THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



(Continued from page 800.) 



the Brownsville Irrigation Company, the oldest and one 

 of the largest canal companies in the Rio Grande Valley. 

 He is acting for Cleveland, Ohio, capitalists and already 

 has purchased 40 per cent of the stock and expects to take 

 over more. The company is capitalized at $100,000 and 

 owns a pumping plant six miles west of here capable of 

 irrigating 20,000 acres. The corporation also owns thirty- 

 five miles of canals and 3,500 acres of land. 



A sub-irrigation scheme which has been tried exten- 

 sively in the vicinity of Garden City, Kansas, is to be 

 tried near Liberal, Kansas. The plan is to make tile on 

 the farms and lay them in such a way as to irrigate the 

 sub-soil. It is claimed that land irrigated by this system 

 will produce from 200 to 300 per cent more than the same 

 land not irrigated. 



APPROVES NEW POWER PERMITS. 



A new form of water power permit and new regulations 

 for water power plants on the national forests were approved 

 recently by the Secretary of Agriculture. Embodied in the 

 new regulations are provisions for the issuance of a pre- 

 liminary permit which secures to the party making the first 

 application protection during the time necessary to make his 

 .final surveys and procure the data for the issuance of the 

 final permit. The new permits terminate at the expiration of 

 fifty years, unless revoked sooner by the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, and the charge will be based upon the net horse- 

 power capacity of the plant,, beginning with a charge of 10 

 cents per horsepower during the first year and rising gradually 

 10 cents per year to $1.00 per horsepower in the tenth year, 

 which charge will continue thereafter. Computed for the 

 fifty-year period, the charge under the new permit is about 30 

 per cent less than that under the old form. Provision is made 



for a readjustment every ten years of the factors upon which 

 the estimated capacity of the plant is computed. It is believed 

 that the new regulations will encourage extensive water power 

 development in the national forests under provisions which 

 will fully protect the interests of the people. 



(Continued from page 798.) 



cst 32nd, subtract 1, which makes 27; divide by :i, which 

 gives 9 ; so the answer is 9/32 inches. To change, for instance, 

 .57 inches to the nearest 32nd, subtract 2 from 57, making 55, 

 divide by 3 gives 18; so the nearest 32nd for .57 inches is 

 18/32 or 9/16. To change .81 inches to the nearest 32nd sub- 

 tract 3 from 81 = 78, divide by 3 26, so 26/32 = 13/16 is 

 the answer. Also, to change .95 inches to the nearest 32nd, 

 subtract 4 = 91, divide by 3 = 30; hence, 30/32 = 15/16 is 

 the answer. For fractions smaller than 12/100 no subtraction 

 is made; for instance, to change 8/100, divide 8 by 3 =3; 

 hence 3/32 inches is the answer. 



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