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THE IKRIGATION AGE. 



STEVENSON, ALA., June 20, 1903. 

 THE IRRIGATION ACE AND DRAINAGE JOURNAL : 



Gentlemen Enclosed find check for $2.00 to pay for 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE AND DRAINAGE JOURNAL. 



I want a good and competent 'man to put up a tile and 

 bricK plant at this place. It is a fine location for the busi- 

 ness; the clay is good. The people want the tile and brick, 

 and there is no plant of the kind near us. 



A fine opening for an enterprising man ; railway and water 

 transportation good, and this county is now building $250,- 

 ooo worth of pike roads about eighty miles already built. 



Help me in this matter. Respectfully, 



I. P. RUSSELL. 



NEW CASTLE, COLO., June 17, 1903. 

 EDITOR IRRIGATION AGE, Chicago, 111. : 



Your favor of May 14 at hand. Will say my invention 

 is of that class of irrigating machinery that takes the water out 

 of a river, well or pond. It is an elevator that runs on a 

 track. Each bucket runs on two wheels, just like a car. Is 

 so constructed that it can be made to any size. The smallest 

 plan I have made has buckets that hold two gallons each ; 

 the largest size holds 88 gallons and is large enough to 

 irrigate three thousand acres of land in one body. This 

 elevator is designed to reclaim lands along rivers where water 

 power can easily be had or take water out of wells, where 

 the underflow is of sufficient capacity to supply water to irri- 

 gate a larger quantity of land and these conditions I find 

 in many places on our western prairies and deserts ; for in- 

 stance, in the large prairies of the eastern part of Colorado, 

 also Kansas and Nebraska and throughout the extreme west- 

 ern states, especially California and Arizona. 



My experience for twenty-two years in these countries 

 has led me to this invention and those that have seen it 

 work agree with me that it is the most successful plan for 

 irrigation yet known. It is not altogether tuw, but an old 

 plan improved. I claim I can raise water as high as any 

 machine and in as large quantities with one-half the expense 

 and one-half the power and that this machine will last longer 

 and does not require a machinist to look after any part of 

 its construction. I shall be pleased to receive a copy of your 

 valuable paper and subscribe for it. Yours truly, 



W. A. CONNOR. 



SHOULD IRRIGATING CANALS BE BUILT CONTOUR. 

 JOHN G. HALL, GREELEY, COLO. 



Nine out of ten civil engineers who have had no practical 

 knowledge of irrigation will recommend building the canal 

 upon a contour basis. With twenty years' experience, I 

 will try and show up the' good and the bad side of contour 

 canals : First, in running a canal on a contour basis, makes 

 a nice, even embankment on the lower side of canal. It is 

 easy to estimate the amount of earth to be removed ; again, 

 it is not so difficult to follow a given fall per mile, what- 

 ever has been assigned to give it. But on the other hand, 

 and what becomes detrimental in practice, is the cutting 

 away of the banks, which must take place, because there are 

 always elevations and depressions in the land that must be 

 followed to make a contour canal. Following these eleva- 

 tions and depressions gives short crooks to the canal and 

 every time the water goes around one ot these crooks throws 

 the main current to the outside. The force of this current 

 is constantly cutting away the outside bank which causes 

 much expense in rip-raping to prevent the bank from wash- 

 ing completely away. This endangers the safety of canal, 

 besides making the owners liable for the damage caused by 

 said break; not only this but the water must be turned out 

 to repair the break, which generally takes from one to five 

 days and the loss of water for this time to those who could 

 use it is again a big loss which on large canals runs into 

 thousands of dollars. Again, the soil or bank of canal that 

 has been cutting away and before the break comes must 

 stop somewhere and will lodge and make a big sandbar, or 

 against some flume check, that must be taken out with slips, 

 dredges or by some other means. This entails a cost to stock- 

 holders year after year. As we at Greedy, Colo., have grown 

 up with irrigation, we can look back on our mistakes, as everyone 

 can, and I should recommend to anyone or company taking 

 out a new canal for the saving in future years of expense, 

 not to build exactly upon a contour basis ; do a reasonable 

 amount of cutting and filling to get the canal reasonably 

 straight, or with long curves to prevent this cutting and 

 washing. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE one year and The Primer of Irri- 

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