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PRACTICAL CO-OPERATION. 



THE Owybee Canal in Malheur county, 

 Oregon, is an example of what can 

 be accomplished by practical co-operation 

 among farmers. 



The canal is twenty-five miles long and 

 carries 20,000 inches of water. It is 

 twenty-two feet wide at headgate, twenty 

 feet wide on bottom for first ten miles, and 

 cost $100,000. It covers 25,000 acres of 

 land, all of which has been located, and 



of the company payable in eighteen 

 months, the stockholders accepting the 

 notes in payment for work the same as 

 they did stock, thus enabling the company 

 to complete the canal and turn the water 

 in for irrigation. 



The property was then bonded for $50,- 

 000 and the notes redeemed with proceeds 

 from sale of the bonds. 



The canal is now substantially built 

 throughout its entire length, all fluming 

 being avoided, and every dollar spent in 



THE OWVIIKE CANAL IN OKKGON. 



the locators of these lands are the owners 

 of the capital stock of the company. 



The capital stock of the company is 

 $100,000, divided into 10,000 shares of 

 the par value of $10 each, 8,GOO shares of 

 which have been subscribed by, and are in 

 the hands of actual settlers under the 

 canal, and on which about $6 per share 

 have been paid into the treasury of the 

 company in labor on construction of the 

 canal. The excess of cost above amount 

 obtained from subscriptions to the capital 

 stock (about $50,000) was raised by notes 



its construction was represented in honest 

 work by the owners and their teams. The 

 company has never had any money, and 

 this great canal simply represents what 

 men with honest hearts and willing hands 

 can do. After they had exhausted their 

 own resources they took the company's 

 (virtually their own) notes which resident 

 merchants magnanimously accepted in 

 payment for supplies, and this enabled 

 them to complete the work. 



The Owyhee river is a perennial stream 

 which perpetually flows a much larger 



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