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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Morris as directors. The new concern 

 is capitalized at $3,000. 



Texas 



The Fresnos Land & Irrigation 

 Company of Brownsville, Texas, has 

 increased its capital stock from $60,- 

 000 to $100,000 and will make exten- 

 sive improvements and additions to 

 its irrigating system. 



Plans and specifications have been 

 completed for the construction of the 

 large dam near Robert Lee, Texas. 

 The dam will be built across the Col- 

 orado river. 



Col. A. B. Robertson is putting 

 down a big irrigation well near Sla- 

 ton, Lubbock county, Texas. This is 

 the first of a series of wells that will 

 be drilled by Mr. Robertson on his 

 9,000-acre tract. 



Certified water filings have been 

 made with the Texas board of water 

 engineers by the A. H. Pierce estate 

 of Wharton, showing the appropria- 

 tion of water for the irrigation of 30,- 

 000 acres of land in Wharton county. 



The Rio Grande Canal Company, 

 Brownsville, is planning to enlarge its 

 irrigation system in the lower Rio 

 Grande valley, and has increased its 

 capital stock from $60,000 to $100,000 



The Secretary of the Interior 'has 

 authorized the Reclamation Service to 

 award contract to the Southwestern 

 Portland Cement Company of El 

 Paso, Texas, for furnishing 120,335 

 barrels of Portland cement, 21,000 bar- 

 rels of which will be delivered at El 

 Paso, and the remainder at Elephant 

 Butte damsite. The contract price is 

 $1.40 per barrel f. o. b. cars at El 

 Paso. 



The Santa Fe Railroad has a bill 

 before Congress which, if passed, will 

 permit it to take a maximum of 30,- 

 000,000 gallons of water per month 

 from the Elephant Butte reservoir on 

 the big government project in Texas 

 and New Mexico. 



Nebraska 



The Reclamation Service and the 

 state soil survey are making surveys 

 in Phelps and Kearney counties, Neb., 

 preparatory to the construction of 

 irrigation canals south of the Platte 



Kansas 



R. B. Herold of Ellinwood, Kan., 

 has installed a centrifugal pump on 

 his farm and is getting 1,800 gallons 

 of water per minute. He will sink 

 five more wells. A number of other 

 pumps have been installed in the same 

 district. 



Farmers on the Garden City Fed- 

 eral project, which the Reclamation 

 Service abandoned after spending 

 many thousands of dollars, have ob- 

 tained judgment against the United 

 States in a suit to clear titles to their 

 lands. 



The Garden City Irrigation Power 

 Company has been given authority to 

 do business as a public utility by the 

 Kansas Utilities Commission. This 

 company promises to become one of 

 the important irrigation projects of 

 western Kansas. It is a subsidiary of 

 the big sugar company operating in 

 the Arkansas River Valley. The 

 power company is to buy the surplus 

 electric current of the sugar com- 

 pany's plant and supply it to the farm- 

 ers who want to irrigate their farms; 

 It is purposed to build transmission 

 lines forty to fifty miles up and down 

 the valley. The sale price of power 

 is to be not more than 3J4 cents a 

 kilowatt. 



South Dakota 



State Engineer Derr is investigat- 

 ing the Angostura irrigation project 

 along the Cheyenne river in Penning- 

 ton and Fall River counties, S. D. 

 Federal aid for the construction of 

 the project will be asked. 



T. M. Riley of Omaha and the 

 Owen Construction Company of Den- 

 ver have secured contracts from the 

 government for further construction 

 on the Belle Fourche irrigation proj- 

 ect in South Dakota. The north canal 

 is to be extended six miles from its 

 present terminus near Newell. This 

 work will cost approximately $80,000, 

 while a system of laterals costing 



_ Get Your 

 PCanadian Home 



rrom the, 



Canadian Pacific 



JUY an irrigated farm where you have insurance against 

 drought and where you have just the moisture you need 

 when you need it. You know the value o controlling the 

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 grain and root crops, fine climate great cattle country good markets 

 unexcelled transportation. 



We want the alert enterprising farmers who see this magnificent opportunity. So 

 we make the most liberal terms. Take 20 years to pay. Call on us for long tinie 

 loan of J2000 for {arm improvements if you want it. Investigate now. This block will 

 soon be the most densely populated and intensely cultivated district in the west. 



You Can Have 2O Years to Pay 



We will seli ycu this rich, irrigated, Canadian land for $35 to $75 an acre. You need pay only 

 one-twentieth down. Th:nk of it only one-twentieth down, and then the balance in 19 eoual annual 

 payments. Long before your final payment comes duo, your farm will have paid for itself over nnd 

 aver again. Many good farmers in Western Canada have paid for their farms with one crop. Here 

 are some of the startling features of the most remarkable land offer you have ever read: 



oying the use of this money, you pay interest at only 6 



, 

 to fully repay this loan. Whi 



Advance Live Stock on Loan Basis 



and has the ability to take care of Ins stock, will advance cattle, sheep and 

 up to the value of $1.000 on the basis of the settler's note with interest at 

 eight per cent, to enable him to develop more rapidly, on the right basis 

 of mixed farming. 



Farm Made Ready by Experts if Desired g.g'liTK 



established, select one which our Department of Agricultural Experts has 

 developed. On our improved farms, house and other buildings are u*>, wel 

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 want an immediate start and quick results all planned and completed by m 

 who know our own agricultural experts. Take twenty years to pay if you 

 want to. We give/rce service expert service the valuable assistance of grea 

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 Canadian Pacific for its own farms. This service is yours free 



Water Rental Will Not Exceed $1.25 per Acre 



ment will have the approval of the Dominion Government. You are doubly prot 



The Canadian Pacific offers you the finest 

 land on earth for grain growing, cattle, '" 



t. You are doubly protected. ^ \* ^"J'jA.g^i? 



sheep and horse raising, dairying, poultry, veg- 

 etables and general mixed farming irrigated 

 lands for intensive farming. Remember ', these 

 lands are located on or near established lines of 

 railway, near established towns. You can start 

 en an irrigated farm, improved or unimproved. 



Here is the Last Best West where your op- 

 portunity lies. Don't delay. Mail the coupon here 

 at once. The best land will be taken first so time 

 is precious to you. Write today. 



R. O. THORNTON, Colonization Agent 



Canadian Pacific Railway 



Colonization Department 



112 West Adams St., Chicago, Illinois 



R. O. THORNTON, Colonization Agent, 

 Canadian Pacific Railway Colonization 

 Department, 112 W. Adams St., Chicago 



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