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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



volume of water than the canal is able to 

 carry. From this stream, at the mouth of 

 a rocky canyon through which it flows for 

 sixty miles above, the water for this canal 

 is taken and no ditch can ever be taken 

 out above it. Thus the complications 

 arising from conflicting rights to the 

 waters of this river will forever be 

 avoided. 



This enterprise was undertaken a few 

 years ago when the farmers of Eastern 

 Oregon realized that irrigation was neces- 

 sary. Under the able management of Mr. 

 T. T. Danilson of the K. S. D. Fruit Land 

 Company the work was rapidly pushed 

 forward in spite of the fact that many of 

 the farmers were discouraged and failure 

 seemed imminent. Mr. Danilson had 

 great faith in the ultimate outcome of the 

 enterprise, and for months the farmers 

 who were building the ditch obtained their 

 supplies from his general store in Ontario, 

 paying for the greater part of the same in 

 work. 



This canal is at the present time fur- 

 nishing an abundant supply of water for 

 the farms and orchards adjacent, and its 

 one great feature is that every owner of 

 an acre of land watered by it is a stock- 

 holder and has a voice in the management 

 of the canal company. 



IRRIGATION IN WESTERN CANADA. 



BY A. H. FOKD. 



IRRIGATION is taking thousands of 

 1 settlers along the line of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway. The Canadian govern- 

 ment has recognized the value of a 

 constant supply of water for the farmer 

 and has issued a volume descriptive of the 

 work already accomplished. 



It is because of its remorseless energy 

 in promoting every practical reform of 

 real interest and use to the farmer that the 

 Canadian Pacific railway successfully 

 draws settlers from not only Europe, but 

 from our own prairie States. An example 

 is set which should not be fought by legis- 

 lation adverse to the great system of rail- 

 way, across the border, but which should 

 be emulated by our own government and 

 railroads. 



The Canadian Pacific railroad is de- 

 termined to make the territory through 

 which it passes known to the world as a 

 cultivated garden 4,000 miles long and 

 several hundred wide. No expense seems 



to be spared to improve the fertile fields 

 through which the great lines of iron run. 



The Canadian Pacific railroad stretches 

 across the continent and is striving to be- 

 come the highway of travel and traffic be- 

 tween England and Japan, with facilities 

 for the tourist, who can sail from Liverpool 

 in a Canadian Pacific steamship and never 

 leave the care of the company until he is 

 landed in China. 



Selfish motives may govern this great 

 corporation, but if it will assist in the 

 irrigation of its territory and make the 

 great Northwest even a greater garden 

 spot than it is, no one should find fault if 

 the railroad is also a gainer, and many 

 American railroads would do well to study 

 a system which will convince settlers that 

 they will be treated as friends of the 

 transportation company near whose line 

 they locate. 



The people of British Columbia and 

 Alberta have learned that irrigation 

 doubles crops even where there is abundant 

 rainfall, and vast tracts of formerly arid 

 land in this region are being opened up 

 by irrigation and proving to be the richest 

 lands in the world. 



The eyes of the home seeker will be 

 turned to the Northwest as long as the 

 Canadian government and the Canadian 

 Pacific railway make the prosperity of the 

 farmer a part of their business. 



A MONTANA CONVENTION. 



AT the Montana Mining and Immigra- 

 tion Convention held in Helena a 

 month ago the resources of the entire 

 State were taken up and ably discussed by 

 a number of the leading' men who were 

 present. An invitation was extended to 

 those in the over-crowded portions of our 

 own country to assist in developing 

 Montana which with the vast area of 146,- 

 000 square miles has a population of 

 about 185,000. 



J. C. Auld, of Glendive, secretary of 

 the Arid Land commission, stated that 

 irrigation would be the greatest source of 

 power and riches. In the smaller valleys 

 of Montana the question would naturally 

 solve itself, as the land was fertile and the 

 water supply ample and easily obtainable. 

 Individual or co-operative ditches could be 

 built with a limited amount of capital. 

 In a general way Mr. Auld stated that it 



