Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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alled and Uncle Sam went intothe cement business; and charging thecost of the whole plant against only the first 200,000 barrels, the mill has alreadymore than paid for itself. When therailroads found they did not after all haveUncle Sam by the throat, it was surpris-ing how cheaply cement could be handledby those philanthropic railroad com-panies which do not like a rate-bill inCongress. Perhaps the most interesting illustra-tion of the government work is that onthe Truckee-Carson project in Nevada.This state lies in a basin into which mostof its rivers run and evaporate, therebeing no other outlets except in the sandsand toward the sky. The Humboldtriver, rising in the mountains dividingNevada from Utah, drains the wholenorthwestern portion of the state througha thousand wandering miles to spreadout into a large lake, there to evaporate.The Truckee, Walker and Carson rivers,formed of the melting snows of the Sierra Digitized by Google 42 Uncle Sams Romance with Science and the Soil.
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VIEW SHOWING THE FLOODED BANKS OF THE IMPERIAL HEADING No. 8, AT THE JUNCTION OFTHE THREE HEADLANDS OF THE MAIN IMPERIAL CANAL, MEXICO, 1906. Nevada mountains in California, flowinto lakes with no outlets, also to evapo-rate. These streams have carried greatquantities of silt from the mountains andin high water have spread them over theparching plain, their immense potentialfertilities awaiting the spell of the water.This project unites these four principaldrainage systems of Nevada by means ofgreat main canal and lateral canals andwill redeem at an eventual cost of $9,-000,000 about 400,000 acres of desertwhich, for a half-century, has been usedas an emigrant graveyard and for mil-leniums before in no other capacity thanthat of holding the world together. A dozen lakes in the foothills will beused as primary natural reservoirs andthe great dams in the valleys will with-hold the flood and distribute it throughthe network of canals over the eager acres. The Carson sink in the old days

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