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that it will recommend legislation to the 

 1 'ongress touching this question. 



Commissioner John M. Farquhar. one of 

 the men on the commission representing 

 the labor interests said: 



"If. instead of addressing memorials to 

 Congress, people would build up a 

 merchant marine by which the overpro- 

 duction of America could be carried and 

 sold to foreign countries there would be 

 no cause for objecting to trusts in this 

 country. In many cases the trusts have 

 proved a benefit to the public at large. 

 If the competition between rival cor- 

 porations will lower prices the public is 

 glad of it. There is one thing in the trust 

 problem which should be remedied, and 

 that is the enormous overcapitalization of 

 corporations. It is responsible for more 

 business depression in this country than 

 anything else. The remedy for this lies 

 with the state legislatures." 



We have been favored with a 

 I"' 8 letter from E. Rahib Raif, of 



Turkey Aleppo. Turkey, whe describes 



the progress, of irrigation in that part of 

 the world and tells of the con tern elated 

 improvements. The municipality of the 

 city of Aleppo have decided at the 

 instance of his Excellency Raif Pasha. 

 Governor-General of the Vilaqet of 

 Aleppo, to place the old cumbersome 

 system of modern water elevators or 

 "norias" by galvanized steel ones of im- 

 proved make. He has written to this 

 country for prices and catalogues from the 

 leading dealers in such machinery. This 

 will not be a question of one or two water 

 wheels, but of many hundred, perhaps 

 thousands, as it is intended to use this 

 system throughout the whole area of 

 Northern Syria, along both banks of the 

 Orontes, Tigris and Euphrates, far into 

 the great Syrian desert. This, the 

 writer says, "will confer great oppor- 

 tunities for cultivating and fertilizing 

 those vast semi-arid regions which are at 

 present neglected for want of proper 

 irrigation.'' The motive power of the 

 proposed water elevators will be the 

 currents of ihe rivers themselves and the 

 wheels must be. therefore, very accurately 

 balanced, so as to revolve with the 

 slightest flow of water. The irrigation 



movement is being carried on with such 

 activity, that where there are no running 

 streams from which to take water by the 

 above method, pumping windmills are to 

 be >-rected. the mills to be bought in this 

 country. Twenty mills have already been 

 ordered from the Aermotor Co. of Chi- 

 cago, anl other large orders' are expected 

 to be placed in the near future. Manufac- 

 turers dealing in irrigating machinery of 

 every description would do well to 

 correspond. 



It is interesting to to hear of the strides 

 made in the irrigation movement in 

 distant countries, and we think that "it's 

 a small world after all." 



One of our subscribers in 

 Jamaica. Jamaica writes us that there 



are now on foot two or three 

 schemes for irrigation on a la^ge scale on 

 the island, and a gentleman from there is 

 now on his way to California for the pur- 

 pose of investisating the various methods 

 of irrigating in use. with a view to 

 adopting that most satisfactory. 



Two representatives of the 

 Hard ''Grand Falls Irrigation & 



County. Improvement Company" sit- 

 uated in Ward county. Texas, made us a 

 pleasant call this week and told of some of 

 the advantages and improvements of their 

 section of the country due to irrigation. 

 Thanks to the Grand Falls JWjr Era we 

 have long been acquainted with the enter- 

 prise, and "up-to-dateness.'' if we may so 

 coin a word, of that locality, but it was 

 pleasant to meet the promoters of irri- 

 gation interests and hear of the induce- 

 ments Ward county offers to homeseekers. 

 We hope to give more than a brief mention 

 of this favored locality next issue. 



A July issue without a mention 



Contrast. of the "glorious Fourth" 

 would be like "the play of 

 Hamlet with Hamlet left out'' to use a 

 hackneyed expression, and would more- 

 over show a lame-liable lack of patriotism 

 on our part. The contrast over last 

 Fourth was great indeed and cannot better 

 be shown than by quoting at length from 

 the editorial appearing in the Chicago 



Ocean the day after the Fourth. 

 "The Fourth of July had a wider cele- 

 bration yesterday than ever before. A 



