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<br />Several years ago I referred to the statement <br />by an unknown writer in the Edinburgh <br />Review which Judge Beaman presented to <br /> <br />the Supreme Court in the first Arkansas River <br />argument. The presentation here as a tribute <br />to Delph Carpenter seems fitting: <br /> <br />That although the tomb of Moses is unknown, the <br />traveler of today slakes his thirst at the well of Jacob. <br />The gorgeous palaces of the wisest and wealthiest of <br />monarchs, with theIr cedar and gold and ivory, and even <br />the great Temple of Jerusalem, hallowed by the visible <br />glory of the Deity Himself, are gone; but Solomon's <br />reservoirs are as perfect as ever. Of the magnificent and <br />costly architecture of the Holy City, not one stone is left <br />upon another, but the pool of Bethesda commands the <br />pilgrims' reverence at the present day. The columns of <br />Persepolis are moldering into dust, but its cistern and <br />aqueduct remain to challenge our admiration. The <br />golden house of Nero is a mass of ruins, but the Aqua <br />Claudia still pours into the city of Rome its limpid stream. <br />The Temple of the Sun, at Tadmor in the wilderness, has <br />fallen, but its fountain sparkles in the rays of the morning <br />as when thousands of worshipers thronged its lofty <br />colonnades. And if any work of this generation shall rise <br />over the deep ocean of time, we may well believe that it <br />will be neither a palace nor a temple, but some vast <br />aqueduct or reservoir; and if any name shall hereafter <br />flash brightest through the mist of antiquity, it will <br />probably be that of the man who in his day sought the <br />happiness of his fellow men and linked his memory to <br />some such work of national utility and benevolence. <br /> <br />May I close with the prediction that the name of Delph Carpenter <br />will live as long as our civilization persists <br />and the snows which make the rivers of the West <br />fall upon the silver topped Rocky Mountains. <br /> <br />8 <br />