these choice products
after a long siege of cold storage
food. They scorn pineappleq and
bananas and all the fruits that we
pay to ship green into the United
States, although they can get them
fresh from the tree.
1t only goes to show that as an
agent of civilization there's nothing
like the homely carrot or plain bean.
At the same time that President
Roosevelt is conferring with the
governors of the states and other
prominent men at the White House
on the preservation OF the country's
natural resources. another represen-
tative gathering will meet here to
konslder an allied subject-drain-
age. The annual convention OF the
National Drainage Congress Is to. be-
gin on May IL, and a large attend
ance Is expected All the governors
have appointed delegates, and the
boards of TRADE and commercial
organizations of all the large cities
will send representatives.
The subject OF drainage will un-
doubtedly play an important part in
/ the White House conference, and the
two meetings will cooperate in
spreading the propaganda of the re-
clamation OF swamp lands through
scientific application of drainage.
Probably the most important ques
tion to be discussed at the confer
ence of governors is that of forest
mNlFzatpn I'D preservation. A
mass of data has been prepared by
the Forest Service on the matter,
and two mammoth detailed maps
probably the largest ever made In
the United States by mechanical
process been fashed to compile
ton. without their frames, the
maps measure ~ by 16 feet, and are
to all practical intent. mammoth pho
tographs. Each one represents the
labor of fifteen men, working FOR
six days and four nights. There was
already a smaller map of this char
acter at the Forest Service, and the
two made for the White House con-
ference are enlarged duplicates. The
Forest Service mapr was divided into
sixteen sections, and a photograph
made of each. From these mega
!!tives enlargements were made to 8
lby feet. The sixteen prints were
then assembled ON a monster sheet
lof linen, and the whole made to Greg
lister" accurately.
The monster map was then turned
over to draughtsmen, who indicated
lby color the topographic features and
touched up" the whole.
nNhe two maps will be framed and
set UP In the East Room at the
white House on either side OF the
platform to be used by the presiding
lofficer. They show graphically not
Ionly the forest covering of the coun-
TRY, but the irrigation work of the
Reclamation Service.
President Roosevelt will have a
lgood illustration to help in explain
Ing what irrigation means, He can
point to five irrigation projects now
|under construction. II will be dem
lonstrated at the conference that
these five projects will give high
agricultural value to a total of near
lly one million acres OF land. The
five irrigation projects are the Milk
and Sun River projects. In Montana,
the Sshoshone in Wyoming. the Belle
Fourche in South Dakota and the
North Platte in Wyoming and Me-
lbraska.
The boast that irrigation will solve
1.-THE problem of floods and spring
Ifreshets is not founded on idle the
|ory. The practice OF irrigation is
directly dependent upon storage OF
water. Every additional drop of
water filched from above the reg
,,ular level OF stream and stored up
lin the irrigation reservoirs means
bigger crops for the irrigated farms
And the reservoirs will take up the