WORLD'S MOST VALUABLE IRRIGATED DISTRICTS 213 



living the year round. It is unreason- 

 able to expect more. Often times in 

 the desire to reap large returns in crops 

 between the trees, the trees themselves 

 are neglected. I would not advise crop- 

 ing after the third year, unless it were 

 for the purpose of a small family gar- 

 den. Bearing fruit trees require all the 

 nourishment the soil contains. 



Other valleys may equal, or even sur- 

 pass the districts above mentioned, but 

 I am convinced that Wenatchee, Hood 

 River, Yakima and Spokane Valley will 

 always be in the front ranks, and when 

 we think of the best apples grown, 

 these places will naturally be called to 



mind, and they will certainly make a 

 (decided claim for the honor of bein^ 

 the districts where the best and highest 

 priced apples are raised. 



Our National Government has aided 

 very mater iall)' in reclaiming the arid 

 lands of the West, and if our legislators 

 at Washington could see the direct re- 

 sults of the appropriations that have 

 been made in the past few years to the 

 United States Geological Survey, and 

 the Bureau of Soils of the Agricultural 

 Department, they would certainly be 

 very liberal in their appropriations to 

 these departments the coming year and 

 thereafter. 



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Surveying in the Grand Canyon 



