THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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SWINDLERS AT WORK. 



The proposed opening of lands on the Yuma Indian 

 Reservation in southeastern California under the Yuma 

 irrigation project, which is expected to take place soon, 

 has aroused the activities of a band of swindlers who 

 seem to be operating principally in the southwest. These 

 sharpers have selected as their victims prospective home- 

 seekers who are attracted by the opportunities for secur- 

 ing desirable tracts of the fast diminishing public lands. 



By means of advertisements cleverly worded, they 

 claim to be able to locate settlers for a consideration on 

 choice tracts of the reservation, and to furnish application 

 blanks and information concerning the details of the 

 opening. 



Judging from complaints being received at the office 

 of the Reclamation Service in Washington, these swindlers 

 are reaping a rich harvest. 



The time and method of opening these lands have 

 not yet been decided upon by the Secretary of the In- 

 terior. When tne matter has been settled by the depart- 

 ment, due notice will be given through the public press, 

 and all necessary blanks can be obtained at that time with- 

 out charge until and after such announcement all requests 

 for information should be made to the office of the Recla- 

 mation Service, Washington, D. C., or to the Project En- 

 gineer at Yuma, Arizona. 



DO YOU USE 



Wooden Plows 



THEN WHY USE WOODEN HEADGATES 



Farm implements are made 

 principally of iron and steel. 

 Why not the headgates in your 

 irrigating reservoirs and 

 ditches? 



If a headgate leaks, you lose 

 water. Water lost means crops 

 and money lost. A water-tight 

 gate cannot be made of wood, 

 because wood swells and warps. 

 Northwestern Iron Headgates do 

 not leak because all bearings are 

 machined to water-tight joints. 



Wooden gates stick and are 

 hard to regulate. You lose 

 time. During the irrigating 

 season time is as valuable as 

 water. Northwestern Iron 

 Headgates do not stick, and 

 they operate easily and quickly 

 even after years of service. 



Wood decays, and repairs on 

 wooden gates are a constant 

 trouble and expense. North- 

 western Iron Headgates cost 

 more, but being much more 

 durable, they are worth more. 

 The repairs on a wooden gate 

 amount to more than the differ- 

 ence in the cost. 



Instead of repairing wooden 

 gates, it will pay you to replace 

 them with water-tight, handy, 

 and durable iron headgates. 

 Making a specialty of iron head- 

 gates, I can save you money on 

 them, and furnish gates espe- 

 cially adapted to your needs. My new 

 catalogue shows headgates for almost 

 any purpose, any pressure, any size 

 and any price. 



C. D. BUTCHART 



501 Mercantile Bldg. Denver, Col. 



IRRIGATED 

 LAND 



Open to Settlement 



Some of the richest and most productive farm land 

 in the world lies along the Shoshone and the Big Horn 

 Rivers in the "Big Horn Basin" of Wyoming. Over 

 ten million dollars is being spent by the United States 

 Government and by private enterprise in building 

 great concrete dams and ditches in order to lead an 

 inexhaustible supply of water to irrigate some of the 

 best of these lands and make them independent of 

 rainfall. A great portion of this work is completed, 

 and these lands, with a perpetual supply of water for 

 irrigating them, are now offered you on reasonable 

 terms. 



This is an Unusual Opportunity 



to get a wonderfully productive farm, with water 

 whenever you want it, regardless of rainfall; in a 

 country where a single crop can be made to pay for 

 the land; where 50 bushels of wheat or barley, and 75 

 bushels of oats are commonly grown to the acre; 

 where fruits grow luxuriously and where the glorious 

 air and sunshine, summer and winter, make life a 

 joyous thing. 



This wonderful country is developing fast. 

 Churches and schools abound. The population is 

 intelligent. Godfearing and law-abiding, and any man 

 out there who is half a man has the opportunity to 

 make himself independent. 



Land in this great country is going fast. 

 If you have any thought for the welfare 

 of yourself or children, find out all about 

 this opportunity to-day. 



Send for our new folder with large map, and also 

 folders issued by the private irrigation companies and 

 by the United States Government Reclamation Service 

 giving all information about these lands, terms, etc. 

 Free for the asking. Study these folders and then 

 come with me on my next excursion to the Big Horn 

 Basin and see for yourself. My excursions, which I 

 personally conduct, leave Omaha on the 1st and 3d 

 Tuesday each month, on which days reduced railroad 

 rates are .in effect* My services are free to you. 



Burlington 



D. CLEM DEAVER, General Agent 



Landseekers' Information 

 Bureau, 



69 Q Building, OMAHA, NEB. 



N. B. The winter weather in the Basin Country 

 is fine and lands can usually be seen to advantage all 

 Winter, 



