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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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northern state, owing to the enter- 

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 itants. The 1911 assessment of that 

 state shows a valuation of 329 mil- 

 lions, against 127 millions for the as- 

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 a good feeling among financial men 

 over this wonderful development. It 

 is a record breaker. There were hard 

 times there for several years, when 

 thousands were forced to leave the 

 state, but things are on such a good 

 footing now that nobody cares to 

 leave. My observation, however, leads 

 me to say the Carey act is not a good 

 law for the poor man. But if he can 

 capitalize his first five years and his 

 water supply holds out he wins. 



At Pueblo I heard the most en- 

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 fairly booming again. All smelters 

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There is one fact about irrigated 

 land that eastern people as a general 

 thing do not understand. It takes 

 comparatively little water to irrigate 

 for any crop, but especially fruit. In 

 some of the Idaho soil that would be 

 worthless without irrigation an inch 

 of water per annum is sufficient for 

 fruit. Orchardists put on only about 

 a quarter of an inch at a time, and 

 that is done three or four times a' 

 year. With grain and vegetables per- 

 haps twice or three times as much is 

 required. The point is to have the 

 supply when there is a drouth and 

 when there is no other way to have a 

 crop. There may be an abundance of 

 water in the spring, perhaps too much, 

 but that does little good three months 

 later when the hot winds of summer 

 have baked the earth. A very small 

 amount suffices to keep the ground 

 porous and moist and to prevent the 

 fruit or other produce from parching. 

 In all the grain states there is an am- 

 ple supply of water every spring, and 

 some method of storing the surplus 

 would be valuable. Our central states 

 farmers could learn something from 

 irrigation and insure a crop with 

 small outlay for water, comparatively 

 speaking. 



Where the storage is not all that 

 is desired, or is too expensive, it is 

 best to have artesian wells, which af- 

 ford a regular supply at a moderate 

 expense. In no case is it necessary 

 to spend more than $25 an acre to 

 secure irrigation in a general farm- 

 ing country. Possibly a reader might 

 infer from what I have stated above 

 that there is no land in these irri- 

 gated countries selling for less than 

 $150 per acre. That would be an er- 

 roneous impression, for good land can 

 be obtained in all of these newer 

 western states as low as $10 per acre, 

 but this class of property is without 

 irrigation advantages and may be so 

 situated that it cannot for years get 

 railway facilities within a reasonable 



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