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THE IKRIGATION AGE. 



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LITTLE YANKEE 



A REAL IRRIGATION MACHINE 



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acres of land at the present time, but 18,000 acres opened 

 up some time ago has been settled, and the company is 

 now offering 15,000 more. As soon as the water system 

 is extended irrigation will be afforded for 10,000 more 

 acres. 



With all the features 

 of a practical 



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Grader 

 Ditcher 



Digger 

 Leveler 



and 



Conveyor 



Cut showing diggers and fenders attached. These can be removed 

 and the blade set for lateral ditching in five minutes. 



BLADE COMPLETELY REVERSIBLE 



WHEELS FITTED WITH FLANGED RIMS AND 

 DIRT PROOF BOXES 



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Lightest draft. No weight on horses' necks. A"snap" for teams and operator 



Write Us. 



THE OHIO ROAD MACHINERY CO. 



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Oberlin, Ohio 



Box F. 



WASHINGTON. 



Frank P. Dalton, of North Yakima, has filed suit 

 against the Union Gap Irrigation- Company for $1,500 dam- 

 ages and a permanent injunction restraining the irrigation 

 company from allowing water to flow onto the land of 

 the plaintiff 



The Secretary of the Interior has awarded contracts 

 for work and materials on the Mabton division of the 

 Yakima irrigation project as follows: Albert Smith of 

 Xorth Yakima, trench construction, $4,845; to Midland 

 Engineering Company of North Yakima, flumes, etc., 

 $10,054. 



The Dungencss Irrigation Company of Olympia has 

 filed articles of incorporation and will undertake the recla- 

 mation of arid lands in Jefferson and Clallam counties. 

 Dungeness. in Clallam county, is the principal place of 

 business for the company. 



The Secretary of the Interior has formally approved 

 the transfer to the United States of the irrigation system 

 of the Prosser Falls Land & Power Company in Benton 

 county. The property is to be incorporated with the 

 Sunnyside unit of the Yakima project. 



The Reclamation Service is making an investigation 

 of the feasibility of extending the Okanogan project in 

 Washington by the addition cf two units. Both of these 

 will be irrigated by pumping. One of the units includes 

 1,100 acres in the present project limits known as Robin- 

 son Flat and requires a lift of approximately 180 feet. The 

 other will take in lands in the Colville Indian reservation. 



The testimony of a contractor 

 who has used a ditching 



machine ought to be a good guide to 

 the contractor who is going to buy. It should 

 also wake up the contractor who employs 

 manual labor to the merits of machine 

 digging so that he may investigate and learn 

 how he can double his profits on his present 

 volume of work with an Austin Trench Machine. 



We quote from a letter 



recently received. 

 We have hundreds of similar letters. 



"The two No. 00 machines which I have at work on the gas pipe line are^doing splendid work. Yesterday one machine 

 cut 1500 ft. of 5 ft. ditch in fairly hard clay in something less than ten hours. I have used one of these machines on 

 sewer work and on tile ditching and find it well adapted for both purposes. I used it with an extension, digging lO 1 ^ feet, 

 on sewer work and ran from five to eight hundred feet a day in soil consisting of clay top and gravel subsoil. 

 In ditcning work we had all kinds of digging, ranging between quicksand and hard pan, and found the machine equal to 

 any kind of soil except when rocks too large for it to handle were encountered." 



W e make ditch-digging machinery of all kinds, suitable for every sort of work, trenches for sewer and water mains and for farm tile drainage. 

 Send for book No. 112-A describing Austin Trench Machines. 



F. C. Austin Drainage Excavator Company 



(25 Years' practical experience in building excavating machinery.) 



RAILWAY EXCHANGE CHICAGO, ILL. 



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