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ODDS AND ENDS. 



;THE RIO GRANDE DAM. 



In commenting upon the article by 

 Nathan G. Boyd, M. D., entitled "Bio 

 Grande Irrigation," which appeared in the 

 October issue of the AGE, the Silver City 

 Entfi-iirise (Silver City, N. M.) says; 

 ''We have not the honor nor pleasure of 

 being acquainted with Nathan G. Boyd, 

 M. D., the author of the article published 

 in the IRRIGATION AGE and referred to 

 above, but we do know for a certainity, of 

 our own intimate knowledge of the facts 

 in the premises, that Mr. Boyd is thor- 

 oughly well and truly informed in regard 

 to the matter of which he writes and which 

 he justly stigmatizes as 'an official crime.'" 



Discussing the navigability of the Eio 

 Grande the editor remarks further on : 

 'A navigable river, but they did not al- 

 lege the kind of craft with which it might 

 be navigated. Three weeks ago today we 

 travelled from Rincon to Albuquerque, on 

 the A. T. & S. F. E. R.. which follows 

 the river in its course the greater part of 

 the way, and for miles at a stretch not a 

 drop of running water was to be seen, 

 only an occasional stagnant pool, perhaps 

 one to two feet in depth. Yes, and occa- 

 sional stretches of miles without even the 

 stagnant pools, only the dry white burn- 

 ing sands of the river bed, navigable for 

 the patient Mexican burro, but still better 

 suited to navigation by the camel accus- 

 tomed to the burning sands of the Sahara. 

 This was the navigable river which United 

 States officials procured an injunction to 

 restrain a company from placing obstruc- 

 tion to navigation in its course. Nor is its 

 condition this season an exception, We 

 have seen it thus every season for the past 

 sixteen years. 



"A dastardly outrage has been perpe- 

 trated upon a company composed largely 



of capitalists of a friendly foreign nation. 

 The courts of the United States have been 

 disgracefully brought into ridicule and 

 disrepute by the prosecution of this ab- 

 surd suit based upon the navigability of 

 the Rio Grande river." 



SPIRAL RIVETED PIPE FOR WATER 

 WORKS CONSTRUCTION. 



The great strength and long life of 

 Root's Spiral Riveted Water Pipe, the 

 ease with which it may be handled, and 

 the fact that it is not liable to give trouble 

 through leakages, make it especially de- 

 sirable for water works construction. 



The Abendroth & Root Mfg. Co., 28 

 Cliff street, New York, sole manufactur- 

 ers, report a number of large orders re- 

 cently received for their pipe for this 

 particular service. 



To Sheely & O'Shee Co.. contractors 

 of Lincoln, Neb., they have lately shipped 

 12.000 ft. of spiral riveted pipe which will 

 be used in extending the water works at 

 Lanesboro. Minn. About 10,000 ft. have 

 been sent to Milledge. 111., and 15,000 ft. 

 to the city of Augusta, Wis. The U. S. 

 Water Steam Supply Co.. contractors. 

 Kansas City, hare placed an order with 

 the Abendroth & Root Mfg. Co., for about 

 5,000 ft. of pipe which will be used at Con- 

 oordia, Mo., and 6.500 ft. are to go to J. L. 

 White, contractor, Wyoming. 111. 



Modern Mexico for November contains 

 an entertaining account of a visit to a 

 Mexican theatre. The author. Irene A. 

 Wright, attended the theatre "Principal'* 

 of Mexico City one afternoon and thus 

 sums up her impression of it: ''But badly 

 set, badly costumed, and badly paid, as is 

 the Mexican theatre, it can often set the 

 American an example in morality, and at 

 least compare favaorbly with it as far as 

 the true genius of acting is concerned. 

 The music is always good: the dances typ- 



