PULSE OF THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY. 



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IN NEW MEXICO. 



IRRIGATION ATTRACTS THE BEST. 



The Mesilla Valley Irrigation Colony Company 

 has filed articles of incorporation. 



The incorporators are : N. E. Boyd, of England; 

 W. T. Thornton, of Santa Fe; A. M. Loomis, E. V. 

 Berrien, E. C. Roberts, P. E. Kern, J. L. Campbell, 

 of El Paso; W. S. Hopewell, of Hillsboro; P. Freu- 

 denthal, and Henry Bowman, of Las Cruces. 



The company is organized with a capital stock of 

 $25,000. The water is to be taken from the Rio 

 Grande. The principal places of business are at Las 

 Cruces, El Paso, Albuquerque, Chicago and New 

 York. _____ 



FARMERS'*MAPS. 



In France the government is preparing maps to 

 illustrate the chemical qualities of the land in the 

 various parts of the country, so as to show the best 

 fertilizers for each particular section. Why would it 

 not be a good plan for the Western States to publish 

 fruit maps showing the location and range of the 

 lands best adapted for special fruits? There was 

 material enough exhibited from different portions of 

 the and region at the World's Fair to make a good 

 beginning. 



THE EOOY POWER DAM, EDDY, N. M. 



The Haggerman power dam is nearly completed. 

 It is furnished with four turbine wheels of 65 horse 

 power each, and each capable of operating two Well- 

 ington duplex pumps; the plant will operate also an 

 electric light plant, ice manufactory, water works 

 pumps, and manufacturing establishments; the reser- 

 voir formed by the dam holds 29 million cubic feet of 

 water. 



OF COURSE. 



Anticipating quite a demand for the article copied 

 from THE IRRIGATION AGE last week, on " Irrigation 

 by Windmills," a large number of extra copies of 

 The Oasis were printed, but before Friday night 

 they were entirely gone, with a demand for more. 

 For which reason the paper is reprinted this week, 

 and will be found again on the first page. The 

 Oasis, Ariz. 



IN EGYPT. 



Four proposed sites for a storage reservoir for irri- 

 gation when the Nile is low have been inspected. 

 Three of the schemes are for building a dam across 

 the river, and the fourth proposes to use the natural 

 depression of the Wady Raian by filling it with the 

 flood water of the Nile. 



Arizona papers are full of enthusiasm over the visit 

 of D. B. Robinson, vice-president of the A. T. & S. 

 F6 R. R., accompanied by the Hon. Robert E. Lin- 

 coln, N. K. Fairbanks, Marshall Field and Norman 

 Ream, who are studying the results of irrigation in 

 the West. 



THE RIGHT WAY. 



The Las Vegas, N. M., papers are full of discussion 

 over the irrigation of that old Spanish grant. The 

 object is to unite the three cities and one of its pres- 

 ent ditches into one complete system. That is the 

 right way, brother Optic, cogitate, agitate, irrigate. 



Both the East Riverside and Gila Bend canals run 

 across the 23,000 acre reservation of the Papago In- 

 dians, in Arizona, but do no good until the western 

 edge of the reserve is reached. As the tribe does not 

 number over 30, the settlers have petitioned Congress 

 to move the redskins onto another reservation. 



Messrs. Itagaki and Miyazaki, of Japan, have pro- 

 duced from the nettle hemp threads of the fineness of 

 No. 100, a fineness never previously obtained even by 

 the silk manufacturers of France. The nettle hemp 

 is said to be three times as strong as silk, finer, and 

 equal in luster. 



The Bothwell irrigation canal in Bear Lake county, 

 Idaho, which cost over $2,000,000, has been put into 

 the hands of a receiver on account of unprofitable 

 business. The water rates charged were so high that 

 the farmers refused to pay them, getting along with- 

 out water. 



It is reported that the state of Chihuahua, Mexico 

 has granted Mr. Frank S. Kirkland concession to ob- 

 tain water for irrigation purposes from the river Con- 

 chos, at a point 1,200 to 1,500 meters distant from the 

 town of Santo Domingo. 



Walla Walla, Wash., is to have an irrigation canal 

 in the southwestern portion of the valley, just above 

 Dry Creek canon, covering 3,500 acres of fine land. 

 Work is expected to be begun in the spring. 



Senator White, of California, has introduced a bill 

 appropriating $250,000 to be expended by the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture to determine upon the best plan 

 for reclaiming the arid West. 



A large sized boom in apple planting, in Oregon 

 and Idaho, is the result of their fine exhibits at the 

 World's Fair. 



