The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-12
tunnel to its lowea end Is 400 feet, the t INN,
mol making a saving ct distance of a,ooa

The CAnAl Wilt carry wafer Aout Nv
carry four and q half feet. In this canal
fourteen feet wide on the bottom, slope one
10 oncawater four feet deep, with ITS Hraue
81 three feet fall TO the mile will How ~
/ 695 mineral inches OF water, from which
will have 10 bs deducted y per-
cent Tor sespage and evaporation. 40
RemarkS.--'Ihis canal will carry a0lu
more miners' inches OF water than one
twelve feet wide on the hottom, slope 81
one to one, water three and one-halT 1sst
deep, grade two and one-halt feet 70 the
mile. \,
The most OF the country over which y ~
built il very rough and broken, its locstloE
coming on stesp side hills and around ana
over daep gulohcs. 81
slopas made AZ smooth az possible Win
pick and shovel, and no rock or coarse
gravel left in the bottom, thus reducing the
friction OF the water on the wetted peril
meter Of the canal to ths lowest minimum,
thereby reducing the loss from that cause
and increasing tho flow OF water.
The canal from end to end in all partlcn-
lars il most thoroughly n honestly bull!t.
showing in every foot OF its length that y
was made with the view Of it being perma-
mont and lasting. and to carry alargs vol
une OF water. The cost of this canal 80 Tar
is about $4,000.
In this connection it ID not important TO
state the area cultivated under these canals
separately. Under the " r.t-namea
canals the total capacity OF the bitches ls
reuuired for the ground under them. ana
such land is already mostly in cultlvatlon;
under the last named ditch the lands arc
mainly new and unbroken. and are Just
brought into such relation to water 81 70 %
%cultivahle. There lie under this dltch, as
it may be extended, sixty thousand acres.
being more than the ditch has capaclty 20
supply with water.
With caution held out that an estimate
must be considered something of a guess, !
should say that under great n niue
| bitches there are about $4,000 acres IN Guilt
Walton, under crops in n year, ana IN th ms
l am not counting the fallow ground OF
that year. 80
The auditors report for Montana for 1890
gives the number of ranches IN Gallatln
county at AGO, and the acreage in ranches
in Gallatln county az 1888 acres, anu the
ranches fenced as 1854 acres. No scru-
tiny is made in these returns into the num-
bsr OF acres plowed. The acreage and NUM-
Der of ranches have increased considerably
since such figures were made up, and these
figures are returns for assessment purposes
only, and include railroad lands oultl-
waited or uncultivated in the county. Muen
of such lands may not be cultivated. NO
such return is an index of what is Guilt
waited area; let us 60. therefore, TO crop re-
turns. The crop returns IN auditors re-
port are not to be relied upon as coming
up to the magnitude of area or yield per
acre. We know Individually OF one tracb
OF ], 200 acres now in CULTIVATION, not EN-.
braced in 1890 year returns; we Know OF
several tracts of 100 acres and upward,
brought recently under the pillow, not IN
such estimates. Fifty Thousand acres are
assumed as proximately the area IN cultl-
walton over and above what is falloW. !. e.,
it is approximately the area cropped IN q
year. Taking the crops and hay and the
vegetable and small fruit crops, and we
MAJ assume a yield of $1,250,oOO in value.
There are thirty-6ve %threshing machines
here, These may be estimated as thresh-
ing 60, 900 bushels each, on the average.
This gives 9. 100000 bushels.
The average price of the three staples l
place at an assumed figure, which am "a,
vised is fair, and from this l get Sl,2oo,ooo
as o years yield in value.
These figures are less than some stated
statistics in advertisements of this famous
valley.
To mark on a map all the bitches would
be to run out %tortuous ines from every
creek and river as thick as branches and
their twigs from the main stem of a tree. A
great fertile exnanse, gridironed with cir-
cumfuent lines of bitches, bright and
golden in harvest time with grain, and hay
meadows in green for relief, and after
harvest with stuble as a plush carpet is With
its short, upreared filaments, is not an over
drawn picture of this valley.
Barley is great in yield and supreme in
quality here; oats triumph in weight and
measure, to the acre, and wheat yield is as
high in average IA in any known region. A
little table of crop reports of 1891, printed
without selection or partiality, just AS made
by chance returns from ranchers for neigh
borhood use IS printed by the Bozenan
Avant Courier.
You ask for the price of water. Water is
not retailed here, but the price as under
stood by the canal companies IS 81 pc
statutory inoh as measured in accordance
with the statutes of Montana. This is 6
reasonable price, per year.
Prices of crops paid to farmers in 1890 is
about this:
Average oats, stated about S1.50 cwt.
Average barley, stated about $1.15 cwt.
Average soft wheat, stated about Is cents
per bushel; hard wheat 85 cents per bushel.
No. / timothy hay, about $14.00 per ton
Wild hay about $500 to $3.50 per ton less
than timothy.
Oats sometimes as high as from $500 tc
$2.1O
Barley, sometimes as high az $l.55 pei
cwt.
Hay, s14.00 per ton.
The crop Of 1891 was large and the follow
ing are some of the returns:
M. Fl. Allen, twenty-four acres of oats
8, 100 bushels; 129 bushels to the acre.
j. II. Gallop, LOG acres of wheat, 6,80(
bushels; sixty-tive bushels to the acre.
z. S. Morgan, 800 acres wheat, 1888.
bushels: fifty-four bushels to the acre.
William B. Reed, 213 acres oats, 1925
bushels; ninty-hve bushels to the acre.
NJ. III. Penwell, $50 acres wheat and oats
1888 bushels; fifty-one bushels to the acre
VIM. Flannery, SIS acres wheat and oats
3O,950 bushels, ffty-four bushels to acre.
This shows a few representative crops
these are not given as average samples, ant
would exceed the average.
Gallatin county produces, approximately
about one-third Of the cereals of the state
There are in the Gallatin valley proper
approximately, $50 GOO acres of arabic land
and in the county about 400, 900 acres. L
irrigate this, there are in the valley 10000
inches Of water outside of the main Yves
: Gallatin river, which has 100000 additions
, inches. This is an estimate, and exactnes
is not to be expected, and We take the waite
, at it's high stage in irrigation season.
), That part of the agricultural area on tn
!, Madison n Jefferson rivers is amply SUP
= piled with water from those streams.
In closing, ! am advised that there is a
ample supply of water flowing in this vale
and county, to irrigate all the area that
cultlyable, surprising proper provision
: made for running the water to the plo
/ lands.
. Dyspepsia.
That nightmare OF mans existence which
n makes food a mockery and banishes slice,
r from weary eyes, readily Yields to the no
Q tent influence of the csleb,nted EnpIial
g Dandellon Tonic. 1t tones up tho dipegtiy