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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



It is predicted that in two or three years 

 California will have enough English wal- 

 nuts, of superior quality, to supply the 

 United States. 



It is claimed that a million olive trees 

 have been set within the last two years. 

 California olives are steadily gaining favor 

 in the markets. 



The San Bernardino rock pile is short 

 on labor. The industry is so little appre- 

 ciated by tramps they are giving the coun- 

 try a wide berth. 



It is stated that from forty to forty-five 

 per cent, of the West-bound tourist travel 

 this season have gone to make their homes 

 in Southern California. 



Higher prices for oranges at Redlands 

 has created such a demand for trees as to 

 exhaust the nursery stocks, and planting 

 seed beds is again in vogue. 



A poultry ranch with a capital of $25, 000, 

 with capacity for an annual production of 

 90,000 broilers and 2,000,000 eggs, is being 

 established near San Francisco. 



The year's planting of orange trees has 

 been unexpectedly large, and the demand 

 for olive trees has been so enormous that 

 the supply is practically exhausted. 



Cahuenga vegetable growers have reaped 

 a rich harvest this winter, shipping string 

 beans, green peas and tomatoes to San 

 Francisco. Tomatoes fruit there all 

 winter. 



The Redlands Citrograph says the 

 "Damascus Town Site" is a "gigantic 

 fraud, a tremendous fake, and a scorching 

 swindle," being located out on the Salton 

 desert. 



The big storage reservoir of the Poso Irri- 

 gation District has been completed and 

 the water turned in. It will take six 

 weeks to fill it at the rate of 30,000,000 

 gallons daily. 



The application of the Alta Irrigation 

 District for the cancellation of its county 

 assessments, on the ground that it is a 

 municipal corporation, has been granted. 

 It raises a point of wide-spread public 

 interest. 



Good orange lands are in active demand 

 in Southern California at round prices, it 

 being generally comprehended that the 

 area of such lands, of good quality and 

 safe from frosts, is comparatively very 

 limited. 



A subscription of $3,000 has been made 

 to a cannery company at Redlands, con- 

 ditional on a total local subscription of 

 $5,000 and payable when two acres of 

 ground and a plant capable of packing 

 50,000 cans of fruit, and costing $12, 000, 

 has been erected. 



COLORADO. 



Medford is sending 600 boxes of New- 

 ton pippin apples to the London market. 



A large ice plant is being erected at 

 Grand Junction, and is expected to be in 

 full operation early in May. 



Colonel R. J. Hinton, of New York, has 

 been recently in Colorado examining a 

 number of projects for Eastern capitalists. 



The Greeley Tribune proves pretty con- 

 clusively it will not pay to feed lambs for 

 market in that section on alfalfa hay at 

 $2 per ton. 



The scarcity of snow in the mountains 

 prompts the State engineer to caution 

 water consumers to save and economize 

 the probably limited supply. 



Of the 250,000 acres of land that will 

 be available for cultivation in the Grand 

 valley when brought under irrigation only 

 75,000 acres are now under ditch. 



It was estimated that in the Grand valley 

 holes were dug for the planting of between 

 750,000 and 1,000,000 fruit trees when 

 the water was turned into the irrigating 

 ditches. 



The Rio Grande Railway Company are 

 arranging to erect a large fruit warehouse 

 near the depot at Grand Junction to facili- 

 tate fruit shipments. The business has 

 outgrown the usual methods of handling 

 and present accommodations. 



Professor Carpenter of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station is planning to make 

 an irrigation survey of the San Luis val- 

 ley during a portion of the summer, with 

 the help of the water commissioners and 

 ditch companies of that valley. 



The Pawnee Pass Canal and Reservoir 

 scheme, which will cover much excellent 

 land on the north side of the South Platte 

 river in Colorado, is expected to be built. 

 There are now a number of corps of sur- 

 veyors at work on the enterprise, among 

 them being Messrs. Walters, Preston and 

 Stimson, former students of the Agricul- 

 tural College. 



