Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1931, Page 27

HUGE IRRIGATION CANAL UNDER WAY 82,000 Acres of Arid Land to Get Water. Via 90-Mile Ditch Project. By the Assoclated Press. EAGLE PASS, Tex., September 25.— With a dozen huge excavating machines and scores of motor trucks, a small making a 40-year-old dream come true for Maverick county, Tex. In a little more than a year one- third of a 90-mile canal, destined to transform 82,000 acres of ‘semi-desert land into a rich farming area, has been completed. Fed by the waters of the Rio Grande, which has been tapped 40 miles up- stream from here, the fertile, slightly sandy soil of the benchlands is ex- pected to produce almost every variety of fruit and vegetable that can be grown in a temperature of semi-tropical climate. Planned for Decade. Since_before the Boer war, when Oapt. F. W. Thomson had a survey #wsda and went to England in an at- tempt to get financial backing for the| project, the canal has been the hope of the countryside. After previous unsuccessful attempts, | it is now being financed through sale of waterpower rights to an electric company. The Central Power & Light Co. has| eed to pay $250,000 a year for 10| years and $175,000 a year for the next 30 years for these rights, sufficient to retire the uim,ooo worth of bonds is- sued to pay for construction. It is that 1,000 cubic feet of water a second falling a distance of 87 feet back into the Rio Grande will generate 12,000 horsepower for the company. Meanwhile Eagle Pass, only city in Maverick County, is beginning to en- joy its long-delayed ‘“‘boom.” An application to build an 80-mile railway line is pending; work is going forward on a highway to Laredo, last gap in the El -Brownsville road; and three coal mines, long abandoned, are being reopened. . |Miss Grace Stebbing, “Grand- 17 at Royal Soiree Meeting. LONDON (N.AN.A,)—Miss Grace | Stebbing is known as the “grand- | mother” of the British® Association. | She is the oldest woman member, has | attended its meetings for 41 years, ‘and will be 92 years of age in Decem- ber. | Miss Stebbing is particularly inter- |ested in this year's meeting of the as- | sociation because once, when she was 17, she met Faraday, whose centenary |15 'being celebrated. “It was at a royal soclety soiree,” to me: ‘You and I, though we are,be- | lievers in sclence and all that the | Almighty has shown us, know that He has the secret powers we can never | hope to attain’ Within three months Faraday had died.” Miss~ Stebbing is the author of 72 |books and countless essays. 1931 by, the North American c. | (Copyright, Newspaper Alliance, ‘The Irish Free State’'s high courts | have been moved from historic Dublin Castle to the Four Courts Building. LONDON WOMAN RECALLS | TALK WITH FARADAY | | mother of British Association, Was | army of engineers and workmen is| e THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IOWA TROOPS PRESS TUBERCULAR TESTS Farmer Jailed When He Re- moves Cows From County. | By the Assoctated Press. | ‘TIPTON, Iowa, September 25.—Test- ing of dairy herds in Cedar County, in | compHance with the State bovine tuber- culin test law, was continued under the protection of Iowa National Guardsmen today. | J.'W. Lenker, arrested by Guardsmen when no cattle were found at his farm reformatory at Anamosa rather than at the encampment here or at the county jail, because “we did not wish to invite any violence,” Adjt. Gen. W. H. Bailey said at Des Moines, Lenker's cattle later were found and tested on the farm of Harry Duffy, in Muscatine County. Duffy said he had | bought them. Gen. Bailey said that charges against Lenker, principal ob- Jector in the outbreaks against enforce- cattle illegally to another county and contempt of court. In addition to testing of the Lenker herd at the Duffy farm, veterinarians Other farms. Two hundred and fifty Guardsmen accompanied the testers on their tour. At Mount Pleasant, in Henry County, 700 farmers worked until early mom- ing hours signing petitions demanding {that Gov. Turner release Lenker imme- diately and withdraw troops from Cedar | County. They threatened to withhold yesterday, today was held In the State | |ment of the bovine test law in this| she said, “and I remember him saying | county, included removing quarantined | yesterday completed their work on six | payment of taxes for the remainder of 1931 and to pay none in 1932 unless their demands were granted. «y” ATHLETIC AWARDS Department to Disclose Leading Trio. Athletic awards and special entertain- ment will mark the annual opening night program of the boys' department of the ¥. M. C. A. tonight at 7 o'clock at 1732 G street., Names of three boys who have been chosen as the outstanding trio in the department in point of “all-round de- velopment during 1931” will be I:h nounced by James C. Ingram, boys' | work director. Cups will be awarded the boys by Worth Shoults, chairman of the Boys’ Work Committee of the Y. M. C. A, | Awards also will be made to leaders in base ball and tennis. Entertainment will include an original mystery play, xvrmeg and nctfd by members of the oys’ department; games, group singing ‘lndurerrostlx,renmu, iy B All members of the department | their friends are invited. Sk ‘Suede and’ ALLIGATOR ..LIZARD ..PATENT Dull Chiffon + High Twis All New Fall Shades — ANOTHER SENSATIONAL VALUE EVENT! 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