THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XIX. 



CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1904. 



No. 3. 



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EDITORIAL 



It is gratifying to know that the beet 

 Increase sugar growers of Nebraska are to receive 



in Value. for their beets this year more than last. 



Contracts with the American Beet Sugar 

 Company for the season of 1904 have just been signed 

 at a price of $4.50 per ton for all beets, regardless of 

 the per cent of sugar which they contain. An addi- 

 tional sum of 25 cents per ton is allowed for hauling 

 to the factories, making a flat price of $4.75 per ton. 

 The price last year was $4.00, and the average price for 

 the past ten years has been $4.20 per ton. Beet grow- 

 ers in the irrigated portion of Nebraska will profit most 

 as their crops are generally conceded to be of better 

 quality. The possibility of beet culture in the irrigated 

 districts is greater than ever before, and the increase 

 in this industry during the next few years will be 

 enormous. 



The land law repealers, through their 

 Newspapers elaborate press bureau, which is main- 

 " Worked." tained by a few of the powerful corpora- 

 tions of the West, are working a very 

 smooth game upon the newspapers of the country. 

 This press bureau sends out weekly syndicate matter 

 alleged to be news correspondence from Washington, 

 all of which contains a cleverly disguised plea for the 

 repeal of the commutation clause of the homestead 



act, the timber and stone act, and the desert land law. 

 Several newspapers have printed this matter, doubtless 

 without careful investigation or even knowledge of the 

 real nigger in, the wood pile, and the repealers are now 

 quoting these extracts from the newspapers as editorial 

 expressions by them. They are printed by the thou- 

 sands and sent to every newspaper in the country in 

 the hope of influencing that portion of the press which 

 has not as yet taken up their side of the question. It 

 is a very clever game, and the wonder is that news- 

 paper men who are not easily taken in have been 

 fooled by it. 



A large amount of work has been done 

 Yafcima on the Yakima Valley canal in Washing- 

 Valley, ton State during the past year. This 



canal was commenced in 1894, with the 

 object of irrigating about 3,000 acres, but the plans 

 of the canal company have been greatly enlarged and 

 some valuable experience has been learned since the 

 commencement of the work. The original canal, which 

 was about eight miles long, has been rebuilt in many 

 places. The settling of the foundation started leaks on 

 several sections of the canal, and much of it was 

 destroyed by the washing out of the ground underneath. 

 The old flume under the new plans has been enlarged 

 and the sills upon which the uprights for the founda- 

 tion rest run parallel with the flume instead of trans- 

 versely. The flume has been lined with liquid as- 

 phaltum, tar and ground lime, which was applied as 

 a mixture while hot. It is believed that this treatment 

 of the flume will prevent all further leakage. It has 



