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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



RURAL ROAD GRADER AND IRRIGATION 

 DITCHER. 



C. D. Edwards, of Albert Lea, Minn., has just 

 issued his eighth annual catalogue of the Rural Road 

 Grader and Irrigation Ditcher; Edwards' new rever- 

 sible steel road grader and the rural road drag, which 

 contains half-tones of the machines mentioned, and 

 descriptive matter concerning same. 



The rural road grader and irrigation ditcher is a 

 machine of large capacity, extreme strength and dura- 

 bility. It has a half reversible blade, which can be 

 set at any angle to move earth either three, four or 

 five feet. 



Considering first cost, operating expenses and 



me has proved more than satisfactory. In fact, it has 

 saved me an average of between 60 and 75 pesos a day. 

 When labor is so scarce as this year, a machine like yours 

 that does the work of over fifty men, is indispensible in 

 a country where irrigation is necessary. 



The rural grader is very light and four Mexican 

 mules (which are rather small) can pull it without an 

 effort and it does not slide as I have had other machines 

 do before I bought yours. 



The work that your machine is called to do this 

 year is the leveling of over ninety miles of high checks 

 which measure three yards at the base and one yard and 

 a half in height and to dig over sixty miles of small irri- 

 gation ditches. At the rate I am going I firmly believe 

 we will have the work finished in a very short time with 

 great saving. 



Very respectifully yours. 



A. PERELLI-MINETTI. 



EDWARDS RURAL ROAD GRADER AND IRRIGATION 1 DITCHER. 



maintenance, the manufacturer of the rural road 

 grader claims that it will build and repair more roads 

 at less cost than any other grader made. 



Special attention has been given to the arrange- 

 ment of the rural grader for making open farm ditches, 

 rice irrigation ditches and levees. Also V bottom and 

 other forms of dry land irrigation ditches, making it 

 unequalled by any other machine for doing this hard 

 and difficult work. 



A machine that is a success on ditch work, like 

 the rural grader, can also be depended on for ordinary 

 earth moving, such as road work and the like. 



The letter reproduced herewith is a fair sample 

 of the many being received by the manufacturer. 



Torreon, Coah, Nov. Nov. 15, 1912." 

 C. D. Edwards, Albert Lea, Minn. 

 Dear Sir: 



It pleases me to state that the rural grader you sent 



DEVELOPMENT AT SIMMS, MONTANA. 



Simms, Montana, not on the map in 1907, today 

 boasts of three large general stores, 4 lumber yards, 

 an elevator, newspaper, drug store, tailor shop and 

 gents' furnishing, barber, blacksmith, hotel, and a new 

 hotel and a hardware store under construction. The 

 high school course this year has nearly 100 scholars 

 enrolled. Contracts have been signed by the farmers 

 nearby to plant 200 acres in cabbages, and a cold 

 storage plant of 1,000 ton capacity is to be erected to 

 store the crop. 



In 1914 a beet-sugar factory will be erected by 

 the Barley Co-operative Sugar Beet Company. The 

 new railroad has given a great impetus to all kinds of 

 business, and the future prospects of the town are 

 very flattering. 



