THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Land Company," to take over titles to this tract of 

 land. 



The officials of the company are : President, Frank 

 A. Bridge; 'vice-president, Fred R. Aukes, postmaster, 

 German Valley, 111.; secretary, Norris V. S. Mallory, 

 and Henry W. Coffman, of German Valley, 111., treas- 

 urer. 



The directors are Mr. Bridge, Henry W. Coffman, 

 Lewis Fosha, Fred R. Aukes, Morris V. S. Mallory and 

 A. H. Wieman. 



A contract was let to the Hartford Construction 

 Company of Chicago for the excavation of about nine 

 miles of canal. Two large steam dredges have been 

 employed in the work. The main ditch is twenty-four 

 feet wide on top, eight feet deep and eight feet wide 

 at the bottom. The outlet will be into Wolf river, 

 which flows through Shiocton and is navigable for 



THE STATE OF OREGON. 



An Outline of Its Topography, the Range of Its Agri- 

 cultural Productions and Resources. 



BY R. L. ROWE. 



Oregon is one of the big commonwealths of the 

 Union, being eighth in size (not including Alaska) of 

 all the states and territories. 



It has 96,560 square miles, which is nearly three 

 times the area of Indiana. It had a population in 1900 

 of 413,536, and by the end of 1905 this number had 

 increased to 550,000, as estimated by the governor. It 

 may justly claim 600,000 people with the end of 1906. 



The Cascade range of mountains runs from north 

 to south so far as to cut off about one-third of the state 

 at the west end. The Coast range of mountains makes 



What Celery Will Do on "Shiocton Marsh." 



medium-sized boats at this point. The lateral ditches 

 are somewhat smaller. 



Mr. Matthew Crawford of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 

 a well-known horticulturalist, who investigated the soil 

 conditions of the "marsh," will establish an experi- 

 mental station for the demonstration of the soil's pe- 

 culiar adaptability to the raising of different vege- 

 tables, and it is the purpose of the company to produce 

 the highest quality of vegetables for direct sale to the 

 leading hotels of the country. Mr. Crawford will also 

 raise bulbs and flower seeds in large quantities for 

 J. C. Vaughn. His present contract is for over 2,000,- 

 000 bulbs. 



When thoroughly drained, the company purposes 

 to retail the land in small tracts for truck gardeners, 

 its location being the center of a vast market for this 

 kind of produce. Its railroad facilities and nearness 

 make it possible to reach Chicago, Milwaukee and other 

 points with perishable produce in a few hours. 



a high run along the west side of this third, close to 

 the Pacific ocean. The valley between these ranges 

 is one of the garden spots of Oregon or any other state. 

 It begins near Portland and continues southward for 

 about 125 miles, when it is broken up into smaller 

 basins by narrowing of the space between the ranges. 

 The first 100 miles would probably average fifty 

 miles in width between foot hills, and is a land of 

 beauty, of high rolling farms and orchards, level as 

 well as undulating fields, interspersed with picturesque 

 groves, traversed by numerous rivers and smaller 

 streams flowing from the mountains into the central 

 drainage aqueduct, the Willamette, a handsome river 

 navigable for nearly 100 miles above Portland. 



IS LAND OF GREAT FERTILITY. 



This Willamette valley of 5,000 to 6,000 square 

 miles larger than Connecticut will, in a future not 

 very distant, support in prosperity at least a million 



