THE IKKIGATION AGE. 



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THE DEARBORN CANAL. 



A meeting of the members of the Montana State. 

 Arid Land Grant commission was recently held in Mis- 

 soula- at the office of the president, Col. Thomas C. Mar- 

 shall. The full membership was present President 

 Marshall, Vice President and Field Agent Donald Brad- 

 ford, Helena, and Secretary D. H. Cory of Helena. 

 The business considered was largely routine, but a 

 report presented by the field 'agent showed the affairs 

 of the commission were being carried forward as di- 

 rected, and that indications pointed to a large amount 

 of good that would follow plans for irrigating a large 

 area- of land in northern Montana. 



Figures of the agent were confined largely to work 

 being done on the Dearborn canal in the northern part 

 of the state. He furnished documents to show that 

 the canal now carriod water that was irrigating satis- 

 factorily nearly 14,000 acres. One-half of this has 

 been contracted for by settlers now living on the lands, 

 and who have made at least one payment on a contract 

 purchase. Other letters read gave assurance that the 

 remainder of the land would probably be claimed within 

 the coming six months. 



According to previous arrangements the board will 

 go ahead with the erection of reservoirs and dams to 

 hold water for the irrigation of a tract containing 22,000 

 acres in Cascade county. The supply for this will come 

 through the Dearbonvcanal. It is not expected the work 

 on th'is feature will be completed before 1004. The Mia- 

 soulian. 



The Lake Koen Navigation Reservoir and Irriga- 

 tion company was restored the right to do business in 

 the state of Kansas by the charter board at Topeka 

 recently. The company, so it was alleged, had refused 

 to pay its just debts and had also failed to file a state- 

 ment of its business in compliance with the law. The 

 attorneys for the company showed that it was willing 

 and able to pay all just debts and that the failure to 

 make a statement of the business was simply an over- 

 sight. The officers of the company claim that the trouble 

 started in the first, place by the action of a man who 

 attempted to hold up the company for $10,000, which he 

 happened to be in need of, and that.he had no just claim, 

 the company having paid him in full. 



The company was said to be one of A. E. Stilwell's 

 enterprises, but Mr. Stilwell said last week that he was 

 neither an officer nor director in the company. He took 

 $2,500 worth of stock when a reorganization v/as being 

 effected and the enterprise is now known as the Lake 

 Stilwell company. The company was formed in Bar- 

 ton county, Kansas, where it is proposed to build an 

 irrigation reservoir. Kansas City World. 



"Among the Flowers with Rexford," the regular 

 department of experiences and help for amateurs in 

 floriculture in the January, Home and Flowers, con- 

 tains an editorial, "What to Do in January," Rexford; 

 "The Golden Hop-Tree," by W. C. Egan, and "January 

 in 1 Southern Gardens," by Mrs. G. ^ . Drennan.- 



A FAIR AVERAGE. 



Visitor '"'Lady Evelyn tells' me, Dan'l, that you 

 have had four wives." , , 



Daniel (proudly) "Ess, zur, I 'aye an' what's 

 more, two of 'em was. good 'uns \"&fvAon Punch. 



Ere yet thy heart be hard and dry, 

 Make haste to pardon and atone ; 



One hoarded hate shuts all the sky, 

 And turns the Father's heart to stone. 



Frederick Langbridge. 



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