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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



assistant secretary, W. B. Kingsley; su- 

 perintendent of agents, F. E. Marsh; 

 medical director, Dr. S. E. Sheldon; 

 actuary, C. G. Blakely; counsel, R. T. 

 Herrick. The Board of Directors is 

 as follows: E. N. Morrill, John R. Mul- 

 vane, W. M. Welcome, John P. Davis 

 and John E. Moon. The members of the 

 Advisory Board are as follows: T. B. 

 Sweet, Jonathan Thomas, Edward Wilder, 

 E. H. Snow, Geo. M. Noble, Thomas Page, 

 Charles Wolff, H. E. Ball, P. I. Bone- 

 brake, Samuel T. Howe, Willard N. Hall, 

 Geo W. Crane, C. R. O' Donald, H. A. 

 Heath, Joab Mulvane, James A. Trout- 

 man and Charles S. Gleed. 



NEVADA- 



In past years comparatively little inter- 

 est has been taken in the irrigation ques- 

 tion in Nevada as a factor in the upbuild- 

 ing of the State, but recently, and as the 

 people have grown to appreciate her agri- 

 cultural possibilities, several large irriga- 

 tion enterprises have been discussed, but 

 as yet none of these have progressed be- 

 yond the initial stage, though one or two 

 at least, promise to be carried out in the 

 near future. 



The most notable of these is a project to 

 utilize the water of the Humboldt river, 

 supplemented in the latter part of the 

 season by stored water, to reclaim some 

 60,000 acres of fine alluvial lands on the 

 north side of the river at Battle mountain. 

 At this place storage can be accomplished 

 and canals constructed so cheaply, that if 

 the enterprise shall be carried out as at 

 present planned, the land, with water 

 delivered and water right free and perpet- 

 ual, can be sold as low as $10 per acre 

 and still yield a profit of 100 per cent 

 on the investment. 



At Lovelakes, near the lower end of the 

 Humboldt valley, about 1,500 acres of 

 new land will be brought under irrigation 

 and cropped this year. S. R. Young, of that 

 place, is pushing work on his canal which 

 is designed to supply water to some 4,000 

 or 5,000 acres of land not now under 

 ditch, and hopes to have it completed be- 

 fore the end of the year. 



In Carson valley, Mr. Newlands, repre- 

 senting the Sharon Estate, is prepared 

 this year to supply water from his reser- 

 voir, constructed in 1895, to some 3,000 

 or 4,000 acres of new land. 



From every county in the State come 

 reports of developments, both agricultural 

 and mineral, and of increase of popula- 

 tion which, though not great, indicate that 

 the period of decadence of the Sage 

 Brush State is past, and that she is already 

 entering upon a new era. 



SO. DAKOTA. 



At the meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee of the So. Dakota Immigration As- 

 sociation in Aberdeen, recently, it was de- 

 cided to take up the matter of irrigation 

 and immigration in an active manner. The 

 committee represented all parts of the 

 State. 



The dates for the irrigation convention 

 at Redfield, S. Dakota have been changed 

 to March 4 and 5. The call was issued by 

 State Engineer of Irrigation Baldwin. 



R. M. Springer is organizing a company 

 to irrigate South Dakota lands with arte- 

 sian wells. 



NEBRASKA. 



The late irrigation convention, at Sid- 

 ney, seems to have given a great impetus 

 to irrigation in that vicinity. This same 

 result has followed the holding of these 

 conventions at other points in the State. 

 Many district canals are now projected, 

 and a number of the canals completed or 

 nearly completed will be converted into 

 district canals. 



The great underground flume, near 

 Sutherland, that carries the water of the 

 North Platte across and under the South 

 Platte river has so far proven a success. 



The farmers of Nebraska are generally 

 adopting the windmill system of irriga- 

 tion, and windmill plants are now to be 

 seen all over the State. At a late meet- 

 ing of the State Horticultural Society, at 

 Lincoln, the question of irrigation was 

 discussed to a great length. I. A. Fort 

 read a paper on Irrigation for the Or- 

 chard and Garden, stating what had been 

 done in Nebraska on these lines. 



The State Irrigation Immigration So- 

 ciety held its first meeting in the Capitol 

 building in Lincoln, on the 14th of Janu- 

 ary, to perfect arrangements to promote 

 immigration to the irrigable lands of the 

 State. 



North Platte will hold a Western Ne- 

 braska Fair at some time during the com- 



