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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



disposal of the Chicago Armenian Associa- 

 tion, free of cost, all the land they may 

 desire to colonize, up to 500,000 acres. 

 Or, if the committee deems best to locate 

 the colonists on public lands, Mr. Chaves 

 offers his services to enable the people to 

 secure such locations. 



A BUREAU OF LIVE STOC'v INFORMATION 



A memorial has just been presented to 

 Congress which recites that the depression 

 in the live stock industry of the West is 

 due in a great measure to the indiscrimi- 

 nate way in which shipments are made to 

 the four principal live stock markets 

 Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and 

 Omaha. This memorial is signed by 

 every Western exchange, and was for- 

 warded by the executive committee of the 

 National Exchange. It says there are no 

 less than twenty-one States directly inter- 

 ested in shipping stock to one or more of 

 the four markets mentioned, and that it is 

 practically impossible for them to avoid 

 glutting the market from time to time. 

 The memorial asks Congress that some 

 measures be provided whereby shippers 

 can be informed (in an official and reliable 

 way) of live stock receipts at these four 

 centers from all of the twenty-one differ- 

 ent States from day to day. If such a 

 Bureau of Live Stock Information can be 

 established, it will somewhat regulate the 

 industry, and stock raisers and shippers 

 will not be continually injuring their own 

 interests and depressing the value of their 

 own property. 



WHY CATTLE RAISERS NEED PROTECTION. 



Col. Albert Dean, agent of the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, has just received 

 report of the number of cattle imported 

 into the Uuited States from Mexico for the 

 month of November last. There were 

 brought in from all points, 47,345. This 

 is 1,645 more than the entire importation 

 of the last half of 1893, as far as there is 

 any record. 



WASHINGTON IMMIGRATION ASSOCIATION. 



The executive committee of the Wash- 

 ington State Immigration Association, just 

 organized in the convention at Seattle, 

 are: C. L. Webb, King county; A. S. 

 Cole, Whatcom; E. G. Crawford, Clarke; 

 E. J. White, Pierce; H. Bolster, Spokane; 

 E. F. Benson, Yakima, and Harry Corn- 

 wall, Colfax. This committee organized 

 by the election of C. L. Webb, president; 



H. L. Bolster, Spokane, vice-president; 

 and the president was authorized to ap- 

 point a secretary and treasurer. The 

 committee earnestly recommended that an 

 appropriation of not less than $25,000 

 per annum should be made by the next 

 Legislature for the promotion of immi- 

 gration work. 



THE WESTERN FRUIT INDUSTRY. 



The Northwest Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion includes Washington, Idaho, Oregon 

 and British Columbia. The Bureau of In- 

 formation recently organized has the fol- 

 owing officers: President, W. S. Offner, 

 Walla Walla; secretary, Willis Brown, 

 Portland; directors, J. B. Holt, Wawawai; 

 J. M. Gilbert, North Yakima; H. H. 

 Spaulding, Almota; Emil Shanno, The 

 Dalles. Headquarters are at Portland. 

 Reports of the number of cars shipped to 

 Eastern markets are to be received daily 

 from all shipping points on the coast, in- 

 cluding California, and then forwarded to 

 local shipping points covered by the Asso- 

 ciation. 



The Western Montana Fruit Growers' 

 Association has been incorporated. 



Colorado and New Mexico apples are 

 breaking up the German apple monopoly 

 in London. The Colorado and New Mex- 

 ico product keeps better than the German. 

 This year thousands of barrels will be 

 shipped to England mainly by reason of a 

 low rate lately obtained by growers, by 

 which, in train load lots, apples can be ex- 

 ported from Denver to Liverpool at the 

 same rate as from New York City. 



The time is not far distant when England 

 and quite a part of Western continental 

 Europe will be supplied with fruit from 

 the United States, and to quite an extent 

 with fruit grown in the State of California 

 and other Western States, where plums, 

 nectarines, cherries, peaches, etc., are pro- 

 uced of a character that will bear transporo- 

 ation and delayed consumption with a not 

 too serious deterioration in quality. 



Stark Bros. ' Orchard Bulletin remarks 

 upon the great run given California fruit 

 and vegetables in the Central, Western and 

 Eastern States. It concludes an article 

 with this: "Why not Ozark peaches and 

 pears, adding Missouri or Arkansas, as the 

 case may be, and why not Missouri, Illinois, 

 Kentucky and Tennessee corn and toma- 

 toes, as well as fruit ? People of the Ozarks, 

 Colorado and New Mexico are beginning 



