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However, if there is any locality whereby districts are 

 organized by local interests and carried on something after 

 the manner of the Illinois drainage schemes, I will be pleased 

 to learn of such. In a general sense I will be pleased to 

 learn to what extent the services of an engineer are required 

 by statutes in these enterprises ; also to what extent such serv- 

 ices are in demand by local land owners in the development 

 of individual tracts. 



Thanking you for such information as you can give or 

 reference you can make of this inquiry to parites who will 

 give me pointers for getting onto such work, I am 



Truly yours, F. L. KNIGHT. 



BROWNSVILLE, TEX., March 19, 1904. 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE, 112 DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO, ILL.: 



Gentlemen Enclosed we hand you postoffice money order 

 for $1.00, for which kindly enter our name as a subscriber 

 and send us your valuable publication, beginning with the 

 February, 1904, number. We send you under separate cover 

 copy of the Browtisville Week'y Herald, calling your atten- 

 tion to our ad. therein and other interesting matter regard- 

 ing this section of the country. As we desire to mature 

 plans for economically irrigating our lands, you will kindly 

 put us in communication with manufacturers of windmills, 

 pumping and irrigation plants. Yours very truly, 

 THE BROWNSVILLE LAND & TOWN Co. 



A. D. CHILDRESS, 

 Vice-President and General Manager. 



NEWCASTLE, COLO., April 24, 1904. 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Gentlemen Will you please answer this question : Sup- 

 pose a man digs a well for irrigation purposes, an individual 

 plant, on another man's ranch by his permission, or suppose 

 he, the one digging the well, buys a site and then digs the 

 well and pumps the water from this well, -turns it into his 

 ditch that he uses from the creek, when there is plenty of 

 water in said creek, and there are others below him that 

 have prior water rights to him, and this well is above high 

 water mark out of the creek bed or the bed channel in 

 which it runs, can this be an interference with these prior 

 water rights? This case is in Colorado. Yours very re- 

 spectfully, W. A. CONNER. 



ALEXANDRIA, IOWA, April 20, 1904. 

 EDITOR IRRIGATION AGE, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Dear Sir Will you give me names and addresses of 

 reliable manufacturers of engines from 5 to 10-horsepower, 

 using crude Beaumont oil? Yours truly, 



L. A. SAFFORD. 



ROSWELL, N. M., April 23, 1904. 

 EDITOR IRRIGATION AGE, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Dear Sir Please send me a few copies of the issue 

 containing article on Greeley, Colo., as there are a few 

 farmers who want to engage in raising beets and alfalfa. 

 Please send them by return mail and oblige. 



Yours truly, A. S. HARPHAM. 



GREAT SHOSHONE IRRIGATION PROJECT. 



Government Will Spend $2,225,000 on This Work Cody Will 

 Relinquish Water Rights. 



Secretary Hitchcock has approved the recom- 

 mendation of the director of the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey for the undertaking, under the national 

 irrigation act, of the Shoshone project on the north side 

 of the Shoshone Kiver, near Cody, and set aside $2,- 

 225,000 of the irrigation fund for the work. This 

 action of the secretary is subject to the Government ob- 

 taining the right to irrigate the large tract of land 

 now segregated under the Carey act and the water 

 rights now on file for the irrigation of that tract. 



On January 26, 1903, Governor Chatterton, as 

 president of the State Board of Land Commissioners, 

 offered to the Government, through the director of the 

 Geological Survey, the lands in question if the Gov- 

 ernment would accept them for the purpose of re- 



clamation, and at the same time he suggested that no 

 relinquishment be made until the Government had fully 

 determined to take up the enterprise; and while Messrs. 

 Cody and Salisbury had taken out a water right for 

 the irrigation of the lands in question, and Colonel 

 Cody has been recently attempting to raise the funds 

 for the irrigation of the tract, it is understood that 

 he will not stand in the way of the Government. 



As soon as the relinquishment of the State's rights 

 to the segregated lands can be obtained and the ques- 

 tion of water right adjusted the Government will pro- 

 ceed to the building of the project. The first section 

 of this great enterprise will irrigate about 90,000 acres 

 of land between Cody and Garland. When this is suc- 

 cessfully accomplished some .20,000 or 30,000 addi- 

 tional acres on the drainage of Sage Creek between 

 Frannie and Byron will be irrigated, and if sufficient 

 water supply is obtained additional lands will be irri- 

 gated northeast of Cody on the drainage of Clark's 

 Fork, extending to the Montana line and possibly be- 

 yond. 



The main canal will have a sufficient drop north- 

 east of Hart Mountain, in the vicinity of the old stage 

 station between Eagles' Nest and Clark, to furnish 

 power to elevate water for the irrigation of the splen- 

 did plateaus lying to the north of Garland flats. By 

 the complete utilization of available water supply it is 

 believed that this project will ultimately irrigate be- 

 tween 100,000 and 200,000 acres and constitute one of 

 the largest and most successful irrigation enterprises 

 in the world. 



COLONIZATION FOR THE WEST. 



Lute Wilcox, of the Denver Field and Farm, calls 

 on the proposed Government bureau to help settlers 

 locate on Western lands "a skin-grafting game." Sena- 

 tor Hanna would have introduced the bill had he lived, 

 but Senator Fairbanks will now take charge of the 

 measure. The proposition is this : The formation of 

 a colonization bureau under the direction of a com- 

 missioner of colonization in connection with the De- 

 partment of the Interior; the collection of reliable in- 

 formation for would-be settlers; the advancing to bona 

 fidk settlers of from $500 to $1,500 in cash or materials 

 for the purpose of enabling worthy but poor families 

 to make homes for themselves upon the lands ; the issue 

 of 3 per cent sixty-year gold bonds to the amount of 

 $50,000,000, with not more than $5,000,000 to be issued 

 each year, for such purposes, and the establishment 

 of worthy families on farms which are not to exceed 

 forty acres of irrigated or eighty acres of non-irrigated 

 land to be paid for in easy installments. The bill is 

 fathered by the Salvation Army and is one of the 

 altruistic schemes of that nomadic organization. The 

 probability of its passage hinges very materially on the 

 Army's political pull at Washington. Mr. Wilcox says 

 the people of the West are not especially interested 

 in it. 



Two Dollars will secure for you one year's subscription to ( 

 THE IRRIGATION AQE and a finely bound volume of the Primer I 

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 when volume is completed. The Primer of Irrigation will be ( 

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