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THE 1KRIGATION AGE 



No. 3. Traction Gasoline Machine crossing the high Sierras of 

 Eastern Washington, where fuel and water are not to be had. We 

 made the 25 mile move in 8 hours, using 20 gallons of gasoline at 19c 

 per gal. We had no {earn nor needed any. The one in the picture 

 did not belong to the machine. 



THE DESERT DRILL 



This is a Standard KEYSTONE Traction Cable Drills 

 driven by a two cylinder double opposed gasoline engine- 

 Size 3 has a 22 H. P. engine and is guaranteed for 500 ft- 

 depths. Size 5 has a 30 H. P. engine and is guaranteed 

 for 1000 ft. with manilla cable or 1500 ft. with wire line. 



Requires no fuel but gasoline. 



Requires no water except for cooling engine and a 

 little for the hole. 



Will go anywhere on its own power. 

 Ask for Bulletin No. 7 



KEYSTONE MOTOR DRILL WORKS 



Beaver Falls, Pa. 



line Drilling in Eastern Washington, using 



The charter of the Pecos and Toyah Lake Irrigation 

 Company of Pecos, Texas, has been filed with the secretary 

 of state. Capital stock of this company is $1.500,000. J. 

 N. Levin of Rutherford, R. S. Johnson and T. H. Beau- 

 champ of Pecos are the incorpqrators. 



The Queen Creek dry farming colony has organized a 

 company to put in a large pumping plant on the Gila river 

 between Florence and Pima reservation, to pump irrigating 

 water to their lands. They will sink wells on the bank of 

 the stream out of reach of high water, and connect them 

 up to large pumps in units of two wells to one pump. 



A large tract of marsh land owned by Mr. Armpnd 

 Capon near Grand Chenier is to be reclaimed. The irriga- 

 tion ditches have all been dredged and the water has been 

 drained off. The land will be in shape for colonization by 

 fall. It is Mr. Capon's intention to go to Belgium, where 

 he expects to form a colony to emigrate about the first of 

 October and begin the cultivation of these reclaimed lands. 



Worjc on the Nazas river dam, which will be con- 

 structed near Caja Pinto, Mexico, has been commenced. 

 The dam, when it is completed, will have a storage 

 capacity of 1,800,000,000 cubic meters of water. It is 

 planned to hold sufficient water to more than irrigate the 

 entire Laguna district and enable the planters to double 

 the yield of cotton per acre. 



Peter Winkelman and son of Winkelman have ordered 

 a windmill, pump and tank for use on their ranch near 

 Florence. Arizona. He will install several twelve-inch 

 wells on his Halfway ranch, which is underlaid at a depth 

 of thirty feet by strong water stratum. 



Dr. N. J. Phenix has recently installed an irrigation 

 plant on his truck farm near Colorado, Texas. Water is 

 pumped out of the Colorado river and conveyed to the 

 ditches by means of pipes. This is the largest outfit of the 

 kind in Mitchell county and the success of the undertaking 

 is being watched very closely. 



I. H. Kempner and associates of Galveston, Texas, 

 have purchased the water works and irrigation rights at 

 Alamogordo, New Mexico. A sum of $180,000 was paid 

 for the rights. 



H. L. Chaffee of Cameron, Wisconsin, has installed a 

 small pumping plant with which to irrigate his strawberry 

 patch. Mr. Chaffee states that his berry crop has suffered 

 by drouth each year, just at the time of ripening and he 

 has installed this plant simply as an experiment. 



J. W. Longstreet, an irrigation expert, has been em- 

 ployed to make investigations along the Saline and Smoky 

 Hill rivers near Manhattan, Kansas, as to the possibility 

 of irrigation, and he reports that there are many favorable 

 locations for individual farm systems. 



Frank Field, secretary of the state board of agricul- 

 ture atid ex-officio state engineer of Guthrie, Oklahoma, 

 has approved the application of S. B. Laune of Woodward, 

 Oklahoma, to take water from Sand creek to irrigate 

 sections. 



The Cimarron Valley Irrigation Company, of Lamar, 

 Colo., has contested the right of J. A. Martin Ford of Gar- 

 rett, Oklahoma, to rights in the Cimarron river. Mr. Ford 

 has never perfected his rights as a water user, although 

 his application has been on file for some time. It is now 

 being opposed as above stated by the Cimarron Irrigation 

 Company, which has planned a large irrigation scheme in 

 the Panhandle country. 



C. A. Armstrong of Fargo, Oklahoma, has filed a pe- 

 tition with the secretary of the state board at Guthrie. 

 Oklahoma, for the water from Boggy creek in Ellis county, 

 with which to irrigate eighty acres of land. 



A meeting has been planned to be held at San Benito, 

 Texas, in the near future for the purpose of perfecting 

 the organization to be known as the Lower Rio Grande 

 Valley Association. The purposed organization is to be 

 composed of the leading land and irrigation propositions 

 located in the valley for the purpose of advertising the 

 advantages of that district. The association is to be in- 

 corporated and a competent secretary will be placed in 

 charge. 



In the district court at Barstow, Tex., Judge Isaacs sus- 

 tained the foreclosure proceedings against the Grand Falls 

 Mutual Irrigation Company. A. Thompson of Los An- 

 geles and A. Z. Monell, president and manager of the com- 

 pany, and L. A. Rodes of Sedalia, Mo., representing the 

 bondholders, were in court when the decision was ren- 

 dered. This places the management and control of the 



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