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FOREvSTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



sell of Leicester, John A. Aiken of 

 Greenfield, Lucia A. Mead of Boston, 

 Sylvester Baxter of Maiden, Mary L. 

 Ware of Boston, William C. Whitney 

 of New York and Washington, Mass.; 

 William F. Gale of Springfield ; treas- 

 urer, James S. Russell of Milton ; sec- 

 retary, Edwin A. Start of Medford. 



Artesian From a recent issue of 



Water for the Ft. Worth (Tex.) 



Irrigation. Rep;istcr it is learned 



that ' ' While prospect- 

 ing for oil near Engle, N. M., in what is 

 known as the famous desert, ' Journey 

 of Death,' a Colorado company struck a 

 mammoth artesian well at a depth of 



acres of land that heretofore have lain 

 idle and were only a desert. 



' ' This is great news to the people of 

 the North and I^ast, who look upon the 

 arid region of the Southwest as an irre- 

 deemable desert. It is nothing new to 

 the people of this part of the country, 

 who know that the arid region has an 

 abundance of pure water under the sur- 

 face. Geologists who have surve\'ed 

 the country have called attention to the 

 presence of this water, and have pointed 

 out the ease with which the arid lands 

 could be irrigated by the use of arte- 

 sian wells. All over the Panhandle of 

 Texas that awful land, condemned by 

 the geographers as the ' Staked Plains ' 

 and the ' Jornado del Muerto ' the 



AN .\RTESIAN WELI-. 



1,000 feet, with a flow of 2,000 gallons 

 per hour, through a two-inch hole. 



' ' This discovery of artesian water in 

 the heart of New Mexico's desert sec- 

 tion is considered of more importance 

 than a discovery of oil. It portends 

 more millions than any rich mineral 

 find, and it will irrigate thousands of 



windmill is raising water from subter- 

 ranean depths to supply drink for hun- 

 dreds of thousands of cattle. It has 

 not been used for irrigation because we 

 have not reached that point in the march 

 of development, but we know that the 

 water is present in abundance, and only 

 the intelligent co-operation of the capital- 



