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ing summer. They propose to show what 

 irrigation can do for the State. The fair 

 will immediately follow after the Lexing- 

 ton Irrigation Convention. Hon. W. F. 

 Cody's Wild West, will arrange to exhibit 

 during the fair week, as the show will be 

 en route to the Pacific coast at about that 

 time, and the show will again exhibit in 

 the town that gave it birth. 



The farmers who are using farm mills 

 for irrigation purposes are making com- 

 plaints that they have not sufficient strength 

 to stand the strain that comes from work- 

 ing the extra large and heavy pumps that 

 are used for this purpose. Extra heavy 

 strong mills, like the Aermotor, are 

 needed. 



The district canal promoters are wait- 

 ing in suspense out the decision of the U. 

 S. Supreme Court on the validitv of the 

 Wright Act. 



WESTERN PUSH. 



Seattle, Washington, is to have a new 

 water supply, for which $1,250,000 was 

 voted in December. 



It has been learned that the contract for 

 building the big irrigation canal through 

 Fort Hall reservation, in Idaho, is good, in 

 spite of the protest made by the Indians. 



" Indian " Jones, of Utah, has gone to 

 Washingto'n with a monster petition in 

 favor of opening a portion of the Uintah 

 Indian reservation. 



A new industry is being developed in 

 Orange County, California, that of manu- 

 facturing oil from eucalyptus leaves, which 

 is being used extensively for medicinal 

 purposes. 



Prof. George Davidson, of California, 

 has just finished an examination and re- 

 port upon the nearly completed project of 

 the Stanislaus and San Joaquin Irrigation 

 Co., a project that proposes to irrigate some 

 200, 000 acres of land in the neighborhood 

 of Stockton in the San Joaquin valley. 

 They take their water from the Stanislaus 

 river above Knight's Ferry, and take it 

 seventeen miles to the plains. They have 

 put up some good flumes, one 2,400 feet 

 long in two sections of 1,200 feet each, 

 and ninety feet from the ground to the 

 bottom of the flume box. 



MINERAL WAX. 



The true mineral wax was discovered 

 thirty or forty years ago in Eastern Utah, 

 on Howland mountain, in the Pleasant 

 valley country, says the Mining Industry, 

 and in other districts in Utah. It was the 

 true ozocerite and was named utahcerite 

 claytonia by and after Professor Clayton, 

 of Salt Lake City. It corresponds to the 

 paraffine that is obtained as a product of 

 the petroleum refineries of Pennsylvania, 

 and which is used in the manufacture of 

 candles and for a variety of purposes. 

 The native article has not yet been found 

 in this country in quantities sufficient to 

 make it pay. In the raw, some ten years 

 ago, it was quoted worth $800 per ton. 

 The principal mines are in Galicia, Austria, 

 where the deposits are large, and the min- 

 ing of it is done by women and children. 

 True ozocerite is a lustreless black and 

 melts in the sun's rays. It is very light, 

 burns at high temperature and is odorless. 

 Nearly all the candles of the Greek Church 

 in Russia are made of ozocerite, which is 

 refined and bleached to nearly a transpar- 

 ent whiteness, and the candles are hand- 

 painted with flowers and religious symbols. 

 As a by-product the ozocerite yields cos- 

 metics, dyes, gas and a score of other arti- 

 cles, and if a prospector is ever lucky 

 enough to strike a large deposit in Utah 

 or Wyoming, he will have a good thing. 

 For several decades of years the Galicia' 

 mines were supposed to be the only ozo- 

 cerite mines in the world, but of compara- 

 tive recent date a discovery was reported in 

 Egypt and somewhere in South America. 

 The Pleasant valley mines were developed, 

 but the ozocerite at depth gave place to 

 asphalt and minerals of kindred nature. 

 The ozocerite is most likely to abound 

 where salt beds and coal or petroleum are 

 in contact. 



AN exchange from that State says : ' ' The 

 new dispensation for Western Nebraska is 

 based largely upon the windmill. To be 

 able to pull through from one year to 

 another, through thick and thin, is the 

 one thing desired for the pioneer. With 

 water for but a few acres this consumma- 

 tion is reached." 



FLOUR MILL. 



A flour mill is needed in the Pecos val- 

 ley. Strong inducements are held out to 

 an enterprising miller. 



