THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



those that are our greatest achievements. Unfortu- 

 nately we will not receive the credit due us for these. 

 Our people are enthusiastic cocksure that our country 

 must grow, regardless of advertising campaigns, and 

 they are right. Advertising can only accelerate growth ; 

 but so long as it can do that the "real" results will 

 warrant the expenditure of every dollar we can raise 

 to pay for immigration advertising. 



NORTHWESTERN NOTES. 



SPOKANE, WASH.., November 26. Irrigation is 

 more than king in the Inland district, embracing 250,- 

 000 square miles in eastern Washington, northeastern 

 Oregon and northern Idaho as far south as the Snake 

 River. It is emperor in the Spokane district, in which 

 thousands of dollars will be expended the next few 



Irrigation Apple Orchard, Wenatchee, Wash. Great Noithern Railway. 



CHICAGO POULTRY SHOW. 



The annual Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Show 

 to be held in Chicago January 23 to 30 inclusive, 

 1907, will be an improvement on any of the series of 

 high class shows heretofore held under the management 

 of the National Fanciers' and Breeders' Association. 

 There will be a large number of exhibits of stock, in- 

 cubators, brooders, appliances, -foods, remedies and all 

 things pertaining to the poultry, pigeon and pet stock 

 industry. 



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Send $2.50 for The Irrigation Age 

 1 year, and The Primer of Irrigation 



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years in making the country bloom like the rose of 

 proverb. 



The Umatilla Ditch Company, composed of Spo- 

 kane and Pendleton, Ore., men, will build a plant to 

 water 9,000 acres of land south of Spokane, 3,000 

 acres of which will be under the ditch next spring. 

 Water will be taken from the Umatilla River. P. P. 

 Broesbeck is president of the company with headquar- 

 ters in Spokane. 



Jay Lynch, agent of the Yakima Indian reserva- 

 tion, has received advices from Washington, D. C., that 

 the Indian Department has appropriated $15,000 to 

 extend the irrigation work on the reserve. This means 

 that 20,000 additional acres of the richest land in the 

 Yakima valley will be put under cultivation. The land 

 is covered with sage brush. It will at once be con- 



