THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



days that the reservoir was open, cubic 

 feet, as follows: 



Kingston (Plute county) 2,5437 



Sevier Valley 14,4022 



South Bend 14,504 



^ os eph 4,958 



Well?.....:..... .;.. 2,516 



Elsinore.. v .,4,255 



Brooklyn .. 5,0597 



JRichfield .,21,6265 



Annabelia 2,1275 



Y.ermillion. ... 6,0125 



Rocky Ford 3,5822 



. >: The gre,at benefit of this water has been 

 that when the natural flow of the Sevier 

 river was .down to forty-one cubic feet per 

 second, the reservoir was supplying ninety- 

 five cubic feet per second. Without this 

 the various crops would ha,ve been about 

 one-third what they are. The farmers 

 who used that water are raising 250,000 

 bushels of grain, worth at least $100.000 

 this season. They are raising hay that is 

 worth $75,000, lucerne seed worth $8.000, 

 and other crops worth $40.000, where th,ey 

 would not have raised enough wheat for 

 "the bread of the people in the county 

 without the help of the reservoir. 



BIG SCHEME OF IRRIGATION. 



Canadian Pacific Railway authorities 

 have at present under consideration an im- 



mense scheme of irrigation for the North- 

 west, by which it is proposed to make^gpod 

 farming and grazing country out of millions 

 of acres, ,which now lie dry and arid, bfc-. 

 tween Calgary and Medicine Hat imuiQ-- 

 diately on the North railway line. 



James Anderson, the leading irrigation 

 engineer of the .world, who has done Siuch 

 gigantic work in California, Egypt and 

 other places, has. recently been over this 

 area and reports that there, is nothing to- 

 prevent this great work being successfully 

 carried out His report is now before the 

 executive in Montreal and it is understood 

 that as an experiment 300.000 acres o| the 

 3,000,000 barren acres will be put under 



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irrigation. 



The scheme in a nutshell is to build a 

 dam in the Bow River, a mile east of Cal- 

 gary, cutting intersecting canals and leav- 

 ing the force of gravitation to do^the rest. 

 But before .an experiment is made the 

 ownership of the land to be benefitted will 

 have to be settled. At present every, al- 

 ternate section is the company's property, 

 the remainder, being in the hands of the 

 federal government. It is probable, there- 

 fore, that at the next session of Parlia- 

 ment, a new grant will be obtained, giyjng 

 the company the ownership of the lands 

 through which the irrigation canals will 

 run and which at present are barren. 



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