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ing of Cheyenne, Wyoming, is the chief engineer, but 

 deputized Mr. Wolfard to do the field work. 



A unit of land, approximately 12,000 acres, in the Big 

 Horn basin, is to be thrown open to settlement by the 

 government on February 1st. There are 132.000 acres in 

 the basin which the government is bringing under irriga- 

 tion, and 30,000 acres have already been thrown open to 

 settlement. A nominal price of $45 per acre is charged 

 for the water rights. 



Capital for the completion of the Oregon Basin irri- 

 gation project near Cody has been pledged by Chicago 

 capitalists, at a meeting held recently in Cheyenne. The 

 project embraces 150,000 acres of land in the Big Horn 

 basin, and covers land as far south as the town of Grey- 

 bull. The Oregon Basin reservoir which has a natural 

 capacity of 440,000 acre feet will be used for storage pur- 

 poses. The water will be conducted to the reservoir from 

 the south fork of the Shoshone river, thirty miles away, 

 by a series of canals and tunnels. The reservoir is located 

 near the town of Cody. It is estimated that it will re- 

 quire $2,500,000 to complete this project, which was begun 

 by the Big Horn Basin Development Company a few years 

 ago. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A. Y. Walton, Jr., Terrell Bartlett, Willis Ranney and 

 Duval West, all of San Antonio, Texas, have filed on all 

 of the unappropriated waters of the ordinary flow, the 

 underflow, and the storm and rain waters of the Medina 

 river and its tributaries, comprising a watershed of ap- 

 proximately 700 square miles and covering all the valley 

 lands in the counties of Medina, Bandera, Kerr and Ken- 

 dall. The syndicate will construct dams and a system of 

 canals and ditches for irrigating more than 150,000 acres 

 of land. 



(Continued from page 094.) 



lines of the chemistry of agriculture have been given. 

 Even to do that it was necessary to concentrate a mass 

 of matter from a multitude of books, lectures, personal 

 experiences of successful farmers, and from other sources. 

 to reach simplicity and clearness. The books are full of 

 never-ending disputes over theories, doctrines and scien- 

 tific experiments, relating to plants and the soil, and it 

 was thought best to eliminate all those disputes and pre- 

 sent the operations of a nature with regard to the soil and 

 plants in as simple a manner as possible. 



There are many things mysterious in nature which 

 science has not yet been able to explain, and which 

 practical experience accepts without inquiring into rea- 

 sons or causes. Why do early potatoes often reach ma- 

 turity and the vines die down before the latter have a 

 chance to blossom? What is the answer to the problem 

 of seedless fruits, such as oranges, lemons, grapes, etc.? 

 Why do certain plants revert to originals which have 

 few traits in common, like the tomato, for instance? Why 

 do not the seeds of plants always produce the same 

 variety? We" know that the laws of chemistry are prac- 

 tically immutable, though their manifestations may be 

 irregular. What has been written, it is hoped, will be of 

 some benefit toward preparing for the practical articles 

 which will follow from month to month. 



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