Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30


on the Yaqui river When completed
this will furnish water for the entire
100000 acres and power to turn every
wheel in the valley.
when / left the Yaqui valley week
ago summer crops were just maturing
and fall planting of wheat was starting
| They were getting ready to harvest
corn in one field, while the next was
being irrigated for wheat This val
| ley will have 10000 acres or more in
wheat this winter 1t will soon begin
to cut figure in wheat production and
i in other things, too. / saw rice high
as my head and dense as cane brake
ready for the sickle. | saw cotton, all
| kinds of cotton. Some of it will yield
two and half bales to the acre. l saw
alfalfa that had already cut eight tons
to the acre, with two more cuttings to
come This alfalfa was selling for $l5
ton gold in the field. Wheat was
bringing about 81. 35 a bushel. And
barley was selling at the enormous
price of SO gold sack. I understand,
| however, that this is unusually high.
BENEFIT OF RAILWAYS
"The west coast takes off it's hat to
the late Mr.. Hartman. To his courage
and energy in undertaking the con-
struction of the west coast railway
from Nogales, Ariz., to Guadalajara,
where connection will be made for the
City of Mexico, is due this enormous
development. Before the coming of the
railway the west coast was simply one
vast wilderness, and it is partly viii
derness still But the railway has
opened It up, letting colonists in and
products out. The construction OF the
railway is being pushed very rapidly,
and in almost a year it will be possible
to go from Seattle to the City of Next
co without change of cars. l was sur
! prised at the high class construction
work being done on this west coast
! railway. Heavy rails and japanese oak
ties are being used, and every foot OF
the road is being thoroughly ballasted
| 1t seems to me that the Southern Pa
! cific must be expecting plenty of traffic
| over that road
"rrhe most important development OF
the west coast appears to be along
the line of irrigation. Without irrl-
cation little can be expected in an agrl-
cultural way from the country. Here
and there, close to the rivers, crops can
be raised by taking advantage of the
overflow. But the area in which this
is possible is so small that it cuts no
figure. Irrigation will be the agricul-
! tural salvation of the country.
1.-THE most advanced of all the irri-
CATION projects is the big one in the
YaQul valley. WOfk on lHlS pTOJeCl has
been in progress for several years and
it is really the pioneer of the west
coast. Other irrigation enterprises are
rapidly coming to the front, however,
in Sonora and Sinaloa, all in the hands
of Americans.
AMERICAN CAPITAL IN EVIDENCE
1.-THE amount of American capital
which has been invested and is now
being invested in west coast irrigation
projects runs far into the millions. just
before / returned / learned that an
American Company was just about to
start work on a big ditch in the Fuerte
valley, Sinaloa, that will put puder ir-
rigation about 100000 acres of very rich
land. This is one of the finest sugar
growing sections of Mexico. There are
now two fine sugar factories in the
valley and other enterprises are con-
templated
Americans have been buying very
large tracts of land in northern Sonora
in the vicinity of Hermosillo, the CAPT
tai of the state This land is extremely
fertile. 1t is not under irrigation, how
ever but 1 understand that project
to store and furnish water for this land
is now being matured."