anaheim-gazette 1906-01-25

Future of Irrigation in California By Prof. S. Fortler. Irrigation in California is a subject of endless variety and of infinite magnitude. In the few minutes of your valuable time which I shall occupy I cannot do more than present a general outline of the subject. In reviewing briefly what irrigation has accomplished in this state and in considering in a general way the natural resources in both land and water which await development, we may perchance obtain a clearer vision of the future and of difficulties which beset it. It is now generally conceded that the future prosperity of the State of California depends upon irrigated agriculture. The cultivation of fertile soil rendered highly productive by the use of water will forever constitute the leading industry. This does not imply the neglect or supplanting of other industries. The beneficial results of agriculture are nowhere more important than in furnishing cheap and wholesome food to the miner, in producing raw material for the manufacturer, in buying wearing apparel and farm equipment from the merchant, in providing freight for the transportation company, and finally in contributing in the form of taxes a large part of the revenue of the county, municipality and state. The varied products form the irrigated farms, the timber from the forests, the domestic animals on the range, and the hay and grain from the dry farms; But one should not attempt to estimate the value of irrigation size of the field. The real quantity and quality of ducts. Judged by this stature, irrigation pays. One acre of land in California, according statistics, will produce on average as valuable products as can be on three acres of non-irrigation leaving out of consideration rentals and the cost of apples, water, an acre of land with right is thus equivalent in price to three acres of land water. Again the yield farms is decreasing, while the irrigated farms is either increasing. Fourteen years the yield of wheat in California 1,250,000 tons; last year it considerably less than 500,000. Increase was not so much smaller area cropped, but on diminished yields. On the hand, there has been a major increase in the production fruits derived from the irrigated chards. For every ton of fruits shipped out of the in 1891 there were eight tons Trace the 76,000 carloads which left this state in 1904; the grower and it will be be the part of the output of agriculture. The oranges ons, the dried fruits, the rains, the deciduous fruits and tables and all soil products California is famed, come most part from irrigated farcchards. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT equipment from the merchant, in providing freight for the transportation company, and finally in contributing in the form of taxes a large part of the revenue of the county, municipality and state. The varied products form the irrigated farms, the timber from the forests, the domestic animals on the range, and the hay and grain from the dry farms; all these soil products will form the safe and permanent foundation on which all other industries may successfully build. The statistics of California show almost without exception that in every section where water has been successfully applied to cultivated fields and orchards, the greatest and most permanent gains have been made. The same general statement does not hold true for any other industry. A large part of the total revenue of the state is still derived from mining, but comparatively few mining camps have grown into prosperous cities. Many mining centers that once throbbed with life and activities are deserted. The fabulous sum of $1,000,000,000 of gold which was washed from the gravel bars or wrested from the quartz ledges has likewise vanished, leaving little trace that so vast a sum was ever mined. On the other hand, Californians point with pride to the prune orchards of Santa Clara, the alfalfa fields of the San Joaquin, the vineyards of Fresno, and to the orange groves of Riverside as worthy examples of the value and permanency of irrigation when applied to fertile soil in a climate like that of California. THE EXTENT OF THE PRACTICE OF IRRIGATION IN CALIFORNIA. Compared with total land area of the state, the irrigated portion appears small. At the present time something like a total of 2,000,000 acres out of 200,000,000 are irrigated. While this represents the work of half a century, the greater part has be the part of the output of agriculture. The oranges are done in reclaiming arid areas and lands in California who remains to be done, he is to conclude that the present stage of development though there are 1,000,000 irrigated land in the San Valle valley, so extensive is this great plane that the travel through it imagines that voted chiefly to the produce grain and grain hay on dry. The irrigated alfalfa fields look like spots on unbroken stretches of cinder but non-irrigable grain field rainfall and melted snows lofty mountain range 300 miles flow through it. The continual flow of the largest streams would cover 19,000 a foot deep; yet this vast surplus no higher duty at than to irrigate 1,000,000 acres. In the valley of the San Valle prospects for future in irrigation are equal. The results of recent survey by the department of the show that there are 2,660 in the floor of the valley of the quantity of water which from this basin through Gate in 1904 was sufficient 26,000,000 acres a foot in depastant quantity of water, which descends from the Sierras of the San Joaquin plane, can be entirely utilized in irrigation the reason that it cannot trolled; but the fact that volumes flow through the lands of the great central THE EXTENT OF THE PRACTICE OF IRRIGATION IN CALIFORNIA. Compared with total land area of the state, the irrigated portion appears small. At the present time something like a total of 2,000,000 acres out of 200,000,000 are irrigated. While this represents the work of half a century, the greater part has been accomplished during the past 25 years. Twenty-five years ago, Fresno county had only 425 acres in grapvines, now there are about 85,-000 acres. At that time the number of bearing orange trees in the entire state was less than 250,000, now the number is over 7,000,000. At no time in the history of the state has progress in irrigation been more rapid than during the past three years. In 1901 the crops irrigated in the Imperial valley did not exceed 1000 acres in extent, while last year the irrigated farms comprised 80,-000 acres. In 1904 the Modesto canal furnished water for 6895 acres. During the past season of 1905 the acreage had increased to 12,685 acres. A few years ago there was practically no land irrigated in the Sacramento valley; now canals are being constructed to water several hundred thousand acres. These few cases, taken from many that might be cited, will serve to convince the most skeptical that irrigation is a live issue in California. Dreams. A scientist explains some of the strange phenomena of dreams by saying that they are due to what he calls "hereditary memory." He takes the "falling through space" dream and points out that after suffering the mental agony of falling the sleeper escapes the shock of the actual stopping. The explanation is that the falling sensations have been transmitted from remote ancestors who were fortunate enough to save themselves after falling from great heights in treetops by clutching the branches. The molecular changes in the cerebral cells due to the shock of stopping could not be transmitted because victims falling to the bottom would be killed. In a similar manner by reverting to the habits of animals which existed centuries ago the same investigator finds an explanation for the mental state experienced by individuals in various dreams—the "pursuing monster" dream, the "reptile and vermin" dream, color dreams, suffocation dreams, flying dreams and the like. Chinese Cooking Secrets. "I once attended a mandarin's banquet in Peking," said an ex-consul, "and it was the most remarkable feast I ever sat down to. One course appeared to be plain hard boiled eggs. The eggs came on unadorned. Their shells were intact, and yet, when we broke into them, we found that they contained nuts and sweetmeats. Another course was whole oranges, with unbroken skins, yet inside the oranges were five different kinds of jelly. The Chinese guests took these two courses as a matter of course, but I, in amazement, asked our host how on earth they had been concocted. He smiled and shook his head. "'Ah, that,' he said, 'is my cook's secret.'" Warren and Jefferson. Joseph Jefferson was playing Sheridan's comedy of "The Rivals" in Boston on one occasion many years Warren and Jefferson. Joseph Jefferson was playing Sheridan's comedy of "The Rivals" in Boston on one occasion many years ago. His version of the play had been arranged in such a way as to give Bob Acres considerably more prominence perhaps than the author originally intended, occasionally at the expense of the other characters. William Warren, the old comedian, sat the play out and at its conclusion was asked, "How do you like Jefferson's Bob Acres?" "Capital, capital," replied Warren, "'and Sheridan twenty miles away.'" Carlyle's Way. Carlyle appears in a brief reminiscence from the pen of Percy Fitzgerald thus: The thing with Carlyle was to send out for a long churchwarden (a clay pipe) and a screw of tobacco, which put him in great good humor. He talked to his plate, as you might say. If anybody said anything from which he dissented you would hear him murmuring, "Oh, the puir auld fool; a regular puir auuld fool!" More Light. A case was being tried on the charge of selling impure whisky. The whisky was offered in evidence. Jury retired to try the evidence. Judge (presently)—What is the verdict? Foreman of the Thirsty Jury—Your honor, we want more evidence.—San Francisco News Letter. A Conjugal Tiff. Husband—I see plainly you want to get up a quarrel. And in the street too! Wait at least till we are inside our own house. Wife—Impossible. I shall have cooled down before we get there.—Paris Journal. Wanted to Find the Crumb. Mamma—What are you tearing your doll to pieces for? Hattle—I'm looking for the crumb of comfort papa said was to be found in everything. Man is the merriest of all the species of creation. Above and below him all are serious.—Addison. Wanted to Find the Crumb. Mamma—What are you tearing your doll to pieces for? Hattie—I'm looking for the crumb of comfort papa said was to be found in everything. Man is the merriest of all the species of creation. Above and below him all are serious.—Addison. Carlyle Corrected. At a Royal academy dinner in London on one occasion several artists were expressing their enthusiasm about Titian. Carlyle and Thackeray were among the guests. "His glorious coloring is a fact about Titian," said one man, striking the table to give emphasis to the remark. "And his glorious drawing is another fact about Titian!" cried another artist. And so they went on until Carlyle, who had been listening in silence to their rhapsodies, interrupted them by saying, with a slow deliberation which had its own impressive emphasis: "And here I sit, a man made in the image of God, who knows nothing about Titian and cares nothing about Titian, and that's another fact about Titian." Thackeray was sipping claret at the moment. He paused and bowed courteously to Carlyle. "Pardon me," he said; "that appears to me to be not a fact about Titian, but a fact, and a lamentable one, about Carlyle." Solitude. Solitude relieves us when we are sick of company and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss to use his time.—Seneca. 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