THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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by the United States Geological Survey regarding stream 

 flow have been a great benefit in the development of 

 water powers, but to be of conclusive value the estimates 

 must cover the winter periods, when the water is likely 

 to be lower than at any other season. The methods of 

 measuring open streams are fairly well defined, but the 

 laws that govern the flow of rivers that are frozen have 

 been but little investigated. Water Supply Paper No. 

 187, which may be obtained on application to the Direc- 

 tor of the United States Geological Survey, Washington, 

 D. C., contains descriptions of the conditions that exist 

 along frozen streams and of the methods that are neces- 

 sary to obtain accurate measurements. Special investi- 

 gations of the flow of water under ice have been made 

 by the Geological Survey for several winters on Ken- 

 nebec river at North Anson, Maine, on Fish river at 

 Wallagrass, Maine, on Connecticut river at Orford, N. 

 H., on Winooski river at Richmond, Vt., on Catskill 

 creek at South Cambridge, N. Y., on Esopus creek at 

 Kingston, N. Y., on Rondout creek at Rosendale, N. 

 Y., and on Wallkill river at Newpaltz, N. Y. The ice 

 conditions at each of these places are described in detail 

 and general methods for this kind of work are formu- 

 lated. 



UTAH'S SOIL AND CLIMATE. 



MAKE AN INVESTMENT IN BOISE, THE BEAU- 

 TIFUL. 



Boise, the beautiful capital of Idaho, is a city with 

 a great future, and one of the safest places for real 

 estate investments in the world. 



The population has increased from 9,000 to 20,000 

 in the past three years. With the great Boise-Payette 

 irrigation scheme trebling the irrigated land at its 

 doors, and the many other irrigation systems building 

 in southern Idaho, it can not fail to double again in 

 the next five years. This means a tremendous increase 

 in the price of Boise real estate. 



We are offering lots in our Londoner, South Boise 

 and Denver additions at prices ranging from $125 four 

 blocks from car line to $300 on car line. These lots 

 are being purchased and built on freely by our home 

 people, having increased in value from 25 to 50 per 

 cent in the past year, and we believe they will double in 

 less than five years, probably in three. 



The terms on the lots valued at $175 or less are 

 $2.50 per month; on those of a higher valuation, $5 

 per month; 8 per cent interest on deferred payments. 

 You can pay out as fast as you like, and interest ceases 

 on payments as they are made. Why not buy four of 

 these cheaper lots or two of the higher priced ones? It 

 is the greatest savings bank proposition you ever saw. 



You will save up $10 a month you would other- 

 wise spend, and when your lots are paid for you will 

 find you have a nice little stake. 



If you will write to the Capital State Bank or the 

 Idaho Trust & Savings Bank, we think they will tell 

 you you can trust us to make as good a selection for you 

 as you could make for yourself. 



Should be glad to write you further. 



W. T. BOOTH, 

 211 N. Eighth street, Boise, Idaho. 



The Lands Are Fertile, Production Abundant, Crops Sure 

 and Prices Average Liberal. 



Send $2.50 for The IrrigaLtion Age 

 I yea-r, a.nd the Primer of Irrigation 



When farming was first attempted in Utah, more 

 than fifty years ago, the land had been parched for cen- 

 turies and it seemed that the soil would never stop 

 drinking up the water. 



It is told there that when the first canal was made 

 in Salt Lake City it took the stream three days to run 

 half a mile ! But, all this has been forgotten except by 

 the pioneers who were present, and now the lands of 

 Salt Lake valley are easily irrigated and are as fertile 

 as those of any section of the West. 



The range of crops for all parts of Utah include 

 nearly all products from those of the cool temperate to 

 those of a semi-tropical climate. In southern Utah 

 even cotton may be successfully cultivated. 



In central and northern Utah grains, fruits, vege- 

 tables, alfalfa and other grasses thrive. One of the 

 richest and most progressive in the State is Salt Lake 

 county, of which Salt Lake City is the county seat; 

 another in Weber, of which Ogden is the chief city. 

 Their average altitude would probably be more than 

 4,000 feet above the sea, not including mountain eleva- 

 tions, yet their productive power is surprising. 



HOW UTAH SOIL WILL YIELD. 



The nights are too cool for corn, but alfalfa will 

 produce about seven tons per acre, at three cuttings per 

 season. It has been no unusual experience to realize 

 $100 an acre from alfalfa, including the seed, in a 

 single season, the price ranging up to $14 a ton. But 

 that return is unusually large. With good farming and 

 good stock it ought to be an easy matter to average 

 $75 an acre, gross, from beef, milk, calves and pigs each 

 year. 



The fields are constantly fertilized by accretions of 

 silt, lime and decayed vegetation carried down by the 

 rains which are frequent and timely in winter, spring 

 and early summer. For that reason, the soil can never 

 wear out. And from the same cause it is exceedingly 

 rich the farms yielding almost fabulous crops. 



Wheat, oats, barley and rye are staples on Utah 

 farms. Wheat has produced as high as sixty bushels 

 per acre, thirty being about an average. The field price 

 would run close to 75 cents per bushel. The quantity 

 is nearly always No. 1, the weight running 61 to 63 

 pounds to the measured bushel. 



Oats thresh out fifty to eighty bushels, worth 40 

 cents; two-row barley, forty to sixty bushels, worth in 

 the field about 60 cents; club barley forty-five to sixty- 

 five bushels, selling 55 cents ; blue barley the same. Rye 

 goes from fifteen to twentv-five bushels, worth in the 

 field 75 cents. 



When it comes to vegetables this soil and climate 

 are great. A yield of 800 bushels of potatoes has been 

 reported, 600 is not uncommon, and 250 would be a 

 moderate average, with 50 cents the field price $125 

 an acre and up to $300 or even more. Big red and yel- 

 low onions have turned out 1,200 bushels from an acre 

 and 800 bushels is said to be an average, selling at from 

 $250 an acre up to $350. Tomatoes yield from 450 to 

 700 bushels per acre, worth $250 to $300 an acre. 



