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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Books on Irrigation 

 and Drainage 



The Irrigation Age has established a book department 

 for the benefit of its readers. Any of the following 

 named books on Irrigation and Drainage will be for- 

 warded, postpaid, on receipt of price : 



Irrigation Institutions, El wood Mead $1.25 



Irrigation Engineering, Herbert M. Wilson 4.00 



The Primer of Irrigation, Anderson 2.00 



Irrigatjon and Drainage, F. H. King 1.50 



Irrigation for Farm and Garden, Stewart 1.00 



Irrigating the Farm, Wilcox 2.00 



Practical Irrigation, Aug. J. Bowie 3.00 



Practical Design of Irrigation Works, W. G. Bligh 6.00 

 Irrigation (as a branch of engineering), Hanbury 



Brown 5.00 



Earth Slopes, Retaining Walls and Dams, Chas. 



Prelini 2.00 



Road Preservation and Dust Prevention, Win. P. 



Judson 1.50 



Practical Farm Drainage, Chas. G. Elliott 1.60 



Drainage for Profit and Health, Waring 1.00 



Farm Drainage, French 1.00 



Land Drainage, Miles 1.00 



Tile Drainage, Chamberlain 40 



Cement Pipe & Tile, Hanson 1.00 



Arid Agriculture, B. C. Buffum 1.50 



The Irrigation Age Company, 



112 Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. 



Grande extending from Matamoras to the San Juan river 

 will be brought under irrigation by the proposed canal 

 system of the La Compania Agricola la Sautena, which 

 has its headquarters in Mexico City, Mexico. The main 

 canal will be 03 miles long. The system will require the 

 building of over 200 miles of laterals. A dam will be 

 constructed across the San Juan river. It is estimated 

 that this project will cost $10,000.000 gold. 



On October 22nd, 14,939.25 acres of land under the 

 Carey Act will be open for entry by the Great Falls Land 

 and Irrigation Company, composed of Chicago capitalists. 

 This land is near Augusta, Montana, on the Fort Shaw 

 reservation. The land will be opened by drawing and 

 registration. Water will be delivered to the land on or 

 before June 1st, 1011. 



Dwight Bushnell, of Twin Bridges, Montana, and as- 

 sociates from Helena, will reclaim a large tract of land 

 near Twin Bridges. Work on the main ditch was com- 

 menced on September 25th. 



It is stated that an irrigation district embracing the 

 land lying between Stratton, Nebraska, to the South Fork, 

 is practically assured. J. W. Smith, of Stratton, who is 

 in close touch with the promoters -of the district states that 

 surveys have been made and that blue prints will be ready 

 for examination by the middle of October. 



W. B. Dunlap, of Beaumont. Texas, has purchased the 

 Farmers' Canal Company property from Receiver Wynne. 

 The plant consists of 18 miles of irrigating canals, lat- 

 erals, rights of way, telephone system and other property. 

 The canal is located in Chambers county. Texas, and the 

 price paid for it was $40,000. 



The Colorado-Wyoming Development Company has 

 filed articles of incorporation with a capital stock of 

 $2,500.000, with their principal office at Cheyenne, in charge 

 of Ex-Governor F. Chatterton. The plan of the company 



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