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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Head Gate Hoists 



in all sizes and types for 

 use in connection with 

 timber or cast iron 

 Head Giles and Waste Gales 

 also a complete line of 



Cast Iron Gates 



Catalog No. 25 is devoted 

 exclusively to Gate 

 Hoists. We also build the 

 New American Turbine 



The Dayton Globe 



Iron Works Co. 

 Dayton, - Ohio 



Irrigation Problems 



in orchard or garden solved by 



RIFE RAMS 



Pump water automatically day or night 



The first cost is low; there's no operating 

 expense. Raises water 30 feet for every 

 foot of fall. Fully guaranteed. 



If there is a stream, spring or pond within 

 a mile, write for Free Plans, Free Book 

 and Free Trial Offer. 



RIFE ENGINE CO. 



2511 Trinity Bldtf. 



NEW YORK 



I. J. Bailey and Samuel Coggin, who own a large tract 

 of land near Brownwood, Texas, have installed a pumping 

 plant from which they will irrigate their crops. 



The Florida Mesa irrigation district's bonds amount- 

 ing to $1,060,000 have been purchased by the Rudolph 

 Kleybolte Company of New York, Cincinnati and Chicago. 

 The Florida Mesa irrigation district comprises 25,000 acres 

 of land lying southeast of Durango, Colorado. 



The people of Lubbock, Texas, are interested in a 

 movement to install irrigation plants in that section. A 

 test well will be sunk and if the water supply is adequate 

 a central station will be built. 



Sixty thousand acres of land in the Lafourche parish 

 near New Orleans have been sold by the Golden Ranch 

 Sugar and Cattle Company to St. Louis and Detroit 

 capitalists for $600,000. The tract is to be settled by 

 farmers from Holland and the Netherlands. 



Lands totaling 1,737,000 acres in California and Ne- 

 vada will be opened to settlement on November 21st and 

 to entry one month later. The lands were withdrawn for 

 the Truckee-Carson irrigation project but have been re- 

 stored because they are not easily irrigable. 



R. T. Pruitt of San Antonio, Texas, has purchased 

 400 acres of land near Artesia, Texas. The land will be 

 irrigated and planted to onions and canteloupes. Tie con- 

 sideration was $10,000. 



P. & O. Engine Gang Plows. 



The Parlin & Orendorff Co., Canton, 111., are among the pioneer 

 manufacturers of Engine Gang Plows, and for years have made a 

 special study of the requirements in all sections. Their latest produc- 

 tion in this line is the P. & O. Mogul, made with 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12 bot- 

 toms. A view of the Six-Furrow Mogul, to which is attached a P. & O. 

 Disc Harrow, is shown on this page. 



These plows are made in the most . substantial manner, and the 

 confidence which the Parlin & Orendorff Co. place in them is fully shown 

 by their oft advertised statement that they "are backed by an unquali- 

 fied guarantee." This guarantee, by the way, also covers everything 



Ambursen Hydraulic Construction Co. 



ENGINEER-CONSTRUCTORS 



176 Federal St., BOSTON, MASS. 



Our business is the investigation, engineering, construction, and operation of 

 Hydro-Electric Power Developments and Irrigation Reclamation, including Sec- 

 ondary Irrigation by pumping, a feature which under right conditions and prop- 

 erly engineered will double or treble the available area under the ditches. 



We specialize on high dams and dams on difficult foundations, 

 is based on the construction of 56 dams to date. 



Our experience 



At the present writing, May 21st, we have under construction eight dams as 

 follows: 



A dam 45 ft. high and 700 ft. long in Newfoundland; a dam 48 ft. high and 900 

 ft. long in Georgia; a dam 48 ft. high and 470 ft. long in Wisconsin; two dams re- 

 spectively 54 ft. high and 450 ft. long, and 60 ft. high and 550 ft. long in Minnesota; 

 a dam 86 ft. high and 680 ft. long in Oregon and three smaller dams in Maryland, 

 Indiana and Kentucky respectively. Seven of these dams include a power house in 

 the bulkhead of the dam. The time of construction on each will be about eight 

 months with the exception of the Oregon dam which will require about a year. 





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