THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



VOL. XII. 



CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1898. 



NO. 5. 



THE PROGRESS OF WESTERN SMERICB. 



0wl S to tue fat that much 

 of the Irrigation Age mail 



goes to tlic office of the former 

 management, thus causing an inconveni- 

 ent delay, all communications to the 

 journal should be addressed to the Pub- 

 lisher, J. E. Forrest, 916 W. Harrison 

 Street, as in this way only will they re- 

 ceive prompt attention. 



Our Frontis- O ur frontispiece this month 

 piece. represents a large celery field 



on Spring Brook Farm, Roswell, New 

 Mexico. The photograph from which the 

 cut was taken, was kindly sent us by Mr. 

 W. M. Farmer, of Spring Brook Farm, who 

 makes quite a specialty of celery. Mr. 

 Farmer says the field covers 50 acres. In 

 1896 he started with a four acre field, 

 "which, the following year, was increased to 

 20 acres, and this year has reached its 

 present extent. Celery raising promises to 

 be one of the important industries of 

 Pecos Valley. 



Reservoirs and irrigation works 

 are being pushed vigorously in 

 the western states, and new companies are 

 constantly being formed. John V. Far- 

 well, of Chicago, is at the head of a large 

 company known as the Montezuma Canal 

 Co., which proposes to build the necessary 

 ditches, dams, etc., to irrigate the South- 

 ern Ute reservation at Ignacio. 



The company will charge $150,000 for 

 the work of preparing to irrigate 10,000 

 acres and $10,000 a year afterward. As 

 reservoir covering fifteen acres will be re- 

 quired to irrigate ten times that amount of 



The Good 



Work 



Continues. 



land. The greatest venture of this kind in 

 the State of Colorado is that of the Great 

 Plains Storage Co., in Ontero, Bent and 

 Prowers counties. The Fort Lyon canal 

 receiving its water from the Arkansas river 

 near La Junta, is to have its capacity 

 doubled, the ditch to be sixty feet in width 

 on the bottom, and the reservoirs to cover 

 13,000 acres. Mr. Searles, the sugar man 

 is backing this company. 



Work will be commenced this month in 

 Utah on a mammoth undertaking, which it 

 will require at least a year to complete and 

 give employment to 2,500 men. This is 

 the work on the three great reservoirs and 

 '720 miles of laterals and canals that are to 

 irrigate the table lands in Milliard and 

 Sevier counties of Utah. The state has 

 just signed the contract for this with the 

 Lake Bonneville Water and Power Co. It 

 is claimed that $2,500,000 will be spent 

 during the next two years for labor alone, 

 and the two canals from the reservoirs will 

 each carry more water than any river in 

 the state. They willjbe ten feet deep and 

 fifty feet wide at the bottom. 



Two canals, one eighteen and the other 

 twenty-two miles long are to be built in 

 San Juan Co., N. M., which will irrigate 

 94,000 acres of land. California contem- 

 plates irrigating the North Fork County 

 by means of a twenty-one mile ditch, and 

 in Mesa County a forty-mile canal is to be 

 constructed. 



Wyoming is adding to its system near 



