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Americans Get Many Grizzlies sea lion and other denizens of the Natural History Museums of Ok deep were sighted, and when we had come to anchor fishing was always In lahoma and Brooklyn Repre dulged In with great success.” sented in Alaska Trip. The first encounter with grizzlies DRIVE LASTED THREE MONTHS Bruin Gave Party Lest Trouble Than Old 8torma—Saw Caribou, Wolver ine and Fox as Well as Bird Life Every Day of Trip. Ardmore, Okla.—A party of Amer icans, headed by C. E. Sykes of Ard more, oil operator, and by Edward D. Crabb of Norman, representing the Okluhoma University Museum of Nat ural History, killed a total of 17 griz zlies after a drive which lasted three months. Eleven other grizzlies es caped. The party are now after moose and caribou, several specimens of which will be forwnrded to the Okla homa University museum and to the Brooklyn Museum of Natural History. The grizzlies gave the hunters less trouble than did the hardships of the Alaskan wilds, for the men en countered severe snow, and hall storms for 30 days. Besides Sykes and Crabb, the party Included Robert Rockwell of Brook lyn, representing the Brooklyn mu seum ; Charles Hoffinelster of Impe rial, Neb., noted big game hunter; Dr. W. H. Chase of Seward, Aluska, well- known authority on Alaskn, and sports man ; I’ete Larson of Unga, Alaska, thief guide, with several assistants. had plenty of thrills. After the men had left the Rolfe and had spent several days searching for “signs,” four full-grown bears came upon them with such a suddenness that men and bears etood watching each other a few moments in astonishment. The grizzlies made the first move. Three of them crouched to the earth and crept toward the hunters, only 50 yards away. The fourth remained be hind. There wasn’t even a tree to climb. When the three bears got with in three yards Sykes fired three times in rapid succession and the three leaders fell dead. Immediately the fourth bear charged with great roars. A bullet halted him Just as he reached the side of the other bears, and he fell dead across their bodies. Long and Arduous Tramps. These four were the largest found during the entire hunt The hide of “old Mose.” as the biggest grizzly was named by the men, measured 12 feet In length. The fur of these ani mals showed no blemishes of any kind. In further skirmishes with the ani mals not one of the party was In jured, although the bears did not fall to the rifle as easily as did the first four. To track the animals long tramps through deep snows were necessary, and frequently the men slid down mountain sides. The cold, at times, was intense, despite the fact that It was summer; It wus close to the arc tic circle. The animals were skinned by the helpers after each killing and the hides dried out and loaded on the Rolfe for shipment home. Louvain Library as It Will Appear When Completed China Now Has Its Girl Scouts ■' The new library for Louvain university, for which Dr. Murray Butler of New York laid the foundation stone, as It will appear when completed. Thirty-three nations have contributed to the rebuilding of the famous library de stroyed by the Germans. Reclaim Arid Areas of Weál Long T rip to Hunting Ground. On April 23, Sykes, accompanied by Crabb and Hoffinelster, left Seattle for Cordova on the S. S. Northwest ern and arrived at their destina tion April 30. At eight o'clock In the morning of May 1 the Rolfe II was boarded and sail was set for the hunting grounds. The trip from Cor dova to Unga consumed a week. In This photograph was taken at the first appearance In public of the Girl cluding a stop of two days at Se Scouts of China. These girls formed a guard at the “Far Eastern Olympic ward and one at Uyuk buy, Kodiak games," China vs. Philippines, In Shanghai. Island. At Unga the guides and packers were picked up and the Jour ney continued to Pavlov hay, the scene of the hunting. Camp was pitched on the shore of the bay, opposite the twin volcnnoes of Pavlov, one of which is active. This was the main cump, and was continued from May 9 to June 5, the date of departure for home. “There was not a day while we were on the hunting grounds,” Doctor ly mined In this country, or nt least Chase writes, "during which we did Stream of White Metal Flowing exported from here, nnd comes bnck not see cnrlbou, wolverine ami fox, as to This Country After Help with a service stripe. well as u greut variety of bird life, Used in the W ar. ing Win the War. Including ptarmngln, swnn, geese, Silver was used In the war to off ducks and many other shore birds. set German propaganda In the Far During the days aboard the boat many East. While troops were holding bark porpoises, thrashers, black fish, seal, RAFFLED FRE IN THE FAR EAST the Germans In their drive on Parts In the spring of 1918. a flood of silver offset completely the efforts of the Offset German Propaganda and Up Germans to stir up trouble In the Far Biting Bandit Gets held Confidence of the Natives East. Sliver dollars, Idle In the vaults Her Ring in West of the United States treasury depart During Critical Period—Treas ment, were melted down into bars and ury Restoring Supply. Omaha, Neb.—"I wish I was hurried ucross the Pacific to provide back In Boston and had never New York.—Silver, like gold, Is additional cover for paper money, seen Omaha I This Is n wild town.” So sobbed Mrs. I. W. trickling toward the United States. It about which the natives of India had Howlett of Boston, ns she told Is coming to its best and readiest become alarmed. The Importance of dispelling dis police how two bandits hail livid market In n stream thut, o f course. Is her up, nlong with a friend, and not comparable to the amount of gold quieting reports In the Far East bitten the diamond from her Imported, hut yet In sufficient volume about the reserves. Is Indicated by ring. to present unmistakable evidence that the Importance of silter in the econom life of the Far East. It Is the “He said first he would have nooks and crannies are being searched ic money of the bazaars of India. It Is to bite my finger off.” sobbed for hoarded silver, Hint bank vaults of Mrs. Hewlett, “and lie pressed Europe In which sliver has been col the coin In which bills nre paid nnd purchases made, and Is the coin with a horrid gun to my head. lected for months are being emptied, which the native has been familiar “Finally he reached down nnd that our own chest, depleted by since childhood and the one bullion and bit the diamond from the war needs. Is being refilled to Its nor which he plaices implicit confidence. ring." mal brimming level. The silver now In The size of this outflow of silver coming to the United States was niost- from the United States in the days when It was considered a necessity to aid in winning the war may be Judged from the figures of the direc tor of the mint. In the six years from 1915 to 1920, Inclusive, Imports of sliver into the United Stntes amounted to $368.933,478, while ex ports totaled $813,808,530, an excess of exports over Imports of $444,875,- 058. Production of sliver in the United States In the same period was $332,807,500. From 1915 to 1919 in clusive the amount of new silver consumed In the arts In the United States was valued at $95,709,081. American Silver Is Coming Back Eskimo Girls Riding an Elephant Shortage Made Up. The following tuhlo of Imports and exports Indicates why It was neces sary to draw upon the stock of silver In the United Stntes treasury to make up the shortage. Including the melting of 270,121,155 stiver dollars under the Pittman a c t: Im po rts 1»» 1S1» ISIS 1917 1S1« ISIS Excess ot Exports Over E xpo rts Im ports ... .«.oso.Mi su3.ti«.s:« 12s.t,a.in .................. 8S.410.01S .................. 71.376,6«» ................ 63.340.477 ...................n j« 3 .2 s » ................ 34.483,864 T o ta l. 23S.021.061 262.840.404 34,130,876 n>.iS6.tw: &3.6K.8S4 14S.61l.033 181.47O.T« 3O.7SO.3N 3s.331.74» 1S.114.S3C m u . sts . « The Pittman act of April, IMS. au thorized the melting of silver dollars to the extent of 350,tXX),(XX» to meet the world shortage of silver, produc tion here falling far short of meeting the demand. The stock of silver money held by the United States was re duced from $757,490.624 In 1915 to $540,282,504 held at the end of 1920 Now the chest Is being replenished. Ijist February the coinage of silver ('apt. Roald Amundsen, famous Scandinavian, who discovered the South j dollars was resume,! and the treasury pole. Is shown In the Seattle boo . Hiding on the elephant Is hla four-year-old la to continue Its purchases of silver adopted daughter. Cakonlta, a full-blooded Eskimo, and his elght-year-ohi 1 nntll that melted to help win the war ward, Camilla, who Is part Eskimo, has been restored. Ornery Animal Is Offered for Sale Grenada, Miss.—The tax su pervisors of Grenada county have reduced the assessment on IV. W. Whitaker’s mule from $50 to $20, the value originally placed on the animal by Its owner, after having raised the assessment to the larger figure. In a letter to the supervisors Mr. Whitaker states: “In valuing this mule to the assessor at $20 I was extremely liberal with the county. It would hnve seemed too ridicu lous to have placed him at his real value, which, at the time of falling values, could not have exceeded $10. "I hereby make this proposi tion to any member of the board, to any other citizen of the county or state: Give me $20 and take the mule, and may the good Lord be with you un til we meet beyond the river. "For Inherent wickedness of heart and meanness of disposi tion this mule. In comparison, makes the devil a smiling cherub: for a dislnellnntlon to dissipate useful energy this beast makes the grasshopper a model of. Industry.” if--------------------------------------------.------ Legislation Proposed to Spend reclamation projects proper—gross re turns of vegetable products—were $250,000,000 to Open up about $79,000,000. "The Salt River valley In Arizona Unproductive Land. illustrates well the results of Irriga tion development, based on the federal work. The Salt river project is in NATIDN IS TR BE REPAID Maricopa county, surrounding the city of Phoenix, capital of Arizona. Ac cording to the census data and other Would Place at Disposal of Settlers reliable statistics, about the time the What May Become Most Fertile reclamation act became law the Soil In the Country—320,000 population of Phoenix was approxi Thrive On Irrigated Lands. mately 5,000 and that of Maricopa county 89,000, while the taxable value Washington.—New legislation Is be of property In the county was $9,000,- ing prepared by committees of congress 000. for opening up to mankind the arid “In 1020, the population of Phoenix lands of the West. had reached 29,000, that of Maricopa Nearly 200,000,000 acres remain un county 89,000, while the taxable value improved In the reclamation group of of property In the county was close stntes—more than all the productive to $100,000,000, or more than ten times lands of Germany and the United what It was when the réclamation Kingdom combined. This improve act was passed. These results are at ment would accommodate many mil tributable mainly to Irrigation devel lions more people and add billions to opment by the United States. In na the aggregate wealth if reclamation ture, that country was distinctly arid, were attended by a success commen with rainfall wholly Insufficient for surate with that which has followed any cultivation. “The main staple product five or ten the work hitherto done. The results of twenty years of Irri years ago was' alfalfa, coupled with dairying. Though there were many every irrigated section In the West that gation may be summarized thus: Gross cost, $135,000,000; net cost, gardens and some fruits raised and is developed, Is reflected In figures of $127.000,000; estimated area, on com other Industries and a good deal of the reclamation service on the Mlnl- pletion of all projects, 3,212,092 acres; gTaln, but the most Important staple dako- project Irrigable acreage, 1,732,374 acres; was alfalfa and dairying. “In 1919 the value of the crops was "A few years ago the success of $5,924,000. The value of the manufac Irrigated acreage In 1918, 1,141,516 acres; cropped acreage In 1918, 1,051,- long staple cotton was demonstrated tured articles used on that project 193 acres; crop value of Irrigated land for that region. That bringing very was $7,139,000. In other words on that yield for 1018, $(56,000.000; vnlue high prices large areas of alfalfa were project In 1919 they purchased more average yield per acre, $63.06; average ploughed up, the cattle were sold, and than they produced.” cost per acre, on basis of total area the people went extensively Into the W. D. B. Dodson, manager of the when completed, $42; average cost per raising of long staple cotton. That Portland Chamber of Commerce, esti acre on basis of area to which service was very profitable up to 1919 and was mates that on the slightly more than was ready to supply water during the one of the principal reasons why the 1,900,000 acres of Irrigated lands re season of 1918, $70; average cost per product that year was so high. claimed a total yield valued at $00,- “In 1920 about 145,000 acres were 000,000 was obtained In 1918 and $90,- acre on basis of actual area cropped planted to long staple cotton, but the 000,000 In 1919. In 1918, $129. Authorities on the results of Irri market failed and very little of that “The value of the average yield,” gation agree that the Investment or cotton has yet been marketed, al he said, “was 63.00 per acre from advance by the government of funds though It was picked six months ago. crops alone for all the Irrigated land in the nature of loans has been pro It has potential value, but leaves the In 1918, ns compared with $20 an acre people In rather straitened circum for the average of all the cultivated ductive of great wealth. "At the present time,” according to stances, because of the lack of laud of the nation in the year 1910.” Purpose of Legislation. Director Arthur P. Davis of the re mnrket at the present time, and many clamation service, "the net Invest of them are going hack to alfalfa and The purpose of the proposed legis ment of the reclamation fund Is ap dnlrylng. The difficulty Is to get lation Is to authorize nnd direct the proximately $120,000,000. With that high-grade cattle, which they had be secretary of the treasury to trans has been constructed about twenty- fore In a marked degree, but gradu fer to the reclamation fund upon the five projects which are now In vari ally they are getting back Into the request of the secretary of the Interior ous stages of completion, several hav more stable Industry. Almost any a total sum of $250,000,000 In the fol ing been completed, and we have pre agricultural Industry down there Is lowing manner: pared the Irrigation works necessary profitable." During the fiscal year ending In Frank W. Robinson, a ra ll’oad 1922 not exceeding $20.000.000; 1923, to serve about 1,675,000 acres of land. That was the amount at the end of official, reports Improvements in Idaho $35,000,000; 1924, $45,000,000, nnd for which he thinks are typical of the each succeeding year for a period of last year. whole Irrigation section. three years not to exceed $50,000,000. Sell W ater Rights. Increase in Wealth. "In addition to that, under one of The money Is to be used by the In "In Latah county. In 1900," he said, terior department In reclaiming arid the subsequent acts the service has In western sold partial water rights from reser “the assessed vnlue of property was and seml-arld lands voirs constructed by It to canal com $0.500,000; in 1910. $20,000,000, and In states. panies, Irrigation districts and others, 1920. $34.000.000. The Increase in the Reclaiming these lands Includes the which had been previously construct wealth of Twin Falls county In the examination and survey of the lands, ed und for which the water supply last ten-year period was nbout 200 per determining the character of the soil, was Inadequate In the latter part of cent, while In Lntnh county In the the feasibility of placing water there 70 per cent. The number of acres of on by means of dams, reservoirs, tun the season. “The acreage served by partial Improved land and In farms only— nels, canals, dikes and such other water rights from the government in not Including wnste lands and lands menns as scientific engineering may connection with private projects Is a not under cultivation—In the Twin determine as feasible and practicable. little over 1,000,000 acres, so that we Falls county section In 1910 was ap At the end of five years, under the have approximately 2,700.000 acres 1 proximately 100.000 acres, and In 1920 bill a physical valuation of the prop served In whole or In part by the i 190.000 acres, while In Lntah county erty of the district shall be made and government, with the expenditure that In 1900 there were 196.000 acres In if the taxable part Is found by compe farm s; In 1910, 213,000 acres; and In tent appraisers to be donhle the cost I have mentioned. “The population upon the projects 1920, 223.000 acres. Indicating that In of construction the district shall Issue which are entirely government pro the last ten-year period 10.000 Its bonds and from the sale thereof jects Is approximately 120,000 people I ocres of this non-lrrlgated section had the reclamation fund of the United —agricultural population on the farms been placed under cultivation, while States treasury shall be reimbursed —and the Increase In population of , In the Twin Falls section 90.000 acres to the amount of money expended on the towns and the new towns alto- had been placed under cultivation. the projects, principal and Interest. gether account for about 200.000 peo- j “In 1919 the total value of all crops The whole real and personal property pie additional, making something like ’ raised In the Twin Falls section on of the district stands pledged to the 320,000 people that hnve been afforded \ 190.000 acres was $29.591.692, while In payment of the bonds. They run not Ijitah county, on 223.000 acres the exceeding twenty-five years. homes as a result of this work. "On the government projects there , total value of all crops was $1X525.000. As under the existing law. persons “These people who ha\e taken up desiring to open an Irrigation project have been established 500 schools, 476 churches, and 216 banks. These banks these Irrigated lands are the most must be organised Into a district In have a capital of $012.000 000 and de aggressive and best type of home conformity with the laws of the state posits of $113.000.0110. There are, al maker and citizen In the United or states In which the project In together, over 200.000 depositors. The States. They spend their money for a whole or In part Is sltnated. deposits In relation to the population large amount of manufactured things, The total of $250.000 fXX» advanced are much greater on the reclamation the comforts of home, and they afford to the reclamation fund Is to be re projects than In the country at large. the best market per capita for manu paid to the United States treasury “In the year 1919, which was the factured Eastern goods. One illus from thia fund beginning with the fis peak of prices, the returns from the ' tration typical of that, and typical ot cal year 1942.
