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ADAM AND EVE'S FARM WAS IRRIGATED 



ADAM and Eve were irrigation farmers. Sir Wil- 

 liam ^"ilcocks, the eminent English engineer, 

 whom Secretary of the Interior Lane sent recently 

 on an inspection tour of the United States reclama- 

 tion projects, is the authority for this statement. He 

 also declares the original garden of Eden had an 

 irrigation system just as scientific and correct from 

 an engineering point of view as any now in the 

 West. 



Sir William, whose fame rests upon the build- 

 ing of the great Assouan dam, in Egypt, where he 

 has turned the land of the Pharaohs back to their 

 original fertility, has been recently engaged by the 

 Turkish government in reclaiming ancient Meso- 

 potamia. The success of the English engineer in 

 Egypt caused the Turkish government to loosen 

 its purse strings to the extent of $75,000,000, and 

 the work is now under way in sections. The Eng- 

 lish irrigation expert and his engineers have made 

 a careful survey of Mesopotamia and have discov- 

 ered parts of an ancient system of irrigation so well 

 preserved that some of the canals are to be used 

 in the new project after the mud of centuries is 

 taken out. 



It was while on this survey that Sir William 

 found what he believes to be the location of the 

 traditional garden of Eden, with full equipment of 

 irrigation canals. He says the garden of Eden could 

 not have been a garden at all without the irrigation 

 system. 



The supposed location of the garden is sur- 

 rounded by a wall or dike two feet high, with open- 

 ings for the canals. The English engineer said 

 that during high water in the rivers Euphrates and 

 Tigris the dike kept the water from flooding the 

 garden and in the dry season the gates were open 

 and the water entered the canals. 



USE NORTHWEST BY-PRODUCTS 



To provide a "safety valve" for the fruit in- 

 dustry of the Pacific Northwest a by-products con- 

 gress will be held in Spokane, Wash, Nov. 19, in 

 connection with the seventh National Apple Show, 

 out of which is expected to develop a big organiza- 

 tion designed to handle the low grade fruit problem 

 in a systematic way. Concerning the meeting Man- 



ager Gordon C. Corbaley, of the apple show, says: 

 "When we recall that 60 per cent of our fruit 

 is marketed as extra fancy or fancy and that the 

 bulk of the remaining 40 per cent is wasted we can 

 clearly see the vital importance of immediate con- 

 structive action. The by-product side is the most 

 important feature of California's apple business, and 

 the men who have made a painstaking investiga- 

 tion of our situation in the northwest declare that 

 this business can be developed in a very large way 

 here." 



FEDERAL PROJECT WORK 



The Reclamation Service is asking for pro- 

 posals for the reconstruction of Dodson South Canal 

 at Dodson bridge, in connection with the Milk 

 River Irrigation Project, Mont. The work involves 

 about 71,000 cubic yards of excavation, 12,000 cubic 

 yards of puddled filling, 5,200 cubic yards of rip- 

 rap, 40 cubic yards of concrete, and the moving of 

 two steel bridge spans, abutments and pier. The 

 work is situated on the south side of Milk River, 

 about one and one-quarter miles south of Dodson. 

 The bids will be opened at Malta, Mont., on Oc- 

 tober 28. 



The International Portland Cement Company, 

 of Irving, Wash., has obtained a contract for 10,000 

 barrels of Portland cement for use in connection 

 with the Umatilla Federal Irrigation Project in 

 Oregon. The contract price is $1.15 per. barrel, 

 F. O. B. cars at Irving. 



The Reclamation Service has awarded con- 

 tracts for the construction of the Cave Creek cut- 

 off, Arizona Canal, Salt River Irrigation Project, 

 Arizona, as follows: 



Schedules 1 and 2, involving 131,000 cubic 

 yards of excavation, to Martin & Gillis, of Phoenix, 

 Arizona. Contract price, $15,643.80. 



Schedule 3, involving 300 cubic yards of con- 

 crete, most of which contains steel reinforcements, 

 and 107 square yards of grouted paving, Haney 

 Bros. & Company, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 

 Contract price, $2,956. 



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