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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



rich reward for his enterprise in setting 

 orchards when nobody else had the cour- 

 age. 



For several months very careful pros- 

 pecting has been going on to discover all 

 the resources available to justify the con- 

 struction of the railway between El Paso 

 and White Oaks. The work has been very 

 thoroughly done under the direction of 

 Mr. Chas. B. Eddy. From the fact that 

 purchases are being made and options 

 closed for coal mines at Salado, and from 

 other indications, it is believed the results 

 are satisfactory and that the road will be 

 built. 



The contemplated International Dam at 

 El Paso, Texas, which was referred to in 

 our last issue, is causing some excitement 

 among the residents of the Rio Grande 

 Valley above El Paso, who are petitioning 

 congress to consider the advisability of 

 erecting the dam at some point higher up 

 the river, whereby they, as well as the El 

 Paso people, would be equally benefited. 

 The matter will come before congress next 

 session and is likely to attract considerable 

 attention, not only to the International 

 Dam itself, but also to the general question 

 of government approprations for the erec- 

 tion of dams for the purpose of reclaiming 

 arid lands. 



More than 100 carloads of very fine cat- 

 tle are being shipped out from the range 

 south of Moab over the Bio Grande and 

 Missouri Pacific roads. 



There is a pronounced movement in the 

 Cache Valley in the direction of establish- 

 ing dairies, and a packing house at Logan 

 is also under discussion. 



The movement of stock cattle to Mon- 

 tana and the Dakotas will be greater this 

 year than ever before. At least 200 car- 

 loads are to be moved from southern Utah 

 to Butte. Shipments will commence about 

 June 1. 



The Rio Grande Western is surveying a 

 branch line from Provo to Park City, 

 which it is expected will be built this year. 

 In all parts of the state new enterprises 

 are taking root, and railway extensions are 

 incident to them. 



Among the bills passed near the close of 

 the legislative session just closed was one 

 providing for the organization of drainage 



districts. It is along the line of the irri- 

 gation district laws of California, which 

 have become so generally well known. The- 

 last were, however, copied after the drain- 

 age district laws of the same state, which 

 had preceded them. 



WASHINGTON. 



The spring was very late. 



Yakima valley suffered by severe injury 

 to the fruit buds by spring frosts. 



A new creamery is being established at 

 Wenatchee, the first one in that region. 



Many new settlers are going into the 

 Entiat valley. Work has commenced on 

 the Entiat Company's ditch, and several 

 hundreds of acres will be planted this year 

 of the reclaimed land. 



Paul Schulze promises to rank among 

 the embezzlers, as H. H. Holmes does 

 among murderers. He had previously 

 been credited with stealing $1,500,000 

 from the different enterprises with which 

 he was associated, and now it appears that 

 he got $600,000 more from a St. Paul 

 syndicate. 



The Columbian Portage company is pro- 

 posing to cut present railway rates in two- 

 but asking those who will be benefited by 

 the reduction to take stock in the enter- 

 prise. It is wise to get the commitment 

 before the building for the average citizen 

 feels but little obligation to pay for that 

 which he can get without. 



WYOMING. 



There have been distributed from the 

 state hatchery at Laramie, 700,000 of brook 

 and rainbow trout to different counties of 

 the state. 



Seventy-five families are settling in the 

 Jackson's Hole country this spring. About 

 one hundred families went there last year 

 and have been successful in cattle raising 

 and farming. Three troops of cavalry 

 are within reach affording protection 

 against the Indians. 



Suit has been brought by Gibson Clark, 

 U. S. district attorney, in the name of the 

 United States, against the receivers of the 

 Union Pacific Railway Company. Lands 

 to the value of $1,000,000 are involved. It 

 is claimed that the railroad company sold 

 lands as under its grant to which it was not 

 entitled. Two hundred settlers are joined 

 as defendants, but the railway company 



