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Fork river and carried through ditches to the distributing 

 point. George E. Milligan of Rochester, N. Y., and Judge 

 John Knapp of Canandaigua, N. Y., are said to be interested 

 The Secretary of the Interior is asking for proposals for 

 building the Pathfinder dike in connection with the North 

 Platte irrigation project, Nebraska- Wyoming. This dike will 

 close a low place in the rim of the reservoir created by 

 the Pathfinder dam. It is located about forty-five miles 

 southwest of Casper, Wyo., and the work involves approxi- 

 mately 160,000 cubic yards of earth excavation, 8,000 cubic 

 yards of pavement, and 2,000 cubic yards of concrete masonry. 

 The bids will be opened at Denver, Colo., at the office of 

 the Reclamation Service, on October 28, 1909. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Farmers ori Muscatine Island, at Muscatine, Iowa, are 

 becoming interested in irrigation by pumping owing to the 

 drouth ( of the present year. Numerous wells will be sunk 

 in the near future to insure a water supply next year. 



Morton county, Kan., is now under investigation to de- 

 termine whether or not water 'for irrigation can be supplied 

 from artesian wells. It is represented that many thousands 

 of acres of worthless land might be reclaimed through a 

 system of deep wells similar to that at Garden City. 



Because of the season's drouth, the Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station of Maryland is pursuing investigations as 

 to the feasibility of using utilizing wells for irrigation. It 

 is claimed that many thousands of acres in both Maryland 

 and Virginia might be supplied with water to insure crops. 



The Secretary of the Interior has awarded contract to 

 the Chas. F. Elmes Company of Chicago for furnishing three 

 58-inch balanced valves for use in connection with the dis- 

 charge pipes in Roosevelt Dam, Salt River project, Arizona. 

 The valves are to be shipped in fifty-five, sixty and seventy 

 days. The contract price is $13,890. 



In response to requests from farmers in the vicinity of 

 Rochester, N. Y., the Rochester Railway and Light Com- 

 pany is supplying power for experiments with deep-well irri- 

 gation. It is claimed that thus far the tests have been suc- 

 cessful and that many land owners are planning to use its 

 power in irrigating for farm crops. 



J. N. Pharr of New Iberia, La., is said to be prime 

 mover in a company now in process of formation and having 

 for its object the irrigation of about 12,000 acres in the 

 Brownsville district, about 300 miles west of Houston. It 

 is proposed to name the company the Rio Grande Irrigation 

 Company, and to capitalize at $4.000,000. 



After investigation of the Keystone Irrigation Company 

 and various other concerns operating in Keith and other 

 western counties, State Engineer Simmons of Nebraska, has 

 announced that the sale of water rights has far exceeded that 

 available supply given the companies under the law. He has 

 therefore taken steps to prohibit further sale of rights. 



English capitalists are said to be supplying funds for the 

 work necessary to complete for use the old Soule irrigation 

 ditch, extending from Ingalls to Speakville in western Kan- 

 sas. Taylor & Gilberts, engineers, are in charge of the work 

 of dredging and extending the canal. When completed this 

 ditch will supply water to 50,000 acres in Gray and Ford 

 counties. 



Stockholders of the recently organized Chapala Hydro- 

 Electric and Irrigation Company of Guadalajara, Mexico, 

 held a meeting and decided to issue bonds to the amount of 

 2.000,000 pesos in addition to the 3,000,000 pesos already au- 

 thorized by the government. Additional funds will be used 

 for the construction of a dike along the eastern edge of Lake 

 Chapala. 



Asking that George E. Barstow be enjoined from enter- 

 ing other suits against them, T. W. Crouch and others of 

 St. Louis and A. N. Edwards of Kirkwood, Mo., have filed 

 a petition in the federal court at El Paso, Texas. They fur- 

 ther ask that a receiver be appointed for the Hillsdale Irri- 

 gation Company, the Pecos Land and Irrigation Company and 

 the Barstow Irrigation Company. 



To determine the status of water rights on the North 

 Platte river, there has been instituted at Gering, Neb., a suit 

 against the Tri-State Land Company. The Enterprise Irri- 

 gation district is the plaintiff, but it is understood that sev- 



eral districts have contributed to a fund to enter this suit. 

 It is alleged that the Tri-State Company has no priority of 

 water right except that necessary to supply about 2,000 acres. 

 The latter company is of the opinion that it has rights suffi- 

 cient to water about 80,000 acres. It is predicted that the 

 legal battle will be fought with great bitterness by both sides. 



Owners of rice lands in Arkansas have become inter- 

 ested in irrigation as applied to growing rice crops and nu- 

 merous inquiries have been made as to the right to pump 

 water from streams into irrigation ditches. Along the White 

 river, where drouth is to be feared, there has been unusually 

 large inquiry, and government experts declare that if only a 

 small part of the projects under consideration is brought to 

 maturity, there will be a material decrease in the volume of 

 this stream. Prairie county rice growers are said to have be- 

 come discouraged over the prospect and have turned to other 

 methods for a water supply. 



SHOPS SWAMPED WITH ORDERS. 



Trump Company and Foos Gas Engine Company Compelled to 

 Work Kate Sours. 



"We are simply swamped with orders," said Fuller Trump, 

 Jr., of the Trump Manufacturing Company, makers of hy- 

 draulic and steam engines at Springfield, Ohio. "Our orders 

 for the last three months exceed those of the entire previous 

 year. The outlook for business is very promising." 



Mr. Trump said that they had just made a big shipment 

 to the west coast of Africa. Business seems to have taken a 

 sudden spurt in all of the European countries, he said. This 

 is an encouraging condition of affairs. 



The Trump company is making shipments to many of the 

 foreign countries as well as to various points In this country. 

 The scarcity of men has handicapped the company some. 



It is employing three shifts now and working until 10 

 o'clock at night so that it can get out its orders on time. 

 For the last two months the factory has been running until 

 10 o'clock. More men are needed and the company has placed 

 advertisements in the different newspapers announcing that 

 workmen are needed at this plant. The company makes a 

 specialty of designing turbines for water power plants and its 

 catalog will prove of interest to those who contemplate the 

 development of water power. 



SOLD 10,000 GASOLINE ENGINES. 



That would be a record which would be worthy of the 

 ambition of the most enterprising gas engine company in the 

 country. A plan whereby that many engines may be dis- 

 tributed necessitates some special inducement, not only in 

 price, but in sending out an engine of quality, that will insure 

 the purchaser of good work on an economical basis, without 

 expensive repairs, troubles or delays. 



The Witte Iron Works Company of Kansas City, Mo., 

 have a new way of advertising their engines. While having 

 advertised extensively in newspapers for years with good re- 

 sults, they have developed a plan which has particular refer- 

 ence to the sale of engines, in new localities, where at the 

 present time the gas engine needs introduction. They state 

 that experience has demonstrated the fact that one engine in 

 operation will sell additional engines. As the returns of this 

 kind of advertising depend altogether on the satisfactory 

 services of the engine, their plan is one that will no doubt 

 work out exceptionally well in the sale of high-grade engines. 



They have only recently issued new catalogs, giving the 

 history of their plant from the time when the firm flrst 

 started in 1870 up to the present time, showing the progress 

 that has been made and what has been gained by each engine 

 advertising for itself. Their large new plant was recently 

 completed and equipped, with an investment of over one quar- 

 ter million dollars, and will enable them to turn out more 

 than three times the number of engines per year than in the 

 past. 



They build all sizes, from 2 h. p. to 35 h. p., making a 

 specialty of horizontal type engines in these sizes. Being ex- 

 clusive manufacturers, who have devoted many years to the 

 one line, it would indicate that they have attained a perfec- 

 tion in the engine, which every purchaser will appreciate. 

 The details of their introductory proposition to introduce 

 their engines in new localities will be forwarded to anyone 

 who will write them, stating the size engine they want, or 

 the class of work which they desire the engine to do. 



Will pay for the IRRIGATION AGE 



$2.50 one year and the PRIMER OF 

 IRRIGATION. 



