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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



capital. The two latter dams will irrigate 

 the Bio Grande valley north of El Paso, 

 Texas, but as only one will be needed the 

 first one to be built will make the other 

 superfluous. 



OREGON. 



The K. S. D. Fruit Farm Company is 

 pushing the work on its large farm at 

 Ontario. 



A dangerous skin disease has broken out 

 among the Indian ponies near Fendleton, 

 Oregon. It is in the nature of a mange. 



Many hop yards are being plowed up in 

 the Willamette valley. Low prices and 

 vermin have made a discouraging combi- 

 nation. 



Eastern Oregon stockmen are in rebel- 

 lion against orders of removal from the 

 forest reserves recently issued from the 

 Interior Department. Immense herds have 

 been feeding there. 



UTAH. 



The Mormon church property has been 

 restored by act of Congress. 



A large acreage of fruit trees is being 

 planted in the Bear River valley. 



A railway grade is being made through 

 Provo canyon; nobody knows for whom. 



The Bear River Irrigation Company are 

 planning for a large movement of settlers 

 to their lands this year. 



Brigham gardeners and fruit growers 

 report an absence of the usual worm pests, 

 and anticipate a large and superior crop. 



Sheep men are happy this spring. Their 

 flocks have wintered well, there has been 

 plenty of feed and the fleeces are large 

 and of good quality. 



Work has begun in earnest on the great 

 power dam in the Ogden canyon, and the 

 Union Pacific company has put in a branch 

 track to facilitate the delivery of material. 



The governor and legislature have mem- 

 orialized Congress to set apart and donate 

 a portion of the abandoned Fort Cameron 

 reservation for the establishment therein 

 of a State normal school. 



Salt Lake City is gratified by a reorgan- 

 ization of the Oregon Short Line and Utah 

 Northern railway, which makes it an inde- 

 pendent line with headquarters there, and 

 under the management of a Utah railway 

 man. 



Almost an entire section of land has 

 been sold in five and ten acre orchards by 

 the Bear River Valley Orchard Company 

 under a system which insures the delivery 

 of a well-grown bearing orchard at the 

 end of six years. Payments are made in 

 monthly installments and the non-forfeit- 

 ure plan, first adopted by this company, 

 makes the investment a popular one. 



WASHINGTON. 



Spokane finds it necessary to curtail the 

 use of city water. 



The Spokane Poultry Show was a suc- 

 cess financially and as an exhibition. 



About seventy-five per cent, of the 

 50,000 trees that are to be set out in the 

 vicinity of Ranier this season will be 

 prunes. 



Robert Scott has plowed up eight acres 

 of hops on his ranch near North Yakima, 

 and will plant 1,000 peach and apple trees, 

 with which he has had great success in 

 the past. 



The Walla Walla Water Company has 

 checkmated the city in its plans for ob- 

 taining its own water supply by buying 

 the property and rights which it expected 

 to utilize. 



The corporation counsel of Spokane 

 says he has 500 cases pending, and is 

 about to commence no less than 2, 000 new 

 cases on behalf of the city. He asks al- 

 lowance for a typewriter. It looks as 

 though he might need more than one. 



Professor Harry Landes has been ap- 

 pointed State geologist. The office was 

 created many years ago, but was grossly 

 misused and was abandoned as a dead let- 

 ter. There is no State appropriation in 

 its behalf, and the university assumes 

 all the expense of an excellent equipment, 

 and the official conduct of the office. 



WYOMING. 



The flock masters are preparing for the 

 largest crop of wool on record. 



Russian wolf hounds are being used 

 successfully to run down coyotes. 



A large immigration from Europe is ex- 

 pected in the Big Horn basin this year. 



The Cody Canal Company has the first 

 contract that has been signed by the Pres- 

 ident under the Carey act, for 70,000 

 acres to be irrigated. 



