. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . KOCK Beaver Creek forms the Arkansas name of this river has no connectionwith the Dominion of Canada; the wordhas two meanings. The one from whichthe river probably takes its name isCanadian, a Spanish word, being adiminutive of canyon, meaning steep-sidedgorge. The word Canada is of disputedorigin. One of the derivations given isthat the word is of Iroquois origin, and isfram Kanta or Kanada, meaning a collec-tion of huts or a village or town. Thisword the early explorers are said
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . KOCK Beaver Creek forms the Arkansas name of this river has no connectionwith the Dominion of Canada; the wordhas two meanings. The one from whichthe river probably takes its name isCanadian, a Spanish word, being adiminutive of canyon, meaning steep-sidedgorge. The word Canada is of disputedorigin. One of the derivations given isthat the word is of Iroquois origin, and isfram Kanta or Kanada, meaning a collec-tion of huts or a village or town. Thisword the early explorers are said to havemistaken for the name of the route of the Golden State Limitedis via El Paso Short Line, which is thelogical winter way. With evening de-parture from both Chicago and St. Louis,. bara, and buffct-smoking-observation car,also finished in mission style, Chicago toLos Angeles. Our frontispiece shows the arid landthrough which this portion of the roadruns, and how scarce water becomes atcertain seasons. On this subject theKansas City Star of recent date says:Water is a precious article in the upperRio Grande region of The RioGrande itself contains an ample supplyfor the Mexicans and the few Ameri-cans who live in this remote region, butit sometimes is a difficult matter totransport and distribute a supply. Inthe villages and goat ranches situatedback from the river thowater problem is one of themost difficult that the peoplehave to contend with. Manymonths may pass withoutrain. The country becomesdry and parched. The hardvdesert plants are the onlyspecies of vegetation thatare able to go through thelong droughts. Water fre-quently has to be trans-ported long distances fromthe Rio Grande. Wherethe country is mountainousand rough water carts cannot be used,
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