TIN-] 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 Lagonda Street 



project on the Snake river near Starbuck is rapidly near- 

 ing completion and \yill be placed on the market early in 

 October. Two centrifugal pumps with a capacity of 1,500 

 gallons per minute are being installed. Power will be 

 secured in the Tukanon river near Grange City. The land 

 is being subdivided into five and ten acre tracts. 



Schuebly Bros, of Chattaroy have purchased 160 acres, 

 which in addition to the 1,100 acres they now own will 

 be put on the market in 5 and 10-acre tracts as soon as it 

 is irrigated. 



The Klickitat & Simcoe Irrigation Company of North 

 Vakima has filed plats which show that the company in- 

 tends to irrigate 7,000 to 10,000 acres of land on the Ya- 

 kima Indian reservation from the waste waters of the 

 upper Klickitat river. The reservoir site is on Diamond 

 creek. 



The county commissioners of Whatcom county have 

 passed an order establishing the Scheineder ditch and 

 ordered the county engineer to make estimates and sur- 

 veys. The ditch will be the largest ever built in What- 

 com county and will be three miles long and 12 feet wide 

 at its mouth. This is a drainage proposition. The land 

 to be reclaimed is in the heart of a fine farming section 

 but has never been developed because of the marshy con- 

 dition of the soil. 



WYOMING. 



Contracts for the construction of the ditches of the 

 Uinta Land and Irrigation Company of Big Piney have 

 been let and work will commence in the near future. Water 

 will be taken from the Big Piney river to irrigate land 

 lying between Muddy ridge and Green river and extending 

 as far south as Meadow canon. 



The Talmadge-Buntin Land Company, of Chicago, 

 have taken over the forfeited contracts of the Wyoming 

 Central Irrigation Company to construct an irrigation sys- 

 tem for the reclamation of 400.000 acres of land in the 



SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW in the STEAM SHOVEL LINE 



for & Truest I oia. 



This is the latest and most original irachine bui t in the Steam Shovel Line. 



It has three very great advantages: t i r %i it requires no track to run on; second moves from one job to another can be made quickly and 

 without the heavy expense of ha\ing to tear the entire outfit to pieces; and tbtrrf in buying this outfit you not only get a splendid Steam Shovel 

 Outfit but a comp.ete Traction Engine as we!l, which you can use for all kinds of Traction and Be.t Work. 



Designed for digging drainage and irrigation ditches, for use in gravel pits, stripping coal, and for other similar purposes. 



A number of these outfits have a'.ready been sold. Every one is in successful operation. A<k for complete circular fully describing this 

 machine and showing it in operation. 



Avery Company, Manufacturers, 965 Iowa St., Peoria, 111. 



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