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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



constructed, there is no record. Many 

 parts of this system were nearly or quite 

 filled up; but, when cleaned out, the old 

 channel could be plainly traced. In 

 deepening and widening this system of 

 canals, very hard material was encount- 

 ered much of it being shale rock, and 

 cemented gravel. Many large boulders 

 were found that had to be removed with 

 the dredge. At the point where photo- 

 graph shown, was taken, the material 

 was hard cemented gravel. The Marion 

 Steam Shovel Company sold a little later 

 on to the same company a very large 

 dredge, cap'able of depositing the material 

 at a distance of about seventy- five feet 

 from center of machine. This made the 

 equipment of this canal company com- 

 plete, as they could construct new exten- 

 sions, or clean out the old channels, be 

 they either large or small, with machinery. 

 It is a fact no longer disputed, that canals 

 are much better when constructed by 

 machinery, than when constructed by 

 old-time methods, for the reason that they 

 do not require so much slope and conse- 

 quently there is not as much room for 

 grass, weeds, or bushes to accumulate 

 along the banks and obstruct the flow of 

 the water. A large per cent can also be 

 saved on the cost of construction by the 

 use of suitable machinery. 



also secured a contract in Paris from the 

 New Panama Canal company for seven 

 cableways which were shipped April 30, 

 to Panama. 



LIDGERWOOD CABLEWAYS. 



Spencer Miller, engineer of the Cable- 

 way department of the Lidgerwood Manu- 

 facturing Company, New York City, has 

 returned from a four-months' visit to 

 Europe much improved in health and 

 bringing with him all the American rights 

 under the patents of the Temperley Trans- 

 porter which the Lidgerwood Company 

 will immediately place upon the market. 



The Transporter is a hoisting and con- 

 veying device employing a suspended 

 beam as a trackway. The chief points 

 in its favor are simplicity in operation, 

 low cost and extreme flexibility. No 

 skill whatever is required to operate this 

 apparatus. 



About 300 transporters have already 

 been made and the device has therefore 

 passed through its experimental stage. 



The British Admiralty have adopted 

 the Temperley Transporter for coaling 

 battleships, having recently purchased 

 nearly one hundred of them. Mr. Miller 



COMMON SENSE IN ADVERTISING- 



The advertiser who goes around seeking 

 avenues for announcing his wares to the 

 world, unless well grounded in the basic 

 principles of the art, is apt to be most 

 gloriously fooled. He will soon find him- 

 self and money parting company. If he 

 looks only to quantity in advertising, his 

 separation will come all the quicker. It 

 is a comparatively easy matter to place 

 advertising on the quantity principle, all 

 that is required is the ability to add 

 figures and compare statements. But it 

 is quite a different matter to decide on 

 advertising lines on the standard of 

 quality. There are mediums having a 

 very limited circulation which are to be 

 preferred by a thousand per cent, to those 

 claiming a great distribution of copies, 

 rates being equal. Character of the pub- 

 lishers ' and reading matter, size and 

 distribution of a subscription list, uni- 

 formity of rates and general business 

 methods have much to do with an intelli- 

 gent selection of an advertising medium. 

 Then, sad to relate, publishers have little 

 tricks which deceive the advertiser, mak- 

 ing him believe he is getting ''results," 

 when he is simply answering letters from 

 "stool pigeons" placed in different 

 sections of the country to incite the 

 unsuspecting advertiser into the belief 

 that he is having great " returns." That 

 species of wickedness cannot be laid at 

 our door. Am. Investments. 



POINTS. 



Even in Dakota irrigation doubles the 

 grain crop, and it pays to sink artesian 

 wells to get the water supply. 



Where plants do not grow set new ones 

 in their places at once. Missing hills 

 don't pay. 



There is no reason why a farmer should 

 not have something for sale every week in 

 the year. 



It is alleged by "Hardware" that a 

 bronze or copper wire rope half an inch in 

 diameter and over 20 feet long was re- 

 cently unearthed from the ruins of Pom- 

 peii where it was buried nearly 1900 years 

 ago. 



