The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1906, Page 11

the oes in the empiloy. of wear the uni- Men rred by m pan- elr sages to s X ncomplaining, y as serenely wearer tion = branch in stern f a fer- aring and he- ts récords are re- z deeds of aged v eng otential ds of Fellows. seemed K RN 3 'go dow his experi- we his report to Wash- ® it no word of s ar dships of survey work in a " It was brief and to the nison tunnel project is feas- e order came from Washington: plete surveys for construction.” Hats Off to _McConneIL | known in | McCon 88 “‘Gu out. there elzed now they r_hats 1 fof one | | | | Wolf Bounties in Michigan (Detroit News.) method by which a Marquette wolf hunter secured $54 In $ to bury a quantity of meat w of the early Winter and mesat to place traps, which covered by snow in the reg- rse of precipitation 1. time the meat ‘ripened suffi- nts -of its whereabouts sought by the wolves, itgging dowhward, sprung the e bounty. One, more oun- fellows, avoided the trap & under it and securing the ut exchanging his hide for it "he method of catching wolves by ing is a fair one, but what shall d of the L'Anse man who, cap- g 4 female wolf, taught her to be- ecoy for the gallants of her give b then » & long chain about her neck made fast et one end, she wae allowed the | ‘ doc0cceegee l I | 1 | | { ? 090000000000 00000000000 000000000000000000000000000000SRO0CRCOOIOGEEGTDL B ON WESTERN IRRIGATION PROJECTS The wolf slayer took position out- side of his cabin door, in his jaws the stem of a cob pipe, across his knees a long-range rifle. A sneakihg gray form from the woods, a coquettish sal- utation from the captive, the crack of a rifle and the whistle of a bullet, forged each a link in the chain of tragedy that placed $175 in the purse of the carbineer as the profits of a few weeks The gay deceiver who stood for this treachery was a fast friend to her captor and seemed to enjoy the havoc wrought on tiae chivalry of her race. e ——— Thus Is Genlus Thwarted. (Btray Stories.) The young man with the uncut halr and hungry look had submitted a poem for editorlal consideration. “Well,” sald the man behind the blue pencil, after a hurried glance at it, “how does § strike you." ““Why—e! really, stammered the rhymster, ““that is more than I—er—'" ““Well, that's the best I can do,” Inter- rupted the busy editor. “I couldn’t think & wide range of captivity. She sang for company, apd when admirers. ap- peared flirted desperately with them. of printing a poem like yours for less than that. I have to think of my circu- lation.” (New York Times.) EN who have shot the “big cats M of the Indlan jungle” all em- phasize the difference between an “ordinary tiger” and a “man-eater.” One varies from the other as much as a domestic pussy from a wildcat. The man-eater when It catches sight of a hunter is at_once all aflame with the passion to devour him. * It has tasted human flesh ard knows its sweetness. When the Hritisher in Indla goes tiger hunting, therefore, he looks first of all to his own safety. Having learned that a tiger rarely looks up- ward, he seeks a position at some di tance from the ground, as, for in- stance, the howdan of an elephant, or a machan, or leaf-covered box, perched in a tree. The tiger usually keéps its eyes on the ground because it finds its prey there ang its enemies also. The nat- How Would You Like to Hunt the Festive Man-Eating Tiger? { ural inhabitants of the trees, the birds and the monkeys, it holds in gon- tempt But on the ground, besides the sweet-fleshed man. lives the water buffalo, its most formidable foe. In combat the buffalo most times kills the tiger. The peculiar sagaocity of the elephant is of great assistance to the man who hunts tigers from the howdah. At the approach of the big cat the pachyderm trumpets an alarm, and If properly trained it will snatch its master with its trunk, should he be on the ground, and 1ift him into the howdah on its back. It then seeks th adow of some tree and stands perfectly still, as If knowing that in this way it will steady the hunter's aim. When one shoots tigers from the machan, or tree amb ‘he usually picks'a place where the beast is wont to retreat when alarmed. With a com- panion he hides himself in his nest 9000000 v0ec0cs00000000000 THRILLING FEATS OF UNCLE SAM'S ENGINEERS 0000000000000 000 0000 3 © 00PN 00NN PRt leriiiesnetiitenitessiionsecoissenoetesessosssncsscsescscccsscocese In his hand he holds a magaszine rifle loaded and cocked, while In his belt he carries a half dozen pistols for instant use siaould the gum fall him. Then he sends out & score or more of na- tives as beaters to drive the beast to- ward him. Encireling the' region, the beaters begin to rap on the trees and to shout, and these noises, because of their strangeness, frighten the animal. Yet, when neither the howdah nor the machan I8 available, the tiger hunter will seek the shelter of only a steep, high rock. A captain of the Indian army recently killed a huge man-eater, with only a rock for refuge. “The very evening that I slew the beast,” sald, in telling of his ad- venture, “the creature had devoured a woman returning to the village with & bundle of wood she had cut in the jungle. Only an anklet and some locks of hair were left to tell of her fearful fate. The villagers called me foolish for trying to kill the brute, for they said he would prove too cunning. Man- eaters, they sald, were far more cun- ning than tigers that had never tasted human flesh. After they had sacri- ficed to their god, however, they be- came more hopeful. The beaters went out to drive him toward me. It seemed most likely he was’lying under & great banyan trée not very far away. Mean- time I perched myself on a rock high over a stream. Soon I heard fleres screams, and knew that the beaters had found the tiger at home and were driving him toward me. A moment later he crashed through the under- brush a hundred feet away. Thers he stopped, his great tongue lolling from his cavernous mouth. Hearing the nolse coming nearer, he slunk toward the stream. My first bullet caught him in the flank. It only angered him, and lifting his head he glared at me with blazing eyes. It was the first time he had seen me. The sight of a man seemed to drive him mad. With a flerce roar he leaped upon me. but just as he rose in that gpring which meant the death of either one of us my see- ond bullet pierced his heart, and he fell 1n a heap at the bottom of the rock.” | without sufficte: thing, however, which is that he Is not given to talk. McConnell's orders could not be carried out By surveying through the canyons they had to lower him down in there with ropes, 3o that he might make a map of it —a real topographic map. with ‘contour lines, levels and bench marks as clear and easy to trace as the map of any seo- tion or ward of your own town. -Then ha established precise levels at both ends of the proposed tunnel. This was a heart- breaking job. Of course, tne turnel could not be bullt level, because it must earry water; and, moreover, it must carry just the amount of water needed over in the Uncompahgre Valley. 1 were budlt slope from: river to val- ley, it would not carry enough. water, while if it had too much slope it would carry too much water Results Only Wanted. And so McConnell ran levels up over the mountain to the valley and back fromi the valley over the mountain to the bot- tom of the canyon, out and In repeatedly, checking his measurements each time until he had just the slope r red. The fact that he took his life in his hands a score of times each day did not bother Washington in the least Washington was looking for a set of construction plans. But McConnell's job was fust begun when he had established the slope levels It was then necessary to measure the length of his tunnel down to the nearest tnch. You would probably measure off a house lot by running a 100-foot jape along the boundaries, but that would not do in this case. There Is a hill 3000 feet high between the ends of this tunmel, and the tunnel itself goes straight rough. He measured by triangulation, a weird sort of expedient to engineers who have studied and worked long enough to learn it; but even that was not sufficient for this purpose. distance was Slope boarding is easy to understand. If you wanted to determine the horizontal distance between the head ard the foot of a flight of stairs you. would start at the top and measure the width of each tread, and a line for the overhang, yow would add these measurements together, and have .the horizontal distance. Now, McConnell and crew did something similar to this. a long board scaled off to a eadth—just sor long, no more and no L In the middle of this board was set a spirit level that the measuring edge of the b could be set ‘true. With a man at e end of the board and one in the r to watch .the spirit level, ' they st from.a precisely defined point at th of the hill and measured down hill way. One end of the board was on this point and the other was dire along the route and raised or lowered un- til the middle man said “level.” Then the man at the outer end would drap plumdb bob and mark the spot direct beneath the end of the boa board would be reversed, would take the stake an would drop the plumb b t did not hit the same identical spet that it had marked before. something was wrong, and they began afl r again Having agreed upon a precise distance, and marked it permanenily, this new mark would be taken as a basis and the process repeated until the whole distance was covered Like Steep Slate Roof. Imagine now three men slope-boarding down the steepest siate roof you ever saw. Of course, they would d rubber- soled shoes and ropes, just as “Guanison’ McConnell and his men did. but you should remember in this connection that you never saw a slate roof as steep-as the walls ‘of Gunnison canyon: builders do ndot make them, nor do they perch thelr ridge poles 3000 feet above ground. McConnell prepared his plans, sent thém to Washington, and in the course of time came back the order, “Proceed to 4ig.”” and he is digging now with the same spirit with which he prepared the plans. About two miles, or a littls more than one-third of the great Gunnisom tunnel has now been completed. Night and day. unceasingly, the air drills are biting their | way into the graite through the Vergal mesa, which divides the watersheds of the Gunnison and Uncompahgre Rivers. Character of Valley. The Uncompahgre Valley, which Is to be made fertile by the waters of the Gunnison River, comprises parts of Ouray, Montrose and Delta Countles. Jt has a general elevation of above 5000 feet. Most of the land under the Gove: ent project s in private ownership, the cultivated eas baing largely in orchards, alfalfa nd grain. The well-watered orchard lands, In bearing, are easily worth $500 per acre, and this frult has a ready sale in the Eastern markets of the United States and Europe. The valley is espe- cially adapted to the ralsing of potatoes, sugar-beets and vegetables generally. The tunnel, which will be cement lined, will have a carrying capacity of 1300 cubic feet per second and will connect directly with an elaborate system of canals and ditches, extending down the valley on both sides of the river. Owing to the fallure of the contractors, tha Gov- ernment i now consfructing the tunnel under force account and expects to have the work completed and in operatfon in the Spring .of 1908. Enthusiasm of Men. The men have been trained gradually to the work and they go at the tunnel fall ltke a lot of gophers, three eight-hour shifts a day and nearly every shift work- ing to beat the others’ record. The completion of this work will add 2000 homes to the Uncompahgre valley and will increase the taxable wealth of Colorado by not less than $10,000.000. The estimated cost of the whole .project is approximately $2,500,000, which sum must be returned to the Government in not less than ten years after completion by the owners of the lands which are to be lrri- gated. W. K. HOWARD. Menu for Consumptives (What-to-Eat.) Dr. Heinrich Stern, of Philadelphia, gives a sample menu for a consump- tive welghing 119 pounds whose nor- mal weight ought to be 140 pounds. He says thls menu should be varied from day to day, the patient’s condi- tion determining the variations and despite the opinlon of one sclentist that salt is not needsd in our food, Dr. Stern adds that salt must be added to all dishes. Herewith is the menu: Breakfast—230 cuble centimeters of skim milk, witc four yolks. 30 grains of _wheaten toast. X Barly lunch—Cup of coffee, two yolks. M dinner—One plate of goup, with four yolks; 150 grains of very lean beef and 30 grains of wheaten toast. Four o‘clock—250 cubic centimeters of skim millk, 30 C. C, whisky-and three yolks. Supper—100 grains of farina or rice, porridge with one ydlk and skim milk; 75 grains of apple sauce. Bedtime—Night cap,'composed of 30 cubic centimeters of hot water, 10 eu- bic centimeters of whisky, one yolk and a teaspoonful of granulated sugar. with