PULSE OF THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY. 



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more than all the vast output of high 

 grade ores that is steadily growing in vol- 

 ume insure a finally satisfactory outcome. 

 There is no camp in this country, if in the 

 world, which has made or is making so 

 large return for the money actually in- 

 vested there as Cripple Creek. 



AN INDIANA IRRIGATOR. 



The original irrigator of Indiana is 

 Captain Orville T. Chamberlain, of Elk- 

 hart, who has recently been presented by 

 Congress with a gold medal for gallantry 

 upon the battlefield of Chickamauga on 

 September 20, 1863. Captain Chamber- 

 lain is a thorough believer in irrigation 

 and has adopted it upon his large farm 

 near Elkhart. 



A BANNER COUNTY. 



Scott's Bluff still continues to be the 

 banner irrigation county of Nebraska. 

 In a recent letter to the Omaha World- 

 Herald, J. W. King states that he has 

 farmed in Indiana and Iowa, but prefers 

 Nebraska and irrigation to uncertain crops 

 under rainfall. Charles H. Simmons is 

 also one of the original irrigators of Scott's 

 Bluff county, and he is enthusiastic on the 

 subject. " Better crops, larger crops, and 

 above all they are sure," is the way he 

 puts it. 



ARIZONA. 



A hotel to cost $150,000 is to be built in 

 Phoenix by J. C. Adams, a Chicago man. 



The Butte reservoir site has been with- 

 drawn from public entry. It is in Final 

 county and covers 1640 acres. 



The property of the Agua Fria Con- 

 struction Company was sold under attach- 

 ment April 2. It is evidently a movement 

 toward reorganization a freeze-out of 

 small share-holders, probably. 



Governor Hughes was knocked down in 

 the presence of at least three others. A 

 newspaper man named Clark was the only 

 one near enough to have done it, but no- 

 body saw the blow, not even the governor, 

 and Clark was declared "not guilty." 



The Rio Verde canal company of Phoe- 

 nix, Arizona, report that they have sold 

 bonds to the amount of $2,400,000, which 

 will insure the completion of their irriga- 

 tion system and is the most encouraging 

 news that irrigation promoters have heard 

 since the panic of '93. 



The Phoenix Gazette summarizes the 

 local conditions as follows: "Cattle men 

 are happy, stock brings better prices than 

 ever before, and the ranges have, in most 

 localities, excellent pasturage. Every 

 canal in the valley is full of water, and 

 there is some to spare." With the expen- 

 diture of $2,000,000 for the Rio Verde 

 canal within the next fourteen months and 

 the probable starting of other large works, 

 there is reason for good times in Arizona. 



The latest news regarding the status of 

 the Gila Bend irrigation works is that all 

 the interests, including the various con- 

 struction companies and Governor Wolfley, 

 have combined against the Peoria crowd. 

 The litigation now goes to the U. S. Su- 

 preme Court, where a few years will be 

 required before a decision is handed down. 

 From what appears to be reliable author- 

 ity, the Peorians tried to manipulate the 

 irrigation enterprise a la whisky trust 

 style, and are about to get the worst of it. 



CALIFORNIA. 



It has been a favorable winter for stock 

 in most parts of the State. 



The Producers Raisin Packing Co. of 

 Fresno, is enlarging its plant. 



A total of 488,710 tons of fruit were ex- 

 ported from the State last year. 



Four hundred acres of olives are being 

 planted at La Mirado near Fullerton. 



The spraying of fruit trees is being done 

 systematically at Fresno with excellent 

 results. 



There are ten Washington Navel trees 

 being planted to one of any other variety 

 of oranges in Southern California. 



Moreno irrigators are being charged 35 

 cents an inch per day, the highest rate of 

 any irrigation district in the State. 



Redlands is prospering, having obtained 

 fancy prices for its fine orange crop, which 

 escaped the frost this year as it has here- 

 tofore. 



The Sacramento Packing and Drying 

 Company will pack the product from 230 

 acres of peas now growing in and around 

 Acampo. 



Japanese hemp is proving to be adapted 

 for profitable cultivation. A fair yield, is 

 two tons per acre, and the market price 8 

 cents a pound. 



