THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



157 



(Continued from page 150) 



Again here is a certain section of the com- 

 munity affected unfavorably by an inequitable dis- 

 tribution. To make it right, new pipes must be 

 laid. However, a certain other section objects be- 

 cause for the time being their pipes are all right. 

 Section No. 1 argues that we helped you build your 

 pipes, now you ought to help us build ours. Sec- 

 tion No. 2 argues that times are too hard. But 

 the answer comes, "If times are hard for those who 

 get water enough, how much more so for those who 

 do not get enough?" After a time the lines are 

 built, because they must be, even if individuals 

 have to bear the expenses alone. But bitterness is 

 engendered. Later the pipes under No. 2 lateral 

 are decayed and must be replaced. The people 

 under lateral No. 1 remember how they were mis- 

 treated and retaliate. Such a course tends to make 

 every one distrust every one, every one dislike 

 every one, every one thinks and talks disparagingly 

 of every one, and if we wanted to manufacture a 

 little Hell, I know of no means by which we could 

 do it more efficiently. 



Leads to Lawlessness 



I saw a man last summer working suspiciously 



near one of the divides. I said to him, "What are 

 you doing here?" He said, "I am stealing water." 

 "Do you have to do that?'' I said to him. He re- 

 plied, "Look at my orchard and see." I went with 

 him through the orchard and was convinced that 

 his contention was right, that he was being greatly 

 damaged for lack of water. I went away, regretting 

 the conditions which made it necessary, or which 

 made it seem to be necessary, for an honorable man 

 to act in that manner. But it is a sense of justice 

 which finds expression in the substratum of human 

 nature, and which leads to self-protection where 

 society does not furnish protection. It is that 

 same law which causes society to justify a man to 

 fight in self-defense where the law does not pro- 

 tect him. It finds expression in a larger way in 

 mob violence where laws are not enforced. It leads 

 to anarchy where governments are oppressive. But 

 anarchy is a condition where every man is his own 

 lawyer, his own judge, and takes matters into his 

 own hands to obtain what he thinks just, by force, 

 subterfuge, deception or any other way which he 

 finds possible. It is only possible to live peaceably 

 without law under conditions where all the mem- 

 bers of society are intelligent. 



(Continued from page 156) 

 yards of concrete, 430 square yards 

 of paving, the placing of about 9,800 

 pounds of reinforcing steel, and the 

 placing in wooden structures of about 

 32,000 feet, B. M., of lumber. The 

 work is situated on the east bank of 

 the Flathead river from one to seven 

 miles northeast of Dixon. The bids 

 will be opened at the office of the 

 U. S. Reclamation Service at St. Ig- 

 natius, Mont., October 12. 



New Mexico 



A correspondent from Springer 

 writes that a new agricultural district 

 has been started in that vicinity very 

 recently. Over forty farmers have 

 moved onto government land south- 

 west of this city and are making prep- 

 arations to cultivate and improve the 

 lands. Most of the lands are included 

 under the district which was segre- 

 gated for irrigation by a company 

 which planned to develop the lands 

 under the Lake Charette project. Up 

 to this time there has been but little 

 work of actual construction completed 

 by the company and it is thought that 

 within a short time the government 

 will throw the land open to settlement 

 under the homestead laws. 



The Water Ladder Irrigation Com- 

 pany, of Farmington, filed articles of 

 incorporation with the state corpora- 

 tion commission recently, with an au- 

 thorized capital of $300,000, of which 

 $250,000 has been paid in. The incor- 

 porators are T. L. Loftus, Volney 

 Ervin, Farmington, N. M.; Augustin 

 Morrell, Charlie R. Stedman, Fred E. 

 Coe, Denver, Colo. Frank A. Bur- 

 dick is named as the statutory agent 

 for the company. The company will 

 engage in a general irrigation business 

 as well as manufacture pumps. 



Texas 



Plans .for irrigating 300 acres of 

 land near Waco, Tex., on the Brazos 

 (Continued on page 158) 



A Check on Engine Cost 



MANY people still seem to think that the less 

 they pay for an engine the more they get 

 for their money. There are 6-H. P. farm engines on 

 the market ranging in price from about $100.00 to 

 $250.00. Some men say, "6-H. P. is 6-H. P. If I can buy 

 6-H. P. for a hundred dollars, why should I pay more?" 



One reason is that the higher priced engine is actually the 

 cheaper, that is, it gives more value for the money invested, be- 

 cause of its greater length of service. 



Take Titan engines tor example. We can show any number 

 of instances where Titan engines have done heavy work for 

 twelve years and are still in everyday use. Does anyone who 

 reads this know of a "cheap" engine that has lasted five years 

 on any kind of work? Supposing the cheap engine lasted five 

 years, how many such engines would a farmer have to buy to 

 get twelve years' service? At least three, wouldn't he? Do es a 

 Titan engine cost three times as much as a cheap engine? 

 Hardly. There is a real dollars and cents saving then in buying 

 a Titan engine, to say nothing of the priceless satisfaction of 

 having an engine that is always there whenever you need its 

 power. Think that over. 



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