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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



March 



acres will be opened this spring, and 

 8,000 acres more will be made ready 

 before 1910. The lands served by this 

 plant will be devoted exclusively to 

 orcharding. It will be cut off into five 

 and ten-acre tracts for the cultivation 

 of apples, peaches, pears, apricots, 

 walnuts and almonds. 



It is now purposed to replace the 

 overhanging flumes in the mountains 

 by tunnels and ditches in the rock. 

 Two miles of tunneling and the filling 

 of twenty-three gulches, ranging from 

 40 to 300 feet in width and from 30 to 

 100 feet in depth, will be necessary. 



The bridge just completed by Mr. 

 Clark's company to carry the water 

 pipes and afford connection for the 

 people of East Wenatchee, Southside, 

 and Columbia Valley, is the first high- 

 way bridge to span the Columbia 

 River in its 2,000 miles of meander- 

 ing. It was opened to traffic a few 

 days ago. The length of the bridge is 

 more than a third of a mile. The 

 highest point, which is over the piers 

 at anchor arms, is 180 feet from low- 

 water mark. 



put under irrigation next spring, and 

 opened as a fruit-growing district, by 

 a party of Spokane men. J. W. Mor- 

 rison has been appointed manager. 



The tract is thirty miles north of 

 Fernie, near Bayne's Lake, in a dis- 

 trict which won prizes at the fruit 

 expositions in England and Scotland. 

 To water the land, the Kootenai 

 River will be tapped at Elko, four and 

 a half miles above the property. Most 

 of this ditch, it is reported, has already 

 been dug, and all the laterals will be 

 constructed, ready for watering the 

 land, by spring. All of the irrigaing 

 will be done by gravity. 



Soil in the Kootenai Valley is a 

 rich black loam, which is not only pro- 

 ductive of fruit, but grows grains and 

 hay of all kinds in abundance. The 

 Great Northern station of Baynes is 

 located on the tract, which is also 

 within six miles of the Canadian Pa- 

 cific Railroad. The land has been 

 platted into five and ten acre tracts, 

 which will be disposed of to actual 

 settlers at a little more than cost and 

 interest on the capital invested. 



Irrigation 



Around 



Spokane 



Seven hundred acres of 

 land in five and ten-acre 

 tracts midway between 

 Spokane and Coeur d'Alene, known as 

 East Farms, will be brought under the 

 ditch by the Corbin interests of Spo- 

 kane early in April, when special 

 trains will be run from Spokane and 

 Coeur d'Alene the day the canal is 

 formally opened. It is expected to put 

 in the first crop this year. The main 

 canal taps the Spokane River at Post 

 Falls, Idaho, just below the "bear- 

 trap" dam recently constructed by the 

 Washington Water Power Company. 



Other important irrigation enter- 

 prises to be carried out in the vicinity 

 of Spokane next spring are projected 

 by the White Bluffs Irrigation Com- 

 pany and the Hanford Irrigation and 

 Power Company. 



New Irriga- 

 tion on 

 Kootenai 



Ten thousand acres of 

 land in the Kootenai 

 River Valley, in British 

 Columbia, north of Spokane, will be 



Every Acre At one stroke of the 

 of Forest Lieutenant - Governor's 

 pen 150,000,000 acres of 

 forest land in British Columbia have 

 been placed in reserves. This in- 

 cludes every acre of the province's 

 timber lands, except what has been 

 leased. This is as much land as was 

 put in the National Forests of this 

 country between the years 1891 and 

 1907. 



The action was taken to check 

 wasteful exploitation of timber re- 

 sources and to bring the care and cut- 

 ting of timber more effectually under 

 Government control. 



The province has been leasing tim- 

 ber land instead of selling it. The 

 most of the leasing has been done in 

 the past three or four years, and 

 Americans hold the largest part of the 

 10,000 leases now in force. The lease 

 is, in its effect, a long-term option at 

 low rate. It runs twenty-one years, 

 and may be renewed at the end of the 



