The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-11-03

the factories in the East. The safety
of our institutions depends on these
very much more than it does on the
people who live in fats and tenement
houses. AS Edward Everett Hale has
put it, no man ever yet took up his
musket in defence of his boarding
house; and shouldering musket in de-
Tense of them is one of the ways a
man may be called on to prove his
devotion.
Mr.. Newell said that in the pic
lures he would present he should at
tempt to show conditions as they were
before anything was done, the progress
of the work done, and the results where
projects had been completed and re-
suits achieved. A number of pictures
we're shown of land before irrigation |
and cultivation and afterwards and of |
crops of melons, alfalfa and other
products.
A map of the western portion of the
United States was then thrown on
the screen showing an area equal to
two-fifths of the whole area of the Unit
ed States, and including parts of Texas,
Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Montana
and the Dakotas, and the whole of
the states and territories west of these
where farming without irrigation could
be carried on only in comparatively
small areas. In California, of course,
and in Oregon and Washington there
were much larger areas OF this kind
than in the other states, and here also
there were large forest areas which
were being homesteaded, although not
agricultural land, to be afterwards sold
to the lumbermen, until President
Roosevelt had withdrawn them, from
settlement and combined in forest re.
serves selling the timber where proper,
but leaving the land for further affor-
estation.
Another map was shown on which
were pointed out the reclamation pro-
jects that have been undertaken. These
were very small in comparison with
the whole area. In New Mexico, Ari-
iona, Utah, Wyoming and other states
from half to nine-tenths of the whole
area of the state is still public domain.
Reclamation can only make something
like two per cent of the whole area
suitable for cultivation. But if it does
this it will make possible popula-
ton west of the Mississippi as large
as that east of it. These reclaimed
tracts make possible the development
of grazing and of mining low grade
ores around them that would not be
possible otherwise. Pictures were
shown of the project near Phoenix, Ari-
IONA, where a dam across the ella river
will reclaim about 100000 acres of land
surrounding Phoenix. Another project
shown was that near Yuma where a
dam across the Colorado river will re-
claim about 10000 acres. Incidentally
MIR. Newell explained the break in the
Colorado river which filed the Salton
Sink and made it necessary for the
Southern Pacific to remove its tracks
three times.
The next project shown was one in
volving the storage of flood waters by
the creation of a lake more than thir-
ty miles long and which would contain
about six hundred thousand million
gallons. This lake is to be created by
damming up the stream in a gorge.
1t is located up in the Apache reseIva-
tion. A road had to be built up to
it at cost of about a quarter of a
million dollars. The road was built
by the Apaches who, when they had
nothing to do, had the reputation of
being bad and troublesome Indians, as
every energetic man who has nothing
to do is apt to have. But put to
work they proved the best road makers,
Mr.. Newell said, that he had ever
known. Water for drinking had to
be carried up to them, and they drank
four gallons day apiece. They didn't
use water LUZ any otuSi Pun popS anu
therefore it was certain they drank
that much. In the course of this work
the government built its own cement
works which proved great direct ad-
vantage and great indirect advan-
tage by giving them cement for their
other work at very reasonable price,
little less than a dollar a barrel.
"It IS pretty hot in the country where
this work is being carried on. 1 have
been asked good many times since
have been here if / do not find it hot.
I haven't experienced hot day since
came here. / don't cali it hot until
it gets to be 100 in the shade, and
there isn't any shade"
Mr.. Newell showed pictures Of the
works on the Rio Grande and the Pecos
rivers in Texas; of the project to d.
vert the Gunnison river into the I'm
compare valley by tunnels through
the mountains, in Colorado. He show.