THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



137 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The Chamber of Commerce at 

 Globe, Ariz., is interesting itself in 

 the San Carlos irrigation project. It 

 is proposed to assist in organizing a 

 company for construction work. 



At a cost of $200,000 a company pro- 

 poses to, construct an irrigation sys- 

 tem in Finney county, Kansas. Con- 

 tracts for water are now being signed 

 and it is proposed to have the system 

 ready for operation on May 1, 1910. 



The Vegas artesian water syndicate 

 of Vegas, Nev., has recently interest- 

 ed Judge Kenneth M. Jackson, and it 

 is proposed to sink artesian wells for 

 irrigation purposes. About 28,000 

 acres are now under control of the 

 company. 



Work is now progressing on the ir- 

 rigation system in the vicinity of Lake 

 Wichita, Texas, to water lands in the 

 vicinity of Wichita Falls. Frank Kell, 

 J. A. Kemp and T. R. Orth are back- 

 ing the proposition. About twelve 

 miles of ditch will be constructed. 



Plans to irrigate 24,000 acres in the 

 Rio Grande valley have been complet- 

 ed by the Texas-Louisiana Sugar 

 Company of Texas, a recently organ- 

 ized concern. About $200,000 will be 

 expended on the irrigation system lo- 

 cated between San Juan and McAllen. 



J. S. Dennis, assistant to the second 

 vice-president of the Canadian Pa- 

 cific Railway, is planning the con- 

 struction of a system of main and 

 secondary canals for irrigation of 

 500,000 acres in Alberta. The com- 

 pany also plans the expansion and re- 

 modeling of its present system. 



Directors of the United States Rice 

 & Milling Company of Crowley, La., 

 have arranged to extend the com- 

 pany's canals in Vermillion and Ar- 

 cadia parishes for a distance of about 

 twenty-five miles. Work will be be- 

 gun at once. Storage increased by 

 the construction work will water 10,- 

 000 acres. 



The construction of the regulating 

 works on Lake Tahoe in connection 

 with the Truckee-Carson project, Ne- 

 vada, has been suspended until spring 

 on account of winter weather. Dur- 

 ing November contracts were let for 

 85,000 cubic yards of earth work on 

 lateral district 5. In Carson Sink 

 valley the weather continued favorable 

 throughout the month. 



Representatives of the various ir- 

 rigation interests in the Pecos valley, 

 Texas, are arranging for a conference 

 during January for the purpose of 

 forming an organization for co-op- 

 eration in conversion, distribution and 

 diversion of the waters available for 

 irrigation. It is proposed to agitate 

 the passage of laws relating to water 

 rights and to revise the present laws 

 now on the statute books. 



Recently there has been formed the 

 Arkansas Valley Irrigation Company 

 of Colorado, with capitalization of 

 $400,000, for the purpose of reclaim- 

 ing lands in Ford, Gray and Edwards 

 counties, Kansas. The company will 

 revive the Eureka irrigation ditch, 

 commonly known as the Soule ditch. 

 John T. Barnett of Denver, A. M. 



S8,76O,OOO.OOO!! That's the Value of 

 Farm Products tor 1909 Isn't It Great? 



Think of producing on the farms of the 

 United States twice as much new wealth in 

 one year as is represented by all the gold 

 money in the world outside of this country ! 



No wonder our esteemed friend, Secretary 

 James Wilson, of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, is jubilant. 



It is a showing that every citizen is proud 

 of, whether he had a hand in the production 

 or not. 



The most gratifying story told by these 

 figures is that they represent a gain over the 

 previous year of $869,000,000. 



We are going ahead going ahead rapidly. 

 That is the best message we gather from this 

 report of our results for 1909. 



But, instead of being content with these 

 figures, let us take them only as an indica- 

 tion of what our real possibilities are, and 

 let us use them merely as a mile post in our 

 climb to better things. 



Let each of us, for instance, look back over 

 our operations of 1909 to determine whether 

 or not we did our share toward making thi^ 

 showing possible. 



We all know that there are about 0,000,00(1 

 farms in this country. Did 6,000,000 advance, 

 improve, produce more wealth or did one 

 million, two million, or three million do all 

 of this pushing and improving of methods to 

 make a gain of $869,000,000 possible? 



We ought to stop and think of what has 

 made the gains of former years possible. We 

 must stop to realize that this gain of 

 $869,000,000 for 1909 is not due to so much 

 more land under cultivation, but has been 

 brought about primarily by better methods of 

 cultivating the same land that has been culti- 

 vated before; by better methods of preparing 

 the soil, sowing the grain and harvesting the 

 crops. 



Without the wonderful strides made in the 

 development of farm machines, an $8,760,000,- 



000 crop would be entirely out of the question. 

 And yet there is room for progress the 



rules of 1909 farming are not the rules for 

 1910. New machines mean new advances and 

 new wealth. Do you keep abreast are you 

 posted about these things? 



About traction plowing how to plow more 

 acres, in less time, with less expense, for bet- 

 ter, bigger returns: 



How a good disk harrow will enable you 

 to make better seed beds; 



\\ny it's to your advantage to spread manure 

 the right way as soon as you get it instead 

 of spreading it after half its value is gone; 



About the money-saving and money-making 

 advantages of having a good, reliable, depend- 

 able gasoline engine on your place; how it 

 will help to keep the boys at home; how it 

 will save you a hired man's wages and how it 

 will more than pay for itself in twelve months; 



What the right kind of a cream harvester 

 means to you in increased milk and butter 

 profits and skim-milk calves; 



Why a good feed-grinder means fatter stock; 



How greatly to increase the value of the 

 1910 hay crop by using the right mower, 

 tedder, baler, etc.; 



How to know all about harvesting machines; 



How to get the most profitable profits out 

 of the stalks as well as out of the ears by 

 harvesting your corn in the right way at 

 the right time; 



How to know the ear marks of a good 

 wagon. 



If any of these will help you in the race, 

 get a copy of our book "Glimpses of Thrift- 

 land " That tells the whole story briefly and 

 in verses that you'll like. Then we have some 

 hooks that are still more business-like the 



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There is an International dealer near you. 

 He will be glad to see you to hand you one 

 of our new 1910 calendars, posters, catalogues 

 or pamphlets on harvesting and haying ma- 

 chines and tools, and tillage implements, or 

 any of the machines mentioned above. 



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