Hudson storage scheme aims to divert water for southern irrigated lands
Local managers announce an agreement to route first flow from the Hudson Reservoir system to south side canals to supply surplus lands and drought relief. Plans detail a giant gravity canal from Verde to the Sacaton plains, boosting irrigation for about 300000 acres near Florence, with further dams proposed on Queen Creek and at Tonto Creek to support expansion.
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Hudson Reservoir and Canal Company
Sumer
North Side
South Side
Salt River
Sacaton
Gila
Mesa
Florence
Salt River Valley
Superstition
Verde
Goldfields
Pima
Tonto Creek
Box Canyon
Queen Creek
Raither
Superstition Mountain
Summer Widowers Ride To Smiths Mill In Gay Demeanor
A playful vignette describes husbands seen cycling with attractive partners after wives depart for Los Angeles. The scene contrasts flirtatious motion with domestic virtue as a lawn suit on a bicycle moves toward green fields, prompting a warning to Susan to return home before waves or fashion threaten virtue. The piece closes with a folk exchange about flies and causes of motion in everyday life.
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Los Angeles
Smith’s Mill
Susan
Hangman's Oak a Century of Blood in California
California tale recalls Hangman's Oak in Cala veras County near Milton Copperopolis where forty men were hanged beneath its limb. From early days to the 1850s fights and executions left the ground stained and legends of the bloodied tree persist.
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California
Calaveras County
Milton
Copperopolis
San Francisco
Stockton
Tuleville
Fife
Poem Written at Father’s Barn Stirs Editor
A woman presents a poem to the editor in an office. The editor jokes about the piece being written in her father’s barn and expresses relief that it is not a barnyard manuscript. The exchange ends with a wry remark about reading it if he passes by.
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Georgia
Oregon farmer claims sulfur injection cures caterpillar ravages
An Oregon farmer describes a method to save orchards from caterpillars by drilling a sap hole, filling with sulfur, and sealing it. He reports the sulfur reaches every branch, killing the insects, with no tree damage and successful results over years.
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Oregon
Lost Adriatic Ruins Revealed By Diver South Of Istria
A diver in eighty feet of Adriatic water near the Istria peninsula uncovered ruined walls and street plans of a city believed to be Cisa. The masonry extended about 100 feet before the diver halted when his line ran out.
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Istria
Adriatic
Cisa
German sugar beet industry yields vast annual crops
The sugar beet industry in Germany handles about 14 million tons raised yearly. The average yield is 13 tons per acre with a sugar content around 2.17 percent.
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Germany
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