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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



first with 420 miles, and Okanogan sec- 

 ond with 120 miles. 



The known ditches in the state are as 

 follows: 



Acres Miles of 



Counties. Irrigated. Ditches. 



Adams 900 10 



Asotin 500 15 



Douglas 4,700 60 



Franklin 20 



Kittitas 40,000 95 



Okanogan 10,000 120 



Pierce 250 



Walla Walla 10,498 87 



Yakima 139,410 420 



Totals 206,458 807 



The arid regions are all embraced in 

 the counties of Yakima, Kittitas, Frank- 

 lin, Adams and the lower half of Doug- 

 las, and contain 8,098,360 acres, as fol- 

 lows: 



Yakima county 3,547,800 



Kittitas county 1,095,130 



Franklin county 785,500 



Adams county 1,220,000 



Douglas county (lower half). .1,449,930 



All of this section classed as ''arid 

 lands" should not be so included, for in 

 the counties named, while arid in the 

 main, there are fertile spots that are 

 highly successful in horticulture and 

 agriculture without water. The estimate 

 of actual arid lands in the state has been 

 put at from 3,000,000 to 3,500,000 acres, 

 of which fully one-half can be irrigated 

 profitably, while with the increase in 

 land values it will be found profitable to 

 irrigate an additional million of acres. 

 The remaining arid lands, on account of 

 their location on hills, or alkali or gravel- 

 ly soil, will remain untouched. 



In Yakima county there are com- 

 pleted or projected canals on which sur- 

 veys have been run. There are 383 miles 

 completed, 286 uncompleted, 141,410 

 acres reclaimed under the ditch lines, 

 69,910 acres under cultivation and over 

 60,000 acres for sale. This includes 

 seven artesian wells at the Moxee farm, 

 which vary in depth from 300 to 1000 

 feet, delivering eight cubic feet of water 

 per second of time and covering 1250 

 acres of land, of which 550 are cultivated 

 and the balance in the market. One of 

 these artesian wells flows 1,000,000 gal- 

 lons of water every 24 hours. 



It is estimated that there are in Kitti- 

 tas county about 40,000 acres under 

 constructed ditches and in cultivation, in 

 addition to which there are about 100, 

 000 acres which can be irrigated by 

 canals, some of which have been partly 

 constructed, and their feasibility demon- 

 strated. 



The most extensive irrigation enter- 

 prise in the Yakima valley, and in the 

 entire state at this time, is what is local- 

 ly known as the high line canal. The 

 survey of this canal was undertaken a 

 short time ago jointly by the state and 

 the Northern Pacific Railway Company 

 within the limits of whose land grant it is 

 located, and after a careful survey and ex- 

 amination its construction was found en- 

 tirely practicable at low cost. This 

 canal has its source of supply in the 

 Natchez river, an important tributary of 

 the Yakima, and its total length from 

 the Natchez river to the Columbia river 

 is 114 miles. It commands an area of 

 about 400,000 acres, of which it is estim- 

 a^ed that 285,000 acres are of first class 

 quality. The state under the provisions 

 of the Carey law, has selected 85,000 

 acres of this land, and as the Northern 

 Pacific Railway Company owns nearly 

 one-half of the total amount, these two 

 large ownerships insure the early con- 

 struction of this important enterprise. 



Growth of Southern Manufactures. 



In 1880 the South had $257,244.561 

 invested in manufacturing; by 1890 this 

 had increased to $659,008.817, a gain of 

 156 percent., while the gain in the en- 

 tire country was 120.76 per cent. The 

 value of the manufactured products of 

 the South rose from $457,454.777 in 1880 

 to $917,589.045, in 1890 a gain of 100 per 

 cent, against an increase of only 69.27 

 per cent in the whole country. The 

 factory hands of the South received 

 S7rV.H 7.471 in wages in 1880 and in 

 1890 $222,118.505. Since 1890 the gain 

 has been very large, and the South is 

 now turning out $1,200,000.000 of man- 

 ufactured products ja year. 



Get your hay in the barn or stack be- 

 fore the dew falls. 



Alfalfa is a great mortgage lifter. 

 Never send dirty eggs to market. 



