anaheim-gazette 1905-06-15

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LUMBER Studying Desert Plants [By Rene Bach] The latest scientific institute has been established by thegie Institution about two miles Tucson, Arizona, on the site ruins of an old hill-fort, he many years by the Papago against the marauding Apache is in the midst of a region,pect of which is rendered spar larly wierd by an extraordinaria uriance of the cacti, which up most of the vegetation, mthe plants being of gigant The locality, indeed, was chosen this very reason, in order that might be an opportunity to such forms of plant-life. The cipal work of the laboratory will to observe the structural and expedients by which the plants are enabled to get with almost no water; and the ledge thus obtained will be eventually by applying it, so may be practicable, in the rainy ordinary crops in the great d In a word, the object in view discover means of economiz ter in places where it is scarce. There is something rather esque in the notion of setting botanical workshop in the m such a desert as that in the borhood of Tucson. But th some lessons to be learned th the scientific observer wh could not acquire elsewhere. tered all over the arid was plants which each after i FRITZ RUHMANN'S GERMANIA HALL BACK'S NEW BUILDING LOS ANGELES STREET Keeps on hand a Large and complete stock of liquors, wines and cigars. Cold beer alwayon draught. LUMBER Sash, Doors, Shingles Shakes, Lath, Cement Lime : C. Ganahl Lumber Co CHAS. F. GRIM, Manager EAST CENTER St., Anaheim Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars at Roman Wisser's Favorite Saloon ANAHEIM BEER ON DRAUGHT Center St. - r - Anaheim THE Gardner Pipe Works F. BACKS Undertaker Dealer in Furniture Wall Paper, Cornices, Window Shades, Picture Frames, Upholstery Goods, Paints, Oils, and Glass. Sewing Machine Supplies Corner Los Angeles and Chartres Sts Miss. Agnes Westley 816 Wells Street Marinette.Wis. 816 Wells Street, MARINETTE, Wis., Sept. 25, 1914 I was all run down from nerves and overwork and had to rest my position and take a rest found that I was not gaining strength and health as fast could wish, and as your Winchester ter in places where it is scarce. There is something rather esque in the notion of setting botanical workshop in the most such a desert as that in the borhood of Tucson. But the some lessons to be learned ther scientific observer which could not acquire elsewhere.tered all over the arid was plants which, each after its fashion, have solved the problem of water supply by ing reservoirs of their own, ing the precious fluid in way highly ingenious, and prevent evaporation by methods most ous and interesting. For instance, there is the barrel plant," somewhat reseal a beer-keg in size and shape whole interior of which contain storage-cells for holding water admirably is its structure to the purpose in view that, cently ascertained by the inventors, over ninety-six per cent pulp which fills the vegetable tacle is pure water. In fact actually nothing less than a water, which is of so exce quality that the Indians of th FURNITURE Wall Paper, Cornices, Window Shades, Picture Frames, Upholstery Goods, Paints, Oils, and Glass. Sewing Machine Supplies Corner Los Angeles and Chartres Sts LIVERY Rose Ave. Stable Austin & Tuffree Props. Rose Ave., Ocean Park HATZFELD'S PRESCRIPTION PHARMACY J. P. HATZFELD Graduate in Pharmacy Next Door to Postoffice Anaheim, Cal. CAPISTRAN HOT SPRING Hot mineral water will cure matism, Kidney and Liver Troubles. Rooms, board and baths $9.50 per week. Tents and camps rented. All camps under E. R. FORSTER, Capistran Mining Desert Plants [By Rene Bach] A scientific institution is laboratory, so called, which established by the Carnegie about two miles from Arizona, on the site of the old hill-fort, held for by the Papago Indians in marauding Apaches. Itdst of a region, the asch is rendered spectaculby an extraordinary lux-the cacti, which makes the vegetation, many of being of gigantic size.ry, indeed, was chosen for season, in order that there an opportunity to study of plant-life. The prin-of the laboratory will be the structural and other by which the plants of are enabled to get along it no water; and the know-obtained will be utilized by applying it, so far as practicable, in the raising of crops in the great dry belt. The object in view is to means of economizing wa-s where it is scarce. something rather picture- ne notion of setting up a workshop in the midst of art as that in the neigh-Tucson. But there are as to be learned there byfic observer which he acquire elsewhere. Scatter the arid waste are each after its own ert rely upon it almost wholly dur-ing periods of drought. "A stranger left alone in such a region would die of thirst," says Dr. F.C. Coville, one of the experts in charge of the desert laboratory. "Yet there is water in all deserts, and the native animals and native human beings know how to find it." He states that the method adopted for tapping the "water-barrel" is to cut off the top with one blow of a machete, thus exposing to view the mass of white pulp that fills the interior, and to mash the latter with the end of a stick. In this way a bowl-shaped cavity is formed, which quickly fills with water. The Indians, who worship the plant as a gift of the rain-god, use the water for mixing bread as well as for drinking. There is no desert so barren as to be without water-storing plants. The explorer, Campbell, journeying across the plains of Central Africa—where as far as the eye could reach there was nothing but sand, billowing like the sea—found luxuriant creepers which were covered with large berries, each of them containing about three teaspoonfuls of palatable water. On looking more closely he was surprised to observe a number of mice (the only inhabitants, seemingly, of that inhospitable CATARRH ELY'S CREAM BALM CATARRH COLD CATARRH ELY'S CREAM BALM This Remedy is a Specific, Sure to Give Satisfaction. GIVES RELIEF AT ONCE. It cleanses, soothes, heals, and protects the diseased membrane. It cures Catarrh and drives away a Cold in the Head quickly. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Easy to use. Contains no injurious drugs. Applied into the nostrils and absorbed. Large Size, 50 cents at Druggists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. ELY BROTHERS, F.S. Warren St., New York. spot), which were busily engaged in nibbling the berries and carrying them to their burrows, as seamen would convey casks of water to their ships. Unfortunately, many of the water-storing plants thus situated introduce into the fluid chemical ingredients which render it unpleasant to the taste and even nauseating. This is true of the "peyote" (found plentifully in the neighborhood of the desert laboratory), which, while in appearance plump and juicy as an apple, secretes a bitter and poisonous juice. The expedient is obviously designed as a means of protection against animals, which otherwise would be likely to eat the water-containing vegetable. In the case of the "water-barrel," however, an adequate defense is furnished by a formidable array of thorns and hooked spines covering the exterior, fierce outbreak of the Apaches. Many plants of the desert rely refuse to be cultivated will grow only under conditions tile to ordinary vegetable soil no water to speak of. New there are some which will likely become domesticated and important use to mankind. These is the "canaigre," probably destined to be great economic value at this day. Related to the common weed, its beet-like root thirty per cent of tannic acid. Indians have employed it immemorial for tanning less inasmuch as the world's s tannin-producing materials oak-bark, is running short yet be utilized on an extent to make good the deficiency. For the present the deser tory will devote its attenti vely to a scientific study plants, and particularly which are most noteworthy ers of water. It will not a develop the economic user any of the species, though ly some of them will dou n introduced into cultivation are among the cacti not a are so valuable that it shame not to utilize them. The sum and substance whole discussion lies in the desert is a source not many plants of more than economic value, but also which may prove extrem e in the raising of ordinary particularly in regions w water supply is deficient hints will be gathered and by the desert laboratory r son, which will put the its observations into easily ted shape for the benefi farmers. Items of the Irrigation in appearance plump and juicy as an apple, secretes a bitter and poisonous juice. The expedient is obviously designed as a means of protection against animals, which otherwise would be likely to eat the water-containing vegetable. In the case of the "water-barrel," however, an adequate defense is furnished by a formidable array of thorns and hooked spines covering the exterior, so that the plant does not find it necessary to offer further discouragement to depredators. Now, one of the most curious facts ascertained by the scientists in connection with this study is that many of the desert animals never drink. This seems to be true of various species of rodents, such as the "jumping mouse" and "pocket mouse," which, when kept in captivity, not only take no water, but appear actually to regard it with repugnance when offered to them. Dr. J. A. Allen, of the American Museum of Natural History, kept a pocket mouse for three years without water, its food being exclusively dried birdseed. Inasmuch as a supply of moisture is absolutely necessary to animal life, the only plausible solution of the problem thus far suggested is that these creatures are able by some mysterious means to decompose starch, resolving that substance into the water and carbonic acid which constitute it. In the neighborhood of the desert laboratory are numerous specimens of the "giant cactus"—a species which attains a height of forty feet. Items of the Irrigation While the present irrigation of $25,000,000 would not go distributed throughout the western states and territory two, three, or four million amounts, it is being made forward a quite uniform and prehensive irrigation development by making the irrigation work still farther. The goal is in each case starting there and allowing the project it the settlers to provide forpletion. And as in all the ment projects the lands are eagerly taken up by settlers is no question of the success completion of the works, of great magnitude. EASTERN BUSINESS MEN INTEGRITY That the eastern part The Brownsberger Home School Incorporated 953 W. 7TH ST. LOS ANGELES, CAL. Rush courses in Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Typewriting for three months during the summer in BROWNSBERGER BUSINESS COLLEGE Special work in Brownsberger Preparatory, preparing pupils to enter Brownsberger Business College or to make up their grades, or to return to the Public or High school. Pupils received from sixth to tenth grades. The Preparatory Department is conducted in separate building and is an established part of the school, where pupils may receive a thorough education in one half the time required in public and high schools. Send for new circular, "Plain Talks on Special Features of Brownsberger." F. BROWNSBERGER, Pres. plants of the desert actual to be cultivated. They only under conditions hospitable vegetable life, with no to speak of. Nevertheless, some which will eventually domesticated and of immease to mankind. One of the "canaigre," which is destined to become of economic value at a future related to the common docking beet-like root contains a cent of tannic acid. The have employed it from time trial for tanning leather, and as the world's supply of introducing materials, such as oil, is running short, it may utilized on an extensive scale good the deficiency. The present the desert labora-devote its attention exclus- a scientific study of desert and particularly of those the most noteworthy as stor- later. It will not attempt to the economic usefulness of the species, though eventual-of them will doubtless be used into cultivation. There being the cacti not a few that valuable that it seems a lot to utilize them. and substance of the discussion lies in the fact that art is a source not only of plants of more than possible value, but also of hints may prove extremely useful raising of ordinary crops—early in regions where the supply is deficient. Such will be gathered and utilized desert laboratory near Tucson will put the results of observations into easily-assimilate for the benefit of the of the Irrigation Country the finest market possible for eastern manufacturers, the resolutions commended the administration of Secretary Hitchcock of the Interior Department who is charged with the administration of the irrigation law, endorsed Director Walcott and Chief Engineer Newell of the Reclamation Service and pledged to them the support of some 3300 of the largest manufacturers in the United States in their continued efforts to carry out the national irrigation act for the creation of the largest possible number of prosperous American homes. The resolutions further set forth that the profound importance of the social and philanthropic features of the irrigation movement and the sub-division of large land tracts into small homes should be impressed upon the American people to the end that America should become a nation of rural homes rather than one of large cities. The resolutions call attention to the great public importance of the national frauds, the weakness of our present land laws and strongly support the recommendation of President Roosevelt's Public Land Commission for a thorough reform in our land laws to the end that the public lands be held strictly for real settlers and against speculators. DRY LAND RECLAMATION Colorado, Wyoming and Montana are apparently waking up to the fact that several million acres of land in those states which have been for years grazed upon by cattle and sheep and considered worthless for agriculture in any form, can be made to grow very profitable crops of grains, forage, and in some cases even vegetables and fruit. The rainfall in these regions is comparatively slight, but it happens to come at just the growing season of the crops and the soil is so wonderfully retentive of moisture, as well as productive, that from 15 to 30 bushels of wheat per acre and other crops in proportion, can be raised on as little as 12 or 16 inches of rainfall, which in eastern states would not suffice to half-way mature a crop. The "dry farm" experts state that there are at least a hundred million acres of land distrib- of the Irrigation Country the present irrigation fund of 10,000 would not go very far, needed throughout the 16 great states and territories, in one or four million dollars it is being made to carry on quite uniform and complete irrigation development, using the irrigation works pay themselves. For words, it is not the pro- Reclamation Service to merge projects complete im- but to finish a small but significant portion of each project the water rights of the lands located may be sold to the land thus immediately fur-ey with which to carry the farther. The government in case starting the works, doing the project itself and others to provide for its com- And as in all the govern-jects the lands are being taken up by settlers, there action of the success and notion of the works, of however magnitude. BUSINESS MEN INTERESTED in the eastern part of the is comparatively slight, but it happens to come at just the growing season of the crops and the soil is so wonderfully retentive of moisture, as well as productive, that from 15 to 30 bushels of wheat per acre and other crops in proportion, can be raised on as little as 12 or 16 inches of rainfall, which in eastern states would not suffice to half-way mature a crop. The "dry farm" experts state that there are at least a hundred million acres of land distributed throughout the western states, in some places in very considerable tracts and in other sections in small patches, where the climatic conditions are such that the lands will yield crops as good as the average farm lands of the Mississippi Valley. This class of development by better cultivation of the soil, in connection with the introduction by the government of foreign plants specially adapted to American arid land conditions and further joined by the great agricultural development under national irrigation will cause in the next ten years a mighty transformation in the west. Guy Elliott Mitchell. Mother's Ear A WORD IN MOTHER'S EAR: WHEN NURSING AN INFANT, AND IN THE MONTHS THAT COME BEFORE THAT TIME, SCOTT'S EMULSION SUPPLIES THE EXTRA STRENGTH AND NOURISHMENT SO NECESSARY FOR THE HEALTH OF BOTH MOTHER AND CHILD. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. 500c. and $1.00; all druggists.