THE IRBIGATION AGE. 



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CALLS 'PRIOR LEVELING' KEY TO SUCCESS 



(Continued from I'agc 207.) 



of a man entering the raw land at $60 per acre and 

 the other entering the leveled land at $100 per acre, 

 the $40 cost of leveling the land having been added to 

 the latter's construction costs. The expenses of each 

 for the family, stock and farm combined will easily 

 aggregate $1,000 a year. For convenience assume 

 a whole 80 to go under cultivation ; admit $10 net 

 profit for land the first year it is put in and $20 net 

 profit per acre thereafter. Apply the terms of pay- 

 ments under the twenty-year Extension bill, with its 

 graduated annual installments. 



Now note what is the result. The raw land man 

 can hardly get in more than five acres the first year 

 and five acres annually thereafter and he finds it is 

 ten years before he passes a deficit merely between 

 ranch returns and ranch expenses and it is the four- 

 teenth year before he gets the ranch to meeting all 

 expenses. This means he has been drawing on capital 

 or has been forced to work off his place year after 

 year to earn sufficient money to meet his expenses 



and payments and that is exactly what almost every 

 single entryman has been forced to do up to the pres- 

 ent and why the land has gone in so slow. The 

 leveled land man gets his full 80 acres into crop, 

 goes only $200 in the hole the first year; will be car- 

 ried over by his merchant and the next year he is on 

 his feet with a surplus. 



They both might be said to have had about $3,000 

 of capital invested in plant and equipment at the start. 

 The man on leveled land needs not more capital but 

 the raw land man will need about $6,700 more before 

 he reaches his surplus in the fourteenth year. Of 

 course what really happens is that he is forced off 

 the ranch, if having only about $3,000, and he has 

 to hustle work and wages and so the farm goes in at 

 only five acres a year. Yet let's look the matter square 

 in the face and admit the wages earned off the place 

 to support the family and payments must all be 

 charged up to the capital account in final analysis. In 

 reclaiming our farms in the years to come, which is 

 going to pay, capitalizing the work with cash or trying 

 to capitalize it with the farmer's sweat and toil? 



RECLAMATION NOTES 



(Continued from Page 216.) 



within a reasonable time to be fixed 

 hereafter. About 24,000 acres are in- 

 cluded in the unit. The main high- 

 line canal has its intake at the lower 

 end of the power canal in Spanish 

 Fork Canyon, about 3 miles south- 

 east of Spanish Fork. It will extend 

 southwest for about 17 miles, its ca- 

 pacity ranging from 200 to 250 second 

 feet. Its cost will be about $343,000 

 and the distribution system as planned 

 will cost $180,000. 



WASHINGTON. 



Contract has been awarded by the 

 Reclamation Service to the Fairbanks 

 Steam Shovel Company of Marion, 

 Ohio, for furnishing a V/i cubic yard 

 dipper dredge for use in connection 

 with the Keechelus Dam on the stor- 

 age unit, Yakima irrigation project. 

 The price for the dredge f. o.. b. cars, 

 Marion, is $8,400. 



Suit has been filed in the superior 

 court of Kittitas county by Mrs. Ol- 

 ive Sanders to settle the title to the 

 waters of Wilson and Nanum creeks. 

 All property owners along the Nanum 

 creek are made defendants to the suit, 

 while the complainant states that she 

 is acting for all land owners whose 

 property is watered by Wilson creek. 

 The water rights along each creek 

 have previously been settled, but this 

 suit is to decide which stream should 

 have the most water beyond the 

 forks. 



VOTERS PASS ON PROJECT 



Washington voters will pass upon a 

 project for the irrigation of 400.000 

 acres of dry lands at the election in 

 November. The estimated cost of the 

 work is $100 an acre, or $40.000,000. The 

 lands are in Douglas and Grant counties 

 between the Spokane and Columbia 

 rivers. The soil is volcanic ash and 

 loam, and is especially suited to irriga- 

 tion and diversified farming. 



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