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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



HOW JONES DID IT. 



Now, Jones was not a spendthrift, a plunger or 

 an idiot, although a lot of his neighbors had that 

 opinion of him. He was just a plain, ordinary, two- 

 dollar a day laborer with a lot of ambition and good 

 common horse sense. 



He had toiled for a contractor for somewhere in 

 the neighborhood of four or five years. He was the 

 contractor's right-hand man and could be trusted with 

 the men and with the work. He knew how to do the 

 work and he did it well until one day his dreams, 

 his ambitions and his desires got the better of him 

 and he quit, giving the contractor absolutely no 

 reason. 



For two days and a goodly part of two nights 

 he thought, he figured and then walked into the Jones- 

 ville Bank and asked for a loan of $150. Now, Jones 

 was honest and a hard worker and after a little per- 

 suasion he got the money. He walked over to the 

 post office, addressed a letter to the Cement Tile Ma- 

 chinery Company. Waterloo, Iowa, and enclosed an 

 order for a Helper Concrete Mixer. 



In a few days the mixer arrived at the depot. 

 Jones was there and so was half the town, for this 

 new machine was as unusual in Jonesville as a circus 

 and everyone turned out to see what the machine was 

 and what it would do. 



It was then and there that some of Jones' good 

 neighbors passed the remark that Jones was more or 

 less of a spendthrift and an idiot and prescribed the 

 insane asylum for him within a few short months, but 

 Jones took it all in good grace and hauled the machine 

 up 'the street to his home. 



This new adventure of Jones' was about as well 

 known and as much talked about as Harry Law. who 

 had been recently elected to Congress, but why should 

 Jones care? He wanted popularity, he wanted ad- 

 vertising and this he was getting in a full measure. 



Now, Jones has a good wife and she shared his 

 ideals, his ambitions and ofttimes made suggestions 

 that were to his benefit and in this particular case 

 it was she that advanced the idea of painting a banner 

 telling the people of Jonesville just what this machine 

 was expected to do. In the next day or so Jones 

 tacked up a large banner on the bill-board in the 

 Tonesville post office which read something like this: 

 "John Jones has recently purchased a Helper .Con- 

 crete Mixer, the latest innovation in the mixer world 

 and is now ready to build your cement sidewalks, 

 your silos, corn cribs, water tanks, etc.. all work done 

 with the latest and most improved methods and I 

 guarantee satisfactory work and the lowest prices." 



Well, the banner did the work and Jones got 

 work, and then more work. In a short time he hired 

 a man to help him. A little later he hired a second 

 man and by the end of the year Jones was employing 

 six men and also doing his level best to keep up with 

 the orders he had on file. 



Jones was no longer just plain Jones. He was 

 Contractor Jones. He chummed with the banker and 

 was looked upon as one of the real business men of 

 the town. His time was no longer worth $2.00 a day 

 but it was worth $10.00 a day, and why, simply be- 

 cause Jones had made use of his ambitions, his ideals 

 and his common horse sense. He had taken hold of 



his nerve and was employing the latest methods to do 

 his work, enabling him to do it cheaper and better 

 than the fellow who did everything with old, worn- 

 out ideas and methods. So Jones got the work. He 

 threw away the old methods, he discarded hand power 

 and bought gasoline to make the wheels go and make 

 profit for him. 



It is only two years since Jones made his start, 

 but a glance at the rating book will show you his 

 assets in four figures. 



Now, the moral to this tale, its message to you, 

 is to pick up your nerve, grasp your opportunities, 

 discard the past and build up the future with modern 

 ways and modern methods. In other words strain a 

 point just once and lift yourself high up out of the 

 rut in which you have been plodding. 



HENRYLYN IRRIGATION DISTRICT IN- 

 JUNCTION. 



In the case of the United States v. Hcnrylyn Ir- 

 rigation District et al. (U. S. District Court Colorado), 

 the Government asked for an injunction to prevent the 

 irrigation district from continuing the construction of 

 canals and tunnels for the irrigation district within 

 the Arapahoe and Pike National Forests, Colorado. 



The defendant had begun the construction of a 

 tunnel before receiving approval of its application for 

 right of way therefor. The Irrigation District claimed 

 that because the Secretary of the Interior suspended 

 action upon all applications involving the diversion of 

 the headwaters of the Grand to the Eastern Slope of 

 the Rockies, the Courts had the power to authorize 

 the continuance of the work in the National Forest. 

 The Government claimed that the diversion of the 

 waters would interfere with its prior rights for the 

 diversion of water for the Grand Valley Project 

 under the Reclamation Act. 



The court held that the approval of the executive 

 branch of the Government is necessary to the acquisi- 

 tion of right of way over a national forest ; that in- 

 junction is a proper method to prevent occupation of 

 right of way in a National Forest without such ap- 

 proval ; and that the failure or refusal of the Execu- 

 tive Officer charged with the approval of such ap- 

 plications does not justify the prosecution of the work 

 without such approval, nor preclude the maintenance 

 of a bill in equity to prevent such building in ad- 

 vance of approval. The court held that the remedy 

 for any wrong which might result from the failure 

 of the Executive Officer to act was not in the courts 

 but in Congress. 



F. E. MEYERS & BRO. ISSUE CALENDAR. 



F. E. Myers & Bro. of Ashland, Ohio, inform 

 us that they have just finished mailing 40.000 cal- 

 endars to dealers, handling Myers Pumps, Hay Un- 

 loading Tools, etc., in this and foreign countries. The 

 calendar is a large one, and is of the style used by 

 F. E. Myers & Bro. for over thirty years, making 

 changes from year to year in the style of heading and 

 in the addition of new goods. Many dealers use 

 these calendars for ready reference, often selling 

 goods to their customers direct from it. 



