272 THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



vice a practical trial and test in connection with building reservoirs in 

 some of the irrigation states. It has long been known to dealers in 

 wind mills that when wells are driven in sheet water in western val- 

 leys, the fountain head being above the pipes the water of its own 

 gravity will flow up and out of the pipes, and if they are used on an 

 extensive scale, the supply of water thus received would readily irri- 

 gate large bodies of land. I wish you the entire confidence of the 

 government in your simple and feasible plan of making the water 

 available in all of the irrigation states. Your constant efforts in de- 

 vising a mode of makiug the vast lands which are almost a desert into 

 valuable farming and stock raising farms should be highly commended 

 by the thinking people of the entire west. 



Yours Truly, 

 BRINTON PUMP & PLUMBING Co. 



(Signed) G. G, BRINTON, Prop. 



ALMOST. 



Did you ever live in the land Near- 



By 

 On the fringe of the forest they 



call Almost, 

 Where the ships drift homeward 



from By and- By 

 All laden with wishes from the 



Wonder Coast? 



Where the music is sweeter than 



Ever Was, 

 And flowers are fairer than Ever 



Could Be, 

 Where the only language is Ohs! 



and Ahs! 



To tell of the beauties we almost 

 see? 



From this blest invisible land Be- 

 yond, 

 Just over the border of sorrow 



and stress, 

 Come notes of a nocturne memory 



conned 



Like the lingering joy of a dream 

 caress. 



Did ever a soul in its farthest flight 

 Wing its way to the wonderful 



city Somewhere 



On the shore of this shadowy coun- 

 try quite? 



Yet ever and always we are 

 almost there 



