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THE IRRIGA TION AGE. 



A trial is to be made in Monrovia for artesian 



water. 



And now Colton is talking canaigre. Representa- 

 tives of a Philadelphia syndicate are reported to 

 be negotiating for a factory there. 



The Orange County Fruit Exchange unanimously 

 decided that it will stand by the Southern Califor- 

 nia Fruit Exchange. 



Dixie Thompson, of Santa Barbara, estimates that 

 his Ventura ranch's bean crop will bring him 

 $50,000 this year. 



Senator White and Congressman McLachlan 

 have promised San Diego that they will work 

 jointly with Congressman Bowers for an appropri- 

 ation of $150,000 for improvements at the mouth 

 of the harbor. 



The trade in California sweet wines is showing 

 a gratifying increase. The total estimated prod- 

 uct for this year is 3,000,000 gallons, which is 

 twenty-five per cent more than was marketed last 

 year. 



At the Los Angeles Fair R. H. Hewitt showed 

 several plates of the canaigre root, the tuber from 

 which tannio acid is made. . The propagating of 

 this tuber, akin to a sweet potato in form, promises 

 to develop into a new industry . 



COLORADO. 



The Boyd Lake Reservoir Co., of Greeley and 

 Denver, are surveying the site of their proposed 

 reservoir, which is located two and one-half miles 

 north of Loveland. The reservoir when filled will 

 cover 2,500 acres with an available depth of twen- 

 ty-five feet, and will contain about 30,000 cubic 

 feet. It is intended to store water for ditches 

 below on the Cache la Poudre for late irrigation. 

 J. H. Robinson is the engineer in charge. 

 . At Denver, the Forke Reservoir Drain & Irriga- 

 tion Company has been formed. Incorporators, 

 Clara Brown Denig, J. L. Fulton and E. M. Jacob- 

 son. 



The Lolita Land and Irrigation Company has 

 been incorporated, with capital stock of $50,000, 

 to build reservoirs and reclaim land in the Horse 

 Creek Valley. The incorporators are F. T. Web- 

 ber, F. A. Sabin, C. Bomgardner and John O'Neil, 

 all of La Junta. 



An artesian well is being sunk near Holyoke, 

 Colorado. 



The press generally pronounce the Festival of 

 Mountain and Plain, held at Denver, a grand suc- 

 cess. 



The mines at Cripple Creek are turning out gold 

 at the rate of nearly $1,000,000 a month, at a net 

 cost of less than $4 per ounce. This gold sells at 

 the mints fbr $20.67 per ounce. 



The assessed valuation of Colorado is $201,308,- 

 969. Thirty-four counties show an increase in 

 their valuation, while twenty-two are the reverse. 



KANSAS. 



Apple carnival at Leaven worth, and the prepar- 

 ing of the Million Club State Exhibition Train for 

 its departure, were duly celebrated. On the day 

 of the carnival every building and store front in 

 Leavenworth was gorgeously decorated with 

 apples of all sizes and color, and the carnival 

 colors red, yellow and green were conspicuous 

 everywhere. There were thousands of visitors in 

 the city, coming from all over Kansas. Business 

 for the time was wholly suspended. A street 



parade a mile long was a feature of the after- 

 noon, and Governor Morrill, Governor Woodbury 

 of Vermont, United States Senator Baker, Secre- 

 tary of State W. C. Edwards, Congressman Blue 

 and others made speeches. In the evening the 

 city was brilliantly illuminated and the festivities 

 were continued until a late hour. 



The Kansas State Board of Agriculture has com- 

 pleted the census of the State for 1895 and finds the 

 population to be 1,334,668, an increase since 1885 

 of 66,138. 



To the question of alfalfa without irrigation the 

 Kansas Farmer says : " In eastern and central 

 Kansas farmers are greatly pleased with it. On 

 some of the bottom lands of the western part of 

 the State good money has been made from alfalfa 

 without irrigation. The writer's observation is, 

 however,that it responds to irrigation with greatly 

 increased yields." 



James Adams has just raised a fine crop of pea- 

 nuts on his farm in the sand hills near Abilene. 



This is a busy season among the seedgrowers in 

 Kansas. A drive through the section of the coun- 

 try near Garden City reveals some wonderful 

 sights to the uninitated. Everywhere one sees 

 great piles of cucumbers ready to be threshed out 

 and long rows of water and musk melons, squashes 

 and other vegetables. 



It is claimed that the yield of corn in the vicin- 

 ity of Wakefield was seventy bushels per acre. 



Mitchell county is to hold a corn carnival, ad- 

 joining counties being invited to participate. The 

 affair at Atchison was a great success. 



Topeka is erecting another great grain elevator. 



W. H. Snow, son of Chancellor Snow of the State 

 University and Assistant Bugologist, was at Kins- 

 ley recently investigating the new potato bug 

 which has settled in that vicinity. Some speci- 

 mens of the bug and effects of its ravages have been 

 sent to Washington. 



Under the latest Kansas game law, water fowl 

 are the only species of game that may be killed, 

 trapped or ensnared lawfully. 



MONTANA. 



Reports from Great Falls say : " A stampede is 

 being made for the new gold fields on Harley 

 creek, and the hills are teeming with prospectors 

 who have staked out every foot of ground in the 

 vicinity of the first claims and are out with a grand 

 new town christened Johannesberg as a token of 

 the future camp. The rock is of a dull terra cotta 

 color that crushes easily between the fingers and 

 bears gold in large quantities. Johannesberg is 

 in the Belt Mountains and easy of access." 



Montana lias shipped more than 7,000 cars of 

 cattle this year. 



NEBRASKA. 



Senator Akers of Nebraska is responsible for 

 the plan to draw water from the Platte river, west 

 of Kearney, and carry it across the counties of 

 Adams, Kearney, Webster, Fillmore and Jefferson, 

 and a part of Clay county. The counties along 

 the line of this irrigation canal are among the best 

 in the State. 



Another new ditch, about thirty miles long, from 

 Almeria down the Loup river, and probably later 

 to Ord, will be rapidly built. The organization is 

 the Tschuck Canal Company, with capital stock of 

 $50,000. The incorporators are, George Tschuck, 

 W. E Babcock, O. L. Horr, M. E. Getter, D. A. 

 Gord and H. A. Stewart. 



