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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-03

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MURRAY SUPPLY HOUSE.

TINS Is one OF the numerous new
houses which In recent years have been
Transforming Murray into nourishlng
Guy. Ihe Murray supply House Is con-
Quoted by \ X. Jorgenson. dealer I'm
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pairs. glassware, and tinware. He buys
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goods and sell the same at small prof
It's, and always have a supply on hand
so that they can furnish any desired
article second hand, or outfit nome
entire with any style Of new furniture.
and all kinds Of household goods.
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m A9se hotel which Is the finest
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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-20

The United States Geological sur
vey is about to publish, as Water Sup
ply and Irrigation Paper No. 81, an en-
larged and revised edition of the report
on irrigation in India, by Mr.. H. NJ.
Wilson. first published in part 2 of the
United States Geological Survey, for
1S90-91. The most important feature
of the revision is the bringing of all
the financial and statistical data con
corning the more important works in
each province up to 1901. the date of
the latest official India reports.
India stands pre-eminent for her
gigantic engineering undertakings.
No other country has so vast and so
fertile an expanse of territory, with
such convenient slopes for the con-
struction of canals, and at the same
time such an abundant water supply.
In general, there is great similarity
between the climate and topography
of the great northern plains of India
and portions of our arid west, especi-
ally the eastern slope of the Rocky
mountains and the great California
valley. Central India and the Dec
can have many features in common
with the central portion of Jul arid
regions, particularly portions OF Cali
fornia. Arizona and southern Utah. The
climate is as similar to that Of oui
middle western states as is the topo-
graphy. The average annual precip,-
tation rarely exceeds thirty inches.
At the close of 1901 the are of
India, including native states, was
1858, SOB square miles, the total popu-
lation was 294, 266, 7O1, and the total
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-20

THE RECLAMATION OF ARID LANDS

Washington, Oct. 2O.-A project to
reclaim some $50, 200, 900 worth of land
in the arid and semi-arid regions Of
the west is the result of one of the eX-
ploration trips sent out by the depart
ment of agriculture more than two
years ago; the time since then has
been spent in trying to grow the things
brought home. This particular trip
was to Egypt, Algeria, Turkestan and
other parts of northern Africa, and
was made by Thomas H. Kearney of
the bureau of plant industry. Among
other things which he brought back
was alfalfa from Algeria. In that coun-
try the alfalfa was grown in a soil
strongly impregnated with alkali. In
fact there was twice as much alkali
in the soil where it grew as in any of
the alkali soils of the United States
where the crop is attempted. 1t oc-
CURED to the explorer that this AL
gerian alfalfa, evidently very resistant
to alkali, might be grown in the United
States on lands thus far useless.
So Mr.. Kearney began experimenting
with the alfalfa from Algeria. He
planted some on irrigated land at
Yuma, Ariz.; some more he planted
in the Colorado desert in southern
California, and still another planting
was made in the valley of the Pecos
in New Mexico. Along side the AL
gerian alfalfa he planted the ordinary
alfalfa.
When harvest time came he found
that the American alfalfa had sue
cumbed to the alkali while the Algerian
alfalfa. growing in similar soil and un-
der exactly similar conditions, showed
a good crop. The amount of alkali
in the soil, as measured by the eX-
perts, was close to one per cent. The
ordinary American alfalfa can stand
only about one-half of one per cent.
Thus encouraged with the first years
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-20
NOTES ON IRRIGATION IN INDIA
Financial Success OF the Great Engineering
Undertakings Carried on By the
British Government.

expenditures upon all classes of irri-
CATION works by the government of In
dia had been 1897, $50 900. In the year
10000 the expenditures on account
of irrigation amounted to $11 500, 900,
and the revenue was $12,075 900.
showing a profit of rs per cent on the
capital outlay for construction. The
total area cultivated in India the same
year was 1S0,15l ,093 acres. and the
total area irrigated was 1861 JOG
acres: or, counting areas double
cropped, or those irrigated more h
once in a season, the area irrigated
was 1885, 31 acres. The estimated
value of the irrigated crops in 1900
OF was $50, 900 900, and of these it is
interesting to note that the area under
cultivation in wheat amounted to over
5000. 900 acres and in cotton to over
$500, 900 acres, and that the total value
of the latter crop alone vas $52,773 900.
Construction, including in large
llcdSuIe ItDdlIS, udS Dttu UlOSt ACTIVE
during the last few years in order to
afford employment in famine stricken
regions. The demands on the water
stored in reservoirs in the more humid
portions Of India-those which have
lately beer afflicted with drought and
consequent famine-were greater than
ever before. Some of the more nota-
BILE tanks in Bombay and Central In
dia were called upon to do their high
est duty, and in consequence many Of
those projects which were constructed
as protective works and were never
anticipated to be revenue producing,
recently earned moderate net reve-
nues.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-20
THE RESULTS OF IRRIGATION
Some of the Good Effects Shown in
Colorado and Other Western States
by Scientific Irrigation.

E. A. Bickell in the Chicago Record
Herald: Under the inspiration of gov
eminent work in irrigation farming in
the arid country is taking on new life.
Compared with Illinois, Iowa, Mis-
souri, and the east half of Kansas and
Nebraska, the cultivated lands of the
arid states will ever remain a small
factor.
Take a map of the state of Colorado,
for example, mark in deep red every
acre now capable of raising crops and
you will notice that about 95 per cent
remains uncolored.
There are many freaky things about
farming in the arid country. One is
W. astonished at the variety in soil,
climate, water supply and the differ
ence in ad%aptability of crops to these
varying conditions.
Take the Arkansas valley, start in
at it's most successful center. Rocky
Ford, whose melons have a national
reputation. Here also is located one of
the frst and largest sugar factories in
the state, as well as most successful.
The area of the good, irrigable land
is quite limited and the best of it sells
from $3.50 to $3.50 per acre. and even
higher. The chief products here are
sugar beets, melons, fruit, alfalfa and
some grain. They can grow mammoth
potato vines, but 10 potatoes. Nor do
To-.
Another queer thing here is that
there is no decent drinking water to be
had. Spending one whole week in this
town, our best water was taken from
the Arkansas river, quite muddy, put
in a c~istern, where it settled, cooled
and became quite palatable.
Experiments in artesian wells have
been made by the sugar factory and
some good water obtained at large ex-
pense, though rather tepid. The diff
Guilty with these are that thus far they
have not been able to get any tubing
material that will stand the action of
the chemicals in the sun more than
two years. Notwithstanding these
drawbacks, people are contented and
making money on these high priced
lands. nave see farmers haul water
six miles for domestic use.
Farther up in this valley. at Canon
City, in the very heart of the apple
country orchards are selling for 81 900
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-20

this. The explanation is easy. The
fruit is perfect and sure every year and
the local demands most always beyond
the supply. The orchard area is very
small.
In the northern part, at Greeley.
LOngmOnt, Eaton and vicinity. hun
dreds of thousands of dollars have
been spent for water. Farmers are
getting rich on $3.50 to $500 per acre
land. and their chief crop is potatoes.
One farmer told us on the train that he
netted $3.50 per acre on forty acres last
year on potatoes. Only forty or fifty
miles west, in the Loveland% country, no
beets, alfalfa and some grain.
Across the divide in the Grand juno
ton country, it is fruit, mostly peaches,
and very fine. A sugar factory was
built here, and only ran a few years,
when all the farmers concentrated on
fruit and refused to raise any more
beets
1t is a grave question that is con-
fronting all the sugar factories. Will
the farmers continue to raise beets at
present prices? 1t is very doubtful. It
Is a slavish crop to raise, hard on the
soil. and no'more profitable than many
others.
The San Luis valley is the largest
continuous area of irrigable farm land
in the state. A little empire by itself.
with many things to be said for and
against.
The altitude is high and the seasons
rather short. The water supply. as
now developed, inadequate, but with
reservoirs can be made ample. The
soil is not uniform, ard some of it very
difficult to farm by the man of small
means The home seeker here should
be very cautious and see well to his
water supply and the quality of the
soil.
On the other hand there is most ex-
cellent farming land and some Of the
most prosperous farmers to be found
anywhere. More than one farm was
fully paid for out of the current years
crop. We saw one forty acres in DO
tatoes that will easily yield $50 or 300
bushels per acre and sell at the sta
ton in car load lots at As cents. yet
this land was sold in the last ninety
days for only SAC per acre. without the
crop, of course, but the crop will bring
at least double what the land sold for.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-20

tests, the department did not regard
them as final and this spring the plant
ings were repeated. The results are
just coming in. The report from Yuma
is excellent. Mr.. Kearney has re
ceived word that there is a fine stand
of Algerian alfalfa. and he is going
out in a few days to inspect it. Re
ports from other stations where it was
planted are also very favorable.
The cautious disposition of the
scientific mind will probably determine
the authorities to delay the final an
nouncement as to the outcome of these
experiments for another year.
Il want to go into the field myself"
said Mr.. kearney, land make sur
that there is no mistake. want to be
certain as to the conditions of growth.
For example, | want to see that the
alkali is still as strong in the soil as
when the first planting was made, that
it has not beer washed out by the
irrigation. And then l think the ex-
pertinent should be repeated another
year. We hardly feel like making posi-
tive statements under a three years
trial. But We can say that the results
are entirely favorable thus far"
Speaking further of the alfalfa work,
Mr.. Kearney said:
There is also a brand of alfalfa
which T. II. Means and l brought from
Turkestan. We found it there grow
ing in soil very strongly %impregnated
with alkali water. But there were GER
tain conditions which might have off
set this condition, and We are working
hard to determine whether it can be
grown in the slightly different sur
roundings of the western part of the
United States
The government bureau of soils has
estimated that there are at least 6O0,-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-20
NO DANGER FROM SOIL ALKALI
Secretary Wilson Points Out That There Is
no Danger from Alkalizati0n of the Soil
in Irrigation.

In = recent article written ny Wal
ter Wellman. the well known Wash
ington correspondent. he says: Is a
large part of the west doomed To be
turned into Il pillar of salt like Lot S
wife? An anonymous scientist" says
it Is. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
Indignantly rejoins that it is not. A
recent interview published in a nun
Der Of papers to the effect that sooner
or later the alkali problem will result
in the undoing OF the west is a state
ment which mas alarmed many per-
ons who are fearful that the govern
ment, in em%barking upon irrigation
developments, is launching into an un-
known and dangerous enterprise.
"A we'll known scientist too mod
est, however, to allow the use of his
name. stated in an interview that
genuine arid countries are always
ruined sooner or later by irrigation.
Permanently successful irrigation is
possible only in what we call humid
or Semi-humid regions, where the
drainage is natural from clouds to
sea. y When the water from ir-
rigation sinks down a few feet into
the surface soil and then slowly. by
panil1a,y- nnfinn picn- 30 thA en,rfaan
and is evaporated. it lifts with it the
salts and there follows an increase of
salts or alkali heal the surface. x 81
The roots of most crops hug the up
per few inches of soil where the alkali
accumulates and in time kills them.
Science will have a great problem
before it," he continues, when the
arid regions have by short sighted
booming been filled up with a popu-
lation which will finally discover that
what at first seems to be a most sue
cessful process of farming is Il delu-
sion. = . thousands Of fine farms
have been abandoned because of the
alkali rising in the soil.
thousands more will be abandoned
in the same way and unlike the aban-
doned farms of New England, they
will never be sought again by anyone
desiring to get back to Mother Earth,
Babylon fell by the alkaliZation OF
Mesopotamia. The valley of the Nile
has escaped because there takes place
there every year a thorough flooding
which washes down through the ow-
est depths of the soil and ~cleanses il
of all salts that are obnoxious. There
are few places in our western country
where this can be secured. =
Unless some remedy is discovered fol-
removing alkali the results are disas.
trous in the end and ii inevitably
comes sooner or later
who is the man who made tina
statement?" said Secretary Wilson
when the matter was called TO his at
tention. Didn't give his name
Well. he must have something o
lack of confidence in his ability I
back up his statements. There !
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-20

nothing il them. The soils bureau of
this department has been studying
the alkali problem in the west for
years and our experiments have
shown that ordinary undertakings
coupled with irrigation. flooding will
reclaim the worst alkali lands.
Theoretically this has been known
for IA long time, but we have gone to
work in "A number of instances in
Utah, California, Arizona and other
western points and have practically
demonstrated the proposition. The
department scientists have studied
our alkali conditions of typical irri-
gated districts, covering over 1900 900
acres of land"
"A more misleading interview than
hat of this anonymous scientist was
never published" said Guy Mitchell.
Secretary of the National Irrigation
Association. 1T contains Just enough
bass of fact to make it appear highly
plausible. Alkali there is throughout
the West, in many places in such
large proportions as to cause alarm
and fear for the future of irrigation,
until it was discovered that the trOu-
bic yielded easily to simple treatment.
Science has already solved the prob
lem and the growing population Of
the arid region will have no such
discovery to make as the anonymous
Washington scientist predicts.
"As a matter Of fact the valley of
the Nile has not escaped alkaliZation.
Large tracts have been abandoned for
years because of the excessive alkali.
and it is only recently that science
has proceeded to reclaim these lands
to agriculture. Thomas H.. Means,
IN charge Of the alkali reclamation
work of the Department Of Agricul-
ture, recently made a trip to Egypt.
He found tremendous areas under
gong reclamation. Lake Abukir,
situated neal the Nile delta. is an old
| bed Of $1,000 acres, lying three or
four feet below sea level. Before re-
clamatiOn commenced, it was a dry
salt plain in summer. upon which
absolutely nothing would grow, and
in winter was covered with Il few
inches Of strong alkali water. To
day one sees green fields. luXuriant
crops of cotton, corn. clover and
grass upon this once barren desert.
The reclaimed land is worth from
$500 to $500 an acre.
in another region of the lower
Nile delta, Mr.. Means found 123,OOO
acres undergoing IA system OF canal
zation, flooding and washing out the
excess of alkaline salts. The first and
second years after the washing com
menced. grass, cotton. clover. rice, etc
are planted. Mr.. Means says in hi'
official report: There is a great dea
Of land OF rhis character in lowe
Egypt, and its reclamation is bein
!, carried on in most places with success
5 +! and 1T a profit.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-20

advanced stage, also used this wonder
full medicine and today she is perfect
ly well" Desperate throat and lung
diseases yield to DR.. Kings New Dis
covery as to nc other medicine on
earth. Infallible for coughs and colds.
soc and s1.0O bottles guaranteed by
P. C. Remington. Trial bottles free
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-20
IRRIGATION in HUMID REGIONS
Vast Increase in Productions of Land in
Regions Where Irrigation Is Properly
PractiCed.

To those who present the argument
that because the rainfall here is ordi-
narily sufficient to mature crops there
fore irrigation here is impracticable or
unnecessary. the following from DR..
Clare Gapen. president of the Forty
Thousand club of Madison, Wis, will
be of interest. He said in the Chicago
Record Herald:
There is probably no subject of
which the average farmer remains so
unnecessarily ignorant as that of the
use of water in the production of crops
of all kinds. IL a farmer were assured
that if he would purchase a certain
fertilizer and use it on his land his
crops would increase 25 per cent he
would not hesitate or delay-yet when
it is demonstrated to him over and
over again if he will but use the water
which he doeS not have to buy and
which costs him only the expense of
raising it from his well or stream he
will double or treble his crop. he goes
on in the most Indifferent and incred-
ulous manner.
Now there is nothing which the
farmer can learn which is of so much
importance to him as the value of the
proper use of water. Irrigation should
be practiced much more outside the
arid regions than in them-more just
in proportion as water is more abund
ant. In the arid regions the farmer
has learned the value of water for the
reason that he can raise no crops with
out irrigation.
lrrigate Humid Regions.
But it is of equal Importance to the
farmer in the humid regions in max
ing sure of his crop and increasing its
amount. Not only can he thus max
certain of his crops in a large measure
and greatly increase their size, but he
can much improve their quality and
the quality of his land thereby. for
water Is a great fertilizer.
The furnishing of water at the right
time and in the proper amount to an
variety of fruit bearing plant deter
mines in a large measure the size n
quality of the fruit. Those who at
tended the irrigation congress at Og-
den. Utah, and saw the fruit exhibits
al the interstate fruit fair in Septem-
Der last We're greatly impressed by
the size and quality of the fruits ex-
hibited. Apples of a fine flavor were
seen as large as the largest apples We
see in the east and punches of grapes
rivaling those described in the Bible,
which required two men to carry them
Now, the size, excellence and abun-
dance of these fruits did not testify
alone to the quality of .he climate and
soil of the regions from which they
came, but to the potency of water ap-
Piled sufficiently and at just the right
line. AneSe pIouuclS Couiu Z uup''
Gated in almost any of the eastern
states by the proper use of water.
Experiments in Wisconsin.
Professor King, formerly of the ag-
r%icultural department Of the State
University of Wisconsin, conclusivelv
demonstrated by experimentation that
by the use of all the water a growing
crop can consume in the three months,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-20

"Our little daughter had an almost
fatal attack Of whooping cough and
bronchitis" writes Mrs. w. X. Havil-
and, of Armonk, n. Y, but, when all
other remedies failed, we saved her
life with DR.. Kings New Discovery
Our niece, who had consumption in ar
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-10-20

Total (90k acres) 49,. .$6,47S. 40
Or a product of the value of seventy
one dollars and ffty-seven cents
S71.5O per acre.
While it is conceded that this does
not show an excessively large yield, it
must be borne in mind that it is far
greater than the average yield in the
regions round about during this sea-
son. and that, as before stated, the
irrigation was begun very late in the
season.
The cost of laying the pipe was
about 81, 500-Or about $40 per acre.
The land before these pipes were laid
would be regarded as high priced for
agricultural purposes at 800 per acre;
it now has a producing value to the in
stitution of $500 per acre.
The following year products Of the
same land produced $9.410, ar average
of SIP per acre.