THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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rupa and West Riverside canal. The set- 

 tlers do not own this canal, but each has 

 the right to convey a certain amount of 

 water through it. For a number of years 

 there has been expensive litigation between 

 the settlers and the Steams Rancho com- 

 pany, owner of the canal, and it has been 

 extremely difficult to adjudicate the inter- 

 ests of the several parties. 



As a solution to the many difficulties 

 they have experienced, one of which was 

 the frequent breaking of the canal, the 

 settlers are planning to abandon their 

 rights in the canal, and build a pipe line 

 for the conveyance of the water appurte- 

 nant to their lands. It will be necessaay to 

 lay for this purpose eight miles of steel 

 pipe, the greater part of which will be 

 twelve inches is diameter. The proposed 

 improvement will cost in the neighbor- 

 hood of $50.000 a sum thnt it will be 

 difficult to raise at this time. The settlers 

 are hopeful of carrying out their project, 

 however, and it is to be hoped that success 

 will attend an their endeavors. Press and 

 Horticulturist. 



STATE NEWS. 



WASHINGTON. 



About 2o per cent, more fruit is being 

 transported through Spokane over the 

 Northern Pacific than ever before. Rail- 

 way officials think this increase is due to 

 the fact that t he young orchaads are begin- 

 ning to bear, and hence it is a permanent 



ARIZONA. 



Among the growing towns of Arizona 

 may be mentioned Winslow. about fifty 

 miles east of Flagstaff. The Santa Fe 

 Pacific railway has made many improve 

 ments that has been essential to the 

 growth of the town and it is now in a t-hriv" 

 ing condition, it being the eastern end o* 

 the mountain division. Water, as in other 

 apparently barren sections of Arizona, is 

 the great problem with the settlers in this 

 vicinity and important irrigation enter- 

 prises are being promoted. The soil is 

 rich and productive of every kind of fruit 



and vegetable, where nature has been 

 kind and artificial means of producing 

 moisture can be employed. There are 

 several thriving ranches near Winslow, and 

 the cattlemen furnish their quota of sup- 

 port to a thriving community. 



In addition to three churches and a pub- 

 lic school. Wislow has an anti-bachelor 

 organization, and the man who has neither 

 a wife nor a "girl back east" for whom he 

 intends sending as soon as he gets a house 

 built, is a social outlaw. 



Mr. Shelby M. Cullom, deputy collector 

 of internal revenue, returned recently 

 from an official visit to Nogales, Ariz. He 

 says that property owners along the inter- 

 national boundary are engaged in moving 

 their buildings from the sixty-foot strip 

 which the government decided to throw 

 open for four miles, two on each side of the 

 town, for the purpose of removing some of 

 the facilities for smuggling and for the 

 further reason that a purely mathematical 

 line, one having length, but neither breath 

 nor thickness, is too imaginary. Persons 

 occupying this condemned territory have 

 lately received notice to vacate, and all 

 but two are acting upon the notice. One 

 of these two is Captain John T. Brickwood, 

 whose saloon abutts on the republic of 

 Mexico. Some travelers in describing 

 Brickwood's saloon have stated that it is 

 built across the line and that there is a 

 mark on the bar indicating the interna- 

 tional boundary: that on the south side are 

 kept Mexican cigars and French and other 

 foreign drinks, which if imported into this 

 country would cost a great deal more than 

 they do in this so-called free zone. It has 

 been stated that whenever Captain Brick- 

 wood's customers want any of these things 

 they are served for them on the south side 

 of the international line running across 

 the bar. 



As a matter of fact the saloon lies wholly 

 within the United States, but the south- 

 ern end of it is built against the Mexican 

 line. A porch on that side is wholly in 

 Mexico. 



Only three states now surpass Missou ri 

 in the production of distilled liquors. 

 Illinois is first, New York, second, and 

 Kentucky third. 



