Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — A Great Irrigation Project. [ARTICLE]

A Great Irrigation Project.

The people of Arizona are enthusiastic over a gigantic irrigation scheme, which is hoped to enhance the attractiveness of that State. The plan is to build a big steel dam In the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River of sufficient strength to resist any pressure of summer floods, part of the water thus confined to be used to operate turbine wheels to drive pumping machinery for elevating the remainder to the plain above. The supply of water in ’the Colorado is unfailing, and many of the most extensive valleys in the Territory could be irrigated by such a system. The scheme is generally said to be entirely feasible.—Philadelphia Ledger. ———r 4—x-i-, ——— “Fbed only puts on the smokingjacket I bought him when he is sick.” “I didn’t know he was ever sick. 1 ’ “He isn’t except when be tries to smoke.”—Life’s “Sthange,” said the actor, “that the ties should seem fewer as I get nearer home’”—Plain Dealer. '■