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narrows gradually toward Soledad to about five miles, 

 while at San Ardo it is about one mile wide. 



From the mountain surrounding the valley flow the 

 Arroyo Seco, the San Lorenzo, San Antonio and Naci- 

 mento rivers. On the one first mentioned the engineer 

 found five available reservoir sites. One excellent one 

 was found on the San Lorenzo and one on the San An- 

 tonio. On the Nacimento are several, but owing to the 

 narrowness of the canyon their impounding capacity has 

 not been worked out. 



There is a good dam site at Wunpost on the "Salinas 

 River, to raise the water for diversion into canals 

 through wich it could be taken to lands only a mile and 

 a half below. Prom this point to Salinas and beyond 

 there is abundance of fall to permit of carrying the 

 water alongside of the foothills and supplying all the 

 lands between them and the river, including the mesa 

 lands in the vicinity of King City. A forty-foot ditch 

 carrying water seven feet deep would carry 1,000 cubic 

 feet per second, which would supply all the land on the 

 east side of the Salinas River below the foothills. 



There is a fine underflow for windmill and pumping 

 irrigation. 



The cost of installing a Government project would 

 be greatly lessened by the fact that valuable material is 

 close at hand. Here are two analysis that have been 

 made : Analysis of clay found on the Arroyo Seco, made 

 by Smith Emery Company, San Francisco : 



Silica (SiO) 55.07 per cent 



Alumina ( A1 2 3 ) 17.54 per cent 



Iron oxide (Fe 2 3 ) 6.06 per cent 



Lime (CaO) 7.12 per cent 



Magnesia (MgO) 2.77 per cent 



Loss on ignition 9.84 per cent 



Undetermined 1.60 per cent 



100.00 per cent 



This deposit is very near one of the dam site sur- 

 veys. 



Analysis of lime rock found on the Arroyo Seco, 

 made by Prof. A. S. Eakle, Assistant State Mineralo- 

 gist, State University, California : 



Silicon dioxide (SI0 2 ) 0.38 



Alumina red oxide of iron 3 (AI 2 3 Fe 2 3 ) .... 0.44 



Calcium oxide (CaO) 54.76 



Magnesium oxide (MgO) 0.62 



Carbon dioxide (CO,) 43.70 



JUDGE CYRUS HAPPY. 



99.90 



This only lacks about 2 per cent of being pure lime 

 carbonate. 



Extensive markets are close. There are good rail- 

 road connections now and it is expected that the West- 

 ern Pacific, Gould's transcontinental road, will pass 

 through the valley within the next two years. 



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Writes About the Spokane Country. 



Judge Cyrus Happy, of Spokane, honorary vice- 

 president of the National Irrigation Congress, and 

 recognized as the father of irrigation in the Spokane 

 country, has this to say of farming by irrigation : 



"If any one had predicted ten years ago the mar- 

 ivelous results in the way of products and profits now 

 being realized in Washington from irrigated lands he 

 would have been considered crazy. Nowhere in the 

 United States are the lands yielding such returns to 

 the owners as they are in the Pacific northwest, from 

 irrigated orchards, where the growing of the apple, pear 

 and cherry crop is being reduced to a science. In the 

 Yakima and Wenatchee valleys, where sufficient time 

 has elapsed to grow orchards to the state of bearing 

 crops of fruit, the profits being realized from these 

 orchards, and the prices being paid for such lands, are 

 almost incredible. 



"Spokane is favorably situated as respects irriga- 

 tion, and the growing of the best varieties of winter 

 apples, pears and cherries. In two or three years the 

 young orchards now growing on irrigated lands in 

 Spokane territory will begin profitable bearing. - Then 

 the advantages of irrigation to accrue to Spokane will 

 become most apparent so far as dollars and cents go, 



Scene Along Great Northern Railway. 



but the best crop any country can produce is good 

 citizens. Anarchy never grows upon a farm, little or 

 big. The irrigated district combines the most scientific 

 cultivation of the soil, while eliminating all the most 

 objectionable features of the farm. The home is near 

 the school house, church, stores and neighbors, and in 

 the case of Spokane's irrigated districts, will be close to 

 good transportation facilities. 



"Under such favorable conditions, and in view of 

 the fact that the public lands are so soon to become 

 exhausted, there can be no doubt that the City of Spo- 

 kane will be surrounded by a density of population 

 engaged in cultivating the soil, which will greatly add 

 "to the growth, wealth and attractiveness of Spokane. 



"The question is sometimes asked whether there is 

 danger of oversupply of fruit which will be raised in the 

 near future on irrigated lands. Here is what W. N. 

 White, a prominent apple buyer of New York, recently 

 said on the subject after a stay of two months in east- 

 ern Washington : 



" 'The Spokane country is certainly making a good 

 record as an apple producer. The winter apples from 

 this district are entitled to first place in the high grades 

 of the world's supply. The fruit is large and of beau- 

 tiful appearance. Such attractive fruit always finds 

 a ready market. In answer to the question as to 

 whether or not there is any danger of over-supply, let 

 me say that the demand is constantly increasing in- 



