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THE IBBIG-ATION AGE. 



Garden City wasn't satisfied with good roads it 

 wanted better roads. So it built the seven miles of sand 

 hills' road south of town, connecting a fertile agricultural 

 valley and the inland town of Santa Fe with what Engineer 

 Gearhart has called "the best road in Kansas." This was 

 constructed under government supervision, from clay 

 found all along the hills. 



For precisely the same reason, Garden City was one 

 of the two factors that gave origin to the movement that 

 has led to the great New Santa Fe Trail movement. 



Garden City is the seat of the field of endeavor of the 

 United States Sugar & Land Company, that has invested 

 in that district the sum of 5% million dollars. This in- 

 cludes the magnificent beet sugar mill at Garden City, 

 costing more than a million dollars, slicing 1,200 tons of 

 beets daily, with a pay-roll of $800 during campaign, and 

 capable of making 375,000 pounds of sugar in one day. 

 This company is now building at Garden City a pulp- 

 drying plant costing $200,000, and has a $200,000 pumping 

 plant to irrigate 5,000 acres. 



U. S. Reclamation Record. 



A digest of the latest developments in connection 

 with the United States Reclamation Service, including 

 "Public Notices" and "Service Orders" of public in- 

 terest. 



SERVICE ORDERS. 



Convict Labor. Hereafter the following stipulation should 

 be Inserted in all contracts executed upon forms 7-523 and 

 7-523a: 



It is further stipulated and agreed that in the perform- 

 ance of this contract no persons shall be employed who are 

 undergoing sentences of imprisonment at hard labor which 

 have been imposed by courts of the several states and terri- 

 tories or municipalities having criminal jurisdiction. 



gating an Orchard Just Planted, Patterson Ranch, California 



Garden City is the headquarters for the Kansas na- 

 tional forest, on which nearly a million young trees are 

 now growing, and having an area of more than 250,000 

 acres south of the Arkansas river. 



Garden City is the seat of the Garden City reclama- 

 tion project of the government, with an acreage of 8,000. 



Finney county last year raised 2% million dollars' 

 worth of agricultural and live stock products. 



Garden City has in its territory five irrigation ditches, 

 and the Garden City district has nearly 75,000 acres of 

 irrigated land, with the splendid Shallow Water Empire 

 immediately north, now being developed, with an equal 

 acreage. 



Garden City has two new railroads, one to the north- 

 west, one to the north and south, opening up new fields 

 for trade cultivation. 



Garden City has a fire department, electric lights, a 

 telephone system with 700 patrons, 50 street lights, a daily 

 and two weekly newspapers, churches, fine schools, all the 

 leading fraternal organizations, and a splendid type of 

 citizenship. 



What more could be desired? 



Garden City: The Town That Does Things. 



"Always Something Doing in the Good Old Town." 



PUBLIC NOTICES. 

 Washington, Sunnyside Project. 



On May 2, 1910, public notice was issued announcing that 

 water will be furnished in the irrigation season of 1910 for 

 the additional lands under the Sunnyside project, shown on 

 the amended plat of T. 8 N., R. 23 E., W. M., approved by 

 the Secretary of the Interior, April 15, 1910, and on file in 

 the local land office at North Takima, Wash. 



Homestead entries, applications for water rights, the 

 charges, time and manner of payments shall be governed 

 by the terms of the public notice of November 18, 1908, and 

 public notices and orders amendatory thereof, or supple- 

 mentary thereto, except that for lands in private owner- 

 ship and for lands heretofore entered, the first Installment of 

 the charges for building, operation and maintenance, shall 

 become due on May 18, 1910, and in all cases the second 

 installment shall be due March 1, 1911. Subsequent install- 

 ments shall be due on March 1 of each year thereafter until 

 fully paid. 



