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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-13
BY ALTON.

sponsible party to whom they could
make their offer.
The result OF this our first interview
was that I at once telegraphed TO the
president of the canal. Colonel Charles
S. Darlington. requesting him to come
to Baltimore. He. q gentleman of the
highest possible character, had de-
voted all OF the years since the war
TO the vain effort to secure the build
Ing of the extension OF tbs canal. but
had met with no success whatever.
1 knew that he at last was forced to
despair of accomplishing his object,
and could easily imagine with what
JOY he would welcome a proposition
like this.
He arrived most promptly. and a
conference was Immediately had be-
tween us three. at which the first
agreement was that nothing OF what
we were contemplating should tran
spire outside OF ourselves. We then
the whole matler. and finally Colon.
Darlington returned to Richmond with
the understanding that he was to get
the Legislature to pass bill appoint
ing committee OF twelve OF tho best
citizens OF the State, ana empowering
them to make sale of the canal on
the best terms they could. To show
what sort of men we wanted on the
committee, will mention that I
named Rooney" Lee az one OF them,
and 1t was agreed that as nearly as
possible the members should be OF the
standard thus laid down.
Colonel Darlington went before the
Legislature and reported progress to
us. the other two who were In pos
session of the facts OF tho case 1t
was not long before o bill was passed
by one OF the houses appointing the
committee and oonferring the power,
and I recall the profound satisfaction
with which I learned OF SthIs and the
tax, < .telt IN thinking how puch this
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Buena Vista Social News.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch

lSpeclal to The TtmeS-DtSpatch.I
Buena Vista, Va, August l2.-Dnrin9
the past week q number OF entertain
ments have been given in honor Oh
visiting women. Thursday afternoon
Mrs: w T. Paxton entertained with q
Fraser. of Georgetown. S. c.. who Isl
her house guest. and Mrs. Ridout and
Miss Taylor. OF Richmond. who ara
1 the guests ts,, Of Miss Lucy Glasgow. az
Mrs. W. H. Gilkyson. ]. II Mapp, III.
Trumbower. W. J. Dickinson and
Misses WaldroF. of Bowling Green.
Atkinson. Clifton Forge: Miss Sarah
Stevens, Washington. D. c.; Miss Anna
Parsons. Farsalia: Miss Georgia Boone.
Miss Eleanor and Kathrine Paxton
KY; Miss Lewis. OF Lexington, KY.
and Miss Atkinson. of Clifton Forge.
have been the guests OF Mrs c. p.
Graham for the past week.
Thursday evening q very enjoyebIc
hop was given Mt the Marlbrook Hotel
In honor OF the visiting young women
Monday evening Mrs. A. NJ Rucker
gave an informal card party in honor
T T Dickinson, Miss Ethel Rucker.
or Lynchburg; Miss Brown. OF Char
i lett VII, M Mrs; sallie Talferi9. OF
Nineger, OF Roanoke. are on an auto
mobile trip through the Valley. They
VIII VISIT stanton. Charlottesville and
Washington before they return.
Mr.. and Mrs, w. y. Key. Frank Key
and Miss Evie Bromley are on an
automobile trip, They VIII visit Staun-
ton and Charleston. w. Va.
Miss Anna Parsons. of Farsnlta, wha
has been the guest or his raunt. Mrs.;
D. r. Miller. has returned TO her honia<
Mrs. ]. II. Wells. OF Wilmin gtoyl.
y. G, Is the CUES; of her sister, Ma
Mr.. and Mrs. W. t. vest. who hays.
been spending couple OF weeks ii
Atlantic City. returned homo Monday
morning. p -
Mrs. II. r, Mills. who has beoss
spending the past two weeks IN Ans!
herst. returned to hsE hooss wsd1Se,l
day. :
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sof grapes can be raised. bringing a
profit of $3.50 an acre, or lettuce and
peas will net $500 per acre, while Ber-
muda onions are yielding $4,000 pounds
to the acre and readily selling for 2
cents a pound
These are few notes as to the
profits from Uncle Sans desert farms
Each OF the thirty-four projects now
heing reclaimed has Its own special
crops, varying according TO climate and
soil. and those who would settle can
seceive full information concerning
them by writing to the government
officials.
How to Get a Farm.
But how does one get a farm on
these fertile oases2 The lands are al
lotted under much the came terms as
the homestead law, save that the set
tiers must pay the actual cost of erect
Ing the dams and making the irraga-
tion works which put the water upon
the lands. They must also pay a small
rental cost per acre each year for the
land is made in ten annual INSTALL
ments, the money all going back to the
government When the works are paid
Tor the land and the works will be-
long to the community. and they will
be to certain extent under the Secre-
ary OF tho Interior for the future.
The scheme provides against mono
poly No one has the right to own
more than l60 acres on any OF the
tracts and the units OF ownership are
somewhere rs low as ten acres. In
other projects they are forty. and in
others eighty.
II the land Is taken up under the
homestead law. the settler must live ON
II for five years before he can get a
title, and this Is so whether the land
mas water yet or not. The amounts
paid for water vary with the cost OF
the irrigation works needed to redeem
them. but in no case are they anv-
thins like the value of the land when
redeemed. 1t Is estimated that the
cost OK reclamation will amount 10
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Washington has large correspondenc q
from those VINO have taken such
tracts II publishes the value of the
land and tells what may be made from
them Take the fruit GASES of the
racine northwest. II the information
ala not come from the government
should not venture to quote IL, for
the prices seem to be out OF ell rea
son. Irrigated fruit lands owned by
individuals right near some OF the gov
eminent tracts sell for from 500 70
$4,000 per acre. and some OF the sage
brush nearby is bringing $50 per eere
and upward. This is IN the YakIrn a
valley and others OF that region where
dams can be made at the outlets OF
mountain lakes. which will eventual
ly give $4,000 acre feet There is
enough water there to redeem q half
million acres. and there are four or
flVe schemes planned for the Yakima
Valley alone. There are excellent
projects, and the men who have taken
up holdings are rapidly growing in
wealth.
Engineer Blanchard. OF the reclama-
ton service, tells one OF man named
Silver who planted ten acres OF arch
ard near Yakima about elk years ago
He Melted s2,7oo last year from his
fruit and the vegetables which he
raised between the rows. In the same
region j. Q. shadbolt. a dry goods
merchant from Montana, made $4,000
from the fruit raised on forty-one
acres. In 1907 the same orchard yield
ed gross OF $4,000 and a net OF $50.
600, and In the three years which the
man has been fruit raising he has
netted $4,000. or more than $4,000
a year.
The government reports that full
bearing orchards produce crops OF
from $500 to $1,000 per acre. and that
$500 is less than the average II the
have been redeemed there are being
largely planted TO fruit, and millions
OF trees have been set out in the val
ley during the last season or so.
Robert Mccormick, who was a lum-
herman in Minnesota. came to this
valley ten years ago with IS cents In
his pocket. He worked for q time as
| n teamster, and with his savings made
his ffst payment on twenty-five acres
OF the government project. The land
was then covered with sage brush. To.
day II is all in crops and Is paying
him $4,000 g year above all his ex-
penses. Last fall he picked seven . OF
eight hundred boxes of apples from a
little over an acre. making yield OF
about $500 for that amount of ground
A Wisconsin man the game year sold
$4,000 worth OF apples from nine acres
of trees
A Voice From Montana.
Here are some letters from Huntley
Mont, where the irrigation projects
embrace u total of $4,000 acres. They
are not all completed, but the water
has been put on large tracts. and sew
| eral good sized towns have gone up
This is land Of grain and alfalfa
Wheat averages thirty bushels to the
acre, barley from fifty to seventy
bushels and oats from ninety to one
hundred bushels. The oats sell for OF
cents hundred pounds, and good seed
oats bring as much as 50. There is a
grazing country about, and alfalfa is
worth IS a ton in the stack. It yields
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meant to my dear old State. wo two
who had met almost daily in Balt,-
more and talked over the progress of
events. were most hopeful of ultimate
success. when the final blow came 70
us In the announcement made by Col
onei Darlington that the other house
IN dealing with the bill had tackled
on proviso that the action OF the
committee should be referred back to
the legislature Tor confirmation. The
session was nearly over. and this
meant, OF course. reference to the
body which was to succeed It. 1t was
TOO late to try to undo what had been
done. and 1t Is to be apprehended that
some adverse interest had been at
work. and that what had been sought
could not now be obtained. Be this
as 1t may. the effect of this action was
to cause an Immediate withdrawal Of
the representative of the McCaImonts
and sudden termination of this whole
scheme. These gentlemen were ready
to take up negotiation for the canal
and for it's completion with a set OF
honest business men. but were not
disposed to put themselves at the
mercy of legislative body. I myself
believe the Legislatures Of Virginia
since the war to have been honest.
but this Is not the only case in which
have known them to he thoroughly
unbusinesslike
When we consider that this canal,
which cost Virginia since $4,000, 900,
was ultimately given away, and that
the railroad built on 1t was turned
over at sacrifice to the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad. we must acknowl-
edge, even disregarding what the COM
pletion of the cnnai would have meant
To Virginia. that this was n great lost
opportunity.
The above Is simple. but absolutely
correct, statement OF an actual occur
renee --.>-
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IN baby buggy. He now has four boy
and $500 house, and at the end of five
years will have a $4,000 property all
paid for. A young carpenter bought
given-up homestead OF ten acres and
has II now paid for. and another has
planted twenty acres to alfalfa. and
grapes.
ono OF the Hermiston settlers says
| that he is raising 500 bushels..ot onions
per acre without fertilization and crops
of other vegetables are quoted almost
as large. This is from the Umatilla
project where water is now availa BILE
for eleven or twelve thousand acres
and where the first settlements were
made about four years ago. The To-
cality has excellent banks and schools,
Herminston having an $4,000 concrete
school building with loo pubils. There
are newspapers, churches and fraterni-
ty lodges.
ostriches and Dates.
Do you want to raise ostriches. fgs
ana dates?
There are plenty OF chances to do 30
on the lands which Uncle Sem now
offers in Southern Arizona and New
Mexico. The Roosevelt Dam will open
up 100000 acres which will grow al
tafa, upon which ostriches will thrive.
IL is the same with the Yuma project,
farther South. and so also of the irri-
cation schemes of Southern New Next
CO. In these regions the country Is
practically frostless. and oranges. lem
ons. grapefruit and olives can be easily
grown The lands lie several hundred
feet above sea level and the tempera-
ture ranges from 20 to 11S degrees
above zero.
In some OF the tracts the units are
as low as ten acres, which is found TO
be plenty, as crops can be raised all
the year round. Irrigated lands bring
from $50 TO $3.50 per acre, the govern
ment tracts varying In cost. according
TO the expense involved in each pro-
ject The government report from
Carlsbad. NJ NJ. states that the finest
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streets boardered with trees Kept alive
by irrigation. They have gas and cleo
trio lights and good telephone systems.
They publish newspapers. North va
kima has a public lahrary which cost
$4,000. courthouse worth $l25,000.
and the government Is soon to erect IL
Federal building there at cost of O.
quarter OF a million.
The chief town In the Umatflfa pro-
feet is Hermiston, which already has
500 people. including a large number
OF farmers who live there and drive
to ana from their farms. Tho place has
several big business blocks. two lum-
Der yards. an $4,000 public school build
Ing. and there are In the county twelve
banks. with total deposits OF upward
of 100000. Hermiston has two
banks.
On the klamath irrigation project tho
chief town is klamath Falls, though
there are other settlements which are
rapidly growing. Klamath Falls hae
four banks. two newspapers. a high
school building which cost $4,000 and
number of society lodges. The cost
OF redeeminB tho land here was on
the average $50 per acre ana the mains
tenance charge rs cents per acre each
year. i
Some OF the irrigation projects OF
Idaho are tributary to Boise, thercapi-
tai OF the State. q town which has
municipal improvements equal to those
OF the finest residence cities OF tho
West. There are some small towns on
the projects themselves. and the edu-
cational, financial and social condi-
lions are among the best in the coun-
try. AS to Boise, 1t has six bankss
with deposits OF over 100000 and
school buildings which represent al
property value of more than 100000.
Its high schools are among the best IN
the country, the graduates being act
credited to all colleges that admit stu4
dents upon credentials.
Copyright, 1911, by Frank G. Carpen<
ter)
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from Ave TO seven tons an acre fr
three cuttings and Is used also to
restore the fertility of the soil. A
sugar beet factory hos been recently
established mex Huntlcy, and the farm
ers are raising oeets. getting fourteen
tons to the acre, which they sell for
IS ton. They can grow 300 bushels
of onions or $50 bushels OF potatoes on
almost any part of the government
lands, and there is an instance Of one
farmer who grew $50 worth OF Gu
cumbers on one eight of an acre never
before touched with the plow.
In connection with cucumber. I have
a letter here from Nat Marten. of
Huntley. who made $4,000 out OF dill
pickles. which were raised on less than
seven acres of land. He put up $50
barrels OF these pickles and sold them
at SlS a barrel. He says that most of
the cucumbers were raised by the
neighbors on the above land He paid
them cent pound. and this gave a
good PROFIT. as some OF them raised nine
tons TO the acre. Mr.. Marten says he
expects to double his output next year
and to raise most OF the cucumbers
himself.
Another Huntley man writes that he
came from Ietrobe. Pa. and that with
out any experience in irrigation farm
ing got forty-one acres from the gov
eminent and titled 1t alone, with the
assistance OF his children, the oldest
OF whom was Just fourteen years. His
FIRST crop brought him in $4,000. and
he expects to produce ut least $4,000
worth Of stuff this year. This man
says: 1T don't take big man to
do this. weigh only 1S2 pounds"
! His name is W. W. Keslar. and his
children are ten.
Not Bad PInce for Children.
number OF these letters show how
the babies thrive. There Is one from
Hermiston. Ore. writton by e. P. Dood.
saying that his neighbor. Bushnell, had
come there three years ago and land
ed with n pair of twins in q double
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BY FRANK G. CARPENTER


Three years ago he was stenog-
Fapher in the PostOffice Department
at Washington. He was getting ST.
200 q year and he had one months an
nual vacation. He had saved $1,000
by skimping. and could see but little
light for the future. Then he went
West on his annual leave and was
present at the opening Of some gov
eminent irrigated lands at Huntley, in
Northern Montana. He dropped into
the line OF homcseekers and drew an
allotment OF forty-six acres, with the
right to pay for 1t In ten-year install
ments
He resigned his Washington job. and
using his savings. built himself home.
He then cleared thirty FIVE acres of
eagebrush and sowed IT to oats and
wheat. He set out an apple orchard
and between the rows put In 1000
strawberry plants and some currants,
grapes and blackberries. His oats pro-
duced s!aty-two bushels per acre and
the wheat thirty bushels. The apple
trees grew. The next year he planted
sugar beets on thirty one acres of this
land and the crop therefrom brought
IN $1,000. The orchard is rapidly
growing and the man already esti-
mates himself worth at least $4,000.
That is the story OF one mans ex-
perience on the irrigated tracts OF the
reclamation service which Uncle Sam
is now parceling out to his children
He has already sold thousands of acres
on such instruments and he has wa
ter enough in the big reservoirs lately
built to feed $4,000 farms OF forty
acres each. This land has all been re-
claimed from the desert, and 1t is only
the beginning. 1t is the first fruits OF
the reclamation service. which has al
ready spent s6ooo0.o00 in dams. reser-
voirs and canals. A million acres are
now under water, and within the next
generation or so more than a million
homes will have been added to those
OF cur country.
Some OF Uncle Sans Settlers.
Before tell you how such farms may
be gotten I want to give some stories
about the letters from Uncle Sans
pioneers. The Reclamation Bureau at
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Pioneers Who Are Making Good.

Pioneers Who Are Making Good.
A Fortune in Dill Pickles.
Fruit Lands Worth Thousand
Dollars an Acre-Big Crops of
Alfalfa, and Money in o.
striches and Dates-How a
Was hington Stenographer
Made SIf,ooo-Farns and How
to Get Them-A Look at the
Gases Communities-T h e i r
New Cities and Towns-Sone-
thing About the B k s,
Churches and Schools-Live
Information About the Lands
of the Reclamation Service Now
Being Opened.
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Telegraphic News.
Mn NuY
Honolulu News.

HONOLULU Jan 27A special cable from Washington says
that officials interested the proposed treaty with Japan wish all
reference to the immigration question eliminated
The geha girls their testimony against the Hirano
unable The has been
dismissed
McQuad trial been postponed of drunken
The juror his place when the Court opened He
found later in the police station.
A Japanese hackman held up last night and robbed
The proposed direct primary law, explained by Chairman Cooper
about ready, will be presented the next Legislature,
HONOLULU The theatrical combine has closed the
Novelty theatre block will be built the site
DR. Sraub says that in his opinion McQuaid is
Bruce Cartwright has sold Brewer Co. the property at the
of Hotel and Union block will be erected there
The Merchants Association will make fight OF
the coaswise law applies to Hawaii ~
Joe Aea formerly secretary the queen, is dead
President Morgan Judge Wilder at oggerhads because
Morgan Wilder address the Chamber of Commerce
the McCrossen bill. sa4ssa. t48af
ed Joe Cohen president and Jack Scuy
American teachers passed through here their
Chinese capital m
Lane in favor of Commission government
attempt will be made today show that McQuaid insane
when he Driver. Experts will be put the stand
Attorney Wilder says that the Wahawa company have
fimfamed the public in their claims rights. ~
Kennedy Inter-Isand returned from the
yesterday where he signed for 1886 600 steamer to- be
delivered in December
HONOLULU 2OA drop refined Of five cents took
place New York yesterday No change in soft
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1911-01-28
Stolen
SW eetS
LabOrers Steal Wine and Brandy and
Have Glorious Spree.

Sometime ago Mr.. Cole, manager
of the Kaupakalua winery, found
that some one was helping himself
to wines and brandies from the
storage watts. He kept look out
for the thief and last Thursday he
found traces of the burglar and
promptly notified the police. Deputy
Sheriff Morton and officer Papoko
hurried over to the winery and pro-
ceeded to investigate
The indications pointed to camp
Of contractor Duggan's lahorers,
located at little distance below the
winery. At the camp the police
found eight laborers having merry
time over few bottles of wine and
brandy. The jewellers invited the
police to take few drinks with
them, but the police put them un-
der arrest, and escorted the crowd
to the district jail. After they had
sobered up the men confessed that
one of their number Kaloa had
furnished them with the drinkables.
However Kaloa stoutly maintained
innocence but was unable to explain
how he came to have the wine and
brandy. He finally admitted of
having taken one bottle of wine and
two bottles of brandy which the
Jewellers were drinking when the
arrest was made. Asked to explain
how he, without buying any liquor
happened to get full off and on at
different time before the arrest, he
claimed to have gotten happy sue
cession of. jags from some Kaupaka-
lua produce purchased by him the
movth before, and that for days
after he had finished the liquor
everytime he'd take big drink OF
water the poetic effects Of a happy
jag would be his!
Tuesday before Judge Goodness
the cases against the jewellers were
dismissed except the charge of burg
larry against Kaloa who was COM
mitted for trial at the March term
Of the Circuit Court before Judge
Kingsbury.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1911-01-28
Old Plantation Man
Dies in London

Tom Kay died in London Tues
day morning.
This sad and unexpected news
will be received with keen regret by
a very large number Of people with
in the Territory, as there was hard
ly plantation man more widely or
favorably known than Tom Kay.
Mr.. Kay was one Of the oldtimers
in the sugar business, having been
the manager Of Kukuihaele and
later of Halawa, in the Kohala dis
tritt./
About five years ago Mr.. Kay
left the active management of the
Halawa plantation and devoted his
time to his financial interests. He
was at the time of his death a
director in the Henry Waterhouse
Trust Co., Ltd. His trip to Lon
don was in connection with a Mexi-
can sugar plantation scheme OF
three million dollars capitalization
that he was floating among British
capitalists.
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Glenn Curtis a Sailor.

DIEGO, 2-Genn Curtis flew the bay here
Yesterday aghte the again. and flew to his
This time aeropane has been the
and been able rise again with its power.
WHEELING West Va Jan. 27The jury in the trial of Mrs
Schneck for poisoning her husband, have disagreed W M
VICTORIA Jan. 27The Tees, wrecked from
20 Vancouver No lives lost.
SEATTLE 27The Cottage City running bewesn
city Alaskan pors wrecked yesterday off Cape Mudse
Passengers and crew saved "
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for the stock, while purchases are
easy at S26. .25-indicate a slight
decline.
OF other stocks, considerable Nc
Bryde has sold at $4, although the
market today appears to be weak /,
as it is being offered at "a. On
Saturday block Of 65 Olaa sold at
s3.S75, and on the street late yes
terday as much as $50 shares sold
at 1915. These sales were report
ed on the board this morning.
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Flight to Havana.

KEY WEST Jan. 25Avaor McCurdy will to fly to Hava
today distance OF 25 miles Four torpedo boats will patrol the
with platforms for the alght that becomes
necessary;
NEW YORK Jan. 25-David Graham Phillips who was shot
yesterday tzhugh Godsboough dead The murderer commit
ted suicide . : (. b .1
YORK 20Paul Morton, president OF the Equitable
Life Insurance Company dropped his home here today from
apopexy