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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



year than was ever known in that section. 

 It is attributed to excessively warm 

 weather followed by a cold wave which 

 started the sap running and then suddenly 

 checked it. Instead of getting the heaviest 

 crop on record, as promised a few weeks ago, 

 it is likely to fall considerably short of 

 last season's crop. The quality of the re- 

 maining fruit is not injured. 



The Co-operative Packers Association 

 are slow to join the combination of packers 

 which they have been trying to make 

 effective. They claim to have benefited 

 their stockholders who are growers, to the 

 extent of $5 per ton. They state this 

 as their proposition: To pack goods 

 at cost; to sell them at cost; to employ our 

 own members as far as possible; to get all 

 the market will pay, and pro-rate the 

 amount received to each grower in propor- 

 tion to that which he contributes, accord- 

 ing to quantity and quality. 



COLORADO. 



The prospects for crops were never bet- 

 ter in this State. 



T. C. Henry expects to settle 200,000 

 acres of land in the San Luis valley, Ar- 

 kansas valley and vicinity of Fort Morgan, 

 by Scandinavian, Russian and other emi- 

 grants. 



Denver florists are not only supplying 

 their own home market, but the mountain 

 towns of the State, and Wyoming, with cut 

 flowers. Denver has built many green- 

 houses the past four or five years, and has 

 completely taken the trade away from the 

 Chicago and Omaha florists. 



The Grand Junction News urges the 

 necessity of a peach day celebration this 

 year, in order to convince the public that 

 the late frosts of the present spring did 

 not kill all the fruit in the Grand valley. 

 While there was some damage, they will 

 probably have as much to ship out this 

 year as last. 



This State is promised by all odds the 

 greatest tunnel on earth. The longest of 

 the three tunnels under the Alps is less 

 than ten miles, but this one, which is to 

 start near Colorado City, is to be forty- 

 eight miles long, with a branch line sixteen 

 miles long, in the tunnel proper to Cripple 

 Creek. 



The Alfalfa Growers Association recently 

 organized, has represented in its member- 



ship 125,000 acres seeded to alfalfa, which 

 yield an average total of 500,000 tons a 

 year. Its yalue at $5 a ton is $2,500,000, 

 and the Santa Fe road has established 

 freight rates to Chicago, Kansas City and 

 Galveston that will enable the grower to 

 ship to these points and realize that price. 

 The farmers receiving water from the 

 Handy ditch, near Loveland, one of the 

 older ditches on the Thompson, having 

 failed to get what they considered their 

 proportion of the water, assembled in 

 force, opened the headgates, in defiance of 

 the county commissioners, and turned a 

 full head of water through their ditch. 

 They maintained their position for three 

 or four days until their suffering crops 

 had all the water needed. They evidently 

 concluded it was better to stand a lawsuit 

 than to lose their crops. 



IDAHO. 



The Reservation canal has been com- 

 pleted and the water turned in, near Idaho 

 Falls. 



From seven to ten car loads of settlers 

 are to be brought into the Idaho Falls 

 neighborhood from Iowa so says the 

 Register. 



Floods in the Boise have done much 

 damage in the neighborhood of Caldwell, 

 washing away bridges and washing out 

 considerable sections of the public roads. 



KANSAS. 



The little town of Pratt has decided to 

 make no further effort to meet its bonded 

 obligations, and will let the bondholders 

 take the town. 



A ten-foot Aermotor, and six-inch Stone 

 pump have been purchased by the county 

 and erected in the court-house square at 

 Garden City to irrigate the lawns and 

 park. 



A forty-car corn train was started, with 

 a great public demonstration, ex-Senator 

 Ingalls being chief speaker, from Wichita, 

 to attend the Republican Convention at 

 St. Louis. It was five days en route and 

 attracted great attention. It was a charac- 

 teristic Kansas advertisement in a good 

 crop year. It ought to have been sent on 

 to Kentucky and manufactured into whis- 

 ky. Then it would have been available 

 to keep up the enthusiasm until after the 

 election. 



