The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-12-05
REPORT OF THE
STATE engineer
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o&rr they hkSC tnse hAs rSeeu~cSed
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tnousAA6 csc will b.. uadtc frCISn.
who has farm in this va4el, Go~th.
east OF Carpio, raised irrigated oats
whick yielded eighty bushels.
The success es tfTigs,off on the
Willisten and LcweF Fellows. one pro-
jects during tbs seSKa Of 1910 has
beck very enoouraaisE Altslfa has
psov4e to be verg suSeessfnt giving
,ields OF five tone O. thye cuttings.
Mr., Brownell OF WINSTON raised q
seed crop Of alfalfa which returned
yield oS SGT busheiT per acre MAX
ing the gross returns see pes acre.
Mr. Bartholomew raised one acre of
cabbage which yielded $500 heads
which valued at ten cents per head
makeR gross return OF $3.50. A small
patel OF onions yielded at rate OF
eight hundred and twenty bushels per
acre and sold at $3.50 pes bushel
The drainage work of the state en-
gineer's Office during the past two
years has consisted Of the drainage
OF several lakes in Steele and Cavalier
countieA4 the construction Of dam in
Pembins county and work IN connec.
tor with tho celebrated Mouse river
Improvement in Bottineau and Nc
HenFs counties.
Tht drainage o. thu lakes in Cava-
Tier and SteelS counties has made val
uahlF thousands of. acres OF fine agrf-
cultural land which heretofore has
been worse thar useless Some Of tho
best crops produced this season were
raised on the drained lake bottor.
Tho excavation work on these drain.
has beer accomplished by the use Of
steam dredges which is much moe
economical than any other metc,,A
anc furthermore the dredgS can os
use& where 1t * impossible to n,
teams and men
The report contains an interest.
article on Fort Berthold reservahc,
which IS soon to hg opened for ssttt,
ment and sLics contains lars
amount OF ase agricultural land. IT.
Shell Creek Irrigation project, o.
which preliminary surveys were made
in 1908 BY tAa st@t engineers of1or
il corpsderec tho Eness irrigation pr
ject Aieng TIC MtsPour! rtvsS Ia Ecr,
Dakota, IL located IA mis- reservation
about twenty rr!iss southwest Of PlASa
This profess covers Aprsoximets1y 20.
900 acres along Shelf erNaS and t1ia 80
5an4nt Missouri r4vef 5ossenaH. Al.
kethcS AsCut 5o0es acree os this r,s~s
AatfE Is ssg4gati@
The Es~Ec engineer rssAS aT-s,ts.s,5.
state eoaG gtnc 2nsyco1sS, his tSp-q +.
includes 0 rGsovt on tbs 1-ersY.og Il
th< coal rnirss IN The STATE l@gins c..s
pas tws seasons. THIS reperr show,
thaa thSsS Ars ono sbnGrs5 and three
mine ope7Gtng IN. ere stats. ~hicS
during the winter months emplos
nearly one thousand men. ne tAtas
tons mined in 1903 was s72,eSo