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four years, and in short everything 
grows like mad as soon as the water 
is turned on to give the soil life. 
And it has been found that the soil 
is not sand, as was commonly sup- 
posed, but silt from the overflows 
through past ages and eons of the 
Colorado river. Now econies the 
chief viticultural expert of the De- 
partment of Agriculture, Prof. Geo. 
(. Husmann, and says that by intro- 
ducing the proper varieties of vines, 
this region will supply the United 
States with the earliest and finest 
grapes, capable of carrying to the 
Atlantic seabord in good condition. 
The government is making the val- 
ley resemble the tropics more close. 
ly by introducing the date palm, 
which has been shown to thrive 
there and fruit abundantly, and per- 
haps we may yet see bananas and 
other choice tropical fruits grow in 
profusion in this once despised lo- 
cality, provided that the government 
finds out how to control erratic 
Colorado river, which is at once the 
life and menace of the valley. Presi- 
dent Taft has as one of the prob- 
lems before him this summer this 
very question, and he has called in 
the aid of the best experts in the 
government service to help settle a 
very vexing situation. 
For weeks past, the time stretch- 
ing now into months, there has been 
received at the census office a steady 
stream of kicks and protests from 
enumerators who want their pay and 
can’t get it. Many of these enume- 
rators have been seeking a settle- 
ment for months. Piteous appeals 
come in from them. Some of them 
have sickness in their families. Some 
of them are about to lose their homes 
unless they can get the little sums 
due them. Others have still other 
pressing needs. Even food and shel- 
ter are lacking with many. Aggra- 
vating these appeals are the local 
troubles of the women who have 
been working at tabulating in the 
main office in Washington. They 
too have been complaining long and 
loud because they could not get 
their pay. The trouble seems to be 
chiefly in the internal administra- 
tion of the office, and it is no wonder 
that the chief of the bureau gets 
out of town, as he is said to do, in 
order to get away from the torrent 
of complaints that pour in upon him. 
His real troubles, however,. will 
come when the cities which feel 
that his figures are libels on them 
are heard from. Washington was the 
first, but there are many, many more 
to be heard from, 
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