Arizona republican., 1911-04-19

reSDondcucc school idea was orig
mated the men who were unable to
take the big course. took nothing.
Lately they take more through the
mails. than numerous others absorb
in the class rooms, and-a notable
fact-they often do more with their
education than the rah rah boys do
with theirs This owing L. the fact
that they study for a purpose. for
the attainment of a definite object
or ambition This abbreviated essay
on correspondence schools is not out
of place, as Mr.. Hunter No
the Correspondence school, stoppin :
at the Commercial. suggested I, and
perhaps Mr. Hunter would agree with
the above statements. He covers
the entire territory for the Scranton
school, and his report to the effect
that there are a large numbef Of
men taking the course from Arizona
means "a good deal To the person who
understands what a factor general
education,-the practical is the only
variety taught from Scranton-is 60
ing to have in the development Of the
west.
The completion Of the great acque-
duct between Los Angeles and the
Sierra Nevadas says f. Bcardsley
stopping at the Adams Annex. will
prevent the coast city from ever 60
ing dry. For more than year
Beardsley has been out at one of the
big camps along the line of construc-
ton conducting the commissary de
a.. 70 nd
week or two in the Salt river valley
and rest UP. He said: THE new
acqueduct will be a triumph of en-
cheering, and is certain to mean
great things for Los Angeles. More
than three thousand men have been
employed in making it, and when two
more years have gone by 1t VIII be
discharging water into the city mains.
For two years the work has gone on,
and l am glad / have had an oppor-
tunity to follow the engineers through
all the phases of the construction.
The completed acqueduct will be in
the neighborhood of two hundred and
fifty miles in length, fifty miles being
Of open, concrete lined ditch. and the
remainder of covered ditch and tun-
mel team and wagon can be
accommodated in the big water main,
and il will furnish water for Los
Angeles even after the city has grown
to a Million as it may after the Salt
river valley developes to the point
where il viii be impossible to ac-
commodate more settlers The over
flow of Phoenix may help to create
a Greater Los Angeles" and every
one i'm the valley wishes the strug-
Cling coast village prosperity and
happiness. They also wish the same
for Mr. Beardsley, who is a man to
suit the taste of the immortals.
After spending six months or more
at the Stag rooms, James b. Kitch.
special agent of the census bureau
OF Washington. has gathered his ef-
fleets. packed his satchel, and pre-
pared to take wing this afternoon for
part unknown. Let il not be thought
BY those who have seen Mr.. Kitch
holding down a comfortable split bot
tom chair on the sidewalk before the
Stag that his occupation required no
exertion. for he has worked and
worked hard 1t is no easy matter
TO make out the irrigation reports,
and every day of his stay has had
its accompanying labor. Those
who have followed Mr.. Kitch in his
work state that on two occasions he
worked himself into a perspiration.
and that on another day he wrote so
volurniniously in his little book that
~ night he had a slight attack of