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supported must have been very great. And it is estimated from the 

 amount of ground that was cultivated, and the ruins of houses and the 

 remains of pottery, shell or.naments and stone implements, found eve- 

 rywhere over the lands, that the population supported by the ditches 

 would not fall short of 500,000 souls; an estimate that the best author- 

 ities consider 'conservative. 



THE COLORADO WAY. 



There can be no doubt about the genius or the advantages of Col- 

 orado now that the voice of a woman comes crying from the wilder- 

 ness. In an exultant key she sings: 



"As I read of sister states 



Whose crops are all burnt up, 



I'll just set forth in doggerel rhyme 



That Colo, is in luck. 



Of all the schemes that's laid by man 



We like the Irrigation Plan, 



If the amount cf water is to great 



You shut it off with the headgate. 



If the amount is quite too small 



Open the gate and take it all. 



And if no man comes round that way 



We think your case is all 0. K. 



Our soil is very rich and deep 



And holds the moisture many a week. 



But, if perchance k fails to rain 



We turn the water on again." 



Bravo! Colorado. We await with breathless interest the forth 

 coming volume sure to follow this maiden effort. 



"The man who whispers down a well 



About the goods he has to sell, 

 Won't reap the golden, gleaming dollars, 

 Like one who climbs a tree and hollers." 



