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But this word of comment inevitably expands into 

 many paragraphs, and yet we have only touched upon 

 the fruitful and entrancing theme of the reclamation 

 of a wilderness. 



Who realizes the meaning of the expression "a half 

 million acres ? " The size of agricultural counties 

 east of the Rocky mountains is usually twenty-four 

 miles square, which gives an area of 368,640 acres, so 

 your 500,000 acres of irrigated land is equivalent in 

 area to one and one-half, a good eastern county, while 

 its productive capacity is certainly four fold that of 

 the eastern land, acre for acre. 



Taking a lengthened view of the subject, your irri- 

 gated area is equivalent to 800 sections or square 

 miles. If those sections were placed end to end it 

 gives us a strip of about the richest land in the world, 

 one mile wide and 800 miles long ; equal to the entire 

 Pacific coast line of the State of California, or on the 

 Atlantic coast from the city of New York to Savan- 

 nah, Ga., or from New York to Chicago. Incident- 

 ally it may be mentioned that the justly famous 

 Riverside valley contains 12,000 acres. 



CLINTON C. HUTCHINSON. 



April j, 1894.. 



WHERE A DRY YEAR BRINGS PROSPERITY. 



It looks like a dry year in many parts of the United 

 States. Wherever this condition prevails the evils 

 of a drouth will be added to the hardships of prevail- 

 ing low prices. This is the general rule, but there 

 will be a few notable exceptions. In California the 

 drouth is already a certainty as the winter rainfall 

 fell much below the average and the spring showers 

 were almost entirely missing. This condition of 

 things serves to direct attention to a new aspect of 

 the farming industry among the settlers in the Kern 

 delta colonies. 



Of course, readers of THE IRRIGATION AGE are 

 aware that this property is covered by one of the 

 most comprehensive canal systems on earth. It 

 includes 27 large canals and hundreds of laterals 



FOR SALE. First-class medium-sized hotel 

 property in a rapidly growing town. House furnished 

 and doing a nice business now; growing better all the 

 time. Price for property, $16,000; $5,000 cash, bal- 

 ance on long time, reasonable interest. None but 

 first-class responsible parties need apply. For full 

 information address Fred R. Reed & Co., North 

 Yakima, Wash. 



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 $18.50 Carriage for $9.25. 

 $12.00 " " $5.95. 

 $5.OO " " $2.75. 



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which would themselves be considered large caanls 

 anywhere else. If these ditches and laterals 'were 

 extended in a straight line they would stretch out for 

 more than 1,100 miles. There can be no crop failure, 

 of course, in a locality thus perfectly watered, but 

 immunity from the consequences of the drouth does 

 not measure the advantages which the people of this 

 locality will enjoy this year as a result of the light 

 rainfall throughout the coast. 



An enormous area in California is usually sowed 

 to grain, principally to barley, under a system of dry 

 farming. These areas are the principal source of 

 supply for hay. In ordinary years dry farming, 

 of this kind is fairly profitable, since no other crops 

 could be raised there without irrigation. But this 

 year such crops are practically a total failure. This 

 means that the usual supply of hay in large portions 

 of California will be entirely cut off. The demand 

 will exist as usual. High prices are sure to prevail. 

 Indeed, they have already set in and the few fortu- 

 nate localities which can supply the demand will real- 

 ize splendid profits as the direct result of the drouth. 

 No other district will begin to get as much benefit from 

 this state of things as the irrigated lands of Kern 

 county. There water is cheap and abundant and the 

 price of land so low, and terms of payment so reason- 

 able, that it is within the power of any industrious 



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