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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



MAGNIFICENT EXHIBIT- NORTHERN PACIFIC RY. 



The Northern 

 Pacific Railway 

 has installed in its 

 new general of- 

 fice building, 

 Fifth and Robert 

 streets, St. Paul, 

 in connection with 

 the Immigration 

 Depart ment, a 

 large and most 

 complete exhibit 

 of the various 

 products of the 

 territory tributary 

 to its lines, from 

 the Great Lakes 

 to the Pacific 

 Ocean. Every 

 state and county, 

 and almost every 

 neighborhood, i s 

 represented. 



The exhibit is decidedly educational, on account . 

 of its comprehensive character. It would be an in- 

 spiration to the best boosters of the Northwest to 

 visit this wonderful display. There are over 1,400 

 separate articles on exhibition, including about 700 

 bundles of grain and grasses, about 400 jars of proc- 

 essed fruit, vegetables, flowers, fish, oysters, clams, 

 crabs, berries and eggs of different kinds ; nearly 100 

 pictures, transparencies, etc., and over 100 exhibits 

 of fresh fruit, vegetables and miscellaneous articles. 



In the grain display there are splendid speci- 

 mens of different varieties of corn from all the states, 

 Wisconsin to Oregon, besides several specimens of 

 rye, oats, alfalfa, timothy and soudan grass, from six 

 to eight feet tall, and alsike and red clover nearly six 



Three Years From the Desert. 



feet tall. Among 

 the jars of proc- 

 cessed fruit and 

 vegetables are ap- 

 ples and onions 

 weighing about 

 iy% pounds each, 

 potatoes weighing 

 about 5 pounds 

 each, and a jar of 

 kelp from Belling- 

 ham Bay. This 

 kelp is a sort of 

 vegetable animal, 

 and is one of the 

 most unique ex- 

 hibits in the col- 

 lection. Potash is 

 being made from 

 this kelp. 



There are sev- 

 eral jars of roses, 

 in which the rose, 

 leaves and stem are all preserved in their natural 

 colors and beauty. Also peonies, dahlias, snow- 

 drops, daisies, syringias, larkspur, sweet peas, 

 spirea, etc. 



In the picture section there are several paint- 

 ings, 9x11, 9x16 and 9x20 feet, representing farm 

 scenes in all the states tributary to the Northern 

 Pacific. 



It is worth a trip to St. Paul to see the products 

 of the entire Northwest which are shown in this ex- 

 hibit ; and anyone visiting St. Paul will miss a treat 

 if he fails to spend at least a couple of hours in this 

 free exhibit of the Northern Pacific. It has taken 

 months of patient work and considerable expense to 

 assemble this rare collection. 



GIFTS OF LAND AND WATER POWER 



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serration plank in it worded so that Congress can 

 go ahead and plunder the public domain. It meant 

 nothing. Was not intended to mean anything. Was 

 specious and deceptive. The Republican platform 

 also has a conservation plank, full of holes. The 

 Progressive platform also had a leaky plank on con- 

 servation. The Prohibition platform came nearer 

 saying something than all the others when it urged 

 that "all mineral and timber lands and water pow- 

 ers be held in perpetuity by the government and 

 leased for revenue purposes." 



The trouble was that all politicians wanted con- 

 servation that did not conserve. Every platform 

 left everything to Congress, so it could conserve 

 this year and squander and plunder next year. If 

 they had wanted to conserve they would have de- 

 manded a constitutional amendment which should 

 forever make it impossible for the United States to 

 part with the ownership of an acre of agricultural, 

 mineral or timber lands or a water right, and re- 

 strict leases on proper royalties to one generation 



thirty-three years. In fifty years the rents and 

 royalties would make it unnecessary to tax babies' 

 stockings and shirts to raise money to run the gov- 

 ernment. 



Any member of Congress who votes for any 

 one of the land gift bills above mentioned is a pub- 

 lic enemy. 



RUSSIA STUDIES U. S. IRRIGATION 



The Russian government has been making a 

 study of the Uncompahgre valley reclamation proj- 

 ect through its representative, P. P. Von Weymann, 

 deputy of the imperial Russian minister. In many 

 parts of Russia climatic and topographical condi- 

 tions are very similar to those which exist in the 

 western states, particularly in Wyoming, Colorado 

 and Nebraska. Indeed, so much do these sections 

 resemble each other that the United States govern- 

 ment has been making experiments with different 

 kinds of alfalfa that thrives in Siberia with the pur- 

 pose in view of introducing these varieties into this 

 country. Similar experiments have been made with 

 several varieties of Russian apples. 



