New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-19
CREIGHTON ~ KANS4S.

. WEALTH THROUGH FOLLOWING THE SUGGESTIONS
or HORACE GREELEY-CRoPs MARVELLOUS IN
AMOUNT RAISED BY IRRIGATION.
IAKlS. Kan, Aug. 5.-TheIc is one new agrl
cultural feature IN Western Kansas which Is well
worth attention This is lgaton, as carried On al
Garden City, twenty-thrcc miles east OF tins Town.
where have recently spent two days. Twelve
wears ago Nj Greeley predicted the coming OF the
dav when the Kansas praircs would be dotted
with the sails of wIndmills. and when the then
sterile lands along the upper Arkansas would be
pierced with irrlgatiug bitches and would yleld
abundant crops. AT Garden CiIy 1 saw the truth
of ms predictions realized way that proves that
H., rrigating ditch Will soon be as common here a.
the Windmill already Is further east. met there
MI c. j. Jones, the original protector oil these
bitches. who showed a cory OF Mr.. Greeley book
on farming pentifuly underscored and bearing
traces of frequent reading which had led hun to
undertake his scheme of irrigation. 1t IS only two
v,a1, since the hrst ditch dug 10y men con
,ncoa of the richness of the soil and reluctant 10
nhan luu ther farms account OF the lack oil sum
Gent rainfall The work was found comparatively
EASY Above the town the Arkansas River Is about
half amile wide where small islands aid the work
of aammlug up tie constant now of water. In the
oarlr snr,np Of 1850 the Garden City lrriGating
Con,pauy dug "a ditch eight feet wide two deep aud
fonr mile, long About 100 acres were irrigated
Aonr,A IKE the typical bay tree while other vege-
,al.s and cereals Welded abundanty. Then the
E,r.,s I,ri-afi-u Conpanv was chartered and bullt
q ditch now TWENTY-FIVE miles long. running from
,o,nt three miles west of Sherlock, where the
water is taken directly from the river TO one SIX
mile, north OF Garden Citv Other companies have
followed with their bitches, the largest being he
Great Eastern, ID which Senator Plumb Is inter
ested winch has aug ditch thirty feet VIDE ana
three feet deep running from point Sax miles west
Of lakip around the northern border OF Sequoyah
Comfy and which viii he sixty mics in length.
From the main dtcres along the upper side OF the
tract TO be irrigated secondary bitches are run
across the felas and connected by back burrows.
The nrlds ore usually overlooked two OF three
times alter The crop IL planted, each OVerno" IedN-
luz deposit OF rich aAuFIum Inc G4ruen ~!
COmpauN and some Oi the others ale O"ntu ny tuo
f,r,ners thersrlNes The main ditch OF this com
PAW, tweuty-fOur miles long, can lrilRtte 0"'TvV
acres and the original cost was S4o,OOO. } Dc
yrarlN cost OF irrigation for each farmer rs 81 an
acre No difficulty been found 10 leaning we
water even 10 the plans bel"nI ihe N"Ic,' iInc
fall of the river eight feet To the ME ana OF He
bitches three feet giving gain OF hNe leet ia ele-
Walton for each mile. Altogether between I1VoO'
and POO 900 acres OF singulary rich ground are now
Last lear va, the nrsi that the expeim OF
,o,-,n,, .,ous with irritation WIS tried ten
farmers irrigated their vegetables and crops. Tie
results were gwen me by squire NoiTeII. an Oh /
farmer whose hOus" visited, some Two miles rom
uudcr irrigation Irish potatoes, +OO bushels an
acre sweet potatoes, Clo bushels onions oOO /
bnsnels: cabbages. 1000 head; melons. o,OuO' |
turnIp- 600 bushels: oats. - bushels. anu SPIN
wheat. 20 To - bushels ali acre. his remsrh anle
slc,e,, encouraged the faImers generally 10 Ut
irrigation. Just north oil the IOWA grove thIou2h
"A field of oats recently harvested and Nleldng 80
bushels to the acre while near by was melon !
patch crowded with fruit anu little beyond were /
fields O heavy grass and corn
Al squire NOrreIs farm near a grove OF Young !
cofton "a o,s was field after field of onions already
D. l.r1II .rf oil ~ La faFf a
the ground In jhrres and fouIs, while the : uIre
suacAel DI, lips a. he estlma ed the weld at 500 /
bushels the acre and informed that the cost "I
TalsIUg them 90 acre. anu that onions werc
worth p "A Du>Le. Bey end some Thriving heI's "l
Sweet DOT was OF the most beautl III sights
that Kansas farms ahOrd-a neid Oh dlIald,
Gillian clover Cd luceTue as 10 IS yarlOusy c~'Itu
the leave, Of a purp.sn green. the mowers due
and fragrant and the plants spreading IN luSuII-
ant Jungle that hid the ground. ms ylelus 7ohlr
twenty tons 10 the acre. and iOuf or hNe crops eau
be cut M the season. il II worth = ton. cures
green, has been found food eagerly sought OY
STOCK and horses, was shown by the aVldIty "th
which our ponies GrvOurcd II. Onions sweet
potatoes and al ALA are the three crops To "hich
farleIs this ign DOrhOOd are particularly dc-
voting themselves because they LeheVe THESE 10
offer the largest profits The figures 2N en- are Ger
tanly astonishing hut the farmers whom met are
equally enthusiastic. and pom ed 10 iast year,
records and to the crops of this season rhch
speak for themselves An apparently lneAhaustDIe
rket for the vegetables raised around pafden
City IS Afforded by Colorado and New Mexico.
There IS probably town IN tue West except
tensveiy carried on. aud there Is no spot where II
ias produced such abundant rewards