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Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-23
Twenty Years of Conflict With
and Triumph Over Difficulties

rock that had rolled to spot where 1t
was not doing service, dropping 1t into
a car to be taken and dnmped at some
spot il was sure to be needed ana
might even prove to be the one rock
that would turn the flood, for the
time may come when success or failure
NAV be decided by one sack Of sand,
one rock or shovelfull of dirt.
Finally now, this article will have
failed to Justify itself unless it devel-
ops the fact that the big thing about
the Pescadero, cut episode is the bacla'
ground The only enduring phase OF
what is being done, even though it tte
a modification of the map of con-
tinent, is not now in physical evidence
at all The background of PcscadeEo
is Boulder dam. All of the Pcscaderb
cut operations are mere cXpcdlents.
They are poltices applied to the pains
of the moment. They constitute q
trea tment of symptoms and do not READ
" touch the first cause of the dis
ease. !
The place to stop u flood Is at IFS
source. Carbcrry is merely holding hts
finger over the hole There is no pos
sible way to get through with this Col
orado river situation except to con
struct an adequate impounding dam,
save the water that wastes and DE
stroys, and then at another seasdf,
use the water that saves and stith
ulates the soil into production. ];
Pictures Tell Story i
Accompanying the writer to PesGn
dero cut was one who has the visiun
of taking the Colorado river, the Pcs
cadcro cut and in fact the entire Inl-
perial valley back to Washington as an
object lesson to congress and to help
eastern statesmen to visualize what is
involved i'll the great question which
is to come before congress for de-
termination.
Yes, let us mention his name too. ..
j. Renfrew is the man. He has con
ceived the idea of making a moving
picture of the works of Carberry and
of his whole line of predecessors back
to the immortal lockwood, and exhib-
iting it to those who cannot come here
destiny of this empire in the hollow 4of
their hands, or perhaps better to say
the hollow of their understanding.
In the months to come, the story
which is here told imperfectly will be
set out so that he who runs may see.
And having seen, it is the hope of "a
people who have dared all things, sac
rificed all things, that those who see
will know,-and DO.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-23

thot thc Colorado would find way
THROUGH the, soft, slushy leVecs ana
onain create the situation which exist
cd in 1907. The retarded velocity OF
fine river caused the silt to precipltate,
raising the bed of the river and OF VOL
cano Lake at the rate Of a foot OF
more per year until the leVees were
attaining impossible heights and IN
creasing the engineering problems III
geometric proportion
New Attack ON River
A wear ago it was decided to take
advantage of Il situation which had
long been known, and discussed IN an
academic way without materlallzlng
into any definite plan to make practl-
cal use of it. The situation referred to
is this:
At point about midway between
the course of the Colorado prior to the
break in 1906 and Volcano lake there
is u sharp drop off of the ground
toward the south. The low land to
the southwark is separated from the
present or Bee river course of the Col
orado toward Volcano lake by cone
or spur of high land approximately
IOul nlllCS dttbSNs bul uIoN'ii'iiiAS7 u
rapidlv to the south. This ridge IS
the crest of natural divide to the
south of which the grade of the land is
toward the Gulf of California with no
tendency to turn back toward the
Salton sea. 1t follows, therefore, that
if the river could be conducted through
this cone and into the low land below
it, a. permanent solution would be
found for the problem of maintaining
the Volcano lake levee system ut Il
point where the river makes its own
terms and fortunes have been spent
in laborious effort to accomplish in Il
difficult, almost impossible way, that
which would thereafter take care of
itself naturally.
In engineering terms, the story of
what is being done at Pescadero is
prosaic enough. 1t is a matter of driv
ing piles and dumping rock. The pre-
else account is spoken in cubic yards
and in feet per second; but the tre
mcndous stake, the hazards of the bat
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-23

tie and the swiftly changing conditions
under which the fight must be waged
make it an event of dramatic inter
est, even to the casual observer; and
to those whose fortunes and whose fu
ture are involved in the developments
of the next few weeks the operations
along the Colorado become a matter of
breathless and soul stirring concern.
The Man on the Job
The writer has sought to make this
account of Pescadero cut events entire
lv impersonal, mentioning not men, but
only agencies and accomplishments,
.Adhering to that theory, he should have
to stop here, for all that remains TO
be said turns about the routine of the
day, the quairying of material, the dis
patching of rock trains and the orderly
movement of workmcn about their
tasks. A full understanding of eondi-
tions reveals all these as the expression
of man, Ray S. Carberry, chief cngi
neer of the Imperial Irrigation District
and autocrat of everything that is be-
ing done. Mr.. Carberry is poor hero
for story, for he doesn't talk and
docsn t pose and docsn t surmisc. He
won't be able to say, 81 told you so -
whether the enterprise succeeds or
fails. The writer spent two days with
him, ate at the same table, slept under
the same roof, examined him with re
gard to all that has been done here
tofore and all that is to be done here
after, and aever once did he criticize
anyone nor glorify anyone, not even
himself. He has only one meSSagc--he
is doing the best he can. He has only
one purpose and that to servc-he is
doing the best he can.
The writer saw him in contact with
his own superiors, the directors of the
district, aud with those under him, sup
erintendeuts, foromcn and laborcrs. His
attitude toward all was the same-we
are doing the best we can.
Where One Rock Counts
And SO the outstanding event on the
Pcscadero cut job is that the utmost
is being done with the resources avail
able. This does not loom upsin big
operations which exclude the less showy
in the small things themselves. Wher-
ever the water is likely to overtop or
break through Il levee there are sacks
Of sand in readiness. Each ounce of
rock is placed where it is most needed
and that matter is determined by cease
less vigil and one might almost say,
conservation to the work in hand.
The writer saw dredge travelling up
and down the works picking up every
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-23

N KANY things are transpiring
tAH about us the Importance of
which we do not fully sense,
and so when the wayfarer
reads in the news of the day some
reference to the progress of events at
"Pescadero cut he does not ordinar-
lily realize that battle is being waged
to change the course of one of the
principal rivers of the United States
and therefore one of the chief rivers
of the world.
No one unacquainted with conditions
can visualize what such an undertaking
involves, for the handling of such u
volume of water as the Colorado ear
ries is mere detail. At another place
and under different conditions the
turning of such a stream could be
viewed in the cold, Unconditional per-
spective of engineering science, but
when Colorado river conditions are
made a part of the enterprise, it takes
on all the thrills of a great drama.
In its varying moods the Colorado man.
ifests, at one time or another, all of
those qualities which contribute to the
tragedies and the romance of human
experience. AT one time it is the hero
of the drama the embodiment of great
resolves, the hope of a numerous pop
ailation, a veritable Monte Cristo in
the richness of its bounties, distribut
ing wealth and peace and eontentmcnt
wherever it touches.
: In the next hour it changes from DR..
Jekvll to Mr.. Hyde and becomes the
villain. 1t raises up hopes only to
dash them to the ground again. Be-
meath an attractive surface its work is
pne of mischief. 1t deceives; it be
trays; ii falsifies; it DESTROYS. No Wall
street operator is more artful in set
ting the snares which separate persons
from fortunes.
River of Liquid Dynamite
. 1t has been given to the Colorado
river to have more things happen to it
and more things done to it than can be
claimed for any other inanimate thing
which has achieved a national reputa-
tion. The accomplishments of the Col
orado in the fields of publicity alone
are of such extraordinary proportions
that had it made no other contribut ion
to the interest of humanity it would
still have TO be assigned "a place side
by side with the ancients and honor
ables of the physical world whose
names are inscribed in the Hall of
Fame.
For the reader who is unfamiliar with
the situation to be able to visualize
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-23

what is transpiring along the Colorado
river after it leaves the United States
and takes up its wanderings in for
eien land, it will be necessary to sketch
briefly the events which have led up
to the present. Nor it is possible 20
do this so verv satisfactorily, for much
of the Colorado s history is lost in OBJ
scurity, and, on the other hand, since
the great river has come to the atten-
tion ef men events have moved so
swiftly that the whole story cannot be
told briefly.
Stage for Great Drama
A relief map of the southwestern
section of the United States would
show the Colorado river, after it is
joined by the Gila at Yuma, traversing
the rim of great basin the bottom of
which is nearly 800 feet below sea level
at Salton. This basin is one of the
most productive areas in the world If
only water can be applied to it. t is
the effort to make use of the waters
of the Colorado to irrigate the parched
soil of the Colorado desert, more recent
" come to be known as Imperial
valley, which has formed the basis of
the dramatic events of the past two
decades and will be the motive for the
still more colossal achievements which
are scheduled for the next decade.
But the tendency of water to run
down hill, which is the principle by
which the Imperial valley has been re-
claimed. carries with it the corollary
that it may run down hill too fast
and more may run than can be COM
fortably taken care of. The Imperial
valley has two problems therefore
getting the Colorado in and keeping
the Colorado out, the latter beng the
more strenuous of the two, for, as has
been stated, the floor of Imperial val
ley is between 200 and 800 feet lower
than the sea, the natural and desirable
destination of all we'll behaved rivers.
Add to this the fact that if the Col
oradO does not rest upon bed of
down, it rests upon that which is quite
as soft and with a far greater tend
ency to ''pick up and walk. In fact
the slightest increase in the velocity of
the river is sufficient to cause the silty
bottom over which il runs to move
along with the river until some new
change i'll the current precipitates it
again, perhaps building up some new
barrier to turn the river into a differ
ent course and creating fresh per
plexity for those who have charged
themselves with the task of converting
the great river into productive agent
rather than permit it to continue its
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-23

course down New river to Salton sea,
the Colorado held its former course
to the Gulf of California but short
time when it again broke through the
defensive works, turning westward
and establishing itself along a ridge for
distance and spreading out over an
area which was given the name of
Volcano lake, because of geysers ex-
listing there.
From that time until the present
year the river has been kept from run
ming northward again into the low
basin of the Salton by a system of
levees which have been maintained
with the utmost difficulty and at tre-
mendous expense, Imperial valley being
constantly menaced by the possibility
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-23

career of ideleness, wastefulness and
destruction.
Battle of Titans for Valley
The story of the great struggle OF
1906 and 1907 to stop the flow of the
Colorado river into the Salton basin
after it had broken through its banks
at the point of diversion of the I'M
perial valley main canal constitutes one
of the engineering epics of the coun-
try s history The course of the river
to the Salton sea was finally blocked,
but only after it had ru.led the profes-
sional reputation of several eminent
engineers and there had been drafted
for the warfare all of the resources
of the great Hartman.
After having been diverted from its
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-23

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The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-01-27

has to struggle along with the name
OF Helena. Could anything be less
striking, less typical Of the towns
history. and could anything be more
typical OF it, history and surround
ings than Last Chance?
And What Of Today.
II the poetical and practical tenn
peraments were hereditary and If
Montana's population were ''perma-
nent" In the sense Of the permanency
Of older regions. It might be diverting
to visit all the poetical named re-
gions and determine IL the present
day residents take an interest in the
name given; II they know anything
of why 1t was named that, or how, or
when or by whom. Or II they care a
darn, anyhow. II they do care they
are not hopeless from the poetic point
Of view. If they do not care-well,
they may be the children of God, but
they amt no kin of mine.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-01-27
CONGRESSMAN IN
OPTIMISTIC MOOD
RIDDICK SAYS STATE Is IN MUCH
BETTER CONDITION THAN
OTHER STATES.
Tells Of Financing Of Live Stock In.
terosts by Governments; Predicts
Lower Railroad Freight Rates;
Market for Duran Wheat in Italy.

Congressman Carl Riddick of the
Second congressional district, who
spent the holidays in Montana, con-
siders the outlook for the state
bright and says Montana is in much
better condition., as regards general
business, than many other states. In
an interview he said in part:
Farmers and ranchers in the east
ern and middle western states are
heavily in debt, and some of them
have mortgaged their land for $3.50
and 5000 an acre, while in Montana
the Indebtedness Of the individual is
much less, which should be consid-
cred distinct advantage as the Mon
tana land owners will be paid out
first.
1.-TWO things needed are reduc-
ton of freight rates and more credit
for Montana producers, and the Mon
tana congressman have secured gov
eminent loans of over 100000 for
Montana in the last 80 days. and ex-
pect to increase this amount by sever
al more millions of dollars in the next
so days, the money to be loaned by
the government through the local
banks to the stockmen and farmers
to enable them to carry on.
More Rate Reduction.
THE interstate commerce commits
sion IL making sweeping investiga-
ton Of the railroad situation and are
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-01-27

understood to be planning making
drastic reductions of rates, following
closely on top of the two previous re-
auctions made recently. Another eff
fort along the right line is that which
considers helping the producers of the
northwest find a market for grain and
livestock.
Montana farmers raised millions
Of bushels of durum wheat this year,
but when the time for marketing ar
rived they found they must take a
low price. An effort is now being
put forth to finance purchasers of
this particular commodity in Italy,
which used this grain for macaroni
and considerable Roadway is being
made.
Optimism in Washington.
"There is a strong feeling Of opti-
mism in administration circles in
Washington centering around the
prospects for an early return to pros
perity and an evening up of the con-
ditions resulting from early defla-
ton in some lines. and a later defla-
ton in others. There Is considerable
enthusiasm being expressed over re-
suits gained to date in the peace con-
ference and Washington is filled with
representatives from practically every
power on earth, and speaking almost
every language.
while it is perhaps too much to
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-01-27
NAMES IN MONTANA TELL STUFF OF WHICH
the PIONEERS Of STATE we're MOULDED
flake in Granite. Big lakes, Dry lakes
land Deer lakes abound,

lake in Granite. Big lakes, Dry lakes
and Deer lakes abound.
Many Mountains Saved.
But our mountains, which gave to
the state its Spanish name, have gone
over pretty largely to the poets. Think
Of Mazuma lake as q practical name
and then Of Big Badly, Blue Nose
mountains, Saddle butte, Crasy noun
tains, Swan peak, Big Snowy noun
tains, Chalk butte, Eagle butte, Black
butte, Square butte, Round butte,
Watch Tower, Horse Shoe, Scapegoat,
Haystack peak and Emigrant peak,
Trapper mountain. To be sure, we
have our Mounts Haggin, Evans
Douglas, Helena, Cowan, Wilson,
Washington. And even in Glacier
park we have Stimson peak, Cleve-
land peak and Merritt peak. But we
also have the Beartooth, the Sleeping
Giant and the Grasshopper glacier,
saying nothing Of the Snowcrest
range and the Rainbow mountain.
The LAST Chance" Lost.
There must have been a mighty
struggle between the poetic and the
practical folk here in the states cap
ital in that early day. But the prac-
tfcal folks won out, as they always
do in any sort of actual battle and
this picturesque gulch, which might
have become world famous as Last
the capital city Of Montana"
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-01-27

believe that the reduction in arma-
ment will cause all cessation of armed
hostility between nations for all time,
It Is generally believed that the arms
conference will result IN lasting good
to the world, and that war between
the larger powers may be considered
as of the most remote possibilities.
While the great statesmen of the four
powers are completing the big agree
ment, western congressman are devils
ing ways Of using the money saved
by disarmament in irrigating more Of
the fertile western land, and this plan
is favored by the president, accord
ing to his recent message to con-
gress.'
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-01-27
Pointers On
Income Tax
Filing G;ven

The following statement relative to
filing income tax returns March Is,
1922, has been issued by James A.
Walsh, collector of internal revenue
for the Montana district:
with the approach Of the period
for filing income tax returns-Janu-
airy to March Is, 1922-taxpayers
are advised to lose no time in COM
pilation of their accounts for the year
1922 A new and important provision
of the revenue act of 1921 is that
every person whose gross income for
1921 was $1,000 or over shall file a
return. regardless of the amount Of
net income upon which the tax is as
sessed. Returns are required of every
single person whose net income was
1000 or more, and every married
person living with husband or wife,
whose net income was $4,000 or over.
Widows and widowers and persons
separated or divorced from husband
or wife. are regarded as single per-
sons.
met income is gross income, less
certain deductions for business ex-
penses, losses, taxes, etc. Gross in.
come includes practically all income
received by the taxpayers during the
year; In the case of the wage Garner,
salaries, wages, bonuses, and commits
sions; in the case of professional men,
all amounts received for professional
services; in the case of farmers, all
profits from the sale of farm products
and rental or sale of land.
I'm the making of an income tax
return for the year 1921, every tax
payer should present to himself the
following questions:
what were your profits from your
business, trade, profession or voca-
ton?
did you receive any interest on
bank deposits?
Have you any property from
which you received rent?
did you receive any income in the
form of dividend or interest from
stocks or bonds?
did you receive any bonuses dur
ing the year?
did you make any profit on the
sale of stocks, bonds, or other prop
erty. real or personal?
Ibid you act as q broker in any
transaction from which you received
commissions?
Are you interested in any partner
ship or other firm from which you re-
ceived any income?
Have you any income from royal
ties?
Have you any minor children who
are working?
do you appropriate, or have the
right to appropriate, the earnings of
such children? II so, the amount
must be included in the return of in
come.
did you receive any directors fees
or trustees fees in the course of the
year?
HAS your wife any income from
any source whatsoever? II so, it
must be included in your return or
reported in separate return of in
come.
do you hold any office in q bene-
fit society from which you receive in.
come?
Answers to all of these questions
are necessary to determine whether a
person has an income sufficiently
large to require that a return be
filed, and may be the means of
avoiding the heavy penalties imposed
for failure to do so within the time
prescribed"
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-01-27

Washington-The American peo-
pie spend from $75O,O00,0OO to a
billion year on motion pictures, ac-
cording to government investiga-
ton. There is about $25O,OOO,OO0
invested in the business and a quar-
ter of million people make their in
comes from it. Producers are ask
ing for a heavy duty to keep out for
eign films.
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me to belch a good deal. My heart
seemed to be affected.
II was two years ago that 1 was in
this condition and began the use Of
"Fruit.a-tives", which proved the
very remedy l required. was freed
ofthe Indigestion, which attributed
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the great Fruit Medicine'.
Mrs. FRANK w. WALLACE.
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At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES
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BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village and
Advertisements.

advertisements
Plenty CT good berries Checker
Inc.
william Lowe, Raymond Green
ana John Simmons are in Boston.
Mrs. James Abercrombie Of Green
field, Mass is the guest OF Mrs
Joseph NJ. Ayres.
Women's white canvas pumps and
oxfords, neat and foot fitting, al
Harris Shoe Store
New Hammerstein picture asks
"Why Announce Your Marriage" See
it at Harte Theatre today,
Mrs. Davis will hold a rummage
sa Saturday in rear of house at Sl8
Pleasant street If pleasant. =" l4t2
Edwin II. Bruce and Clifford AT.
kins, watchmakers at the Wood
jewelry store, are in Albany and New
York on business.
Mrs. Lillian Ford Trayers of Green
field Mass, who has been the guest
of Miss Maude Belden for several
days, returned this afternoon.
Petersen, the custom tailor, has
moved to 112 South street. No more
upstairs Ground floor Drop in on
your way to the post office
See Nazimova in her greatest emo.
tional role with Rudolph Valentino as
leading man Opera House Friday
and Saturday. Regular admission.
Fresh string beans, peas, aspara-
gus, spinach.-Checkerline
Mr. and Mrs George Plumb and
George b. Coolidge and A. NJ. Har'
wood of SALISBURY are attending the
grand lodge sessions Of |. o. o. f. to-
day at Brattleboro.
Charles Dalton Daniel MORN, f..
Underwood S. Crawford, and James
Hines Of North Adams Edward VII
son and Harry Doye of Iioosick
Fails we're among those from out OF
town who attended TIE telephone
dance last evening
BE sure to stop at the candy table
when you attend the May Festival
and Bazaar at the Baptist CHURCH on
May oath New move ties in Jolly
pop dolls, mystery dolls and animals,
and peanut dolls from the Flowery
| Kingdom besides plenty OF fudge
and panocha and other delectable
sweets.
Cooked corn beef, veal loaf minced
ham, boiled ham and very fine chip
ped beef at the Checkerline.