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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



Go! Get a Farm 

 Be Independent 



in the 



San Joaquin Valley 

 California 



If you could but see the opportunities 

 offered men and women who will work, 

 you would pack up today and move 

 to this magnificent valley. 



There is no other similar area under the stars and 

 stripes where earnest effort will bring such tremendous 

 returns. The California rancher is well-to-do. He 

 came with little and now has much. He found an arid 

 plain, and, by joining with his neighbors, developed 

 water the results have been little less than miraculous. 

 This pioneering is in the past. You have the advan- 

 tage of the work that has been done. You go into a 

 finished country needing only intelligent work to bring 

 fortune independence to you and yours. 



There are nearly 10,000,000 acres of arable land and 

 an abundance of water to fertilize it. There are thou- 

 sands and thousands of these acres that never have felt 

 the vivifying force of ample water. The water is ready 

 and you only are needed with your brain and muscle 

 to make these acres as productive as the best. Go 

 now and buy this land. It is settling fast and the 

 prices are steadily advancing. You still can buy small 

 farms of ten, twenty or forty acres, with water, for 

 from $125 to $150 an acre. This same land, planted to 

 alfalfa, will sell for from $200 to $300. Can you make 

 money faster? But, once established, you won't sell. 

 This alfalfa will bring you $40 to $70 an acre if you 

 .sell the hay. If you feed it to dairy cattle, hogs and 

 chickens, your returns will be at least $100 an acre. 

 Pretty good for such an investment don't you think ? 



And fruit for this is the home of fruit ris making 

 fortunes every year. , 



Do you realize that of the 37,000,000 bushels of fruit 

 (not counting apples or citrus fruits) raised in the 

 United States every year, California produces 20,000,- 

 000? With this lead, don't you think you could make 

 some money supplying a demand that is increasing 

 faster than the trees can produce? 



You can go out and investigate for little money. The 

 Santa Fe sells round-trip homeseekers' tickets. to Cali- 

 fornia and elsewhere in the Southwest on the first and 

 third Tuesday of each month only $65 from Chicago. 



I want to tell you about this marvelous valley. I 

 want you to write today, asking for our two books, 

 "The San Joaquin Valley" and "What California Means 

 for You" both free. Just send a postcard to 



C. L. SEAGRAVES, 



Gen'l Colonization Agent, A. T. & S. F. Ry., 

 2402 Railway Exchange, Chicago. 



The Spring Creek Irrigation Company, of Salt Lake 

 City, has filed an amendment to its articles extending the 

 life of the corporation seventy-five years from date and 

 increasing its capital stock to $34,900. 



TEXAS. 



The Littlejohn Irrigation Company with headquarters 

 at Big Wells, was issued a charter early this month. The 

 company is capitalized at $160,500 and the incorporators 

 are W. H. Littlejohn of Shreveport, La., Wm. McMurray 

 of Big Wells, and O. S. Dowlen, of Springfield, Tenn. 

 The company owns 3,200 acres of fine artesian land located 

 three miles south of Big Wells and fronting on Encjna 

 lake, which will be utilized for irrigating the land. Water 

 will also be furnished by artesian wells, and contracts for 

 several have already been let. 



A public sale of the entire assets of the Brownsville 

 Irrigation Company will take place October 1st. at 

 Brownsville. The sale will include certain lands, with the 

 irrigating plant consisting of pumps, lifts, flumes, canals 

 and laterals. 



E. S. Hunn and associates of Garwood, have sold the 

 Garwood Land & Canal Company to Dr. F. M. Barden 

 and associates. The name of the new company is the 

 Garwood Irrigation Company, with a capital stock of 

 $100,000. The capacity of the present pumping plant will 

 be increased so that all the land adjacent to Garwood will 

 be supplied with water. G. M. Jackson, of Garwood, is 

 general manager of the company. 



Engineers of the reclamation service state that the 

 big flume at Elephant Butte dam can probably be com- 

 pleted by October 1st, so that work on the dam proper 

 can begin soon after that. With the completion of the 

 flume the water will be so diverted that the larger work 

 can be rushed without interference from the river. 



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