PULSE OF THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY. 



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which is being built through the central 

 portion of Guatemala, mostly by Ameri-. 

 can engineers and workmen. 



The Central American Exposition, to be 

 held next year in Guatemala City, under 

 the direction of Dr. Guzman (who was at 

 Chicago), is expected to attract many for- 

 eigners, and above all, Americans, as the 

 exhibits will not only be rich but unique. 

 Many of our manufacturers have already 

 signified their intention to send exhibits 

 and European countries are all alive to 

 the advantages this fair may give them in 

 showing of their goods. 



NEVADA 



Owing to the unusually dry weather 

 which prevailed in eastern Nevada during 

 the winter there will be no grain crop to 

 speak of in that part of the state as the 

 farmers, fearing a shortage in the water 

 supply did not sow. However the alfalfa 

 and wild hay crop is large, the latter being 

 better in the Humboldt River Valley than 

 for several years past, due to the un- 

 usually heavy spring storms which caused 

 the river to overflow its banks in June and 

 July. 



The short water supply in the earlier 

 part of the season and until the middle of 

 June this year, at Lovelock, on the lower 

 Humboldt Kiver, one of the richest farm- 

 ing districts of the state, has aroused the 

 farmers to the necessity of storing water 

 as a safeguard against the recurrence of 

 this condition, and a search will be made 

 for a suitable eite for a storage reservoir. 

 The loss of the grain crop in this district 

 alone this year would have more than 

 paid the cost of providing such storage. 



Within the past two years three new 

 flouring mills have been erected in the 

 state, and before long, instead of shipping 

 out wheat and importing flour from Cali- 

 fornia, Nevada will be manufacturing all 

 of this article she consumes. 



Present indications are that before the 

 next number of THE AGE is out work will 

 have been commenced on what is to be 

 one of the largest storage reservoirs in the 

 country, on one of the main tributaries of 

 the Humboldt River. This reservoir will 

 have a surface area of 3670 acres and a 

 capacity of 80,000 actual feet. It will be 

 formed by a rock-fill dam faced with earth, 

 having a height above the stream bed of 

 85 feet, a length at base of 115 feet and 

 on top of 240 feet. The water shed which 

 will supply this reservoir has an area of 

 over 750 square miles ranging in altitude 



from 5,000 feet to 11,000 feet above sea 

 level, and yielding ample water to till it. 

 There are over 200,000 acres of fine land 

 under this reservoir in the Humboldt 

 River Valley, a portion of which will be 

 irrigated from it and placed upon the* 

 market at a very low price. 



KANSAS IRRIGATION CONVENTION, 



By authority of the State Executive 

 Committee, the fouith annual meeting of 

 the Kansas Irrigation Congress is hereby 

 called to meet at Great Bend, Kansas, on 

 the 15th, 16th and 17th of October, 1896, 



Eight years of drouth and crop failures- 

 have riveted the attention of farmers and 

 all classes of people to the fact that irri- 

 gation is the only salvation of the Great 

 Plains country. Texas, Colorado, Okla- 

 koma, Nebraska and the Dakotas are 

 pressing forward with unbated zeal to- 

 wards the ^reclamation of their lands by 

 irrigation. 



Kansas is not one whit behind any of 

 them. She points with pride to the work 

 already done. Within her borders over 

 2, 500 private irrigation plants have been 

 put in since this agitation was begun, be- 

 sides thousands of farmers have been in- 

 duced to try irrigation in a small way,, 

 which insures them a living outside of 

 their farming. 



The Kansas State Board of Irrigation 

 will be here to give an account of their 

 stewardship. 



No person should be absent from this 

 meeting who can possibly come. Every 

 town, city and township in the state 

 should be represented. Every person 

 coming will be considered a delegate. 

 The ladies are especially invited. All can 

 have their " say " and ask as many ques- 

 tions on the various subjects as they de- 

 sire. 



The railroads have made one- fare rates 

 in the state of Kansas, Kansas City and 

 St. Joe, Mo., included, excursion tickets 

 to be sold Oct. 14 to 16 inclusive, good to 

 return until Oct. 19, 1896. Tickets to be 

 good for going passage commencing date 

 of sale and for continuous passage in each 

 direction. 



Great Bend has ample hotel accommo- 

 dations and can take care of all who come. 



L. Baldwin, Local Secretary; John r EL 

 Churchill, President; H. N. Lester, Sec- 

 retary State Irrigation Congress; John E. 

 Frost, Chairman State Executive Commit- 

 tee; E. R. Moses, Chairman Local Exec- 

 utive Committee. 



