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THE IEEIGATION AGE. 



WANTED 



LAND SALESMEN 



Capable of Earning 

 $5,000.00 to $10,000.00 a Year 



To sell highest grade irrigated fruit land in the 

 country. Exceptionally attractive selling terms. 

 This is the best paying proposition today for 

 land men who are live wires in all sections of 

 the country. Address ROBERT S. LEMON, 

 General Sales Manager, Bitter Root Valley 

 Irrigation Company, Suite 848-898 First Na- 

 tional Bank Building, Chicago. 



Edmund T, Perkins Engineering Company 



IRRIGATION AND AGRICULTURAL 



Investigations, Reports, Plans, Estimates and 

 Construction 



Financial assistance procured for projects 

 examined and approved by this company 



First National Bank Bldg., 



Chicago, III. 



MISSISSIPPI RIVER CHANGEABLE NEAR GULF. 



A series of analyses of the water of the Mississippi 

 River, made by chemists of the United States Geological 

 Survey, reveals the changes in its character at different 

 points. At Minneapolis the water of the Mississippi is 

 very simple in character, being distinguished only by 

 secondary alkalinity, primary salinity or permanent hard- 

 ness. At Moline, 111., permanent hardness appears definite- 

 ly among the properties of the Mississippi water, although 

 it occupies a very subordinate po'sition. At Chester, 111., 

 however, the character of the water appears to be greatly 

 changed, for the analyses indicate that the proportion of 

 primary salinity is much increased and the proportion of 

 permanent hardness is more than doubled. This change 

 is due to the highly saline waters received from the Mis- 

 souri at this point between Quincy and Chester. From 

 Chester to New Orleans the river water appears to under- 

 go no permanent change in general character. Additional 

 contributions of saline waters from the West, received 

 through Arkansas and Red rivers, suffice to maintain in 

 the water of the lower Mississippi that high proportion 

 cf salinity first derived midway in its course from the Mis- 

 souri River. 



The investigation of the surface waters of the United 

 States by the Geological Survey has accumulated a store 

 of information concerning the amounts of inorganic ma- 

 terial contained in the river waters of the country. A part 

 of this information is contained in Bulletin 479, "The 

 Geochemical Interpretation of Water Analyses," by Chase 

 Palmer, just published by the Geological Survey. This 

 bulletin may be obtained on application to the Director of 

 the Survey at Washington, D. C. 



Seventeen new homestead filings were made on the 

 Huntley irrigation project, Montana, during the past 

 month, leaving 103 farms available for settlers. Most of 

 the remaining farms are 40-acre tracts, containing from 

 30 to 40 acres of irrigable land, and there is ample op- 

 portunity at this time to secure a first-class farm less than 

 two miles from a railroad. 



The Secretary of the Interior has suspended the con- 



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 Primer of Irrigation, paper bound, a 260-page finely ** 

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WASHINGTON, D. C. 



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ASSOCIATE WORK FOR ATTORNEYS 



Ambursen Hydraulic Construction Company, Engineer-Constructors 



Hydro -Electric and Irrigation Developments. Drainage Reclamation 



88 Pearl St, Boston, Mass. 165 Broadway, New York City 405 Dorchester St. West, Montreal, P. Q. 



Six Sets ol Special Hoists 



like accompanying illustration 

 furnished for installation in 



The Palisade and Mesa 

 County Irrigation District 



Each Hoist operates a double stem 

 gate 12' wide 6' high. 

 Our line of Patterns enables us to 

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Catalog No. 25 will interest you 



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Dayton, Ohio 



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