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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-25
W|LL|SI0N IRRIGATION
PLANT A GREAT SUCCESS

in two lifts. Power is also transmit
ted from this plant to the pumping
barges at the Buford.Trenton plant
twenty-eight miles distant.
Water for $4,000 Acres.
At the present time there are 5000
acres of land in the irrigation pro
ject at Williston and 1000 at Buford
1t is estimated that eventually about
$4,000 acres will come under the two
projects.
The power is transmitted to BufOrG
over a high tension transmission line
the current being stepped up" to %,
900 volts and then reduced at the Blu
ford pumps. There is, perhaps, a
ten per cent loss in the transmission
of current. The line Is an ordinary
pole and wire line, without special
protection except the usual insula
ton. Some trouble is experienced
from the high winds which occasion.
ally short circuit a line. and occas.
ionally flocks of black birds will rest
upon the transmission line and sag it
across a lower line, but all things
considered, few difficulties have been
experienced in transmitting power.
This year is the first year of com.
plete operation of the plant, and the
results lead Engineer Sanford to say
that there is no doubt of the ulti.
mate success of the project
Two acre feet of water delivered to
the land in one hundred days will pro-
duce crop and practically insure
successful cultivation. This year wa
ter was delivered to 1920 acres OF
land, which was sowed, about 600 to
wheat, 240 to oats, 200 to alfalfa and
some to miscellaneous vegetables and
small grains.
First Years Work.
Naturally the principal interest in
this state will attach to the results
as shown by the first years work.
Figures Of the reclamation service
show that the best yields of wheat
were 80 to 30 bushels to the acre.
The officials of the project, however,
do not believe the best results will be
obtained from the cultivation of small
grains. Alfalfa produces three to
three and half tons to the acre,
and alfalfa is worth about SIS per
ton at Williston. Up to the present
time local consumption has required
the entire crop, but with an enlarg-
ed acreage, there are numerous pos
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-25

sibilities in the feeding of sheep, cat
tie and hogs.
The best paying crop this year was
the alfalfa seed crop of Seneca
Brownell, which will return him over
$50 an acre. Alfalfa seed is worth
20 to 80 cents per pound. or $l2 to
SIS per bushel, depending upon the
variety. Alfalfa used for seed is
usually cut only once in the season,
which makes it possible to get crop
both of hay and seed and good share
of the alfalfa land is sowed with
wheat as nurse crop, but there are
should appeal strongly to the state
at large and to Williston in particu-
lar.
One man, whose land is under the
ditch. raised this year onions at the
rate Of $50 bushels to the acre. They
were hand transplanted and cultivat-
ed with care, but allowing for all eX-
penses of seed and cultivation with
ready market at 81 bushel. the
land produced at the rate of $1,000
to the acre. This gives some idea of
the future of the irrigated land about
Williston when the change from small
grain farming to vegetable farming
shall be accomplished.
Cost Of Irrigation.
Under the provision Of the reclama-
ton act, the cost of construction Of
this plant is charged against the land
under the project and is to be in ten
annual installments, without inter-
est The cost of installation is $38
ditch and when it is paid the plant
goes to the local water users asso-
citation. The operation charge, which
is for the supply of water, will be
perhaps $3.50 to 50 per acre per year,
but that is a small sum to pay for alb
solute crop insurance and largely in
creased values. There has been
some difficulty in providing for the
payment of the annual water right in.
stallments, and it may be that some
of the land will be shut out from
water unless the installments are
paid, but eventually the land will
pass into the hands of the owners in
small tracts of forty to eighty acres,
and when that time comes and these
tracts are cultivated as they should
be, there are vast possibilities for
the future of Williston.
Coal Values.
Some interesting data has also been
obtained with reference to coal val
ues. From the experience Of the Will
liston power plant, Ignite is burned
there, which is a semi-gas producer
furance, gives about 60 per cent OF
the efficiency of bituminous coal burn
ed efficiently. With a complete pro,
Queer plant it is calculated that lig-
mite would have two an half times
the efficiency of Virginia coal burned
in steam plant. The greatest coal
consumption the past summer was
40 tons per day and the water de-
livered that day to the land, was
about 140 tore feet. The average con-
sumption of coal is about eighty tons
per day.
Up to the present time there has
not been the interest in this project
through the state that there should
have been. The right publicity given
to the work accomplished and to be
accomplished means millions of dol
lars in the future of North Dakota
and of WillistOn.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-25

J. w. Foley, in Sunday Pioneer
Press: The Williston irrigation pro-
ject is one of the few in the north
west and the only one in North Da-
kota, and for that reason the de-
tails of it's operation are Of particu-
lar interest to the people Of the state.
The principal difficulties in the way
OF the administration of the project,
up to the present time, have been
the change from the old methods of
dry farming, over the large tract OF
.unu, to the new methods of intense
cultivation under the irrigation sys-
tenn. 1t has been difficult to convince
farmers who have been accustomed
to farming quarter section to half
section of land, that better re-
suits and more profitable returns can
be obtained by the closer farming Of
forty to eighty acres.
The engineering principles of the
Williston project are different from
almost any other irrigation project in
the United States. The water Is TAX
en- from the Missouri river, which is
shifting channel and subject to
numerous and sudden rises and falls
in the stage of water. To Obviate
these conditions, floating barges have
been placed in the river, with flexible
pipes. The barges remain in the
river supporting pumps by which the
water is lifted. Just now they are
being taken out Of the r1er in the
same manner as a steamboat, upon
ways, to prevent injury in the spring
rush of ice.
Power From Ignite.
At distance of one mile or so from
the river is an electrical power plant
which develops 1000 horse power. The
fuel for this comes from a mine of
Ignite coal, covering 1000 acres.
The coal passes to power plant
down an inclined shaft and is crush
ed at the end of the shaft and then
passes to the boilers. 1t is estimated
that one acre of Ignite coal devel-
opes 1000 tons to the foot of vein.
With a nine foot vein. Engineer
Sanford, in charge of the Williston-
Buford project, estimates that there
is fuel enough to last 1000 years if
the plant were run tWenty-fOur hours
a day, every day in the year, so that
there is no possibility of any imme-
date shortage of the supply.
The power developed at this plant
lifts water maximum of eighty feet
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-25
STANTON FARMER FINDS
A new Brand OF WHEAT

Stanton, N. D., Oct. 24.-Jas. Har-
ris has a sample of wheat on exhibit
ton at the Republican Office which
he has produced on his farm near
Stanton. The kernels are as long as
a large oats kernel and are of fine
quality. The seed was found among
some wheat that he purchased on the
reservation three years ago. He has
about ten quarts which he has raised
from one head of grain. The special
lists at the agricultural college claim
it is an entirely new brand Of wheat.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-25
CheerfuIness a Welcome Guest.

II cheerfu're knocks at our door
we should throw it wide open, for 1t
never comes tnopportunely: instead OF
that we often make scruples about let.
ting it in. Cheerfu!ness Is direct and
immediate gain-the very coin, as 1t
were, OF happiness. and not. like all
else, merely a cheque upon the bank.
-Schopenhauer.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-25

Chance for American Capitalists.
Russian manufacturers invest $50.
100000 annually in American cotton
and it is stated that should Russo
American bank be established in st.
Petersburg the cotton Investment
would reach 500, zoo. 900 annually.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-25
,nnen,ous WashinQ Machine.

Ingenious Wash1n9 m~
An ingenious Australian macnlne ~
washing clothes by meeus OF suction
caused by steam and vacuu" ~
tracted much attention at recent e4'
hibitions in Melbourne. The macn1ne
not only leaves the articles wasneu
snow white, but saves rough hanohns
and the resulting damage to delicate
fabrics.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-25
From Outside.

A correspondent suggests to the
Philosopher Of Folly that some men
are born crazy, some achieve insan
ity, and others fall in love with chorus
girls"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-25
Naturally Crooked.

There's q certain kind Of man
who thinks he can get ahead Of some
body by cheating himself at solitaire.
Press.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-25

THE PLACE. TO BUY
Ground feed, oats, corn, bran,
shorts and poultry supplies at Wills
heed Store.-Advt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-12
CALHOUN AT SHANGHAI.
American Minister Welcomed b,
FelloW.CountrYmeu.

PEKING. April 12-William J.. Calhoun
the new American minister to Picking
has arrived at Shanghai. He received ar
enthusiastic greeting from the American
colony. The new minister was conveyed
lobos.
Mr.. Calhoun was the guest of Mr.. Amos
p. Wilder. the American consul general
During his stay he was entertained al
luncheon by Judge Thayer. at reception
by the American Association and the
American Women's Club. and was giver
banquet by the American University
Club. Mr.. Calhoun made a most favor
able impression on his compatriots. He
left last night for Hankow, and will ar.
rive In Picking Saturday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-12
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Army Orders.

Capt James D. Tilford, I'd Cavalry, is
detailed as auartermaster and commits
sary of the transport Sumner during the
voyage OF that transport from Newport
News, Va to Buenos Aires, Argentine
Republic, and return.
Second Lieut.. Hayden w. Wagner. Sd
Cavalry, will temporarily assume charge
of construction work at Fort Wingate.
New Mexico.
The leave of absence granted Capt.
John e. Hunt, 18th Infantry, is extended
one month.
The following transfers are ordered:
First Lieut.. Seeley A. Wallen. from the
7th Infantry to the 18th Infantry.
First Lieut.. G. Stocimar Bendel, from
the 18th Infantry to the It'll Infantry.
Second Lieut.. Arthur w. Lane, 4th In
fantry, will assume charge OF construc-
First Lieut.. George H. White. 10th In
fantry. OF that duty.
Leave of absence for four months. with
permission to go beyond the sea, is
granted Mai Blanton Winship. Judge ad-
vocate.
Leave of absence for three months. with
permission to go beyond the sea. is
granted Capt. William A. Powell, Medi-
cal Corps.
First Lieut.. William II. Rose. Corps of
Engineers, will proceed to Schenectady, N.
Y, on Official business pertaining to the
final inspection and test of one generating
set for the experimental field seachlight
outfit for artillery.
By direction of the President, and upon
the application of Corp. James A. Walsh
| ,43d Company, Coast Artillery Corps, that
soldier will be placed upon the retired
| list.
The following transfers Of chaplains Of
the Coast Artillery Corps are ordered:
Chaplain Ruter w. Springer, from Fort
| Schuyler, n. Y, to Fort Caswell. NJ C.
Chaplain Frederick L. Kunnecke. from
| Fort Caswell, N. c., to Fort andrews,
Mass.
| Capt Charles de F. Chandler. Signal
Corps, will proceed to Fort Omaha, Neb,
strhction in aeronautics of the class at
the Army Signal School.
Naval Orders.
| Commander J. Hood, from command the
| Severn and continue other duties.
Ensign M. F. Draemel, to the Wheeling,
| Ensign c. c. Slayton to the Delaware.
Ensign A. J. James to the Georgia.
TO the Washington.
Ensign NJ. e. Manly, from the South
| Dakota to the Tennessee.
! Ensign S. A. Clement, from the South
| Dakota to the Buffalo.
! Ensign A. 8. Rees. from the Tennessee
| to the South Dakota.
Ensign =: D. Pryor. from the Buffalo to
| Ensign s. Doherty, from the Milwaukee
| to the vicksburg.
! Midshipmau W. Smith, from the Severn
! to- the Hartford.
/ Chief Carpenter r. H. Lake, from the
| Severn to the Naval Academy. Annapolis.
Md.
| Machinist D. W. Harry and Mate HI.
Dahis, from the Severn to the Hartford.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-12
Wage Agreement Is Signed.

NEW YORK, April 12.-The wage agree
ment between the trainmen, conductors
and yardnien and officials of the Boston
and Maine railroad was signed today.
Every point in the dispute has been sat
isfactorily settled. The minimum monthly
wage scale has been adjusted to conform
to the Massachusetts, laws and all other
points have been settled on the same
basis as the Baltimore and Ohio agree
Ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-12
Building Permits Issued.

The following building permits were IS
sued today:
To owen Rabbit. for one two-story
brick dwelling at 4345 Nebraska avenue
northwest: architect and builder, J. H.
McIntyre: estimated cost, $4,000.
To Bates Warren, for one four-story
brick apartment house at 1924 18th street
northwest; architect, Carroll Beal; build
or Bates Warren; estimated cost. $4,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-12
To Discuss Many Topics.

Friday evening Alice Paul will speak on
1.-THE English Situation and Meta Il.
Stern will discuss woman Suffrage From
Socialists Point Of View Memorial
addresses will be made for Henry b.
Blackwell and William Lloyd Garrison.
jr. Max Eastman of the Mems League for
Woman Suffrage of New York will speak
on Democracy and Woman" Saturday
evening. Dorothy Dix also will address
the convention that evening on The
Real Reason Why Women Cannot Vote
Sunday evening there will be an informal
reception for the delegates and visitors
to the convention in the parlors of the
Arlington Hotel.
The Industrial situation from woman s
point Of view will be considered at the
session Monday. The hearings before the
Senate committee on woman's suffrage
and the House committee on judiciary
will take place Tuesday morning. Rev.
Anna Howard Shaw will conduct the
hearing before the Senate committee and
Mrs. Florence Kelley before the House
committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-12
Piles Quickly
Cured at Home
Instant Relief, Permanent Cure
Trial Package Mailed Free to
All in Plain Wrapper.

Many cases OF Piles have been cured by a
trial package Of Pyramid Pile Cure witbou,
iurtner treatment. When it proves its value to
you. order more from your druggist at 80 cents
q ooA. simply NIL out free coupon below and
man To-Day Save yourself from the surgeon. $
knife and its torture the doctor and b,s hills
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-12
PLANS FOR MEETING
Officers of Suffrage Associa-
ton Hold Session.
MANY DELEGATES ARRIVE
Rumor That Coming Convention
Will Be Inharmonious Is Vigor-
ously Denied by Leaders.

General officers of the National Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage Association held
their first business meeting preliminary
to the forty-second annual convention at
the Arlington Hotel today. Convention
affairs in general were discussed. but no
definite action was taken. Among the
general officers who already have arrived
at the Arlington, which will be headquar-
ters of the convention, are: Rev. Anna
Howard Shaw, present; Mrs. Harriet
TAYLOR Upton, treasurer; Mrs. Florence
Kelley. second vice president; Mrs.
Rachel Foster Avery. first vice president,
and Prof. Frances Squire Potter, CORE
spending secretary.
Delegates from all parts of the coun-
try are arriving on every incoming train,
and 1t is expected that by tomorrow even
ing, when the executive committee holds
its first meeting, all Of them will be here.
Oficers who are here deny reports to
the effect that all will not be harmony IN
the convention and that spirited con-
test between the conservative and pro-
eressive elements will take place They
declare that there will be no factional dis
pute for the simple reason that there are
no factions.
Mrs Shaw will make her annual adj
dress Thursday evening. after the address
of President Taft. Friday morning the
conference will take up the subject OF
practical methods of work, under the d.
rection Of Mary Hutchinson Page. Reports
from states in which campaigns are pend
ine-South Dakota oregon. Washington
and Oklahoma-will be made by the state
presidents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-12
Poker Players Let Off.

Five white youths, caught playing poker
with older men in a shed on a vacant lot
on Alfred street north of Oronoco street,
few days ago, were brought into court
this morning. Several of them admitted
the offense. They were acquitted, with a
warning by the court to refrain from
games Of chance.
When the city council meets tonight it
is expected a joint session will be held
for the election of a police commissioner
from the first ward to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Fora HILL Robert
8. Barrett and William e. Balm are men
toned in connection with the post.
Funeral services for Mrs. Henrietta
Lyles, wife of Edgar Lyles. who died
yesterday, will be held at o'clock to-
morrow afternoon at her home, BOB
North Washington street. Rev. ]. NJ.
Holmes, pastor of the Methodist Pro-
testant Church, will conduct the services.
Burial will be in Union cemetery.
The Masonic memorial committee,
which is furthering the project to erect
a temple to washington, the Mason
was held last night.
The Retail Merchants Association will
meet at o'clock tonight in the rooms Of
the chamber OF commerce.
|; Capt. James F. Webster, one OF the
oldest men in age and point of service
on the police force, Is today receiving
congratulations on the anniversary of his
eighty-third birthday.
The farmer and mechanic., 1910-08-30
CRIMINAL CE,,

There have been two rotten-t tie
wrecks on the Southern Railway dur
Ing the past month-one in the coun
ty of Wake, where a freight train was
wrecked, and one in the county of
Burke, where a passenger train was
wrecked and over hundred passen-
gers narrowly escaped death or seri-
Gus injury. No grand jury has met
since these wrecks and the Corpora
ton Commission has made public no
action looking to the future protec-
ton of the lives Of the travelling pub
lie.
There is need that som ething be
done, not only to protect passengers
and stop preventable wrecks, but that
when q wreck occurs the railroads
promptly care for the passengers and
carry them to their destination. Ladies
as well as men We're kept at Connolly
Springs wreck seven or eight hours
without anything to eat and forced to
pay hotel bills or for Pullmans at
their own expense, because OF the
negligence or fault of the railroad
IL IuHlci lie SO Cfle3p lIidl IL Is W
be pat in jeopardy by rotten cross
ties? Is the comfort of passengers
of SO little Importance that they must
be kept seven hours at the scene or
a wreck, without food? 1t is said to
be a fact that one lady the train
had her ticket and only enough money
to take her home. The conductor was
busy getting passengers to sign re-
leases, but nobody was looking prop
erly after the passengers whose eScap 2
from death was almost a miracle.
The farmer and mechanic., 1910-08-30
fAaiN ROBBTFY--

Every body knows thai
crop Is very short this Voc. 'o'aoa
body knows that il has EEee.-
heavy cost. Everybody l,n.-'e ''-''e a;
cotton and meat are hfcb Dat
BODY knows that the VII, s'g'
was right when it said tha, un,.l. -.'.'a'
tobacco farmers got an ava. -.<- 'ae
L Il cents for their croD ,b.- q
they could not make a cent of 's1'
And yet, the Tobacco IT,. f'."~
absolutely fixes the price +bs =. Y''..'
get for their tobacco. j. n.,.,,.-
a song for it Wilson is rho t:-
tobacco market in Eastern No-.,. 'S'
olina, and the price paid for +ha, 90. 1.'
of tobacco is as high as i mia
where. And yet, in the two o,a...-
days this year on the Wilson r,..,
1s7. 900 pounds of tobacco wero ..,,
the average price being seven .,-.,
per pound-or IL cents lass 49,.
the Wilson Times says it costs +o r.,,
the tobacco.
Last week the Tobacco Trust r4.,
eighteen cents pound to tha Kar
tucky fighting farmers for their h.,-
ley tobacco-less valuable Wee, ths,
the briShts-or eleven cents q ro,,r4
more than they pay to peace-loyirr
industrious North Carolina folks
OF course We shall hear the ugua,
tommy-rot about "inferio. quality
only 'primings,' etc, etc, with which
the trust apologists regalc US every
time the trust determines to take the
tobacco OF the farmers at starvation
prices. Such talk fools nobody cx-
cept folks who want to be fooled The
trust knows the poorest farmers are
hard-run to live when everything thew
buy has been made high by tariff
and other trusts. They know that
these farmers must sell their tobacco
when it is ready for market There
fore, having the power to take it 1T
their own price, they rob the farmers
whose necessities compel immediate
sale. After getting the bulk Of the
crop for a song, the trust toward th3
end Of the season advances the price
before planting time so as to encour-
age the farmers to plant again.
There is no robbery less defensibIe
than that practiced toward the toba2-
co growers by the tobacco trust They
have but one motto:
Let him take who has the power
And let him keep who can
The farmer and mechanic., 1910-08-30
UNCLE WALT
The Poet PhiIOsOhGr

All, yes, my friend, It's mighty Eof! As
man whose head is right could doubt IT.
The sun is on his job, L vol but t"Hi
not help to talk about it. Men chase along
and fume and sweat, and roast the cIi-
mate, all together; they might be cooi
if they'd forget to think and talk about
the weather. Some feilo~
THE stops me In the shade, and Oh
HOT DAY the sizzling sun he pfes'ches'
and all the time my thoughts
have strayed to Eskimos and NFct'o
reaches. I'm thinking of the ice up therF'
Of SNOWY trails and tired explorers VINO
eat a slice of polar bear. and WASH u
do wn with hair restorers. I'm thInh'"S o.
the sIedge and raft, of storms with ""''D
brave men have reckoned; I'm thinii7s o.
the gumdrop graft, and heat cant bo'''l
me a second. Most human Ills '"E't1l'
are; and if we coddIe em ard pr' Tl', .
they'll stick like forty kinds OF tA'' 0
fade away when we forget eIi!.
The farmer and mechanic., 1910-08-30

Cream rises from milk b\ @.~..t
The fat in the milk is h&H'''
rises to the surface but II takes " '.'7
time to do it.
The separator pulls the mill a~@t .,.i
from the cream as it IS ""'-'
around the bowl. 1t acts lus'
stone tied to a string and $" -'-s
around the head. The faster IL
swung the harder the pull. .r.
When the milk is placed I'D Il
bowl and the latter is Whirled "'
at a emendous speed the heaFI'' .rs
tiOns Of the milk are drawn
bottom and the fat and Hgh'.
tions to the top. The whole \o'
the bowl becomes arranged III 81
the pure milk separated from
goes to the very bottom, that IL ..n
fectly separated rising TOWARD ~ ~.
and the fat or cream slipping u"
surface.
Now, the faster the bowl L- ia
volVed the cleaner the mix ~sl
'skimm ed because the ceh- 5,y1
force is greater. The slower In q, a
Is reVolved the more fat there
left in the milk. Simple, ism '''
The farmer and mechanic., 1910-08-30

The Catawba County News thus ac-
counts for Hoke Smiths greatness and
success: "As is well kr1oWn, he was
born in Newton, and no doubt this ac-
counts for his ability to regain the gu
bern atorial seat" Being born in New
-tion is passport to success!