The Holly chieftain., 1898-09-16
CUNDAY SCHOOL EVERY SUNDAY AT
y 1000 A. M, At the school house.
L.G. HAMMER, Eupt.
fRowERs COUNTY DrREoToRY
IRRIGATION.

rigation is the raising of crops by the
artificial applicationtof water instead of
depending upon TIP natural rainfall.
The advantages Of Irrigation are obvi-
ous to every one wht reflects upon the
uncertainty of naturil rainfall and the
immense damage ID crops every year
by drouth on the onb hand and excess
i've or unseasonabf -einse!l on the
other hand. The farmer who irri-
gates not only intures full crop
every year. but he hlso geb greatly
increased yield. Rightly speaking one
irrigated acre produces as much as two
acres under the mot favorable condi-
tions of rainfall. T1is being 10. it is
not surprising to Hld that each year
more and more Intelligent farmers
are abandoning rain belt farms and tax
ing up lands that cat bel1isated. So
rapidly is this taking Mo- that in I
very few years thetA kill sao mora
Land which u c6bsbB bf irrigation left
unoccupied ON TIL ointment. The
quantity Of such. h..la4i,b very limited
and the demand js dbubIing every year.
So great has the demand become that q
great number Of bo&s irrigation enter.
prises have sprung into existence and
are offering alleged irrigated lands for
sale to eastern farm}rs. These fraud
ulent concerns rely d gsudy advertising
matter and unscrutulous agents to in
duce eastern settlerato buy their worth
less lands. So greathas this abuse be-
come that many rain belt farmers
knowing of others who have been swim
died in this way. he4tare to take advan-
taae of the manifest benefits Of irriga-
tion.
Localities where &nuine irrigation is
carried on, are thus ldepriyed Of many
desirable settlers. pf course II crops
depend on artificial watering instead Of
rain. the first thing b make sure abou.
is that the water Will be forthcoming
when needed. Tho "boeus" irrigation
enterprises sell "waler rights" just the
same as the genuite ones, but paper
water righte" will bot grow crops, for
this purpose the w&er itself is what is
necessary. An Intending purchaser
should therefore kscertain two things
before buying irrigated lands. First,
that the source of tater supply is suf-
ficient. and second that the canals for
convey ing the water to- the land are ade-
quate and in good condition, For illus-
tration take the Great Plains Water
COMPANY, described on the first page.
The owner of a water tight" under this
system has as q Bourcs II his water sup
ply the entire Arkansas river supplanted
BY an enormous system bf reservoirs for
the storage of the water, and the Com
pany entitled to this water under de-
crees of court giving it its "prioiitv"
over other claimants.
Therefore he finds thE the supply IS
all that could be desired He also finds
that the canals. etc. arr solid and sub
stantial and maintainedin the best con-
dition. 1t follows that le can absolute
ly count on having watf whenever he
chooses to turn it on with just the
same certainty as water turned ON from
city hydrant. But tie holder of a
bogus water right" wodd find on in
vestigation that either the source Of
supply was some small;reek or stream,
or river whose water hid all been prev
iously appropriated. ie would find
that either there was nsfeservoir at all
or one which was worthless. He would
End that the canals VIE badly built
and worse kept up. I lencs it woula
follow that when rely..++ on his paper
'water right" he turnedbn water. none
would flow and he wou1 realize that it
~ mot the paper swstefieht" but the
watsr itselfthat is need4 for raising .
crop.
Another thing that ends II deter.
eastern farmers from t1hng up irriea-
ton is the mistaken no3n that Il de-
mands special skin Ira ysan of
dss'ly bought s1ps pass . faiss