PRODUCT OF IRRIGATED LAND 

 Hauling Sugar Btels to Factory, near Billings. Monl. 



IRRIGATED LAND OPPORTUNITIES 



By G. E. BROWNE 



THE net profit of $500 to $1,000 per 

 acre on fruit lands, and $50 to 



$75 P er acre on alfalfa, rye, oats, 

 and winter wheat lands, seems impos- 

 sible. It looks more impossible when 

 one travels for hundreds of miles 

 throughout the western states and sees 

 nothing but sage-brush lands sur- 

 rounded by hills and mountains. The 

 fact of the matter is, this land is worth- 

 less unless water can be applied. There 

 arc many hundreds of thousands of 

 acres of irrigated lands that are settled 

 upon, and many thousand acres that 

 arc being developed at the present time. 

 There are also thousands of acres that 

 will eventually be irrigated, but there 

 are va-t tract- that never can be. due 

 t< the fact that some land is not profit- 

 able to put water nn. owing to the lay 

 of the land, the rock-, and oftentinic- 

 the undc-irablc slopes. However, this 

 latter class i- also de-irable, as it is 

 exceptionally good in most cases for 

 -beep and cattle gra/.ing. and when 

 these tcrritoric- are located near irri- 

 gated tract-, the tendency i- to keep 

 the cattle clo-e to where feed can be 



bought. 



How can any person make a mistake 



by inve-ting in irrigated land-!' The 

 average forty-acre tract in any irri- 

 gated di-trict will yield as large a profit 



as 160 acres in the eastern or middle- 

 west states. .Most of the land being 

 opened in Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, 

 and Montana can be bought for $35 

 per acre with water rights, and the 

 buyer has from four to eight years to 

 pay for the -a me. This is virgin soil, 

 and the sage brush signifies that the 

 land has never been robbed of any 

 strength. The soil i- exceptionally deep 

 in the best irrigate- 1 tract-, and in two 

 years with almo-t any crop, this land 

 will pay for itself. With a small 

 amount of money, any person can be- 

 come independent in tin- new country, 

 where the climate is ideal, and where 

 there are more opportunities to the 

 -ijtiare yard than to the square mile in 

 the East or Middle We-t. While fruit 

 rai-ing in the aU.ve-named territory 

 ha- not been developed to a- high a 

 State, the |x>--ibilities are undeniable. 

 It has been proven that all kind- of 

 fruit- except the citrn- -pccies thrive 

 in the \orth\\e-t, an 1 yield prolitically. 

 At the pre-cnt time the irrigated land- 

 that have been put on the market re- 

 cently, and -ettled. are put into alfalfa 

 and grain-, although there are many 

 settlers who are also putting some of 

 their acreage into orchard. 



The Yakima, Wenatchee. and Hood 

 River di-tricts, and also the districts 



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