THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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the Gothenburg Power & Irrigation com- 

 pany. Secretary Wilson at the time he 

 was in office stopped the Gothenburg com- 

 pany from running water in fifteen miles 

 of ditching which it had constructed after 

 permission to use the Platte river water 

 had been granted, 



The request when first filed called for 

 water for power purposes, which was to be 

 taken from the river twelve miles above 

 the town and returned immediately below 

 the place. Afterwards the company ex- 

 tended a ditch fifteen miles to the north- 

 east for irrigation purposes. The Farmers 

 and Merchants company, which took water 

 from the river thi.ty miles further down 

 protested, alleging that in dry seasons this 

 extra expenditure on the part of the 

 Gothenburg company made the supply 

 short. Secretary Wilson held the same 

 opinion. 



The matter has just come before the 

 state board for settlement, with the result 

 that Secretary Wilson is reversed. The 

 board holds that the Gothenburg company 

 asked for a certain amount of water and 

 the request was granted prior to the re- 

 quest of the other concern. If the com- 

 pany does not exceed this amount, the use 

 to which the water is put, as long as it is 

 on the lands perscnbed, cuts no figure. 

 The Farmer* and Merchants company will 

 carry the matter to the district court and 

 ask that the first decision be sustained. 

 Omaha World Herald, 



A 30 ACRE RECORD 

 'A. T. Maxwell and son, W. B. Maxwell, 

 who own a little irrigable farm of thirty 

 acres twelve miles from Lometa on Rough 

 Cree'v in ^an Saba county, have this year 

 sold $4 "30 worth of onions, potatoes, cab- 

 bage, t'umitoes, peas, turnips, etc., saying 

 nothing of corn and hay sufficient for their 

 own use and not included in above fitrures. 

 There has been considerable talk of how 

 much the Maxwell's had made this year 

 truck farming and yesterday ene of them 



came to market here with cabbage and the 

 merchant whom he sold to (Mr. Horn) got 

 him to make a statement of his crop. The 

 above figures are those of Mr. Horn's and 

 Mr. Maxwell's and are at patch prices of 

 the products. The Maxwells marketed 

 their truck at Lometa, Llano, Thompson 

 and Goldthwaite, and sold at patch prices 

 plus use of their team and services. On 

 the same ten acres they raised 1800 bush- 

 els of onions they raised 1500 bushels of 

 potatoes; that is, they raised the onions 

 and potatoes on the same ten acres the 

 same year. In some other places in San 

 Saba county where they irrigated this year 

 they made two bales of cotton per acre. 

 No wonder the president in his message 

 had more to say about irrigation than any 

 other subject. 



''A little farm well tilled aud a little 

 store well filled" is the thing to coin cash. 

 The Maxwell's postoffice address is Chap- 

 ell. San Saba county, Texas. 



EXPANSION AT HOME. 



It has been the fashion in the East to 

 regard the demand for national aid to irri- 

 gation as an impudent Western grab for 

 which there could be no honest excuse. 

 President Hoosevelt's message has sudden- 

 ly made the proposition respectable, and 

 for the first time it is treated seriously. 



It deserves to be, for the arid region of 

 the West is by far the greatest field now 

 open to the expansive energies of the Am- 

 erican people. 



The region for who e full development 

 irrigation is necessary includes Eastern 

 Washington and Oregon, the greater part 

 of California, the whole of Nevada, Idaho, 

 Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Ari- 

 zona, New Mexico and the western parts of 

 North and South Dakota. Nebraska, Kan- 

 sas, Oklahoma and Texas. 



In this vast domain, covering a third of 

 the area of the United States, there are now 

 fewer people than live in the single state of 

 Illinois. Yet, with irrigation, it would sup- 



