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'ihnndred yards 'below the 'black line
of scavengers. 'Hardly 'had he started
when some 'excitement seized the
birds and they began to spread their
wings and drop clumsily into the
gully.
Alfredo cautiously raised• his head
to look down into the watercourse,
and saw 'there, already covered with.
a'black mass of cgltures, the carcass,
and beyond it the leisurely retreating
form of a black jaguar,
He turned and ran swiftly back to
his Itotse, jerking off the hobbies he
rode down into a side ra'vitee ou't of
sight. The 'jaguar, he reasoned, would
return to the swampy forest a Mile
beyond to sleep during the day. 'This
distance the animal must go IS full
view upon the open prairie, If only
the onca had eaten heavily, so that it.
would be dill! and slow! The vaquero
loosed the coils of his.riata, arranged
thele carefully anal adjusted the
noose.
Then out •o'f a side .gully an eighth
of a mile away lumbered the jaguar,
his great bullet -head moving from
side to side 'ashe walked. !Waiting
only eo make sure that the eat 'was
headed for the forest, Alfredo press-
ed the spurs in. With a vicious 'little
squeal and .head toss, the stallion
bounded out of the gully, and res-
ponding 'to the pressure on his neck,
struck out dor the •jaguar:
Twenty, fifty, a hundred yards he
went 'before the cat 'heard the hoofs,
and seeing main, broke into a clumsy
gallop straight for 'the forest. That it
was a labored effort was very evident,
and with a whoop, 'half joy, half-
challenge,the vaquero, drove 'his
spurs into the horse's flanks,
'Faster and faster' flew the whistling
rope in his right hand, in an ever -
enlarging. circle as the interval bet-
ween horse and cat diminished. It
was a hopeless race, the 'fiery little
horse against a eat, none too swift ,at
any time for ,a run of any 'length, and
slowed down now by a 'heavy steal,
As he drew nearer, the horse began
to fight for his head and it was only
by a .merciless use of bit and spurs
that (he man kept him going directly
toward the jaguar,
IIinall
Y, rising n
. high -in the saddle,
he sent the noose in a snaky line
straight a't'the jaguar's head, With a
snarl the 'brute bounded sidewise and
the noose fell harmlessly in the grass.
Hardly checking speed, Alfredo jerk-
ed it in, and hastily coiling, sent the
circle out again, higher this time, and
farther over. Out, oat -it sailed, over
the great black head, and—dro'ppedl
Chock -k1 came the strain upon the.
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THE BLACK JAGUAR
Im .tire hall of mammals of"the Mu
-
tee Goeldi, in ,Para, 'there is a glass
awn case containing the mounted form of
t1 a great black jaguar—once .preta, the
:Brazilian guhrd called it. ,Crouching
cow, it grasps a fawn, which lies, with
let unglazed eyes, the delicate prey
ri ale monster, whose jetty black 'ro-
settes are only a. little darker than the
ground color of .his,coat.
The striking appearance of the
brace 'led me to question the guard.
He told the that it 'had 'been a captive
in 'the zoological garden connected
with the museum, a sullen captive,
that conlfnemeret speedily told upon,
and soon 'left a candidate for the skill
of the -museum taxidermist. 'Capter-
ad when fully grown, upon the island
of Marajo, ,that great delta of the
Amazon, it seemed never to have for-
gotten
or-
g tten its home among the swamps,.
whence it had raided the ,cattle of the
rancheros—raided then, once 'too of-
zea.
1Up to the- blue dome the uribus
were gathering, .bflack circling dots
"that settled down and grew larger,
and materialized into black vultures.
'Down :they 'came, alighting, with a
ponderous whistling of wings, in a
nasty, dou'ble black row, on each side
of a 'ravine that gashed the surface of
the surface of 'the prairie not 'far from
where the 'towering wall of swamp
forest formed ;a 'creeper_bound' bar
-
Tier, beyond whitii the cattle of the
great ,ranchero, iSenitor Joao Luiz cla
Se, dict not or 'con'ld not penetrate.
The vultures jostled and hissed pet-
-601y at one another, and craned their
blinking 'heads expectantly aver the
edge of the gully.
There, upon the ,narrow strip of
sandy shore 'bordering the water.
and lbelow the overhanging hank, with
broken neck, its .stead twisted back-
ward and sidewise end doubted use•+
lesstyunder its body, lay a range
bull, and +beside the ,carcass, feeding
from a great bloody bole in its side,
crouched a j,agaur:
IR was not ,a .common :jagattr with
tawny, black-rosettetl hide, but a
• Black one, the .prized' and 'feared once
preta. Ndt black he was, bat dark
Brown, so dark, indeed, that his black'
markings seemed' only indistinct
darker shadows iii tlie satiny sheen
that rippliedover his clot as 'the •mnsic-
4'es played beneath, it. iA young male,
supple and 'just arrived' in his prime,
fie was a .bea'tdtifu'1; powerful brute,
with thick 'heavy !tore quarters, a hobbled its 'tore lege and then ran to-
Tsr
with
.b;ro'a'd thcad" set on; a short neck ward the ravine at a point a couple at
(state)
ceased, as if to denote the breaking
twisterj}ike some great caterpillar.
After a while these struggles, too,
ceased, al if to denote 'the breaking
of the fierce spirit, The •ma's watch-
ed him for some moments and then,
laughing,'j1a'tted hint on the head and
queried, humorously, "Pronto?"
Blindfolding the horse with his
neckerchief, he led him over and dex-
terously threw him alcor the jaguar,
With the aid of the riata he dragged
the latter into the saddle, and after
the horse had struggled to .his feet
!beneath the load, 'lashed it firmly .in
place. IPatting the great head again,
he started back toward the 'hacienda,
leading the horse and thinking what
a splendid .appearaace his captive
would nna'ke safely installed in the
;Jardim Zoologico in Para,
THE LARGEST AQUEDUCT
Men, machinery, and dynamite —
driving ninety-one miles of tunnels
under the desert mountains! That, in
short; is the story of the building of
the Colorado 'River Alcnteduct as it
is being done today. It is a job that
will be going' ou, day and night, for
the next five ytars. It is about a year
ti'ow siiecc actual ccastruction work
was begun,
But as time rolls on and the bits-.
tering heat of desert seamier follows
the torrential rains of winter, more
men and more machinery will be
inoved into the field to construct open
canals and covered conduits to carry
the water across the arid basins and
sand -blown level stretches.,
Still others will follow them to
construct the giant inverted syphons
across gulch and wash.
And again, others will be sent out
to build some of the largest pump-
ing plants in the world to boost the
water up over the smmit on the aque-
duct line.
The construction program is timed
like the progress of military units in
battle, The hard rock miners with
their dynamite might be called the
heavy artillery of the organization.
]Some conception of the caliber of
barrage they are laying clown may be'
When the
fact gained fro mthe et Ula t trh e
last "shot" is touched off, leaving the
last pile of shattered rock to be haul-
ed out by the numbing machines, 41,
000,000 pounds of dynamite will have
been used up,
But before we fall into the statis-
tical snart of laying the powder holes
end to end, stretching them from
here to the moon, let us have a look
saddle'poen, and the snorting little
at the aqueduct picture' as a whole.
!d:horse squatted 'fairly back upon his The aqueduct is 'being built by Los
scarcely less heavy than the should- t haunches, head down and forefeet far '-Angeles and twelve of her sister cft-
lout and apart. The Jerk of that taut les, banded together for that purpose
subject to destruction by runoffs
.from cloud -bursts, which have a habit
of sweeping down the naked moun-
tain sides, the aqueduct will be .placed
a few •,tet underground in concrete
conduit,
There will be five pump lifts on the
line, giving 'the water a total lift up
over Shaver's Summit of aboult 11600
feet, From the summit it will flow by
gravity to the 'co'ast. The pumps will
be run by power generated at I•I'oov-
et. Dant.
So muc'h for the general picture of
the project.
The details may be seen any day
or night if the traveler across the
desert turns off the main highway on
to one of the oiled surface roads the
District has had to build on the de -
sent in order to get at the job. One
hundred and 5fty'five miles of such
road 'has been built, The ,D'istrict has
developed water supplies for the
camps, laying 1811 miles of pipelines,
Most of the machinery is driven by
electricity, 428 miles of power lines
having been strung, and 31212 miles of
telephone lines connect the remotest
parts of the job with the'Distrit ficeld
headquarters at Banning. The total
cost of such preliminary work has
been several millions,
By January .115, this year, about ten
miles of tunnels were completed,
along with necessarylb•afts and adits.
About '5000 men are on tht job. Only
amen who have lived in the District'
for several years are eligible for work,
The work is being done, partly un-
der contract and partly by the Dis-
trict itself. There are fifty-six mitts of
tunnels being done by contractors,
from all over the United States, the
cost being $36,000,000. The District
forces are building twenty-six miles
of tunnels to cost fourteen millions.
Contracts on the remaining nine miles
of tunnel are yet to be let.
The longest tunnel on the line is
the East Coachella, eighteen miles
long; the second longest, San Jacinto,
thirteen milts long,
:Frank E. Weymouth is General
Manager and Chief Engineer for the
District, FIe has as his chief aides j.
L. Burkholder, astatant general man-
ager; Julian Minds, assistant chief
intend -
1 r
a
engineer; James Munn, su
g
elft of construction; 3. 11. Gaylord,
chief electrical and mechanical engin-
eer; and J• B. Bond, construction en-
gineer in change of the field'headquar•-
ters,
The job is gathering speed. 1I was but fifty per cent. must be repaid in
planned, surveyed, and prepared 'for, l ave years, and the balance at the and
of a further period of ave years. The
years before it was put to a vote of
the people, The city of Los Angeles
itself spent ?000,000 in a survey of
the project even before the Metropol-
itan water district was formed.
ers •from which pit arose, . a 'ne core rope just back of the angle of his
and crouched his food, the lighted
jaws whirled the jaguar in a complete
hind legs and feet gripped at the somersandt,
sand and the tail jerked and slatted I Up he was in flash, tearing frant-
a'bou't nervously. 'catty at the slim something that ate
at was easy to mark the story.of
into his neck and ch'o'ked him, and
the bull's death in the sand. Sense that his claws would not catch, rear -
long, plowed furroras old of the ing, tumbling, his jaws working epas-
farce of the jaguar's leap From the modicaaly in one awful, continual
batik above, nvhiich ad knocked the snarl of demoniac rage. But all the
bull to his knees and into the water,
time the horse kept backing, bacic-
wshere he had been drinking. Truly 1iing backing, its nostrils wide with
oncas were becoming very bold, terror and excitement, and keeping
11 only they 'count be killed as the taut the slender leakhern rope—now
crocodiles were 'killed, with axes, the seemingly turned to a vibrant steel Uncle Sala. 'It is •not a part of tht
cattle would not have to stiffer front bar.o
Dant project, except in so far,
them. But to tcompare a jaguar 'to a Surely and not very slowly, the as the regulation of the flow of the
stupid
'yesteeilel I choking torture was subduing the ani- Colorado River by !Hoover Dant
yesterday day a vaquero had seen mal. Its struggles lessened, the jaws makes the diversion of water from the
a Duca slinking away front a ,cow's' ceased their spasmodic working but river into the aqueduct feasibit, physi-
carcass, one of the tansy that lay at remained in a 'fixed snarl, the tongue catty and economically.
all too frequent intervals about the protruded, and the deep-set, Pale eyes The District will pay the govern -
ranges And this in broad daylight, 'assumed a .glassy, 'bursting stare, tar,- ment 25 cents per acre foot for its
Thus Alfredo, the :principal vaquero cen'tuated by the blackness of the fur water stored behind Hoover Danz, Lt
was thinking. was a big fellow,
ge around them, Then it simply 'fought order to divert the water from the
Alfredo, biggerr Than the average
to hand its ground, clawing deep into r'i'ver, the 'District will build its own
!Brazilian cowboy. and 'with a pleas -the soil and rank grasses, but a'l'ways diversion ,dans on the river 115t5 miles
ant•, open -lace, far more •intelligent' losing, until at last its strength' seem -
than the ordinary. IHe rode 'easily, the ed to give way and it dropped limply
riata of plaited rawhide swishing with its breathing reduced to a 'few
against the saddle -bow, grotesquely raspy littCe gasps.
big spurs buckled on his bare heels, !Securing the end of the riata to the
and This gre'a't toes thrust through sattdlehorn and 'allowing the 'horse to
little brass stirrups so snarl.] 'that the keep it ,taut, Alfredo took a coil of
openings in them were 'quite ,filled. .rawhide thongs from the saddlebags
The little horse loped .along, in7pat- and noosing each forefoot separately
iently fighting the bit, for Alfredo was at the wrist -joint, he h'auled them .up
going to a distant part of the range
and tied the two cords over the 'back.
and held him i•n that he !night not 'Other nooses fastened -the hind legs
tire himself.The rider swayed as t and feet together and a heavy stick
a .wave Of the motion of his mount'' hound with therm prevented bending
flowed through- his frame. FIis eyes
the joints: Then, seizing a short stick
swept about noting the little 'bunches he thrust it .crosswise into the dbext-
o•f cattle that .gazed, wild-eyed with ore's mouth where the teeth instantly
tails half- lifted, ready to bolt at the closed .on it. A moose promptly lash -
slightest hostile sign. One or
two ed the jaws to the stick and a few
vaqueros he passed and greeted with turns round 'them before and behind
a little hand wave, it effectually prevented any danger
O'vet+head the uribus ,were sailing from that source.•
and wheeling and out ahead their This dens he slipped the end of the
numbers were 'concentrating, That riata loose 'from the saddle -horn and
me
ant there was Mood, and Food world he noose .from the jaguar's
in all probability only be another cow" palled 1 neck, Even' the little breathing seem -
fallen prey to the oncas. Pressing the ed to have ceased, and the great sleek
rein lightly 'upon the horses neck, monster lay as if -dead. 'Alfredo gave
Alfredo changed his coarse toward i little cry of dis'1may. Had he ,not
the spot. !Nearing it, he was sunprisefl
worked .fa'st enough?
to see a black line of vultures along, Then a long inspiration shook the
the rim of a deep ravine. 1No carcass
form, and the eyelids 'trembled. 'An
ion sight, but more uribus constantly other and another, and,•suddeniy, as if
alighting, always along the edge. That ,aware of his foe, but not realizing pts
was strange. plight, 'the jaguar made a convulsive
s affinity the 'tt,ca 't flashed •niton
effort to get upon Inc ,feet. The cords
his nehed,-the sea was , still feed•in'g,' tightened and,'cre;aked but did' not
—and slipping from the horse, .he
giveWith breathing now free and
his strength returned, he writhed and
Anter a while t'hese struggles, too,
under the Metropolitan water d'is
trict.
It is a x.20,0001000 project.
Tie stain aqueduct which will
bring 'Colorado River water to the
coastal plain will be 241 miles long,
terminating in the great Cajaloo Re-
servoir, southwets of Corona.. Eront
that point, which is still about sev-
enty -'five miles east of downtown Los
Angeles, the huge distribution system
will be built to deliver water to each
member city.
The aqueduct is not being built by
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The Sale of'Formaldehyde.
For some years past the Depart•
tont of Agriculture and many lead-
ing farmers have been advocating the
use of formaldehyde for the treat-
ment od seed grain for smut. Fre-
quent complaints were heard that as
formaldehyde was only handled in
drug stores, it was not convenient in
many rural sections where drug
storeswere often ten or twelve miles
apart. It was found that all that was
needed was a slight change in the
Pharmacy Act which would put for-
maldehyde in the same class as Paris
green and other poisons that are
handled by hardware stores or gen-
eral stores. It is, of course, provided
that formaldehyde can only be sold
In sealed packages carefully labelled
"Poison" so that the handling may be
properly safeguarded.,
The Marketing Loan Act.
This is an important measure in-
tended to grant financial assistance
to organizations of producers incor-
porated under the Companies Act
who desire to construct and operate
seed centres or pctato warehouses. A
loan up to fifty per cent. of the value
of the land, building, and equipment
may be made, provided that such loan
does not exceed the sum of $3,000
in any one case. This loan is free
of interest for a period of two years,
act provides the usual machinery for
the safeguarding of the investment.
This measure is introduced in re-
sponse to an indication that there Is
a real need in Ontario for encourag-
ing development
For Los Angeles, construction of i centresthe where modern eqofuipmlocalentseed for
an aqueduct more than 200 miles long cleaning seed grain can be estab-
is not a new experience. She reached I lashed, and in this way a market
out up into the Owens Valley for a secured for the good seed produced
is many sections, Similarly, there are
nntch needed water supply in 1907. indications that several sections
The first aqueduct was completed in would like to erect potato warehouses
19113. The city is fast out -growing it, in order to carry their product for
Her sister cities, too, are becoming a longer pet•iod, instead of forcing it
all on the market is a short tl'ne
hard pressed for water,_ N'ow it is thereby Placing the stock under con
within reach. Itrol of the dealer and speculator.
,An army of men is out to get it: It Better Prevention of Disease Among
is another epic of man's conquest of Been.
the desert. Where only a compare -1 A measure passed having for its
tively short time ago these cruel object the prevention of the spread
desert mountains had rarely heard the of diseases among bees provides for
clink of even the boldest prospector, the enlargement Def the scope of the
net which bas been on the statute
today modern engineering has led its books for some time. The cid act,
surveyors, its road builders, its else- however, is tonflned to foul brood.
tricians, its hard -rock miners, and its While this is one of the most serious
steel construction Wren. diseases of bees, there are other that
have developed later that require
Toiling out in the open, stripped to the attention of the inspector. The
the waist, burned to the color of In- amended act also provides that bees
diens, they have defied the blazing or appliances from apiaries where
sun in their struggle to conquer. They disease has exitsed may be moved on
certificate frons the Provincial Aplar-
will carry on until the job is dobe. let. Formerly there was prohibition
Some already have fallen in their against moving bees or appliances
tracks and others probably will fall, 'coder any condition
too, despite the best that medical
'below Hoover Dam, near P•arker,, science in the fully equipped field hos-
Ariz, Diverting lower down on the pital can provide,•
river instead of directly from Hoov- The drama of it all grips the visit-
or as he looks out across the pan-
orama of the desert and is told that
under this mountain, and the one be-.
yand, and on and on to the 'hazy blue
peaks and buttes on the horizon, hu-
mans ace burrowing ninety miles of
tunnels.
When Los Angeles' Owens River
Aqueduct was built, mules furnished
most of the power. On the Colorado
River Aqueduct one lone mule is be-
ing used, and all he does is to pull a
shiny new green .cart around the head-
quarters camp picking up rubbish,
That tells a story of progress, not
only for ,Los Angeles ,and Southern
California, but for the entire con-
struction world.
er Dant reservoir makes possible a
much shorter aqueduct, over abetter
route. The Parker Dam will be a
comparatively small dam.
!As in the Hoover Dam project, the
building of the aqueduct is being done
on a tremendous scale, the difference
being that teh dam jab is concentrat-
ed, whereas the aqueduct is sbrung
out across the desert from 'S'an Jac-
into Mountain to fhe river. From a
few miles west of the mountain,
which is one of the giant pillars of
San ,Gorgonio (Paas opening on to
the coastal plain, the distribution sys-
tem will reach out westward to Santa
Monica on the ocean, 3135 miles from
the river via the aqueduct .route.
'The capacity of the .aqueduct will
be 11500 •cabic .feet of water pit° sec-
ond. The city of Los Angeles had in
average daily consumption of water
for 191313 of 31116 second feet of water,
the peak season o'f .19129 and 1930 re-
quiring 3170 second feet avtra•ge daily
co as tem ptioin.
'T'he tunnels on. the aqueduct will
he sixteen feet in diameter, 'lined with
,concrete, a cross section resembling
a horseshot, the fiber having a slight
dip in it.
,Out on the open stretches the
aqueduct will run in open concrete -
lined canals, !there being about sixty -
'five miles of that type of construc-
tion. In places where the lint skirts.
mountainsand therefore. might . bre
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One hundred tons of silage will
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A silo 14 feet in diameter and 32
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Silos of more than 100 tons ca-
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Farm Notes.
Michigan is the first state to offer a
reward for planting nut trees beside
highways. In Europe the profit from
roadside nut treee assists in main-
taining roads. Roadside nut trees
abroad are protected from vandalism
by public sentiment, and this is true
of the nut orchards in the principal
centre of production in America.
By means of a potato cutter, a po-
tato planter, and a potato digger,
along with other machines and a.
more intelligent agriculture, a farm-
er has been able to produce 67
bushels of potatoes with one average
hour's labor. A ]calf century ago rue
product was only one-third as much,
says the United States Department of
Agriculture. "
Noah Up to. Date.
From the time of Noah when the
dove brought the green back,' hom-
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service to mankind. That well-bred
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