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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-02-17
PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY
UPSETS OLD THEORIES
OF PLAINS IRRIGATION

pumped from a well Ia curse o. de-
yeiopment was thoroughly dried AL
saturated with water. Sixteen ouI a.
OF saad absorbs e. ounces OF water
Using this as a basis AMI cuttin
down 10 per cent on por1sity. which
Is conservative. We find a solid body
on water more than go feet in depth
underlyln gthe Hereford country
Developed pumping plants and test
holes prove an area OF $4,000 acres
Of land with water a. less than 50
feet, and a total area OF 100000
acres within the economical pumping
limit with t2.Oe0. 600 acre feet Of
water available through pumps. Ana
lysls of this water made Ly the iou
ton la|boratorics slows 26a grains
of soluble salts iu one eallon-lesi
than l--O of. ! Per cent. The purity
and temperature OF the water could
not bc improved for irrigdting pure
poses the temperature being 90 dc
srocs The year round 10 has the
/ ADVANTAGE over storage waters in
that Il Is perfectly clear, contains no
300 and never too cola Tor plant hl"
with such excellent water couiI
tiong q SOL marvclously rich and aIl
lready for irrir1tion without clear
ne. %gru5lins OF le,oling this coun-
try simply must develop under lyrI-
cation on q tremendous scale The
individual pumping plant q ODDS
many Of he complications OF very
successful gravity systems Of lrriga-
non. q eliminates the big cana,
with ats enormous loss OF water
through scepage and evaporation.
cuts out TIE up-koep OF these carllg
ana settles forever disputes over
water rights
Each farmer Is bis own irrigation
company using the water when be
p%lcases and as much as he pleascs
Indeed the individual pumping plant
delivering ch'dp water into the ditch
has peon con .cded by able engineers
% be- ;he idea soIrCc 90 water supply
And when ch.op water IS mentioned
1t is surprising how Cheapiy wafer
can he pumped with modern pump-
INK equipment. The gasoline engine
taking the place of steam has been
entirely oJt- iasscu by the oil enc
zine operating Du very cheap heavy
liquid t.cla maxine the cost OF water
surprisingly low. The oil engine au'
mo- lcm centrifugal pump makes ,le
lifting OF water Vp 90 1000 feet . maj.
ter Cf small consequence. With f1c.
40 it, pr'sen; p!ico cents .cr
gallo. Uatcr IS being lifted O.. feet
TO; less than 81 an acre foot.
1h, shallow water belts o., the
Texas llnnan lie when fully develop.
"a wil. out-y.eld the famous Vale,
r the Milo, and the idea enormously
advanced with GOOD Intentions hy
hotn Governments and other writers
that irrigation possibilities o. this
country are limited TO small farms
Inl q limited acscalc must give way
to known facts governing orr CON.
ItlDus
The eIoHHI Matters of This Stake,
plains .o.uru .r. n0 .nb uI.sifui,
DAT tuyt .. l1 'or.. f.. pro.
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Special 10 nails News
Hereford. Tex. Feb. l7-While a
great deal has been published con-
cernins the ground waters OF the
Staked Plains country Of Texas. the
information gathered has not been
such as to give specific information as
to tie feasibility OF adapting this
water supply 10 extensive irrigation.
This article deals strictly with the
shallow water belt of the Hereford
country. Deaf Smith county. Witch
is no doubt similar to other shallow
water districts OF the Texas Pam
handle. The data herein stated has
been compiled from photographs
Surveys. tho drilling Of test holes
deep into tho water sands. aad the
successftl development OF large IT.
rigation wells producing water s1ir-
Client 20 i|rri-ate rs much as 3-1 acres
OF lard.
A careful survey OF the water
plano shows @ movement of the Natcr
south and east with a slope averag-
ing o. feet % the mile This means
a movement of the water throuea
the sands in a snutheas;erly direction
Of oppr0siml.ely two feet % twenty
forr hours. ana strongly indicates
thai me primary source Of tho water
IS the rains and melting how OF
the mountains % the northwest
This idea IS original with Mr.. r. +
Fuller Of he L. 5. Reclamation Ser
vice who has made extensive lryesii-
cations In this part OF Texas. and 4
confirmed by Mr.. ". L Rockwell, m
charge ~ Irrigation investigations IN
Texas fer the Federal government
The log Of the first big well ln-
stalled iu this part Of Texas shows o
feet a. sandy loan. 2 feet OF docom-
posed lime rock. at which depth. 2S
feet. was was struck. A test hole
was drilled ISIS feet in solid water
bearing formation varying from very
fine sand Co moderately coarse sand
This well was finished a. l05 feet
with 60 feet Of screen In the best
formation auc delivers 3 inches OF
water over a - inch vier. or 500
gallons per minute. u
IN The next well water Was struck
at a. feet The Tor shows "a fee, Of
porous honey comb rock water
bearing SIS feet q wafer hearlnc
sand % feet of mporvlcJs clay and
90 feet of water bearing sand total
watc- hearing formation 1872 feet On
a hole l5a feet 1ccp. one hundred
feet of screen we're used In this we'll
and t'a pump delivers 3 inches over
a vi u,h vier ll75 gallons per
minute About oro-half mile north
OF this wen is another iar.e PUMPING
plant producing about the same
stream of water and jhc log o. ,hi.
we'll shows POS feet If water bear
Inc sand. \ test hole drilled -four
miles cast OF these wells shows aloI'
,hc same foglation hrt at la, Fee.
a rr1ycI bed was fouuC 'hc frs.
and ,uly gravel vc have ever ouDouu.
tered IN flIco largo wells recently
drilled iha Imr imn.use deposit p.
wa'.. .H. snl was f1Hri Hu|
Oh. I. fr.' ...u ono .h I1 Ifr.
uI Doom. OF water per MIN.
20
f..t. r.r uI. fhs two va'I. mon.
10. ... located inst ono.
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49,
81 Paso, and is Published for the.
benefit Of his candidacy. as Wei a.
information for the voters
FL Paso. Tex. Feb. -. ifl'
Dear -
As per vour request have res,r'
ed a room, for gou at the convention.
While down IN town ! met Arthur
Mcknight and Ernest Thompson and
ENJOYED being with them very much.
There Is no place like Amarillo and
no people Just ike Amarillo people.
and II does O fellow good whea he
Is away from home 10 meet them
understand that some talk be-
lnc made in regard 10 my caud gcl
about me not teing on !he Fl, 1d
now. aud that sam2 is being sol
AGAINST me. nc set the min az
Test of those so deeply reeret m de-
/ plorabie absence az this tim. ]
wish 20 state that / shall. retur lee
fore ions. ana during the s1rins
carly summer ] hope - sac o..rr
voter in person ma discuss my 1n
ulug for Office.
Beyond %, fact that the pr 0ur
toruty assessor 1y or one5l has
Iio'I the office f1,t Yeats, tFo, 30
10 have nothing aea,H-t him; l
am OF The opinion that tho Domc.ro'-
ic rule and objection 20 a third term
Is going 20 prevail In this case mn
am competent % Give the county as
good service
The Fl Paso neople are maxim.
sreat preparations TO entertain the
convention in March. | understand
Roswell Is going TO mt up a s.ron-
fight for the convention next year.
We Amari 10 people want to get busy
u there is Anything ! can do n tbs
end OF the line let me know.
ThaEking you for the interest exc
PRESSED IN my campaign, ard ho.u
'o sec YOU soon. ! an,
Your nierd,
GEO s WILLIAMS.
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Bloomfield, y. j, Feb. 49, Su--
,.t nled o.. nan crog. relatives and
trends, Nj. and Mrs. William slim
S residents of bloomfield for nearly
tllt a century. t.day celebrated thei.
.iVt-third Wndd.r l anniversary.
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Streets are likely Go be impossible
10 teams in a short time. Good idea
to order your coal now. Kenyon Grain
4 Coal Co., phone rs. J5-tic
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-02-17

Red Rust proof oats ana Sc. ,aska
Magsrlui seed wheat 40 star Mil.
$50.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-02-17
LETTER To VOTERS
BY GEORGE WILLIAMS

The following was received from,
Ge0ree Williams. who writes floni
81 Paso. and is Published for the
benefit Of his candidacy. as we,l a.
information for the voters.
FL Paso. Tex. Feb. -, IT,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-24
CHAPTER Discontinued.

But Dan hesitated, looking at the
bit of humanity that he had laid with
great gentleness on the divan covered
with pillows. Lefty Lane lay there.
small as a little child, inanimate as
death. II was hard to think the quiet
little form could contain such life,
fire and motion, or that this senseless
little creature held London with her
voice and grace. Higgins knelt down
by Lefty Lanes side, quiet, capable,
going about the business Of resuscitat-
ing her lady much as she laced the
singers bodice and shoes. IF you
would be so good as to open the door,
sir, and send me a call page. They'll
have to linger out this entr'acte or put
on some feature"
But" exclaimed Blair, she can't
90 back tonight"
Lord, yes," Higgins returned.
Here, Miss Lane; drink this"
At the door where he paused, Dan
saw the girl lifted up, saw her lean
on Higgins shoulder, and assured
then that she was not lifeless in good
truth, he went out to do as Higgins
had asked him. In a quarter OF an
hour the curtain rose and within half
an hour Dan. from his box, saw the
actress dance to the rajah her charm
ing polka to the strains of the Hun
Rarian Band.
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HEALTH FOR THE CHILD.

The careful mother, watching close
~ the physical peculiarities Of her
children, soon learns that health is in
a great measure dependent upon nor
NAL. healthy, regular bowel action.
When the bowels are inactive, loss of
appetite, restlessness during sleep, ir-
ritability and dozen and one similar
evidences of physical disorder are soon
apparent.
Keep the bowels free and clear and
good health Is assured. At the first
sign of constipation give the child e
teaspoonful of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin at bedtime and repeat the
dose the following night, If necessary.
You will find the child will quickly re-
cover its accustomed good spirits, and
eat and sleep normally.
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is far
preferable to salts, cathartics and
purgative waters which are harsh in
their action. Syrup Pepsin acts on
the bowels easily and naturally, yet
positively, and causes no gripping or
discomfort. It's tonic properties build
up the stomach. liver and bowels, re-
storing their normal condition.
Druggists everywhere sell DR.. Cald.
wells Syrup Pepsin in SOC and $1.00
bottles. If you haze never tried this
remedy, send for sample to DR.. w
B. Caldwell, 201 Washington ST.. Mon.
ticello, Ill. He will gladly send a
trial bottle without any expense to
you whatever
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M Marc WanWorst.
ILLUSTRATIONS Iy n.G.NTNER

hands, and how, no doubt, she had
been lying In her room when he called
today, with shades drawn, resting be-
fore the long hard evening, when Lon
don would be amused by her, delight
ed by her, charmed by her voice. by
her body and her grace. He had
wandered up as far as Piccadilly,
went into florists and stood before
the flowers. Her sitting-room had been
full of roses, but Dan chose some
thing else that had caught his eye
from the Window huge country bas-
ket of primroses, smelling of the earth
and the spring. He sent them with
his card and wrote on 1t, ITO the Girl
from Ny Town." and sent the gift
with pleasure as young and as fresh
as was his own heart.
He got no note of acknowledgment
from his flowers. Miss Lane was evil
IDENTIFY better and played every night;
no mention was made of her indispo-
sition in the papers. But Dan couldn't
go to the Gaiety or bear to see her
make the effort which he knew must
tire her beyond words to conceive.
After few days he called at the
Savoy to get news Of her. He got as
far as the lift when going up in it he
saw Prince Poniotowsky. The sight
affected Miss Lanes townsmaa so for
chilly that instead of going up to the
dancers apartment Dan took himself
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off, and anger. displeasure and some
thing like disgust were the only SEN
timents he carried away from the Sa-
voy. He sent her no flowers. and gave
himself up unreseryedly to Joshua
Ruggles and to couple of men who
came in to see him by appointment.
And when toward four o'clock he found
himself alone with Ruggles. Dan
threw himself down in big chair and
looked intensely bored.
Well. / guess We don't need to see
any more of these fellows for a week.
Dan." Ruggles yawned with relief.
I'm blamed II 1t isn't as hard to take
care Of money as to get 1t. ! was q
poor man once. and SO was your ia
Their. Those We're the days we had
fun"
Ruggles took out a big cigar, struck
a match sharply, and when he had lit
his Henry Clay he fixed his gaze on
the flying London fog. whose black
curtain drew itself across their win
dow.
There's a lot Of excitement" Rug
giles said. 'in not knowing what you're
going to get: may turn out to be any.
thing when you're young and on the
trail. That's the way your father and
me felt. And when we started out on
the spot that's Blairtown on the map
today, your father had forty dollars
week to engineer a busted mine and
to pull the company into shape"
Dan knew the story of his fathers
rise by heart, but he listened.
He took on with the mine a lot of
disconnected haf-hearted rapscallions
"a whole bunch who mad failed all
along the line. He didn't chuck 'em
out. There's no life in old wood,
JOSH he said to me, but sometimes
there's fire in it. and I'm going To light
up and he did. He won over the
whole lot OF them In eighteen months.
and within two years he had that
darned mine paying dividends. Mean
while something came his way and he
took It."
From his chair Dan askedf You
mean the Bentley claim"
Measles" his friend said comically,
with a grin. Your father was sick
to death with them. When he was sit
ting up for the first time. peeling in
his room, there was a fellow, an Eng.
lishman. q total stranger. come In to
see him. Better clear out Of here.
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ARE AS UNNAMED AS EVER
French Students Have Not Changed
In Spirit, Though Less Pietur.
esque Than Formerly.

One might almost say that there ID
one interchangeable feature OF Paris and
tina. is its students. II Is true the
students are not now quite SO pictur
esque as In the days of Henri Murger.
but undoubtedly their spirits are the
same-they ara still as untamed and
riotous. The disturbances that have
taken place recently have arisen sim
ply because the students for the bae-
calaureate on the classical side discov.
cred that the paper IN Latin set them
was intensely difficult. while the pa
per in Latin set before their rivals on
the modern languages side vas veT>
easy. Hence shoutings, paradipg OF
the streets, demonstrations, stone
throwing and window breaking. con
squeezing End all the other sariout
manifestations of the turbulent and
dissatisfied student
The class rooms have been held By
policemen and the students have had
several times to be slmmarily elected,
although on more than one occasion
they burst open the doors and forced
their way IN again. The most comical
feature OF the whole business was to
see and hear large procession OF
demonstrating students singing alons
the boulevards In a monotonous drons
the very passage from Cicero which
had brought about their downfall
while their modern languages Ca
leagues sailed easily into port n E
passage from julius Casssa
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Jewels In a Flower Bed.

The recovery of quantity of stolen
jewelry from fiower-bed was de
scribed at Kingston-onT Thames police
court the other day, when general
servant was charged with theft from
her mistress, resident of Ivydene
scarborough road, Surbiton, London
The lady had missed pearl pin and
a pearl and diamond ring. Thinking
she might have lost the jewels in the
street, she issued printed notices of
fering a reward for their recovery
When she lost a number of Other
things she placed the matter in the
hands Of the police. The detective
said tn, from what the prisoner told
him he searched the garden. and IL
one Of the flower beds found some o.
the jewelry. The rest he found ir
the prisoner'c bedroom.
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your fathcr says to him. Tn she'd
ding the damnedest disease for .
grown man that ever was caught
I'm not afraid Of it. the Englishman
said, I'm shedding worse When
your father asked him what that was.
he said the idea that he could make
any money in the West. He told your
father that he was going back to Eng
land and give up his western schemes,
and that he had claim to sell, and
he told Blair where 1t lay. Who has
seen It? your father asked. Amy OF
my men! And the Englishman told
your father that nobody had wanted
to buy 1t and that was why he had
come to him. He said he thought his
only chance to sell was to hold up
some blind man on his dying bed and
that he had heard that Blair was too
sick to stir out of his room and to
prospect. Your father liked the fell
lows cheek, and when ne found out
that he had the maps with him. your
father bought the whole blooming
sweep at the mans price. which was a
mere song.
your father never went near his
purchase for a year or more, and
when he had turned the mine he was
managing over to the original COM
pany, with me as manager in his
place, at a salary of twenty thousand
dollars a year, he said to me one day,
'Ruggles. you'll be sorry to know that
the fun is all over, I've struck OIL But
the oil was copper. The whole bloom
ing business that he'd bought Of that
Englishman was rich with ore. Well,
that's the story of Blairtown," Rug
giles said. You were born there and
your mother died there"
Dan said: "Galorey told me what
dad did later for the man that sold
him the mine, and it was just like
everything else he did, for dad was all
right, Just as good as they come
Ruggles agreed. He left his rem
iniscences abruptly. Your dad and
me had the fun in our time; now you
are going to get the other kind; you're
going to make the dust fly that he
dug up"
And the rich young man said mus
ingly: "I'l bet it isn't half as good q,
my end"
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His XeracitY.

Jim Slocum of Montgomery county,
AYERS the Kansas City Journal, was
called as witness to impeach the tes-
.imony of man in that county. Jim
was asked IL he was acquainted with
the reputation of the witness for truth
and veracity. Jim said that Re guessed
maybe he was.
Is it good or bad."
Well" said Jim, Il don't want to
DO the man no injustice, but ! will
say that il his neighbors were 20 see
aim looking as il he was dead they
would want some corroboratin' evil
dence before they would be willing TO
bury him"
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And Ruggies agreed: Not by rug
full" And followed: What's on to
night! "Mandalay?"
Dams fury at Prince Poniotowsk.
came back. Il guess you thought
was little loose in the lid, didn't
you, Josh, going so often to the sans
play?"
You wouldn't have been the first
rich man that had the same disease. a
Ruggles answered.
There Is nothing the matter with
'Mandalay,' but I'm not gone on any
actress living, Josh; you are In the
wrong pew"
(TO BE CONTINUED
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SYNOPSIS.

Dan Blair the o-year-old son of the
nifty million-d dollar copper king of Blair
town, Mont. is guest at the English
home of Lady Galorey. Dams father had
been courteous TO Lord Galorey during
his visit to the United States and the
courtesy is now being returned to the
young man. The youth has an ideal girl
I'm his mind. He meets Lily, Duchess OF
Breakwater beautiful widow, who Is
attracted by his immense fortune and
takes a liking to her. When Dan was a
boy. a girl sang a solo at a church. and
he had never forgotten her. The Ga
loreys. Lily and Dan attend London
thester where one Lefty Lane Is the star.
Dan recognizes her as the girl from his
town. and going behind the scenes intro
duces himself and she remembers him
He learns that Prince Poniotowsky Is
sutton and escort to Lefty. Lord Ca
lorey and a friend named Ruggles deter
mine TO protect the westerner from Lily
and other fortune hunters. Young Blair
goes to see Lily; he can talk of nothing
but Lefty and this angers the Duchess
The westerner finds Lefty Ill from hard
work.
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CHAPTER X.
The Boy From My Town.

He went the next day to see Lefty
Lane at the Savoy and learned that
she-was too I'll to receive him. Mrs.
Higgins in the sitting-room told him
30.
Dan liked the big cordial face of
the Scotchwoman who acted as COM
panion, dresser and maid for the star.
Mrs. Higgins had an affable face, one
that welcomes, and she made 1t plain
that she was not an enemy to this
young caller.
The visitor, In his blue serge
clothes, was less startling than most
of the men that came to see her mis-
tress.
She works too hard, doesn't she?''
"She does everything too hard. sir. i"
"She ought to rest"
81 doubt If she does, even In her
grave" returned Higgins. she is too
full Of motion. She is like the little
girl In the fairy book that danced In
her grave"
Dan didn't like this comparison.
Cant you make her hold up lit
tle?"
Higgins smiled and shook her head.
Lefty Lanes sitting-room was as
full of roses as a flower garden. There
were quantities of theatrical photo
graphs in silver and leather frames
on the tables and the piano. Signed
portraits from crowned heads; pic
lures Of well-known worldly men and
u,h h.
But full-length picture of Lefty Lane
herself in one of the dresses of Man
dalay" lay on the table near Dan. and
he picked II up. She smiled at him
enchantingly- from the cardboard,
across which was written in her big,
dashing hand: For the Boy from my
Town. Lefty Lane"
Dan glanced up at Mrs. Higgins.
why. that .ooks as though this
were for me-"
The dressing woman nodded Miss
Lane thought she would be able to
see you today"
The picture in his hand, Dan gazed
at 1t rapturously.
I'm from Blairtown, Montana,
wner6 Sne came from.
$50 she told me, SIR"
He laid the picture back on the
table. and Higgins understood that he
wanted Miss Lane to give IL to him
herself. She led him affably to the
door and affably smiled upon him
She had q frill in her hand. thin.
BILE on her finger, and lot of needles
in her bodice. She looked mntherly
and useful. Blair liked to think OF
her with Lefty Lane. He put his hand
in his pocket, but she saw his gesture
and reproved him quietly: mo. no.
sir, please. never do / am Just as
much obliged" and her face remained
so affable that Blair was not en-
barrassed by her refusal. His parting
words We're:
Now, you make her take care OF
herself"
And to please him. as she opened
the door. she pleasantly assured him
that she would do her very best
Dan went out OF the Savoy feeling
that he had left something of himself
behind him in the motley room of an
actress with its perfumed atmosphere
of roses and violets. The photograph
which he had laid down on the table
seemed to look out at him again, and
he repeated deiightedly. That one
was for me. all right! I'm the boy
from her town and no mistake" And
he thought of her as she had lain
hfelessly and pale on the dressing
Feeu sofa. under ths touch Of hired
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Irrelevant Reasons.

Why is Jones making his girl take
music lessons? She'll never learn IL
she practices for million years"
Jones says he knows she has no
talent, and he can i'll afford the ex-
peuse, but that he hates the people SO
on the next floor"
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Business Excuse.

why did you steal this young lady's
chatelaine watch?' asked the magis-
trate, severely.
From quite usual motive" replied
the thief Il had been very busy
and only wanted to take little time
on
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-24
The Real Cause,

The temperance orator was waxing
eloquent.
What" he demanded, what causes
more misery than liquor?"
Thirst" responded husky voice
from the rear of the hall.