THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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Webster Irrigation Company, Web- 

 ster, February 6 ; $25,000 ; paid in, 

 $25,000; shares, 250; fifty years. 



Asherton Artesian Land and Ir- 

 rigation Company, San Antonio ; 

 February 17; $600,000; paid in, $600,- 

 000; shares, 20,000; fifty years. 



Nueces Irrigation Company, Deni- 

 son, March 1; $10,000; paid in, $10,- 

 000; shares, 100; fifty years. 



Espiritu Santo Irrigated Land Com- 

 pany, San Benito, March 8; $25,000; 

 paid in, $25,000: shares, 250; fifty 

 years. 



La Ferria Mutual Canal Company, 

 La Ferria, April 1 ; capital stock in- 

 creased from $8,000 to $253,320. 



Consolidated Mutual Reservoir 

 Company, Grand Falls, April 12; 

 $600,000; paid in, $600,000; fifty 

 years. 



Mission Farm Company, Mission, 

 April 15; $45,000; paid in, $23,000; 

 shares, 4,500; fifty years. 



Los Indies Irrigated Land Com- 

 pany, May 17; $10,000; paid in, $10,- 

 000; shares, 10,000; fifty years. 



La Lometa Irrigation & Construc- 

 tion Company, Brownsville, June 2; 

 $5,000; paid in, $2,500; shares, 50; 

 fifty years. 



Medina Irrigation Company, San 

 Antonio, June 16; $1,000,000; paid in, 

 $500,000; shares, 10,000; fifty years. 



Victor Irrigation Company, Mid- 

 land, June 28 ; $125,000 ; paid in, 

 $125,000; shares, 12,500; fifty years. 



Beggs Irrigation Company, Topeka, 

 Kan., July 17; $5,000. 



Alamo Irrigation Ditch Company, 

 Hansford; $1,000. 



Adding the $245,000 increase in the 

 capital stock of the La Ferria Mu- 

 tual Canal Company, makes the total 

 new capitalization of canal companies 

 in the state during the year $3,184,- 

 OOff. 



A series of analyses of the water 

 of the Mississippi River, made by 

 chemists of the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey, reveals the changes 

 in its character at different points. At 

 Minneapolis the water of the Missis- 

 sippi is very simple in character, be- 

 ing distinguished only by secondary 

 alkalinity, primary salinity or perma- 

 nent hardness. At Moline, 111., per- 

 manent hardness appears definitely 

 among the properties of the Missis- 

 sippi water, although it occupies a 

 very subordinate position. At Ches- 

 ter, 111., however, the character of 

 the water appears to be greatly 

 changed, for the analyses indicate 

 that the proportion of primary salin- 

 ity is much increased and the pro- 

 portion of permanent hardness is 

 more than doubled. This change is 

 due to the highly saline waters re- 

 ceived from the Missouri at this 

 point between Quincy and Chester. 

 From Chester to New Orleans the 

 river water appears to undergo no 

 permanent change in general char- 

 acter. Additional contributions of 

 saline waters from the West, re- 

 ceived through Arkansas and Red 

 rivers, suffice to maintain in the 

 water of the lower Mississippi that 

 high proportion of salinity first de- 

 rived midway in its course from the 

 Missouri River. 



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