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try the best of advantages in marketing the products 

 of the valley, and from the fact that these products are 

 ready for the market from two to four weeks earlier 

 than those of any other point in the Northwest, gives 

 the farmers the benefit of the best prices with no com- 

 petition. Of the entire West California alone can get 

 produce on the market as early as this valley and from 

 the fact that the fruits and produce raised here are 

 of a better quality and flavor and do not have to be 

 shipped so long a distance makes the California fruits 

 a second-class commodity when compared with those 

 of the Kennewick Valley. 



The transportation facilities are of the best, as 

 Kennewick is located on the Northern Pacific railroad's 

 main line. Steamboat lines from Portland and other 

 points will be established during the coming year, thus 

 making it a natural trading and shipping point. Be- 

 ing thus favored by its geographical location, altitude, 

 and natural transportation facilities, many wise and 

 far-seeing men of other cities give it as their opinion 

 that in a few years there will be here the largest city 

 in eastern Washington. 



PRINTERS' INK 



EDWIN F. ABELL, head of the 

 company that publishes the Balti- 

 more Sun, died in that city Febru- 

 ary 28, aged sixty-three years. His 

 father, A. S. AbeH, was the found- 

 er of the Sun, which dates from 

 1837, and the deceased was the last 

 surviving son, having had the man- 

 agement of the paper for ten years 

 past. His death was, in a measure, 

 brought on by grief and shock fol- 

 lowing the Baltimore fire 







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THE Irrigation Age, published 

 monthly in Chicago by the D. H. 

 Anderson Publishing Co.. has ab- 

 sorbed Moilern Irrigation, Denver. 

 There are five publications in the 

 United States devoted to the sub- 

 ject of irrigation, and the Irriga- 

 tion Age leads them in point of 

 circulation, being credited with a 

 monthly average of 22,100 copies 

 for 1903 in the Roll of Honor. The 

 consolidation gives a further in- 

 crease. The Denver publication 

 made no statement of circulation, 

 and was credited with H exceed- 

 ing 2.250 copies. The Irrigation 

 Age is nineteen years old. and is 

 said to have readers, in all parts of 

 the world among individual irriga- 

 tors and irrigation corporations. 



THE cir. 

 edition of I 

 increased t\ 

 past year, i 

 no change 

 advertising 



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We are reproducing herewith notice which 

 appeared in the columns of PRINTER'S INK, the 

 leading authority in the advertising field, for 

 which we wish to thank the publishers of that 

 journal and at the same time call attention to 

 the fact that the combined circulation of the 

 two journals is considerably more than the 

 figure named. 



CHEAP METHODS. 



The following from a leading Denver publication 

 illustrates the cheap methods adopted by a Denver pub- 

 lisher who wishes to profit by taking over the volume 

 number of a journal purchased by and merged with 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE. The attention of our readers 

 is called to notice in another column from Printers' Ink 

 concerning the merger. 



"D. H. Anderson, the editor and publisher of THE 

 IRRIGATION AGE, Chicago, the oldest journal of its 

 class in existence, announces in its February number 

 the purchase of Modern Irrigation, successor to Irriga- 

 tion Era, of Denver, Colo. The absorption of Modern 

 Irrigation by Anderson gives his already most excel- 

 lent journal a much broader field and greater useful- 

 ness. Mr. Anderson is recognized as one of the lead- 

 ing authorities on irrigation subjects and is one of 

 the strongest writers of the age. 



A little chicken paper in Denver has improved the 

 opportunity of this change to start a paper called 

 Irrigation, and to fraudulently give it the volume and 

 number of Modern Irrigation. This little paper hopes, 

 in this way, to deceive the people and to create the 

 impression that his paper is the direct successor of 

 Modern Irrigation and is fifteen years old instead of 

 one month. While the manager of this new paper has 

 already succeeded in deceiving a number of advertisers, 

 it is hardly probable that he will succeed in deceiving 

 the postoffice authorities and that he will eventually 

 be forced to adopt honorable methods and start his 

 paper with volume one. Ranch and Range, Denver, 

 Colo." 



ARTHUR E. MORGAN, 



HYDRAULIC ENGINEER, 

 Drainage, Irrigation, Sewerage, Water Supply 



Topographical Surveying, 

 ST. CLOUD, - - - MINN. 



T7OREST RESERVE "SCRIP" is the safest and quickest 

 - means for obtaining immediate title to government land. 

 Write for special prices for certain localities. 



HUGO SEABERG, RATON, N. M. 



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