THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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"I'll frame it when 1 get back to Globe," he said, 

 finally. "And I've put it where I shant spend it so long 

 as I remain in good society." 



And the fact that the Judge still possessed the curi- 

 osity as he boarded the train for his Arizona town, spoke 

 volumes for his continence in Albuquerque. 



WHEN DEWEY WAS HURT. 



Jastro, serious, shrewd land and cattle owner and boss 

 of the biggest stockmen's organization in the country, did 

 not join frequently in the happy gatherings in the Alya- 

 rado. The Jastro constitution was in bad health during 

 the congress and innocuous spring waters were the only 

 drinks allowed. For all that, brother Jastro was not 

 wholly miserable as witness the following: 



It was one of the infrequent visits of Jastro to the 

 charmed circle in the red-upholstered room. Everybody 

 had told a yarn and now it was the stockman's turn. And 

 this was his offering: 



"I was on a business trip to Washington several years 

 ago and dropped in Paul Morton's office one afternoon. 

 Truxton Beale was present and so was Admiral Dewey. 



Flathead Valley Grain. 



It seems Beale had just been urging the Admiral to pay a 

 visit to his ranch in the S'an Joaquin Valley. The Ad- 

 miral was questioning Beale minutely about the place. 

 Finally he asked, perfectly seriously: 



"'And how is the boating? Is it good on the San 

 Joaquin?' 



"Beale kept his face straight by an effort, but couldn't 

 find his voice to make answer. So I chipped in with: 



" 'The boating is all right. Admiral, if you strike it 

 right. You can get a fine sail off a good lively bronco 

 anywhere in the San Joaquin.' 



"That was too much for Paul Morton. He tilted back 

 in his chair and laughed so hard be fell all the way over 

 onto the floor. Beale grinned, too. The Admiral gave me 

 one look that spoke more than a book could hold, and ran 

 out of the room as mad as a wet hen. They told me 

 afterwards Dewey is slightly deaf and hence the more 

 sensitive when anybody laughs when he is not in on the 

 joke. 



"So, for all I know, he may still be wondering about 

 what kind of boating there is on the San Joaquin." 



Send $2.50 for The Irrigation Age 

 1 year, and The Primer of Irrigation 



SISKIYOU COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. 



T. J. NOLTON 

 SECRETARY SISKIYOU COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 



The most northly county in the great state of Cali- 

 fornia is known as Sis-ki-you; the word is of Indian origin 

 sis means girl and kiyou pretty the country is full of 

 them. 



This wonderfully favored section of the west has 

 everything that any other California county has excepting 

 sea coast. 



One hundred and twenty-five miles of the state of 

 Oregon marks its boundary. The trains of the Southern 

 Pacific railroad, which crosses the county from north to 

 south, pass over eighty miles of track. In eastern Sis- 

 kiyou this same railroad has opened up Butte Creek val- 

 ley, by building 75 miles of road reaching from Weed 

 to the great lakes of northeastern Siskiyou. Independent 

 of the roads owned by the Southern Pacific Company there are 

 four other railroads in the county, counting none of the logging 

 roads. Within the broad boundaries of the inland empire 

 of Siskiyou every industry of the great west is carried on. 



Copper mining, gold mining in its different branches, 

 logging, milling, manufacturing, cattle raising, dairying, 

 ranching or farming and fruit raising. There are five 

 rivers in the county, and more than one hundred creeks. 

 The available water power, and that which has already 

 been developed, is the greatest on the Pacific coast. The 

 Siskiyou Electric power and Light Company had to dig 

 but 4,700 feet (580 less than one mile) to get a vertical 

 drop of 720 feet. The wide distribution of electricity by 

 this company has made it possible for a number of ranch- 

 ers to pump water to irrigate with at a cost only nominal. 



While there are 300 irrigating ditches in the county, 

 the electric pumping system will enable an unlimited num- 

 ber of ranchers to get an abundance of water onto their 

 property, at a very small cost. 



There is no such thing as a failure of crops in Sis- 

 kiyou county on irrigated ranches, and there are a great 

 many ranches on which fine crops are raised where the an- 

 nual rain fall of 15 to 25 inches affords the only moisture. 



Of the 6,200 square miles (4,000,000 acres) of the coun- 

 ty's area 40 square miles less than the combined area of 

 the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island one-half is 

 timber land, a large percentage being white pine. Several 

 large sawmills and many small ones are cutting lumber at 

 the rate of 200,000,000 feet annually. Several factories are 

 cutting the low grade lumber (estimated at 60 per cent of 

 the mills' output) into boxes supplying one-half of the 

 number used in the state. 



Since the discovery of gold in the county at Scott 

 River in 1851, fully $150,000,000 of the precious metal has 

 been mined and the gold output of the county now 

 amounts to $1,000,000 a year. 



We have undeveloped coal and iron deposits, lime, 

 onyx, jade, marble and other building stones. 



Within the last few years rich and extensive copper 

 mines have ben developed and this industry promises to 

 become one of the most important. 



Sixty thousand head of cattle are shipped annually 

 from our railroad stations, the value of $1,000,000 are Sis- 

 kiyou cattle, balance are from the ranges of eastern Ore- 

 gon. 



There are 1,000 ranches in the county, many of them 

 very large. No scientific farming has been carried on. On 

 many of the ranches nothing but hay is raised, and that 

 often is wild grass. The cattle feed on the ranges from 

 May until October and the hay fed to them during the win- 

 ter. Some seasons the winters are so open that the cattle 

 are kept on the ranges. 



Every crop raised in the temperate zone thrives in 

 this county. Wheat, barley and oats to the extent of 500,- 

 000 bushels are raised. Nearly all of our wheat is sold for 

 seed in the big Sacramento valley, south of us. The grow- 

 ing of grains has not been carried on as extensively as the 

 crops warrant, for the reason that our farmers find it 

 easier to grow hay and feed it to their cattle. 



The dairying industry is an important one and brings 

 to the farmers half a million dollars a year. Time will 

 come when the present output will be trebled or quadru- 

 pled, as conditions here are ideal for making butter an 

 abundance of wild and cultivated grasses, and a never- 

 failing supply of the purest water on earth. 



