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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



company is located in the Spokane Valley and is represented 

 in Chicago by Jas. A. McLane & Co., 100 Washington street. 



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Grand Junction Area, Colorado. This exhibit was one of 

 the best in the show. Among the many representatives were: 

 Prof. E. P. Taylor, County Horticulturist; Thos. F. Mahoney, 

 Secretary Chamber of Commerce; C. A. Lyman, official lec- 

 turer; R. E. Turpie, representing Grand Junction Fruit 

 Growers' Association; Chas. A. Smith, President Grand Junc- 

 tion Poultry Association; N. A. Glasco, representing Grand 

 Junction Orchards Home Association; C. G. Simpson, all of 

 Grand Junction; Ed H. Randall and M. E. Nelson, both of 

 Loma, Colo. All exhibits are the result of irrigation. 



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Arkansas Valley of Colorado. Duncan & Raymond, 234 La 

 Salle street, who make a specialty in developed orchards, had 

 charge of exhibit. 



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Texas Gulf Coast Citrons Union. Garrett A. Dobbin, 

 Industrial and Colonization Agent of the Santa Fe, had charge 

 of the booth, showing kumquats, oranges, preserves, etc. 



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La Crosse Prairie Tract of Indiana. Showing corn, wheat, 

 oats, onions, hemp, sugar beets and potatoes. S. S. Thorpe. 

 First National Bank Building, Chicago, was in charge, assisted 

 by Jens Laursen and Frank Thomas, Cadillac, Mich. 



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Lewistoii Land & Water Co. Showing 21 varieties irri- 

 gated apples, including winter banana, Stark Brothers' de- 

 licious winesaps and Rome beauties. Mr. R. S. Thain was 

 in charge, assisted by F. M. Kauffman and E. N. Read, 1014 

 Corn Exchange Building. 



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Baker Manufacturing: Company, 526 Hunter Building, Chi- 

 cago. Displayed the Twentieth Century Six-Purpose Irri- 

 gation Machine grader, ditcher, leveler, brush grubber, bor- 

 der maker, grain cutter. The booth was in charge of Mr. 

 Baker, personally. 



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Wisconsin State Board of Immigration. Grain, grasses, 

 fruits, woods, granites, iron and lead ores were exhibited. 

 Mr. Geo. Gasling, 108 Washington street, was in charge. 



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Original Fruit Belt of Michigan. Displaying non-irrigated 

 apples, pears and grapes. Robt. Sherwood, Waterliet; W. C. 

 Wiltey, Paw Paw; Robt. C. Smythe, Benton Harbor; C. E. 

 Bassett, Fenville; C. J. Monroe, South Haven; representing 

 the counties of Berrien, Van Buren and Allegan, respectively. 



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Arkansas Exhibit. The "grass widow" of Arkansas 

 was the life-size figure of a woman, hobble-skirted ac- 

 cording to the latest mode. A grape vine, 12 inches in 

 diameter, was another interesting feature. Rice in all stages 

 was shown. The peach belt country displayed not only pro- 

 cessed fruit, but truck and grasses. The diamond exhibit 

 was marvelous. Arkansas is said to have the only diamond 

 mines in the United States. The following had charge of 

 their respective booths: C. Phil Waters, 115 La Salle street, 

 Chicago; Schlenker Land Company, 912 Schiller Building, 

 Chicago; Irvin Lyman, Booneville, Ark.; Ed Wilkin, Hazen, 

 Ark., and H. H. Edwards, 139 Adams street, Chicago. 



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Austin-Western Company. Exhibiting the Little Western 

 Grader and Ditcher an extremely interesting display. A. H. 

 Hofeld and F. L. Jerome, 315 Dearborn street, Chicago, had 

 charge of the booth. 



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Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway. This was an edu- 

 cational exhibit from the lower Pecos Valley in Texas, where 

 a new irrigation district is being opened by turning the waters 

 of the famous Pecos River onto 25,000 acres of rich sandy 

 loam. This new district is called Pecos Palisades. A relief 

 map, showing the Palisades territory, was a feature of the 

 exhibit in fact a feature of the Land Show, as fully 10,000 

 persons viewed the model daily. The irrigation system com- 

 prise-; a reservoir covering 2,000 acres of land seventeen feet 

 deep. There are 64 miles of canals. The irrigation plant is 

 finished and cost over $300,000. The Pecos Valley is noted 

 for its alfalfa and fruit products. Already, on older land 

 under irrigation, seven tons of alfala have been harvested in 



one season, grapes pay $500 an acre and pears upward of 

 $1,200 an acre. Pears grown in the vicinity of this new pro- 

 ject won prizes at the St. Louis World's Fair. The purpose 

 of the Orient land department at the Land Show was to con- 

 duct an educational campaign for intending settlers along the 

 new K. C., M. & O. Ry. This line now has 960 miles of its 

 1,600 miles in operation. The Orient exhibit was in charge 

 of W. R. Draper of Kansas City, assistant land commis- 

 sioner. 



Mexico Exhibit. This exhibit was gotten together 

 and sent to Chicago by the New Mexico Bureau of Immigra- 

 tion, consequently was representative of the different inter- 

 ests of the entire territory. No one section of the great soon- 

 to-be state tried to show everything that it could produce, 

 but rather sent the products that would fit in best to make 

 a comprehensive exhibit of the resources of the territory, as a 

 whole. There were eight different sections of the territory 

 represented, including Colfax county, Portales, Roswell, Carls- 

 bad, Mesilla Valley, Deming, Las Vegas and Albuquerque. 

 The Secretary of the Bureau of Immigration, Mr. H. B. Hen- 

 ing-, deserves great credit for the showing made. The exhibit 

 was the most comprehensive shown in the Coliseum. It 

 ranged from coal and minerals through the entire list of 

 grains and vegetables. The apple exhibit was exceptionally 

 fine, demonstrating that New Mexico is full of opportunity in 

 the fruit line. A pump, throwing 1,200 gallons of water per 

 minute, emphasized that the lost rivers of the desert may 

 be brought to the surface to make productive the fertile soil. 

 At the present time Portales and Deming are reclaiming the 

 desert by means of this system. A unique feature in con- 

 nection with the New Mexico exhibit was the coat of arms 

 of the territory, made of various colored beans, by Mrs. S. B. 

 Colby, of Las Vegas. Another interesting feature of this 

 exhibit was the automatic stereopticon, which revealed the 

 new state as the camera sees it. A series of 500 pictures 

 was shown, which were fully explained by people familiar 

 with the territory. 



The different sections were represented by the following 

 persons: Las Vegas, Geo. Fleming, secretary of the Commer- 

 cial Club, and Mrs. S. B. Colby; Portales, Mr. Ben Smith and 

 E. P. Aldridge; Raton, Colfax County, C. O. Fisher, secretary 

 of the Commercial Club, and J. S. Johnson; Roswell, J. S. 

 Kirby, Mr. Jolly; Carlsbad, Mr. Hartshorn; Mesilla Valley, 

 Prof. Fabian Garcia, of the Horticultural and Agricultural Col- 

 lege; Deming, Ralph Ely, president Chamber of Commerce; 

 Albuquerque, A. B. Stroup. 



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Great Northern Railway. The agricultural and horticul- 

 tural products of Minnesota, Montana, Washington and Ore- 

 gon were displayed under the supervision of this railway to 

 excellent advantage in a space 110 feet long by 11 feet deep. 

 The large red apple from Washington, of which there were 

 about 6,000 on display, attracted much attention, also the pro- 

 cessed fruits and vegetables, of which there were a couple of 

 hundred jars. Wheat, oats, alfalfa, barley, clover and other 

 grain and grasses were gathered from western fairs in many 

 cases, where they took prizes and the prize ribbons were left 

 attached. The entire exhibit was artistically decorated and 

 presented and attractive appearance. Stereopticon lectures 

 were held several times daily in the lecture rooms, where 

 western farms and orchard scenes and other views were 

 shown. A large quantity of literature pertaining to Mon- 

 tana, Washington and Oregon was distributed, and a regis- 

 tration kept of callers. The exhibit was installed and main- 

 tained under the personal supervision of Mr. E. C. Leedy, 

 General Immigration Agent of the Great Northern road. 



CHANGE OF ADDRESS. 



The office of Mr. George G. Anderson, a well known Irrigation 

 engineer of Denver, has been moved from 18 Hughes Block and is 

 now located at 1232 and 1233 First National Bank BIdg., Denver, Col. 

 Mr. Anderson is recognized throughout the United States, Canada and 

 Mexico as authority on irrigation work. 



Send $1.00 for The Irrigation Age, one year, and the 

 Primer of Irrigation, paper bound, a 260-page finely 

 illustrated work for new beginners in irrigation. 



