THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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"The whole coast country is coming to the front. Rice and sugar are the 

 main agricultural products. Of course, oil leads in the region around Beau- 

 mont, but it is in the country southwest of the oil regions where the great de- 



A DITCH AND FIELD. HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 



velopment in farming is going on. There the people are alive to the. work of 

 farming by irrigation, and no portion of Texas, or perhaps the entire country, 

 is being more readily developed. There are oil scares and oil booms everywhere 



A CANAL IN MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS. 



in the coast country, but these people living in Wharton, Matagorda and the 

 contiguous counties are more interested in agricultural development than in 

 winning sudden wealth by boring for an oil gusher. Texas is great, but there 



