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THE IERIGATION AGE. 



the college campus, in the class rooms, laboratories, shops 

 and kitchens, while the remainder of the space is devoted 

 to an explanation of the work, the courses offered, the 

 requirements for admission, etc. The authorities have 

 surely struck upon an attractive and unique way of adver- 

 tising. 



Two bulletins which will prove of much interest and 

 value to irrigation farmers have just been issued by the 

 bureau of soils of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture. Both have been compiled by Clarence W. Dor- 

 sey and deal with the reclamation of alkali lands and 

 soils, No. 43 being devoted to the Salt Lake valley, Utah, 

 and No. 44 to the lands near Billings, Mont. The experi- 

 ments in both tracts have been very successful in proving 

 that one of the great drawbacks to irrigation farming can 

 be overcome. 



The geological survey of the Department of the In- 

 terior has recently distributed a number of 'volumes, 

 among them treatises on "Zinc and Lead Deposits of the 

 Upper Mississippi Valley," by H. Foster Bain; "Economic 

 Geology of the Independence Quadrandle, Kansas," by 

 Frank C. Schrader and Erasmus Haworth ; "Report on 

 Progress of Investigations of Mineral Resources of 

 Alaska in 1906," by Alfred H. Brooks and others; "The 

 Interaction between Minerals and Water Solutions with 

 Special Reference to Geologic Phenomena," by Eugene C. 

 Sullivan; "The Potomac River Basin," its geographic 

 history, rainfall and stream flow, pollution of water, and 

 kindred relations by Horatio N. Parker, Bailey Willis, 

 R. H. Bolster, W. W. Ashe and M. C. Marsh; "The Geol- 

 ogy and Water Resources of the Western Portion of the 

 Panhandle of Texas," by Charles N. Gould; "Underground 

 Waters of Coastal Plain of Texas," by Thomas U. Taylor; 

 "Weir Experiments, Coefficients, and Formulas" (a re- 

 vision of Paper No. 150), by Robert E. Horton; "Water 

 Supply of Nome Region, Seaward Peninsula, Alaska," by 

 John C. Hoyt and Fred F. Henshaw; "Pollution of Illi- 

 nois and Mississippi Rivers by Chicago Sewage," a digest 

 of the testimony taken in the case of the State of Missouri 

 vs. the State of Illinois and the sanitary district of Chi- 

 cago, by Marshall O. Leighton; "The Quality of Surface 

 Waters in Minnesota," by R. B. Dole and F. F. Wes- 

 brook; ''A Geologic Reconnaissance in Southwestern Ne- 

 vada and Eastern California," by Sydney H. Ball; "Eco- 

 nomic Geology of the Amity Quadrangle" (Eastern Wash- 

 ington county, Pa.), by Frederick G. Clapp; Part I of 

 "Contributions to Economic Geology, 1906," by S. F. Em- 

 mons and E. C. Eckel, geologists in charge; "The Juneau 

 Gold Belt, Alaska," by Arthur C. Spencer, and in the 

 same volume. "A Reconnaissance of Admiralty Island, 

 Alaska," by Charles Will Wright; and "Geology of the 

 Marysyille Mining District, Montana, A Study of Igneous 

 Intrusion and Contact Metamorphism," by Joseph Barrell. 



Reclamation Service 



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Stands High Water Test. 



Mr. C. E. Grunsky, consulting engineer of the recla- 

 mation service, who has been investigating conditions on 

 the Lower Colorado river in California, reports that con- 

 ditions on the Lower Colorado river are very satisfactory. 

 Ever since the work of turning the river from its tempo- 

 rary inland flow back into its proper channel, leading to 

 the Gulf of California had been successfully accomplished, 

 the question, "How will the new works withstand the 

 spring rise of the river?" has been uppermost in the minds 

 of those in charge of the work, as well as in the minds of 

 those whose homes and property had so long been men- 

 aced. The river has now in all probability passed the 

 highest stage of this season and the defensive works have 

 fully met all expectations. There have been no signs of 

 weakness during the high stage and the river has so fully 

 restored its regimen that an unusually large flood dis- 



charge has passed down the river at a height barely sub- 

 merging the river banks. 



Great credit is due to the Southern Pacific Company 

 which, acting for the canal companies, has had charge 

 of and has directed the work of river control, for the 

 thoroughness with which the work has been done and with 

 which preparations were made to meet any emergency. 

 Mr. H. T. Cory, the manager and chief engineer of the 

 California Development Company, who has had direct 

 charge of all these works, is now turning his attention to 

 the construction of new canals in the Imperial valley and 

 to the betterment of the main and distributing systems. 

 He has a large force of engineers at work under the im- 

 mediate direction of Mr. F. C. Herrmann, formerly con- 

 nected with the bureau of Irrigation investigations of the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Water for 1908 Season. 



Township plats have been issued and the secretary of 

 the interior has given notice that water will be furnished 



6% Bonds at Par 



Secured by Mortgages on Farm Lands, adjacent to the 

 City of Denver, Colo. 



Proportion of Security, 3 to I, With Rising Values 



Denominations, $1,000, 8500 and $100 



Due serially from three to ten years. Interest payable 



semi-annually at The American Trust & 



Savings Bank, Chicago. 



THE BONDS AR.E SECURED 



First: By mortgage on all of the property, canals, 

 reservoirs, etc., of the Denver Reservoir Irrigation 

 Company. 



Also: By Collateral Security in the form of mortgage 

 liens deposited with The American Trust & Savings 

 Bank, Chicago, Trustee, on farm lands to secure deferred 

 payments for a perpetual supply of reservoir water. 



Lands estimated worth three times the amount of 

 the bonds, and rapidly increasing in value. 



Dr. Elwood Mead, of Washington, D. C., Chief of 

 Irrigation and drainage investigation of the Department 

 of Agriculture of the United States for the past ten 

 years, was employed by the Company to make a com- 

 plete report upon thii system. 



We quote from this report: 



"In conclusion, it is my conviction that this Com- 

 pany has an assured water supply; that it has an 

 assured market for water, and that the price which 

 can be obtained for water makes its securities an 

 absolutely safe investment and the enterprise one 

 having every promise of a handsome return for its 

 owners." 



ELWOOD MEAD, 



Consulting Engineer. 



Mr. Mead's full report will be mailed upon request. 



J. G. White & Company, of New York, Engineers and 

 Contractors, have investigated and reported favorably 

 upon this enterprise, and are the engineers and con- 

 structors of all extensions and enlargements of the 

 systems. 



Legal opinion by Mr. Charles B. Wood, of Wood & 

 Oakley, Chicago. 



Engineers' reports and Attorneys' opinions furnished, 

 also full particulars and circular with map upon appli- 

 cation. 



Trowbridge & Niver Company 



Municipal and Corporation Bonds 

 406 First National Bank Building, Chicago 



Long Distance Tel. Central 1263 



