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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



SAMSON TURBINE 



When the PUMP cannot be direct connected to 

 the turbine shaft, the power is usually trans- 

 mitted by gears, shafting, etc. On account of 

 the HIGH SPEED of the SAMSON, for a given 

 power, lighter and consequently CHEAPER 

 transmission machinery can be used. 



JAMES LEFFEL & CO. 



Springfield, Ohio, U. S. A. 



316 I .agon da Street 



At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Bent 

 Reservoir Company, held at Las Animas recently, it was 

 voted to issue $590,000 in first mortgage bonds to com- 

 plete the construction of the reservoir and ditch. The 

 stockholders have also voted an increase of the capital 

 stock from $125,000 to $800,000. The company owns the 

 Rule Creek reservoir site, situated on Rule Creek, about 

 ten miles above its mouth. The drainage area rilling this 

 reservoir is the largest in that part of the state on any 

 side stream, and it is expected that it will fill at least twice 

 a year. The proposition is being promoted by farmers 

 who have filed desert claims, although some have home- 

 steads and deeded lands. The land to be covered lies 

 on both sides of Rule Creek, just southeast of Las Ani 

 mas. Water rights under this system will cost $40 per 

 acre. 



It is reported that W. H. Mitchell and George Pierce 

 of Florence have purchased the Columbia Hessick artesian 

 well, two miles southeast of that city. It is the intention 

 of the purchasers to set out 100 acres of fruit land adjoin- 

 ing the property, build a reservoir to conserve the water. 

 The land will be divided into small tracts of five and ten 

 acre tracts and placed on the market. 



R. T. Frazier of Pueblo, together with other capital- 

 ists of that city, have formed a company known as the 

 Chicosa Park Irrigation Company, and will place under 

 irrigation 10,000 acres of land just south of the town of 

 Boone. The company will be a co-operative one ; the land 

 to be irrigated has been taken up by Puebloans and resi- 

 dents of Boone under the desert land act. and the stock 

 in the irrigation company has all been subscribed for by 

 the landowners. The surveys have been completed and 

 actual construction work will be commenced in the very 

 near future. The source of the water supply is the Huer- 

 fano River and a storage irrigation system will be con- 

 structed. The promoters expect to put water on the land 

 at less than $20 per acre. 





The Little Roadster Grader and Ditcher 



A New, Light Ditch Plowing Machine, 



Especially Designed for Cutting Small 



Laterals on Irrigated Farms, and 



Ditching and Grading Roads. 



This type of machine cuts ditches for 

 less money than any other tool or ma- 

 chinery, because it plows the dirt out of 

 the ditch with one continuous motion, 

 whereas all other ditching machinery or 

 appliances must pick the dirt up and 

 lift it out of the ditch and then dump it. 



The Little Roadster is a practical 

 plowing machine, being built with ad- 

 justable leaning wheels or rolling land- 

 sides which counteract the side pressure 

 of the earth on the mold, the same 

 leaning wheel principle which is used in 

 the sulky plow. 



It is made almost entirely of wrought 

 steel and the few castings that are used 

 are malleable and all parts are put to- 

 gether so far as possible with hot driven 

 rivets, so that while it is a light machine 

 weighing about eleven hundred pounds, 

 it is exceptionally strong and rigid. It 

 is designed primarily for two horses, al- 

 though four may be used. 



EVERY IRRIGATED RANCH OR FARM NEEDS ONE OR MORE OF THESE MACHINES. IT WILL QUICKLY 

 PAY FOR ITSELF. SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE FOLDER AND LET US TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT 



J. D. ADAMS & COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 





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