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THE IEKIGATION AGE. 



for the transfer to the district at different times of specific 

 water rights with completed pipe lines and rights of way 

 necessary to the use and enjoyment of the rights transferred, 

 to be paid in bonds which were to be issued In each instance 

 only on the delivery of a deed conveying the property, all 

 construction to be completed by the water company, the bonds 

 were validly issued. Stowell v. Rialto Irr. Dist. Supreme 

 Court of California. 100 Pacific 248. 

 PAYMENT OF IRRIGATION BONDS UNDER WRIGHT ACT. 



Wright Act (St. 1887, p. 35, c. 34), Sec. 15, declares that 

 bonds of irrigation districts shall be payable in installments, 

 to-wit, beginning at the eleventh year and increasing in 

 percentage annually, until the twentieth year the bonds shall 

 be paid, and declares that they shall bear date at the time 

 of their issue. Certain bonds in question recited that they 

 were signed and issud on November 17, 1890, and attached 

 to each were two series of coupons, one for interest payable 

 semi-annually and the other for installments of principal 

 maturing from the eleventh to the twentieth year after the 

 issuance of the bonds. In the body of the bonds the district 

 promised to pay $500 at the dates and on installments as 

 follows, to-wit: At the expiration of 11 years from date 5 

 per cent ; at the expiration of 12 years from date 6 per cent 

 of said sum, etc. ; and that such installments shall be paid 

 "as provided in and only upon the surrender of the respective 

 interest coupons" attached thereto, which provided for pay- 

 ment of an installment on January 1, 1902, and of subsequent 

 installments on January 1 in successive years, both the body 

 of the bond and the interest coupons making the interest pay- 

 able on the first days of January and July beginning with 

 July, 1891. The court found that the bonds were signed 

 December 21, 1890, and that none of them were disposed of 

 or delivered prior to the succeeding day. Held, that while 

 the nominal date of the bonds was November 17, 1890, they 

 did not begin to bear interest until January 1, 1891, and were 

 to be regarded, therefore, as issued on that date, and, there- 

 fore, substantially complied with the statute. Stowel v. 

 Rialto Irr. Dist. Supreme Court of California. 100 Pa- 

 cific 248. 



PLEASANT COUNTRY HOME. 



Gardens Surrounding George H. Payne's Farm House at 

 Omaha Contain Rare Flowers. 



Keenly alive to the beauties of nature, and a lover of 

 flowers and plants, George H. Payne, president of the Payne, 

 Investment Company, at Omaha, has erected a palatial country 

 home at his farm about ten miles west of that city where he 

 spends his hours not demanded by his large business interests. 

 In the accompanying cut is shown his garden, filled with 



Country Residence of George H. Payne, President of the Payne In- 

 vestment Co., Omaha (about ten miles west of that city). 



flowers and ferns, in which Mr. Payne takes a pardonable 

 pride. 



The announcement has been made recently that Mr. 

 Payne will take active charge of the sale of irrigated property 

 for the Tri-State Land Company of North Platte Valley, Ne- 

 braska. From his past experience and success in handling 

 western irrigated lands, it can be predicted that Mr. Payne 

 will produce large sales of this new accession to his list of 

 properties. 



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GARDEN CITY KANSAS 



VICINITY 



By R. H. FAXON. 



(Continued from May Number.) 



But with the development of irrigation in Colo- 

 rado, and the rapid increase of the number of canals 

 and of the area of land cultivated, there has been 

 a diminution of water entering Kansas, except dur- 

 ing time of flood, and through a great part of the 

 growing season the river is completely dry, or at most 

 contains stagnant pools. Many canals constructed at 

 great expense have been abandoned, or maintained in 

 such shiftless, inefficient manner that the farmers under 

 them are disheartened from further attempts at cultiva- 

 tion by means of the water. It is possible that with 

 proper management, and the diversion of water during 

 flood, much of the land under the canals might be well 

 watered once or twice a year, and produce better crops. 

 With improved methods of irrigation, and with the in- 

 centive of the examples of successful farmers, some of 

 these old canals will undoubtedly be utilized in the 

 future.'' 



Contained in one or two sentences of the above, 

 however, is the germ of a great idea that 'will have 

 done more for western Kansas in the next ten years to 

 come than almost anything else the practice of the 

 system of winter irrigation. Dr. Newell says that 

 with the development of Colorado irrigation "there has 

 been a diminution of water entering Kansas, except 

 during time of flood." He also says that "it is possible 

 that with proper management, and the diversion of 

 water during flood, much of the land under the canals 

 might be well watered once or twice a year, and produce 

 better crops." 



Here is the ground for winter irrigation. The 

 present season is seeing it put into force in western 

 Kansas. Nearly every canal is carrying flood and excess 

 water at different times this winter. The result will 

 be well soaked ground in the spring, and early seeding, 

 with little need for water until perhaps July or August. 

 The effect on western Kansas agriculture cannot be esti- 

 mated as a result of this policy, and it may confidently 

 be predicted as one of the great hopes for the future. 



After painting this not altogether pleasing picture 

 in western Kansas, Dr. Newell then went on to point 

 out the possible remedy. I have said above that when 

 these words were written, there was no assurance or 

 idea of the reclamation act, the Eeclamation Service, 

 the Garden City project, or that Dr. Newell himself 

 would head the movement and install the project that 

 helped transform Garden City and western Kansas 

 from the picture he had drawn. And yet the time came, 

 and largely through the methods and means predicted 

 and suggested by Dr. Newell in the following observa- 

 tions : 



"The valley lands of the Arkansas, however are not 

 dependent upon the flowing waters, but possess a great 

 advantage in that they can be irrigated from another 

 source. This source is the enormous volume of water 

 stored in underlving pervious soils, easily accessible by 



