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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-08
CLEVER TRICK WITH FIGURES
Method Of Telling Which Hand Apple
or Other Object Is Held In Be-
hind Ones Back.

(which hand?" is a common way of
allotting apples or tasks, when the
hands are held behind, and the choice
is made by calling either the right or
left. By an arithmetical trick you can
do away with chance and secure the
object you desire
Tell your friend to call the desired
object three and the other one four.
Then tell him to multiply the number
of the object held concealed In the
right hand by three and the one in the
left hand by two. When he has Sc
cured this result, ask him to add the
two results together and tell you
whether the sum is an odd or an even
number. II 1t be an odd one, the de-
sired object will be In the right hand,
II an even number, in the left hand
The American Boy.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-08

from the east bank of the Rio Grande
to height Of five hundred feet above
the river and is SO named on account
of the remarkable resemblance to an
elephants head From this butte the
dam takes its name.
"In August, 1908, Topographic sur
vey was begun at Selden and extended
down the river, covering the irrigable
area in the Mesilla valley to Ell Paso.
In 1904 these surveys were extended
to cover the Ell Paso valley to dis
lance of forty miles below Ell Paso.
Behring'S were also made at the same
time on the site of the Leasburg dam
to determine the character Of the ma
terial.
"As a result of the surveys and In
designations in 1903 and 1904 at the
Elephant Butte site. it WAS decided
upon as being superior to any other
site on The river for the storage or
water for both the Mesilla and the Ell
Paso valleys.
Under the reclamation act, the cost
of the project is to be repaid to the
United States by the water users bene-
flied, but in this case 1t was evident
that the American water users should
not be required to pay for that portion
of the project constructed to satisfy
the obligations Of the United States
in supplying water to Mexico. Ac-
cordingly. in 1907 congress appropriate
cd $1.000,OO0 to- be, expended under
the direction of the secretary OF the
interior toward the construction o.
the Elephant Butte DAM"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-08

white as though powdered for several
days, after which It takes on a shade
varying from warm red to tawny yell
low. There are two reasons for this
custom; 1t is the fashion and 1t keeps
the hair free from tiny creatures not
to be mentioned in polite society. Oil
is also rubbed into the hair and when
the barbering has been completed the
heavy locks stick out from the head
In all directions, looking like a great
red or yellow aureole.
How the Natives Dress.
On ordinary occasions the Ffjians Of
both sexes dress lightly. On certain
ceremonial occasions, however. rolls Of
cloth many yards long are wrapped
around the body until walking is made
difficult. Cloth obtained from the
white people is made use Of somewhat.
but the natives make a durable cloth
from the inner bark Of trees, which is
hammered thin and often dyed. Some
times the only clothing consists of a
fringe of leaves and the children wear
nothing at all. ---> '----------
The chief business of Fiji is sugar
growing and there are thousands of
acres in sugar plantations, but the
work is under the supervision of white
men and the actual labor is performed
by coolies. 1t is difficult to get the
Ffjians to work hard or for more than
few days at time. They live in a
very simple fashion and have few
wants. The houses are made Of
thatch. are rather high posted for the
sake Of GOODNESS and contain q single
room. There are no beds nor chairs.
but great piles Of mats on which the
G15ians sit and sleep.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-08

I This dam was the first work construct.
ed by the reclamation service on the
Rio Grande project, The Mesilla diver.
sion dam is located near Mesilla Park,
New Mexico about the middle of the
Mesilla valley, and furnishes water to
lands on both sides of the river in
the lower part of the Mesilla valley.
This dam has just been completed.
The Mexican dam is located at the
upper end of the Ell Paso valley just
above the city of Ell Paso, Tex. This
dam was constructed a number of
years ago by the Mexicans and serves
to divert water both to the lands on
the American side in the Ell Paso val
ley and to lands under the Acequia
Madre ON the Mexican side. From
these diversion dams several canal
systems are built.
Aboriglnes Used Irrigation.
Before the middle of the sixteenth
century the Spanish explorers entered
the valley of the Rio Grande and found
in these valley Pueblo Indians cultivat-
ing the land and irrigating it by means
of acequias from the river, some of
which are still in use. How long
these Indians had been on the ground
is unknown, but even at that time
they were considered old inhabitants
and raised not only grain and fruits
but even flowers. The descendants of
these Indians and the Spaniards have
continued to cultivate portions of
these valleys up to the present without
much change in methods.
while the Spaniards first entered
the valley from Sonora and the Gulf
of California, the first attempts at
colonization were made from Ell Paso
as base, the Spanish conquest of
Mexico having extended by that time
to the Rio Grande. In 1000, Paso del
Norte (now called Juarez) was an i'm.
portant town, and records are in exist
ence nearly three hundred years old
which refer to the Acequia Madre Of
Paso del Norte as being then in use.
"The present acequias in the Mesilla
valley have been in use for about six
ty years, but there are evidences Of
older canals that have been aban-
| doned
| 10 an Extinct Volcano.
"The reclamation service began in
vestigations on the Rio Grande March
1, 1903, considering especially the dam
site at Elephant Butte. Elephant
Butte is an extinct volcano arising
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-08

lizards all began to crawl about in
twos, threes and tours, which is their
way of dancing. Suddenly they missed
the little fairies. --H-r"+
But just at that moment back
came the fairies in a beautiful airboat,
Just exactly like rainbow, and
through the raindrops Mr.. Sun peeped
In too.
Then the little lizards were the
happiest creatures you can imagine,
and as for Mr.. Lizard, who was cele-
brating his birthday, his Joy was be-
yond all description. He even made
q speech to all his guests and to his
surprise guests the rainbow and Mr..
Sun.
Everyone was very happy and the
snails were so glad they had been told
to come ahead Of time so they wouldn't
miss anything"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-08

More than one sailor whose ship has
touched at Suva, the principal seaport
of Fiji, has had very peculiar expert
ence. On going ashore he has quite
naturally INDUCED in the beverage OF
the islands, a drink called yangona
and sometimes kava. When he has
endeavored to return to his ship lit
tie later, he has found to. his immeasur-
able surprise that he has no command
of his legs. His brain is as clear as
it ever was. He Is Ia mental con-
dition to talk nationally on any sub
ject, but he cannot walk. That is the
way yangona acts. 1t is said that one
Englishman was found after nightfall
with his head buried in thick shrub
by the side of the road and Justify call
ing for help. He was perfectly con-
scious Of his unpleasant predicament
but was unable to move. Immense
quantities of yangona are consumed by
the natives. Few white people like
the taste at first, but it is considered
refreshing on hot day and it is so
pleasantly stimulating that many Euro
peans in Fiji drink 1t habitually.
Making Yangona.
Yangona Is brewed on all festal oc-
casions as matter of course. A great
wooden bowl with four legs is used for
the purpose. Usually it is beautifully
polished from long usage and has a
purple bloom like that of the grape.
the yangona root, which comes from q
plant growing freely all over the is
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-08
EVENING
kEAIR TALE 81
MR.. LIZARDS BIRTHDAY PARTY.
BY MARY GRAHAM BONNER

at was Mr.. Lizards birthday, and
he was to have birthday party. They
had all been invited. All the other
lizards, the nevis and the snails.
And, perhaps, the very best of all, the
fairies had been invited, for they are
great friends of Mr.. Lizard and his
family.
They had invited the snails to
come at ten o'clock in the morning,
and all the rest of the guests to come
at three in the Afternoon. For, you
see, they knew that the snails would
take so long to get ready and crawl
to the party that they would invite
them ahead of time. They told the
other guests to explain to the snails
the little trick they were playing on
them.
$50, Just at three every single guest
arrived.
What, are we on timer asked one
of the snails.
"'No,' laughed Mr.. Lizard, you're
Just five hours late. But you see we
really wanted you and we knew that
was the only way to get you here by
three o'clock
"The snails all laughed, for after all,
though it was certainly not much of a
compliment to their power of being on
time, still it showed the lizards wanted
them.
1T was a splendid party. They had
races and dances and games. But best
of all was the supper. It consisted of
moss-green ice cream, silver spring
water, evergreen salad, and buttercup
soup. They ate it all backwards for
the lizards are not at all fussy about
manners you know-so they started
with ice cream and ended off with
soup!
But best of all they had a cake, and
oh, wasn't Mr.. Lizard happy! 1t was
brought in on a chariot which was
drawn by four little lizards and it was
made of all the delicacies Of the woods
and had four sprigs Of vine hung from
little sticks which meant that Mr.. Liz
ard was four months old!
"They begin birthday parties when
they are very young in the Lizard
world, and you would have laughed
had you heard Mr.. Lizard say to the
little lizards who were still younger:
Hurry up and invite the raindrops
to come for the birthday cake for they
keep me young and am growing old
SO quickly!'
Down fell the little raindrops then
and as they dropped very softly the
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-08

lands, is brought in when all Is ready
and publicly scraped and cleaned.
Then 1t is cut into small pieces and
grated into the great bowl. In olden
times 1t was customary to have the
root prepared by chewing rather than
by grating. Several young men or
pretty girls were given pieces Of the
root and hidden chew them until large
Jumps Of white fiber had been obtained.
The operation required some time and
the chewers frequently washed out
their mouths with fresh water. 1t is
contended even yet by many people in
Fiji that yangona prepared by the
chewing process Is much preferable
to that obtained by grating. 80 far as
the flavor is concerned.
The second process Is adding the
water, which Is poured over the roots
in the bowl, after which 1t ia wrung
out through a piece of HIBISCUS fiber,
which. is like fine netting. The yellow
-ish fluid which is thus produced tastes
like rhubarb and magnesia.
=. In spite -af the fact that they follow
the practices of the Christian church,
some being Methodists. some Advent
lists and some Catholics, many of the
old-time rites are still persisted in.
Perhaps the most interesting as well
as the most remarkable is that found
on the island Of Beqa, one Of the Fiji
group, where the natives walk bare
footed on stones so hot that they glow.
Although the statement was long ques-
toned. the fact has boen established
that there is no jugglery about this
rite. although nobody can explain why
the feet Of the firewalkers. as they are
called, are not terribly burned.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-08

i" HE SHRILL whistle of the en-
CINE at the power plant at Ele-
plant, New Mexico, echoed and
re-echoed down the canyon on
a recent afternoon at four o'clock.
While the same whistle had made
similar music innumerable times be-
fore during the last five years, it's toot-
ing that day had peculiar significance.
1t gave vociferous and prolonged no
tice that the last bucket of cement had
Just been placed in it's proper niche in
the parapet wall and the greatest
storage dam in the world had been
finished. tsU
In two important essentials the Ele-
plant Butte dam ranks all other con-
crete masonry storage dams Of the
American reclamation service, viz,
cubical contents and capacity of res
ervoir. In the latter particular it ranks
every other irrigation dam in the
world When the floods of the Rio
Grande begin to drip ever the spill
ways, the Elephant Butte reservoir
will contain two-thirds more water
than the combined storage of all the
reservoirs for Boston and New York.
There will be more water by one-third
than is impounded by the 100000
Assuan dam in Egypt. Spread out,
the Elephant Butte storage would
cover Delaware more than two feet
deep. Confined in a pipe four feet in
diameter, it would encircle the globe
seventy times. Expressed in layman's
measure, it will hold 865 billion gal
Ions. ll.i
The material in the dam If placed on
a city lot rs by 125 would make
solid block of concrete lacking only
80 feet Of being a mile high. Its
weight is more than 100000 tons.
Transported by rail, it would require
22,906 of the largest freight cars or a
train PIT miles long.
In the dam are twelve openings or
passages, six for future power devel-
opment, four for delivery or irrigation
water, and two for sluicing purposes.
Retaining an Empire.
The Elephant Butte dam, while the
largest, is only one of the numerous
structures contemplated for the recla-
nation of the fertile empire which
lies below it in New Mexico and Texas.
Ora McDermith, the irrigation man.
ager, thus tells about 1t:
THE Rio Grande project lies in the
valley of the Rio Grande between San
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-07-08
In Defense Of the Toothbrush.

OcICnS0 " tVO t0okU6tNsHs
Dr.. T. Benedict Furniss defends
the toothbrush. in Oral Hygiene"
from the attacks recently made upon
It by DR.. Bernard Feldman. Until its
enemies devise sonnet bipgs better. he
says. it viii not help .1attes 70 throw
out the best thing for cleaning the
teeth that we know anything about.
''It must be remembered that the
tooth bristles, bathed and saturated SO
frequently with tooth paste ingredi.
ents more or less antiseptic. furnish
anything but happy abiding for
germ pests. no matter how vital and
resistant they may be. So that II we
merely hang the toothbrush some.
where in the sunshine after each wash.
ting of the mouth and teeth and buy q
new brush at decent intervals, we
need not get worrying about virulent
bacteria"