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'I' HE IERIGATION AGE. 



The Modern Wagon 



BUILT OF STEEL 



The only equipment that will stand the climate of the 

 irrigated district, is made of steel. You know the reason. 

 Wood dries out, becomes useless, and the machinery 

 falls apart. 



Davenport Roller - Bearing 



Steel Wagons 



are THE wagons for the "Dry Farming" country. Not 

 affected by the climate. Stronger, lighter draft and more 

 durable; outlast several wooden wagons. 



Built of steel I-beams, Channels and Angles, solidly 

 riveted with large steel rivets, put in hot, making the gear 

 parts practically one piece. 



Nothing to Dry Out 



No bolts to become loose and nuts to rattle off on 

 account of parts shrinking or drying out. The DAVEN- 

 PORT is constructed like the modern steel railroad 

 bridge. Trussed and braced to withstand all strains. Built 

 for the heaviest lifetime service. 



No Tires to Reset 



It makes no difference what the climate is, it does not 

 affect the wheels on the DAVENPORT. They are made 

 with a tension, each spoke carrying its share of the load 

 all the time, whether it is on the top, bottom or side of the 

 wheel. The spoke heads are countersunk in the tire; 

 headed and shouldered in the hubs. The strongest wheels 

 ever put on a wagon. No split felloes or cracked hubs. 

 No repair bills to pay. 



Roller Bearings 



The Roller Bearing 



30% to 50% Lighter Draft 



It is * fact, that if it were not for the ROLLER BEARINGS, 

 the automobile of today would be impossible. You know that 

 ROLLER BEARINGS reduce the draft on machinery of all kinds. 

 Here ii your chance to get theie advantages on 



FARM WAGONS TEAMING GEARS 



MOUNTAIN WAGONS LUMBER GEARS 



TURN-UNDER WAGONS 



Write NOW for all the information. Improve your farm by 

 being able to do more work with the lame horses and help. 

 BE SURE and ask for PACKAGE NO. 45. 



Davenport, 

 Iowa. 



Davenport Wagon Company, 



GOOD WORDS FROM CANADA. 



EDITOR IRRIGATION AGE :- 

 Chicago, 111. 



Dears Sir: I have subscribed to your Journal some 

 two months ago, and have intended writing you my appre- 

 ciation of it. I think it is splendid paper for the practical 

 man. 



I notice you advertise your Primer of Hydraulics with 

 each new subscription, I would greatly like to have a copy 

 of it, and would like to know if I can take advantage 

 of your offer. I subscribed for your Journal on the rec- 

 comendation of Mr. Drake, Superintendent of Irrigation, 

 Department of Interior, and had not seen a copy before 

 I wrote you. Hoping to hear from you at your conven- 

 ience, I beg to remain Yours very truly, 



A. W. ROGER. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 



The farmers and merchants of Ness county, Kansas, 

 are planning to install a complete irrigation system to ir- 

 rigate a large portion of the area of the county. The 

 plan is to sink a number of wells in the vicinity of 

 Utica, from which water for irrigation purposes will be 

 pumped by crude oil engines. 



Twenty-five farmers living in the Otter Creek valley, 

 west of Mountain Park, Okla., are preparing to charter 

 a company with a capital stock of $25,000 to irrigate 

 several thousand acres of valuable land. 



Headed by F. A. Hornbeck, land commissioner of the 

 Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway, a syndicate com- 

 posed of Kansas City capitalists has purchased 41,000 

 acres of land in Pecos, Brewster and Jeff Davis counties. 

 A steel reinforced concrete dam, 1,800 feet long, will be 

 erected across the mouth of the canyon on the property, 

 forming a reservoir to conserve flood waters sufficient to 

 irrigate approximately 22,000 acres of land. Work on this 

 dam is to be commenced at once and to be completed 

 within one year. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Del 

 Valle Irrigation & Milling Company of Austin, Texas. 

 Capital stock is $20,000 and incorporators are Chas. G. 

 Jones, J. G. Jones and J. C. Dumont, all of Austin. 



Chas. B. Hunt of Wasta has secured permission to 

 appropriate water from the Cheyenne river to irrigate 

 335 acres in Pennington county, South Dakota. 



The Biggs Irrigation Company, which was recently 

 incorporated under the laws of Delaware, has opened its 

 principal office in Topeka, Kan. The officers of the com- 

 pany are S. V. Biggs of Moffatt, Colo., president; W. S. 

 Roark, secretary, and Judge Lee Monroe, treasurer. The 

 company has secured 6,000 acres of land between Peeps 

 and Barstow, Texas, and will proceed to complete an ir- 

 rigation system, the main canal of which extends already 

 a distance of fifteen miles. 



Surveys have been completed and work will be com- 

 menced in the very near future on the irrigation project 

 on the Cannonball river near the town of Shields, N. D. 

 The project comprises approximately nine acres and sur- 

 rounds the townsite of Shields. The water supply is to 

 be- taken from Shields creek just west of Shields, where 

 an earth dam 20 feet high and 400 feet long will be con- 

 structed. 



Six thousand acres of land in the Colorado Indian 

 Reservation, near Parker, Ariz., will be irrigated by a 

 government pumping plant. Work on the plant, which 

 will cost $50,000, has already been commenced. 



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