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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



A Blow at the ne Cuban reciprocity bill 

 Trusts. was passed by the House, 



April 18, after an amendment had been 

 added reducing the tariff on refined sugar 

 to that for the raw material. As it goes 

 to the Senate the measure authorizes the 

 President to negotiate a treaty with the 

 Cuban government, admitting Cuban im- 

 ports to this country at a 20 per cent, re- 

 duction from existing tariff rates. This is 

 regarded as a censure on the sugar trust 

 and is received with pleasure by West- 

 erners. 



To Irrigate Arizona and Texas capital- 



By Wells. ists have organized a com- 



pany at El Paso for the purpose of irri- 

 gating 40,000 acres of desert land in the 

 Rio Grande valley for farming purposes. 

 It is said that at a reasonable depth a con- 

 tinuous flow of water may be secured, and 

 it is therefore proposed to divide this land 

 into small tracts and irrigate it by means 

 of wells. The land can be purchased so 

 cheaply that the only expense to amount 

 to anything will be the cost of sinking the 

 wells. Should this method prove as suc- 

 cessful as its projectors hope, it will doubt- 

 less be used in reclaiming arid lands in 

 other regions. The claim is made that if 

 the desert land in Utah, California, Wyo- 

 ming, Arizona and Texas were combined 

 it would make one of the largest deserts 

 in the world with the exception of the 

 Sahara. The southern portion of Texas 

 is certainly in a bad way at present. A 

 traveler who recently returned from there 

 said that there were sections where no rain 

 had fallen for two years and where the 



wild animals, in large numbers, had died 

 from the effects of the drouth. The north- 

 ern section of the state has been helped 

 by some rain. 



A New We present in this issue, 



Departure. under the heading of "Le- 



gal Notes on Irrigation," information re- 

 garding subjects of such general interest 

 to irrigators as "riparian rights," "prior 

 rights appurtenant to land deeds," "what 

 may not be appropriated," etc. This is a 

 feature which we trust may be well re- 

 ceived by our readers. Law is a very 

 handy subject to have some knowledge of, 

 in irrigation as well as in other pursuits. 



A Word to Advertising pays. Not the 



Our Advertisers, spasmodic kind, perhaps, 

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 By a reliable advertising medium is not 

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 Therefore, select the publication best cal- 

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 not once-in-awhile, but regularly, persist- 

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