THE 1 E R I G A T I X AGE. 



871 



WILL RECLAIM BIG ACREAGE. 



The reclamation service headquarters in Boise, Idaho, 

 has been notified by the Secretary of the Interior that 



will be the largest irrigation dam in the world. It will be 

 erected on the Boise River, 35 miles northeast of that city, 

 behind which water is to be impounded in the reservoir 



Hart-Parr Company's Traction Engine Grubbing Sage Brush Near Twin Falls, Idaho. Made 

 by Hart-Parr Company, Charles City, Iowa. 



$1,000,000 of the reclamation bond issue, appropriated by 

 Congress at the last session, will be used immediately 

 to commence construction work on what the service claims 



formed, for use on the Payette-Boise irrigation project located 

 in western Idaho, and comprising 270,000 acres. This will 

 form another good agricultural district near Boise. 



MINNESOTA FOLLOWS OTHER 

 STATES. 



In the case of the International Har- 

 vester Company of America vs. Charles 

 Cater, the United States Circuit Court 

 at Fergus Falls, Minn., Judge Willard 

 presiding, on January 28th held that the 

 defense that a company is a "trust" or 

 "illegal combination" is not a good de- 

 fense, either under the Sherman anti- 

 trust law or under the laws of Minne- 

 sota. 



Cater was administrator of the estate 

 of F. L. Wilkins, deceased, of Marshall, 

 Minn. Wilkins was an agent for the 

 company, and the proceeding was 1 to 

 compel Cater to turn over the proceeds 

 of sales that had been made by Wilkins 

 pursuant to the terms of a commission 

 agency contract; also to recover prop- 

 erty and for implements sold to Wil- 

 kins. 



An erroneous account of what was de- 

 cided in this case on a previous occa- 

 sion has recently appeared in certain 

 newspapers. They reported the reverse 

 of what was then decided. 



It has also been decided recently in 

 Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, that a 

 purchaser of an article cannot avoid 

 paying for the property purchased by 

 undertaking to plead the illegality of the 

 contract of purchase and sale. 



Mr. Justice Holms, of the Supreme 

 Court of the United States, in one of 

 his recent decisions, said : "The policy 

 of not furthering the purpose of the 

 'trust* is less important than the policy 

 of preventing people from getting other 

 people's property for nothing when they 

 purport to be buying it." 



The absurdity of such defense as was 

 offered in the Minnesota and other simi- 

 lar cases must be apparent to every fair- 

 minded man. All business concerns will 

 welcome the news that as fast as such 

 pleas are presented they are given the 

 adverse ruling. The courts uphold com- 

 mon honesty, at least, and the sooner 



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