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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



the year 1895 including the mining, 

 agricultural, and manufacturing, was 

 over $100,000,000. 



Carver Remington, of the Remington 

 Typewriter Company, Chicago, has been 

 elected vice-president of the new Mining 

 Exchange at Cripple Creek. 



Sales at Colorado Springs on Tuesday, 

 December 24. aggregated 1,000,000 shares. 



In his contest for the ownership of the 

 Plymouth Rock mine, W. S. Stratton, the 

 Bonanza King, has been successful, de- 

 feating D. H. Moffat. 



IDAHO. 



For a place where "no great rush is 

 anticipated" the Nez Perces reservation is 

 receiving its fair share of attention. The 

 best of it is that most of the homesteaders 

 will be actual settlers, not speculators, 

 and next season the land will be covered 

 by growing crops to tempt the railway 

 builders on to Central Idaho. 



Since the discovery of gold in 1860, 

 Idaho's mines have annually produced 

 about $6,000,000 worth of precious metals. 

 In 1890 the mineral output of the State 

 was $14,000,000. 



The lands of Idaho are classified as fol- 

 lows: Grazing, 25,000,000 acres; agri- 

 cultural, 15,000,000; timber 7,000; lakes 

 and rivers, 1,000,000 acres. To those 

 must be added several million acres of 

 mineral and mountainous lands. 



The United States Government has 

 made an agreement with the Bannock 

 Indians to build an irrigation canal fifty 

 miles long in the Bannock reservation for 

 irrigating about 150,000 acres, the water 

 to be taken from Snake river. 



The Washoe Irrigation & Power Com- 

 pany has been incorporated, $20,000 to 

 construct a canal in Canyon county, tak- 

 ing water from the Payette river, for irri- 

 gating the lands in the Washoe bottom. 



The commissioner of Indian affairs is 

 about to make another effort to have the 

 Fort Hall, Idaho, reservation irrigated, 

 so that it may be of some use to the In- 

 dians as farm lands. 



KANSAS. 



There is general satisfaction throughout 

 the State over the exhibition train of the 

 Kansas Million Club, the display in Bat- 

 tery D, at Chicago, and the concluding 

 grand mass meeting at Central Music 



Hall. The good work of attracting immi- 

 gration to the State will be energetically 

 continued. Irrigation is all the rage, and 

 it has proved most wonderfully successful. 

 The number of irrigators in 1895 was 

 1,638. 



D. M. Frost, president of the Kansas 

 Irrigation Board, from ten acres in Finney 

 county produced the past season two and 

 one-half tons of sugar beets, 200 bushels of 

 tomatoes and 1,036 bushels of sweet po- 

 tatoes. 



The fruit growers of Wyandotte county 

 now have upwards of 20,000 barrels of 

 apples in cold storage. This is an experi- 

 ment, and if successful hereafter apples 

 will be stored in the fall instead of ship- 

 ped, giving the growers instead of the 

 speculators the benefit of the advance in 

 price. 



Leading creamery managers of Kansas 

 have formed what is known as the Kansas 

 Creamery and Supply Company, includ- 

 ing nearly all the creameries of the State, 

 and will make united effort to secure the 

 market of the South. 



Capt. W. S. Tough, formerly United 

 States Marshal for Kansas, and who has 

 for so many years managed the Kansas 

 City stock yards horse and mule market, 

 is to deliver an address before the annual 

 meeting of the Kansas Board of Agricul- 

 ture, on " The Horse Situation and its Fu- 

 ture Outlook. ' ' 



Many of the larger farmers, who can af- 

 ford it, have cribbed their corn and are 

 holding for better prices. Many more, 

 however, have sold out at 15 to 17 cents 

 per bushel. 



W. C. McClain, of Huron, cashier of 

 the State bank of his town, built cribs 

 large enough to hold 15,000 bushels of 

 corn. 



George M. Munger has an irrigating 

 plant located at his Catalpa Knob fruit 

 farm, seven miles south of Eureka, in 

 Greenwood county. The water supply is 

 furnished by an artificial pond, which 

 with the dam now constructed, will cover 

 about 100 acres. 



A coal mine has been opened up on the 

 farm of John Hulsey, near Port Williams, 

 and people in that vicinity will burn coal 

 to a certain extent this winter. 



The twenty-ninth annual meeting of the 

 Kansas State Horticultural Society was 



