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THE IBBIGATION AGE. 



. The Sioux City Journal prints an item 

 from Hot Springs, S. D., stating that 

 George Trimmer, who owns one of the 

 most prolific nurseries in South Dakota, 

 harvested a fourth crop of alfalfa from a 

 patch of ground this year. 



Mr. Trimmer's orchard and alfalfa 

 fields are irrigated by water from Fall 

 River. In this orchard large and hand- 

 some pears grow, and their flavor can not 

 be excelled. 



Trimmer is the father of fruit growing 

 in the Black Hills. 



There is only one other pear orchard 

 in the State, that being at the Soldiers' 

 Home. Peaches are also grown in this 

 orchard, which was set out by Colonel 

 Linn when he was commandant at the 

 Home. 



IRRIGATION ASSOCIATION 

 MEETS AT MODESTO. 



MODESTO, Oct. 18. The California 

 Irrigation Association is holding a two 

 days' session in this city. Hon. A. M. 

 Drew, the president of the association, 

 is presiding. George T. McCabe and 

 John I. Stafford, of Modesto, are the 

 secretaries. 



Delegates from all parts of the State 

 are present, among them being some of 

 the best California authorities on the 

 use of water. Prof. Elwood Mead, 

 of the State University, is taking a very 

 active part in the proceedings. The as- 

 sociation will be in session tomorrow, 

 closing the convention tomorrow even- 

 ing. 



IRRIGATION FOR TRUCKERS. 



DALLAS, Oct. 22. Owing to the de- 

 mand for property along the interurban 

 line between Dallas and Fort Worth, the 

 owners of large tracts are dividing their 

 holdings into small truck farms and of- 

 fering them for sale on easy terms. The 

 most novel i'dea thus far carried ottt by 

 an owner of a large farm was to divide 

 it into small tracts and make arrange- 

 ments for irrigating them. A large res- 

 ervoir is being constructed on the place 

 and it is being ditched in order to dis- 

 tribute the water. A number of arte- 

 sian wells are being dug and the water 

 from these will be pumped into the reser- 

 voir for storage. This farm is in the 

 neighborhood of Arlington. 



CHEYENNE, WYO., Oct. 22. A party of 

 Buffalo citizens headed by W. P. Keays 

 has secured the segregation of 57,000 

 acres of land in the center of Johnson 

 county and will construct a large irriga- 

 tion canal and a series of reservoirs to 

 reclaim the lands which are now arid and 

 unproductive. The reservoirs will be 

 constructed at the snow line. 



Charles F. Lummis, the noted writer 

 on Southwestern life, says that the In- 

 dians on some of the reservations in 

 southern California are in danger of 

 starvation, owing to the fact that no rain 

 has fallen to start their crops and no 

 water is on hand for irrigation purposes. 



Similar reports have come at different 

 times from the Southwest, and they 

 would indicate that the Indian who is 

 trying to make a living by agriculture in 

 the arid and semi-arid regions needs ma- 

 terial assistance in providing himself 

 against drouth. As a rule the Indians 

 who have taken farms in severally try 

 hard to make themselves self-support- 

 ing. But in many instances the support 

 of the Government seems to be with- 

 drawn too soon. These simple people 

 can not make expert farmers of them- 

 selves at once. The white man has found 

 years of patient study and effort neces- 

 sary before he has even begun to con- 

 quer the problems of farming in a coun- 

 try where everything must be raised by 

 irrigation. 



The Government is spending millions 

 in vast irrigation works for the white 

 farmers of the West. This money will 

 all be paid back through the sale of the 

 lands benefited. Why should not the 

 same plan prove successful when applied 

 to the Indian reservations? A system of 

 storage reservoirs on the California res- 

 ervations of which Mr. Lummis speaks 

 would doubtless have kept the Indians 

 from their present suffering. The build- 

 ing of a storage reservoir or a practical 

 irrigation canal is generally beyond the 

 uneducated Indian's comprehension. But 

 there are engineers among the Indians 

 who are now being turned out of the 

 Carlisle and other schools, and a system 

 of irrigation reservoirs and canals on the 

 reservations would give these young men 

 and other able-bodied Indians plenty of 

 work to do. 



It is the aim of the Government to 

 make the Indian self-supporting, and 

 what greater step toward this end can be 

 taken than the permanent improvement 

 of the red man's land? 



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