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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



STATE NEWS. 



COLORADO. 



Colorado intends going into the raising 

 of sugar beets for "all there is in it". 

 Half a ton of sugar beet seed is to be sent 

 out by Secretary Wilson to the Chamber 

 of Commerce of Denver, and from there 

 distributed throughout the state to those 

 who wish to try raising beets. 



The National Stock Growers Convention 

 is to be held in Denver, Colo., Jan 25 to 

 27 inclusive. Over half the governors west 

 of the Mississippi have accepted invita- 

 tions to be present and those who can not 

 attend have written letters very heartily 

 endorsing the aims of the convention. 



There is talk of holding an international 

 exposition at Denver in 1901 to celebrate 

 the 25th anniversary of the admission of 

 Colorado into the Union. 



The Delta Independent of Dec. 24 calls 

 attention- to what is styled the "grievous 

 inaccuracies" of Bulletin No. 6 recently 

 issued by the division of pomology of the 

 United States department of agriculture. 

 The Bulletin divides the country into fif- 

 teen groups, of which Colorado, Utah, and 

 Nevada, the portions of district, in Arizo- 

 na, New Mexico and Texas north of the 

 thirty-fifth degree of latitude are grouped 

 in district 12. There are 230 well known 

 varieties of winter apples that can be 

 grown in this country and some states will 

 grow nearly all these kinds. The Inde- 

 pendent says that when this Bulletin 

 claims that Colorado can raise but twenty 

 varieties of apples, it not only does the 

 state great injustice as to its fruit raising 

 abilities, but gives a very erroneous idea 

 to fruitgrowers throughout the country as 

 to Colorado's resources. Delta has shipped 

 160 cars of fruit this season, besides its 

 express shipments- 



Another effort is being made by the res- 

 idents of the North Fork country on the 

 Gunnison river to secure railroad connec- 

 tion by building a line joining the Rio 

 Grande Western at Delta and running up 

 the North Fork valley to Hotchkisa and 



Paonia. This was attempted two years 

 ago, but was unsuccessful, owing to the 

 hard times. It is to be hoped the venture 

 will be a go this time, as the valley is one 

 of the most fertile in the state. 



CALIFORNIA. 

 SAN DIEGO RESOURCES. 



A San Diego correspondent figures ur> 

 the following as the more important annual 

 resources of San Diego, the figures not in- 

 cluding products of manufacture, nor the 

 expenditures in trade and commerce, or of 

 corporations handling cargoes by rail and 

 water: 



"Live stock, hides, wool and honey, 

 $200,000; grain, hay and other field prod 

 ucts, $350,000; fruits, nuts and olives, 

 $500,000; mining product in bullion, $500,- 

 000; fish product brought into this port, 

 $200,000; expenditures for shipping sup- 

 plies, repairs and by men on local, coast- 

 ing and foreign ships, $200,000; expendi- 

 tures for supplies and for men by the gov- 

 ernment for the army on fortifications and 

 harbor improvements, $150,000; expendi- 

 tures by summer and winter tourists, 

 $1,000,000, making a grand total of $3,100.- 

 000. 



Santa Barbara is to have a celery farm 

 of 200 acres. There is a great field for 

 the production of that popular vegetable 

 in this valley, but no one has yet under- 

 taken to occupy it. 



Tulare now comes waddling proudly to 

 the front under the weight of 237o pounds 

 of pumpkin. That pumpkin would do 

 more missionary work for this valley in 

 New England than a dozen real estate 

 agents. 



Yisalia has contracted to have her 

 streets lighted by electricity and will pay 

 $10 per month for each light, moonlight 

 schedule. Fresno pays little more than 

 half this price for all-night lights, but 

 then Fresno has one of the greatest water- 

 power electric systems in the United 

 States. 



The Valley road has ordered one hun- 



