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According to the experts, we have long needed a federal law providing for the organization of irrigation districts on projects under the national reclamation law, in order to make it possible for the federal authorities to do so. This is now made possible by the act of May 15, 1922. This act also provides for the conditions under which farm loans can be made on lands on reclamation projects, thus meeting a long-felt want on the part of settlers on such projects. Dr. Hubert Work is now secretary of the Interior. He is a Colorado man and has had personal experience with irrigation. In a recent address delivered by Secretary Work at the Agricultural department, motion-picture allow, he set forth the need of cooperation and the Interior. In one place, he said this operation between the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Agriculture are units of a great government not miniature government. In themselves, and therefore both departments are obligated to contribute through mutual cooperation to the successful administration of the government. The lost motion and time expenditure incident to duplication or overlapping does not make for the individual organization, the height of which is weak in the government service. One department should not be dependent on another for an intelligent service because not prepared to do it alone. That service should be the responsibility of the department, best equipped to render it. In another place, he said this: "Farmer, must come to the market, preferably in the market, particularly in the other industries, do, and the question of transportation is a fundamental factor in the marketing of farm products. These are questions, the two departments must study together, for they have to do with the food supply not of this year and our own people alone but for many years. In the future and for other nations, as well. There is no longer any frontier in the United States on giving a common interest and obligation to the government, and I shall ask the secretary of agriculture to lend the good of our most scientific, practical, and effective department to appropriate rail fertility and market. In advance of our reclamation, commitment, and our settlers in profitable farming, I have concluded thus: "I have not had opportunity to consult with the secretary of agriculture." CANADA. D.W. Aats. Weeks, where. Incidentally, he has missions to perform for my department, but we are long-time personal friends. I know the trend of his mind and reel assured that we will not be far apart in our conclusion, bearing on the important services our respective home-making departments should render to the government." This will be good news for many who would benefit by cooperation, since these two departments have been for a long time at feud over several questions—such, for example, as the proposed transfer of the control of the national forest, to the Interior department; the effort of the Agricultural department to get control of the national parks and the proposed turning over of Alaska to the Interior department, administration. At any rate, Secretary Work has begun his service, by appointing Miles Cannon, former commissioner of agriculture of Idaho, to the position of Hehl reclamation commissioner, headquarters to be established later in one of the reclamation states. In his letter to Director A. L. Davis of the reclamation service and to manager of the general reclamation project, Dr. Work says, in part: "Mr. Cannon is the direct representative of the secretary of the Interior in a work which I have undertaken for the improvement of government reclamation project, along business and agricultural lines. His work is not to conflict with or duplicate the engineering work now being carried on by existing reclamation forces, nor with the work of other bureaus or departments, but is to be..." So far, a glance touches your work or that of others, in cooperation in producing beneficial results. “Briefly, it is the purpose to coordinate various agricultural activities, aid the farmer. In raising better and more diversified crops, applying modern methods. In handling, marketing, and realizing upon crop, produced, to effect economies wherever possible, and to in every way improve not only the condition of the water user, on the project, but the administration of the project, by this department.” Incidentally, Commissioner Cannon, Director Davie, and Special Assistant Secretary D.W. Davis are at this writing making a visit of attention to the principal reclamation projects. There are 30 reclamation projects, in various states. The total investment of the United States, approximately $172,000,000; the reimbursement, and credit, approximately $40,000,000. The net investment is therefore about $5,000,000. Senator Ashurst of Arizona, in a recent senate debate, gave these general figures: "Since federal irrigation began, 3,000,000 acres, of theretofore practically worthless, desert land have been made productive by government irrigation. The value of the crops produced thereon now amounts to $60,000,000 annually. The increase in value of the irrigated acreage amounts to $100,000,000, and, since the government began the delivery of irrigation water, the crops produced on the reclaimed land, today aggregate $400,000,000 in value. Nor does this sum of $400,000,000 include the value of expansion of production of livestock or stock product, in other words, the crops produced." 000,000) as to the aggregate crop value are limited to vegetable, fruit, and grain values at the farm, for which government recognition furnishes the sole supply of water. All the benefits by the government to the various irrigation projects, will ultimately be repaid. At the outset, let it be remembered that the importance of national irrigation as a means of securing national resources is not to be underestimated in the tonnage tax rate. The BAKATOGA SOT. In the construction of new commercial projects in the arid land of the West, the government is utilizing undeveloped resources and creating opportunities for it, else the government is utilizing undeveloped resources and creating opportunities for it. One of the primary purposes of the reclamation law was to create homes, and this purpose has been richly fulfilled. Viewed from this standpoint alone, national reclamation has amply justified all for which its advocate, hoped. Since 1902, the reclamation service has constructed the irrigation system, to supply abundant water to 2,000,000 acres of land, and the caps, storage reservoirs of the government are furnishing a supplemental supply of stored water to a million additional acres in other projects, or a grand total of 1,000,000 acres. On those irrigated lands, are now profitably employed and satisfactorily housed approximately 500,000 people. On the government project lands are 50,000 families, in independent homes. The population in cities, towns, and villages in these government projects has been increased by an equal number of families. In the Reclamation Record are given the following figures concerning the Tuma project Arizona-California, which may be said to be typical of conditions among The projects: Values Created. Value of farm lands and improvements on project site of 1921 $10,240,000 Value of live stock $600,000 Value of farm equipment $400,000 (HJfIOXXM) Assessed Valuations. Town $600,000 Farm $1,500,000 Public utilities $1,500,000 $15,400,000 Value of Crepe Produced in 1919. Alfalfa hay $50,000 Alfalfa seed $40,000 Colton $70,000 Cotton seed $100,000 Miscellaneous $2,000,000 Value of crops produced since 1910... $2,400,000 Shippings of Agricultural Products, $10,000 Carloads. Cotton seed, cottonseed oil and cake... $6,000 Manure Cattle Alfalfa seed Honey Miscellaneous Total amount shipment $1,000 Whole corn, pure honey, etc. $1,000 Lumber $97,000 Automobile, trucks, etc. $1,000 Groceries Hardware Coal, feed, flour, beef, etc. $1,000 Grain impost $800,000 Jewelry and miscellaneous $1,000 Treatment $1,000 Jewelry and miscellaneous $1,000 Drugs, tenders, etc. $1,000 Other items $1,000,000 Tetri $1,000 CITY PLANNING NOT COSTLY Might be taken into account, We may well face fact, like The American city is a destroyer of human beings. It is wasteful. It's Ugliest is unspeakable. It is dirty and noisy. It is death rate is higher than that of the country districts. Twenty years ago, a writer of such words might have been reviled for lack of patriotism, for treachery to his homeland, writes Harold Cary in Collier’s Weekly, but not today—too many Americans know the truth. City governments know it. Forty out of forty-three American cities of more than 150,000 population are now actively engaged in planning fundamental improvement. There is a real revolt in progress against the character of modern cities. Most people have an idea that city planning is away of making a town over so as to spend a great deal of the taxpayers’ money to produce what some people like—the "city beautiful." It is nothing of the kind. City planning is concerned at bottom with the reduction of the traffic problem; lowering the cost of doing business; making parks, playgrounds, theaters, auditoriums and public buildings easy to use; utilizing water fronts, bridges and transportation facilities to the best advantage. If the town is beautified during the process, why, in fact, of course it follows to a great extent that a new beauty will arise when order is made out of chaos. TAKING CARE OF TOMORROW Error Too Often Made to That Consideration Is Accorded Only for Today. The cause of much of the confusion and trouble in this world is the prone nature of folks to consider only the needs of the present. Today looms up so much larger than tomorrow that men will only take care of that which is immediately demanded. The individual who best serves, but community and society in general, is not he who waits, until a real problem is at hand, then tackle it without glove. It is the one who has foresight and diplomacy enough to prevent the coming of a problem. One of the most grievous waste of society is slowing down as unnecessary evil to creep in. It is needless waste because it takes man-power and time and work to remove that will. Well enough. If one goes at the thing with vim and determination. But a much less revere drain upon society would ensue if the problem, the evil, the nuisance did not exist, because each one carries it, kind with it and make other grave eruptions in society. Social economy is to be striven for. Saving of man-power, mental power, soul-power, and all other possible resources are highly imperative. These are the forces that should be used on the necessary things of life. They are dissipation, extravagance, waste if utilized on society's unnecessary burden. Vigilance is needed to prevent such waste. —Grit. John Ruskin. “I would have our ordinary dwelling house, built to last, and built to be lovely; a rich and full of pleasant air, as may be, within and without, with such difference as might do to express each man’s character and occupation—and partly his history. When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let us not be for the present life nor for present use alone. Let us think, as we lay stone upon stone, that a time is to come when these will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and men will say as they look upon the labor and substance of them: “Behold, this our Father, did for us.” Shames Character of Owners. On an extended drive through the country, it is possible to form an estimate of many property owners by observing their attitude, toward shade trees. A man who permits a row of magnificent maple trees to shade, the road on one side and bluffs farming on the other may be safely set down as possessing considerable aesthetic sensitivity. It may also be surmised that he is regarding the comfort of others. When we find a row of pitiful stumps where last year we admired the graceful curve, and welcomed the gracious umbrage of ancient trees, we may with assurance assume that the man was one where interest in life is confined to its practical aspects—Exchange. Home and Country Inreputable, I know of no matter regarding the interests of our people to which we can give greater devotion and service for fundamental improvements than the upbuilding not relying on individual home ownership but in the maintenance of our home. Not only is there the primary significance of our home, but the essential of our home. SPECIAL RUSH SERVICE This Rawr when writing for the best service. BOOM-ALLEN JEWELRY CO. Mf. and repairing. All orders promptly attended to. Eat 117. With a Champa. CLARK & AWD HOTEL. WINDSOR. 18th R Larimer. Rooms 750 up. Special rates to permanent guests. PIANOS Pianos and player pianos of our own manufacture of every description. Free exchange privilege. Lowest Prices, reasonable terms. Write for a catalog, prices THE BALDWIN FIANO COMPANY ICM California ML NEW—AUTO PARTS—USED New guaranteed material and pinion gears and axle shafts. A large stock of used parts All priced right. The Western Auto & Parts Co., 1220 Curtis st. Phone Ch. 4212. Denver, Colo. DIAMONDS. JOS. I. SCHWARTZ, Jewelry, Diamond watch repairing. 100 U Sixteenth Street. INFORMATION DEPARTMENT commercial inquiries answered and information gladly furnished without cost. Address any firm above. New Grading System for Vegetables and Fruit to Start July 27 Denver.—Agreement on a joint state and federal Inspection service for fruit, and vegetables, was announced here a few days ago by Joseph Passeau, state director of markets. The service will issue grade certificates bearing both federal and state endorsements, which must be accepted by eastern commission merchants. The inspection will be voluntary, and will succeed the present compulsory arrangement which expires July 23. E. F. McCune, assistant in the Colorado division of markets, has been appointed head of the service, with the title of state supervisor of standards and Inspection. He will take office July 27. District supervisors will be named in Greeley, Carbondale, Grand Junction and the San Luis Valley. Grant, of $5,000 from the bureau of market, and 12,700 from the State, Agricultural College have been obtained to finance the service. The arrangement will enable shippers to prevent commission merchants arbitrarily fixing low grades, a practice which has cost Colorado farmers, huge sums in the past. The federal Inspection certificate stand, a prima facie evidence in any court. $5,000,000 secured in Citizens San Francisco. —A taxicab carrying $500,000 in currency, coin and note, from the Bank of Italy to the Federal Reserve bank smashed into a streetcar here, scattering the money and notes over the street and slightly injuring Police Detective Fred Pearl, who was in the taxicab as a guard. Several bystanders offered to pick up the money and notice, but Pearl drew his pistol and advised them that the two bank messengers who accompanied him would attend to that little detail. Machine Guns Halt Masked Strikers Sydney, N.S. —Machine guns manned by 200 soldiers, succeeded in turning back a mob of 4,000 masked strikers, who in a three-hour battle stoned police stationed about the plant of the British Empire Steel Company here. Calls for additional troops were sent out. $500,000 Loss in Oil Well Firs Long Beach, Calif.—A fire in the Signal Hill oil fields, north of here, destroyed two derricks and caused a loss estimated at $500,000. The Union Oil Company of Southern California and the Petroleum Midway Company lost their derricks, tools and riggings. Property of the Marine Oil Corporation and the Henderson Petroleum Company was saved by oil workers, risking their lives in bringing the blaze under control. The fire, which was started by oil escaping from a broken line, becoming ignited under a boiler, burned for two hours. No Retrial in Croker Will Case Dublin.—There will be no retrial of the suit brought by Richard Croker, Jr., contesting the will of his father, one time Tammany hall chieftain. The time for serving notice of an appeal for an appeal for a new trial expired a few days ago. No such notice or application had been served. Thus the verdict recently returned in favor of Mrs. Bla Croker, the widow, is upheld. Now Rend for Lower California Mexicali, Lower California.—Bids for the construction of 150 miles of railroad through lower California by the national railways of Mexico were opened recently, according to an announcement of Joos L. Lugo, military governor of the northern district of Lower California. The construction of this railroad, government officials officiate, will make a significant move than the arena of the railroad. Car which water can be obtained from the abutment of the coast of the Colorado river. 