IRRIGATION WORK IN CALIFORNIA. XCV. 
annually per acre. Corn and maize bear with like 
abundance, two crops frequently being harvested in a year. 
Orange land with water, but without trees, is estimated 
to be worth from £50 to £60 per acre, and with bearing 
trees, the price ranges from £200 to £400 per acre, if the 
location is good, with first class water rights and navel 
trees. 
In the San Joaquin Valley, the average annual rainfall 
is less than 9 inches, and non-irrigated lands are not worth 
more than £2 an acre. The same lands irrigated and 
developed by orchards and vineyards are worth approxi- 
mately £100 per acre, and are said to yield net returns of 
from £10 to £20 per acre per annum. In Nevada the 
principal crops are alfalfa, which is cut 5 or 6 times a year, 
yielding about 1 ton per acre per crop. Barley, oats and 
wheat average 25 to 30 bushels per acre, and some instances 
of 75 bushels per acre have been known. Grapes thrive 
and yield good crops of excellent flavour, 3 acres having 
produced 5,000 Ibs. Pomegranates, peaches, apricots, 
vegetables and small fruits also do well. In 1902-3 
improved lands sold for £5 per acre, and unimproved lands 
at 6s. to £1 per acre. In Oregon, land on which sugar 
beet is cultivated is said to be worth £40 per acre. 
Size of Farms.—Small farms are characteristic of suc- 
cessful irrigation. Throughout Utah the average size of 
an irrigated area is less than 30 acres. By means of this 
a family is supported in comfort, and there is a gradual 
increase in wealth, and there is an absence of the lone- 
liness and depression existing where the population is very 
sparse. 
Increase of Work.—It is not believed that the whole of 
this area is irrigable, but that about 10 times the area at 
present irrigated is so. It is stated that within quite a 
few years, tracts of country which were sandy wastes and 
