El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-22

Much of it comes from waterfalls con-
troled by the government. the concession
of which the trusts are trying to get.
a part of this same scheme is the
development of our rivers. We have 295
of them in the United States, with
navigable waters long enough to encircle
the globe. The great lakes are the
busiest freight routes upon earth, and
boats can 90 on the Mississippi for 1000
miles. We have already built 1900 miles
of canals, and we have schemes which
propose the joining of the great lakes
with the Mississippi, and also with the
sea- One scheme is a canal from the
great lakes to the gulf
Doubling Our Farms.
When our forefathers took possession
of the United States almost the whole
of the land belonged TO the government.
Year by year these public lands have
been given away. More than fourteen
hundred MILLIONS of acres have been sold
or set aside as reservations, and there
are comparatively few left. Nevertheless,
Uncle Sam Patriarch is at work upon
schemes which will practically double our
farms. He is testing the soil and show
ing how by fertiliZing and proper farm
more fold. This is equal to putting an
other farm on top of every farm in the
United States.
Much of this work is done by means
of bacteria, so small that handful
would number more than all the people
in the world. Uncle Sam Is setting
these little devels to work, and he shows
YOU just how and which ones to use.
He is now analyZing the soils of the
whole country, and making survey
hundred millions of acres have been sold
c,hr ef IN
He is also testing new seeds and plants
and his explorers are travelling over
the world seeking new crops. We have
already made millions by his introduc
ton of rice and macaroni wheat, and are
inaugurating tropical agriculture in the
irrigated deserts OF the west.
These new crops are of many kinds,
and suggestions may be given of things
out of which any farmer can make
money.
Uncle Sans Plans for the Miner.
Many of the latest schemes relate to
the mines and the miners, Uncle Sam
has plans for saving our minerals. We
have the greatest coal lands upon earth
and there are billions of tons left upon
government property. The amounts are
so vast that they will bring m hundreds
of millions of dollars, and they are to be
sold on estimates made as to the
amounts they contain The geological
surveyors are now prospecting and sizing
UP these ccal lands, and the govern
ment is selling them in 40 acre tracts art
from $50 to 500 and upward per acre.
In connection with this there are about
10, 900 100000 tons of available coal in
Alaska, which will soon be thrown open
to those who apply. Some of this coal
is that which it is said the Guggenheims
tried ha ard m crah
As to our other minerals they bring
in many millions a year, and Uncle
Sans records viii show just what they
are and where.
In this same connection are the new
measures now being introduced for pro-
tecting the miner. The government is
testing all sorts of explosives and doing
all it can to save life in the mines. Ex-
periments are going on in the coal
regions of Pennsylvania and also in the
gold and silver mines OF the west
Uncle Sans Plans for Corn and Cotton.
Some of the biggest schemes of the
government relate to the cotton belt
and corn fields The government is teach
ing corn breeding and corn seeding. Our