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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Wheat Field, Ranches, Taos Valley. 



Engineers have been at work recently on what is 

 known as the Nile Irrigation district, which lies to the south 

 of Wiggins, Colo., and was organized about six months ago. 

 It is now thought they will be able to get water from Bijou 

 creek and hold it in reservoirs until the drv weather, when 

 it will be turned onto the land. There is 30,000 acres in the 

 district. 



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The Gering Irrigation District, Ger- 

 ing, Neb., will refund its outstanding 

 bonds, amounting to $217,000, issuing 

 therefor 6 per cent twenty-year bonds, 

 interest payable semi-annually. The 

 canal covers 14,500 acres. 



A public notice has just been issued 

 by the secretary of the interior announc- 

 ing that the fee for operation and main- 

 tenance of the Carlsbad irrigation pro- 

 ject, New Mexico, for the year 1909, 

 shall be $1.35 per acre of irrigable land, 

 and shall be due on December 1, 1909, 

 and that the same rate shall remain in 

 effect for subsequent years until further 

 notice, the charges becoming due on 

 December 1 of each year. 



The big dam on the Belle Fourche 

 irrigation project, South Dakota, now 

 contains approximately 1,000,000 cubic 

 yards of material. When completed this 

 dam will be one of the largest earth 

 embankments in the world, and will con- 

 tain about 1,700,000 cubic yards of ma- 

 terial. The dam is now 70 feet high 

 and 6,200 feet long. 



TO DRAIN LOWER EGYPT. 



The order to facilitate the drainage of agricultural lands 

 in Lower Egypt, and thus prevent the deterioration of the 

 soil through the stagnation of water in its lower strata, the 

 irrigation authorities have decided, says the Egyptian Gazette, 

 to put up liftinc pumps on the principal lakes in the delta into 

 which drains discharge, and lift water therefrom into the 

 Mediterranean. 



Diversified farming on Baker Irrigation Co.'s land (Sunnyslope), two miles east of Baker City, Oregon. For those who wish to combine 

 good soil, abundance of water, unexcelled climate, and beautiful scenery with the advantage of living within three miles of the business center 

 of a modern city of over 10,000 population, where there are superb schools, churches, amusements, and unsurpassed markets, will do well to 

 investigate these five, ten and twenty-acre tracts. A view plate may be had from the above company. 



