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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



Books on Irrigation 

 and Drainage 



The Irrigation Age has established a book department 

 for the benefit of its readers. Any of the following 

 named books on Irrigation and Drainage will be for- 

 warded, postpaid, on receipt of price: 



Irrigation Institutions, Elwood Mead 91.85 



Irrigation Engineering, Herbert M. Wilson 4.N 



The Primer of Irrigation, Anderson 2.0 



Irrigation and Drainage, F. H. King 1.5* 



Irrigation for Farm and Garden, Stewart 1.0* 



Irrigating the Farm, Wilcox a.0 



Practical Irrigation, Aug. J. Bowie 3.00 



Practical Design of Irrigation Works, W. G. Bligh l.to 

 Irrigation (as a branch of engineering), Hanbury 



Brown 5.00 



Earth Slopes, Retaining Walls and Dams, Chas. 



Prelini 8.00 



Road Preservation and Dust Prevention, Win. P. 



Judson 1.50 



Practical Farm Drainage, Chas. G. Elliott 1.50 



Drainage for Profit and Health, Waring 1.00 



Farm Drainage, French 1.00 



Land Drainage, Miles 1.00 



Tile Drainage, Chamberlain .40 



Cement Pipe & Tile, Hanson 1.00 



Arid Agriculture, B. C. Buffum 1.50 



The Irrigation Age Company, 



112 Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. 



FOWLER, COLORADO. 



Fowler, Colo., is in the heart of the Rocky Ford dis- 

 trict, located eighteen miles from the city of Rocky Ford, 

 and thirty-eight miles from Pueblo, in the Arkansas Valley. 

 In the matter of water for domestic purposes Fowler is 

 particularly fortunate, having an abundant supply of pure 

 soft water. Fowler has two trunk line railroads the 

 Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific. The population is 

 about 1,500. 



An active commercial club is about to inaugurate a 

 campaign to force the attention of the land seeker to the 

 exceptional advantages to be enjoyed in this vicinity. 

 Lands under the Oxford and High Line ditches, in opera- 

 tion for a number of years, are worth $200 to $600 per acre, 

 producing from $200 to $400 per acre per season in fruit. 

 A large system of new reservoirs is" being constructed 

 near Fowler, where land is now held at exceptionally low 

 values. Water can now be supplied to much of the land 

 and all will soon be available for cultivation. 



The old irrigated district comprises about 13,000 acres. 

 Fruit culture has been very successful, smudging not 

 necessary, and alfalfa, cantaloupes and sugar beets have 

 brought in fortunes to the settlers. 



The Fowler of today has a splendid High School, good 

 church advantages, no saloons, two substantial banks, more 

 than 300 days of sunshine each year, over 12,000 feet of 

 concrete sidewalk, a postoffice business of over $30,000 

 annually, and an annual mercantile business of $500.000. 

 It is surrounded by the most productive farm lands in 

 America, and has a good ready market for all farm 

 products. Its shipping business amounts to more than 

 $175,000 annually in the way of receipts to the Santa Fe 

 Railroad alone. 



Six years ago Fowler had only 200 people and was 

 but a mere spot on the plains. 



Ohio and Franklin Sis., Chicago, 111. 

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