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found if success for a term of years counts 

 in a man's favor. He was followed by 

 Mr. M. E. Johnson, of Chino, California, 

 another recognized expert. 



The capital having been raised for the 

 construction of a great reservoir on the 

 Rio Grande river, above Rincon, and a 

 system of canals for all the valley includ- 

 ing the cultivated lands in Mexico below 

 El Paso, it is thought there will be no oc- 

 casion to construct the proposed inter- 

 national dam. The new company will fur- 

 nish the Mexican people with water on 

 better terms than they expected to get it 

 from the government project, and it saves 

 from overflow a large body of choice lands 

 that can be utilized for cultivation and 

 that will be immensely enhanced in value. 



The wool growers' convention at Las 

 Vegas formulated a report with accompany- 

 ing resolutions, in which it is claimed that 

 since 1890, under existing legislation, the 

 average value of sheep has been reduced 

 from $2.66 to about $1.00 a head and the 

 price of wool has been lowered as much 

 as 60 per cent., so that the loss in both 

 wool and sheep has been about two-thirds 

 the former value. For the fiscal year end- 

 ing June 30, 1894, the wool crop was 

 about $3,000,000 in value, while for the 

 fiscal year of 1896 it is not more than 

 $500,000. The loss resulting to the ter- 

 ritory from the present tariff act has been 

 $6,000,000 in the value of the sheep and 

 an annual income of $2,500,000 in the 

 wool product. Naturally they are inter- 

 ested to have a change in the legislation 

 which produces such results. 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



Hon. Walter Muir expresses the opinion 

 that wheat will not average nine bushels 

 to the acre in this state. 



An artesian well on -the Howard farm, 

 near Forman has been finished, 880 feet 

 in depth. It throws a 4 inch stream of 

 water 16 feet in the air and has a pressure 

 of 125 pounds to the square inch. 



The Northwestern Farmers' Protective 

 association acknowledges failure to accom- 

 plish its purpose and has decided to dis- 

 solve the organization. It will require an 

 assessment of 25 per cent, on the stock to 

 pay the indebtedness. 



ter, having orders in hand for 21,000 

 pounds not yet filled. 



SOUTH DAKOTA. 



J. G. Bullen of Ashton, South Dakota, 

 has an artesian well flowing 600 gallons a 

 minute. It is about 1,000 feet deep and 

 costless than $1,000. The water will be 

 used to irrigate a large area of ground. 



The successful operation of the Hunter 

 farm at Mellette is proving a very great 

 object lesson to those interested in irriga- 

 tion and as a result a large number of 

 farmers have been irrigating this year, and 

 next year the farmers who depend on rain- 

 fall will be in the minority. 



OREGON. 



The Albany creamery was compelled to 

 decline an order for 8,000 pounds of but- 



Kaysville has completed its second res- 

 ervoir, holding 10,000,000 gallons. 



A heavy cloudburst at Mercur, July 7th, 

 did considerable damage, washing out the 

 streets and flooding the store rooms. 



The state will soon receive $22,000 

 from the general government to go to the 

 fund for the College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts, the amount having already 

 been audited. 



Out of the appropriations for sur- 

 veys made by the recent Congress the TJ. 

 S. Surveyor General for "Utah will have 

 $20,000 at his disposal for surveys of ag- 

 ricultural and grazing lands within the 

 state, and he has called for applications 

 for survey from the citizens so as to use it 

 to best advantage. 



The survey of Gunnison Island in the 

 Great Salt Lake has been approved by the 

 commissioner of the general land office, 

 and a plat has been filed by the Surveyor 

 General in the land office at Salt Lake 

 City. It is said some portions of the 

 island are very desirable. 



A suit which will raise the question of 

 priority of water rights on the Provo has 

 just been begun by way of injunction 

 against the people near Woodland, who 

 have been using during the past six years 

 a full water supply without regard to the 

 claims of the Wasatch and other compa- 

 nies above them, which were first estab- 

 lished. There will be a bitter contest, as 

 there are important fundamental questions 

 involved. 



WASHINGTON. 



Great crops and lots of work to do, but 

 low prices yield little return for the labor. 



