THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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CO-OPERATIVE CANAL. 



A letter from D. B. Hartwell, secretary 

 of the Cedar Canal Company, Ltd., gives 

 details of their irrigation enterprise at 

 Rosworth, Iddho: 

 EDITOR IRRIGATION AGE: 



Dear &ir: In reply to your letter I 

 will say that our enterprise belongs to the 

 class of small schemes promoted by the 

 co-operative labor of the stockholders. 



The canal has a capacity sufficient for 

 the irrigation of 2,500 to 3,000 acres. All 

 the stock of the company has passed to 

 private owners, and all water rights are ob- 

 tained only by purchase of company stock 

 from present holders, thus a purchaser be- 

 comes a stockholder in the company and 

 receives his proportion of all water the 

 canal furnishes. There is no renting or 

 sale of water by the company. 



Our location is in the heart of the win- 

 ter range upon some of the best agricult- 

 ural land in the state and is adapted for 

 general farming and stock raising. Young 

 orchards have bloomed for the first time 

 since planting two years ago, giving every 

 indication of success in fruit raising. The 

 fact that all kinds of stock have wintered 

 on the range during the past six years (to 

 the writer's personal knowledge) is suffi- 

 cient evidence of climatic conditions 



The utilization of a reservoir site 13 

 miles above this location would store the 

 flood water of several streams in quantity 

 sufficient to irrigate a township when the 

 required capital and labor shall have com- 

 bined to finish what nature has so well 

 begun. 



The land in this vicinity has recently 

 been surveyed and wasopened for entry 

 the 9th of May. A few of the present 

 stockholders have limited amounts of stock 

 to sell, and all holders of stock have be- 

 gun or contemplate the immediate begin- 

 ning of improvements of their homes. 



SUNNYSIDE, WASH. 



We give herewith an extract from a let- 



ter received recently from R. K. Tiffany, 

 of Sunnyside, Wash., concerning that 

 section : 



"The Washington Irrigation Company 

 has 42 miles of main canal carrying 600 

 second feet of water besides 25 miles of 

 large laterals and over 200 miles of dis- 

 tributaries. A 20-mile extension on the 

 main canal is progressing at the rate of a 

 mile and a half per month. In all, 60,000 

 acres to be reclaimed, one -third now under 

 cultivation. Hay lands clear over $20 per 

 acre per year; orchards $400 to $1,000 per 

 acre per year: raw land selling at $40 to 

 $75 with water-right. 



"A splendid example of what irrigation 

 will do for desert land, for this was form- 

 erly called the Yakima Desert." 



FROM WYOMING. 

 EDITOR IRRIGATION AGE: 



Dear Sir: The Boone News of Iowa 

 of July 16th contains an editorial on the 

 meeting of the executive council at the 

 capital of the state to take action in the 

 assessment of Iowa railroads. The turn 

 has been taken that there should be higher 

 assessment for farming land rather than 

 for railroad property. Judge J. L. Steyens 

 of Boone, principal attorney for the 

 Northwestern railroad, was the principal 

 speaker. Statistics as to the value of 

 farm property along the C. & N. W. rail- 

 way were presented, taken from the rec- 

 ords of the several counties through which 

 the road passes. These records show that 

 $62.50 is the average price at which farm 

 land has sold during the past six months 

 per acre. It was shown that land had 

 increased in price since last September $7 

 to $10 per acre. The Judge held the 

 opinion that only the cheapest land had 

 been sold, and that Iowa land was actually 

 worth $100 per acre. This seems almost 

 incredible to one who has bought several 

 thousand acres of the government at $1.25 

 per acre in times past, and this state of 

 the value of Iowa land in the face of a 



