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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



It will be seen also by the foregoing that Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt was off on the wrong foot; in other 

 words, he is crediting to some of his official family the 

 happy faculty of being infallible, assuming that the 

 people who had built the West, are, as a whole, wrong i n 

 their conclusions as to the disposal of the public domain. 

 He is credited with saying in the Brownsville matter 

 that "All men should be reinstated who are willing to 

 prove themselves innocent of any part of the shooting." 

 This seems to have been the promulgated policy relating 

 to public lands a man must prove his innocence or 

 stand convicted of felony. "We are asked to submit a 

 remedy where no remedy is needed. An undesirable con- 

 dition is alleged to exist which is not apparent to us 

 who dwell in the West. Mr. President, the difficulty is 

 not in the West but in your own official family. Mr. 

 Pinchot is sick. You don't believe it, possibly he does 

 not himself, but we of the West know it is true ; there- 

 fore, the Denver convention was called to diagnose his 

 case and give him a dose of quinine or assofoetida as 

 the case might require. I am of the opinion that the 

 dose administered, while the milder of the two, may 

 have a salutary effect upon his system. 



THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 



The East Side a Land of Wheat, Fruits, Plenty from the 

 Soil, Mineral Wealth, and Healthful Climate. 



The east side of the State of Washington is the por- 

 tion east of the Cascade range of mountains and com- 

 prises a little more than half the entire area. It dif- 

 fers from the west side in that the rainfall is less, the 

 skies are clearer, the atmosphere more dry, and there is 

 no seashore. In a general way it dips gradually from 

 north to south, the upper end being mountainous, the 

 south end comparatively level and intruded upon by but 

 one mountain ridge, a projection of the Blue range from 

 northern Oregon. This butts into the southeast cor- 

 ner. 



Near the Cascades the land is more dry than toward 

 the east side and requires irrigation. One of the suc- 

 cessfully irrigated districts of the West is that of North 

 Yakima, "home of the big reJ apple," where other fine 

 fruit, alfalfa and various products are grown with boun- 

 tiful abundance. In the valleys, up in the region of 

 beautiful Lake Chelan and all along the north end of 

 this section of Washington, the soil yields big crops 

 of wheat, oats, alfalfa, potatoes, apples, apricots, straw- 

 berries and other choice things from the field and gar- 

 den. Stock and poultry thrive there. 



Over in the eastern counties is the great Palouse 

 wheat district, where most of the 35,000,000 bushels 

 annually harvested in the state are garnered. This is 

 one of the phenomenal grain-growing regions of the 

 United States. The rainfall is comparatively light but 

 comes at just the right time to start and develop the 

 great fields of winter wheat. But this southeast corner is 

 not a one-crop country. On the contrary it is a region 

 of extraordinary diversity of farm products. At the 

 Portland Exposition in 1905 some of the finest cherries' 



on exhibition from all the cherry paradise of Washington, 

 Oregon and Idaho were sent in almost daily, fresh and 

 delicious enough for the gods, from the orchards of 

 Eastern Washington. Besides these, there were royal 

 apples, choice peaches, fine grapes, other fruits, English 

 walnuts even almonds a grand aggregation of soil 

 riches ranging all the way from those of the cool tem- 

 perate to those of semi-tropical lands. 



All through the northern mountains of this end 

 of Washington various kinds of mineral wealth exists. 

 Gold has been found and is being mined. Very rich 

 iron deposits are said to exist. The best coal mine in 

 the state is east of the Cascades. Marble, clays, building 

 stone and other valuable deposits are known to exist 

 and with the many mineral possessions of this section 

 of the state will unite in the future with its many ag- 

 ricultural advantages to make it one of the most pros- 

 perous places in the entire West. The climate gener- 

 allv is dry and wholesome. Here one can choose alti- 

 tudes but a few hundred feet above tidewater up to 

 the levels of 3,000 and even 5,000 feet above the sea, 

 as he likes. If the valleys or lower elevations become 

 warm in summer, he can run to the mountains where 

 the trees offer their refreshing shade, the fountains and 

 cataracts cool the air in day time and where at night 

 blankets are comfortable and sound sleep is hard to 

 avoid. About Lake Chelan and all through Northern 

 Washington this east end there is abundance' of 

 scenery, a great deal of which is scarcely excelled in 

 beauty and magnificence. 



The people of this fortunate land are enterpris- 

 ing and progressive, up with the times. Their schools, 

 churches and institutions are everywhere modern, and 

 there is a disposition to favor clean, anti-graft govern- 

 ment. 



The principal town is Spokane, one of the most 

 energetic and promising cities in the entire West. It 

 is a place of 75,000 population, and has a fine water- 

 power. Walla Walla has about 15,000 people and is in 

 the midst of the wheat district. North Yakima is over 

 toward the Cascade mountains and is a wide-awake city, 

 of 10,000 inhabitants, the capital of a very successful 

 irrigated section where the finest kinds of fruits are 

 grown. 



And there are many good towns in this end of the 

 state. Too much praise can not well be given to the 

 State of Washington. 



Send $2,50 for The Irrigation 



Age one year and 

 The Primer of Irrigation 



