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College of Pullman, Wash., on the analysis of the soil 

 shows it to be rich in lime and potash. The soil at three 

 feet is almost as rich as the surface soil. 



It his immense bodies of yellow pine timber sur- 

 rounding to furnish fuel and lumber. There is plenty of 

 game, such as deer, antelope, geese, ducks, grouse and 

 sage hens, and it is a poor angler who can not basket a 

 hundred speckled trout in a few hours, as they are abun- 

 dant in every stream and lake. There is attractive 

 scenery for the tourist and settler, such as Mount Hood, 

 Mount Jefferson, Mount Adams, and taken all together 

 this is a desirable location for a home. 



INDIAN AS AN IRRIGATOR. 



In our issue of September will appear 

 Kennewick, an illustrated article on the Kennewick, 

 Washington. Wash., irrigation district. This is a coun- 

 try of great possibilities and with a very 

 low altitude, 362 feet above sea level, insures a mild 

 winter climate and an exceedingly long and early grow- 

 ing season, the season opening three weeks earlier than 

 at points of higher altitude further up the Yakima Val- 

 ley. This section offers splendid inducements to pros- 

 pective, settlers who are figuring on securing small 

 tracts of five, ten or twenty acres under irrigation. 



PUT IN IRRIGATION PLANT. 



E. R. Cowdrick, the well known pork packer and 

 life insurance agent of Napoleon, Ohio, has put in an 

 irrigating plant on his farm. It consists of a gas engine 

 plant on the river bank, which forces the water through 

 nearly 1,000 feet of pipe to the house, barn, peach 

 orchard, garden, etc. The engine will force the water 

 through six hydrants at once, or throw an inch stream 

 to the top of the house or barn. 



It is so placed as to be used to irrigate one-half 

 of the farm at present, and can be extended to cover it 

 all. Mr. Cowdrick has, so far as we know, the only 

 irrigated farm in Ohio. 

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Texas has at present about 300,000 acres of irri- 

 gated land, of which 75,000 acres are planted in ordinary 

 crops and 225,000 in rice. For years stock raising had 

 been the only industry of the arid and semi-arid por- 

 tions of the State, but the homesteaders of the last de- 

 cade have cut up the great ranches into small farms and 

 created a demand for water with which to make their 

 crops grow. 



Cotton fields are pushing their way now into west- 

 ern Texas. The rice fields are confined for the most 

 part to the coast country, but the belt of irrigated land 

 where general farm products flourish extends from El 

 Paso to the Guadalupe and from the Rio Grande to the 

 Red River on the north. 



IRRIGATION KNOWN TO INDIANS. 



Irrigation, however, is no new thing in Texas. It 

 must not be forgottetn that the Lone Star State is a com- 

 monwealth with the romantic history that befits a border 

 State. Long before it became a republic the Indians 

 were irrigating land along the Rio Grande. Afterward 

 the Franciscan friars, who came with the early Spanish 

 conquerors, carried on irrigation for the cultivation of 

 their fields in the southwestern part of what is now the 

 State of Texas. In the northern and central parts of the 

 State irrigation has been carried on to a limited extent 

 for many years. 



For some time irrigation development in the Pecos 

 and Rio Grande valleys has been retarded by the lack of 

 water supply which the heavy demand on those rivers in 

 New Mexico and Colorado occasions. There are many 

 places, however, in the trans-Pecos country where im- 

 pounding dams might be constructed across narrow can- 

 yons or gorges to form reservoirs for the storage of 

 flood waters. 



IMPOUNDING RESERVOIRS NEEDED. 



The use of impounding reservoirs has not entered 

 largely into the irrigation economy of the State, but 

 as the demand for water grows, attention is turned to 

 this source of supply and the storage reservoir at Wichita 

 Falls will soon be duplicated at scores of other points 

 in Texas. San Saba valley, above the town of San Saba, 

 is one of the most fertile sections in the world and 

 definite plans have been made for the construction of a 

 dam across the canyon eighteen miles above the town to 

 form an immense storage reservoir from which water 

 can be conducted to the valley below. 



This canyon is fifty miles in length and, by means 

 of series of dams and canals, it is believed that 40.000 

 acres above and below the town might be made to form 

 an immense storage underditch. Irrigators along the 

 stream from the head of the canyon to the springs al- 

 ready have taken practically the entire normal flow of 

 the stream, making any system in the lower San Saba 

 dependent largely on storage water. 



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