The Glasgow courier., 1915-08-27
BIG IRRIGATION SYSTEM

taken by the United States govern
ment will add 100000 acres of culti-
waited area to Montana and will be of
great benefit on the Canadian side
of the border. The Milk river will
be a big engineering featy Funds
for the completion of the work, which
has been an international dispute for
several years, now is assured as the
result of the recent visit by the con-
gressional committee on appropria-
tions. A commission from Canada
recently met the United States COM
mission in the matter, and the decision
as to the rights of each country in
the irrigation project will be announc-
ed before long.
Members of the United States COM
mission, who ended their tour of re-
clamation projects with an inspec-
tion trip over the greatest Of Uncle
Sans irrigation works, were amazed
by the progress made on the various
units of the Milk river project. They
declared there is no longer any doubt
that the great water supply which is
to bring the bloom to 100000 acres
will soon be available.
The Screen River Belt" which will
be irrigated comprises of strip of
land 139 miles long, extending from
Chinook to Glasgow, covering an area
ranging from a quarter of a mile to
three miles wide, making the longest
irrigated strip in the country.
Another striking feature of the
Milk river project is that the water
for this gigantic engineering feat will
be taken fro mnear the roof top of
the Rockies in Glacier National Park.
Four lakes will furnish an everlast-
ing supply. These lakes form great
natural reservoirs, and are fed by
melting SHOWS and glaciers from the
Rocky Mountain range. The fertility
of the glacier water, so richly laden
with silt, is astonishing even to gov
ernmert experts, who have known
more or less of the value of glacier
waters carrying an abundance of or
ganic matter.
With this endless water supply Sc
curely damned and held at will for
the irrigation of the soil, the engin-
eers will have nearly finished their
work, for already the work siphon-
ing, ditching and f1uming a way for
the waters over the hills of the Hud-
son Bay Divide and into the north
branch of the Milk River has been
fairly completed.
The fact that the water flows
through Canada for many miles be-
fore returning into Montana, makes
the project an international one. The
matter of treaty rights has been I'D
for contention several years in con-
nection with this proposed waterway.
LEGAL WAY TO MEASURE HAY
The Courier published the legal
way to measure hay last fall, but re-
Gently we have received so manv in
qulrles that We are again reproducing
II. 1T would be advisable for the hav
growers and users to cut this out for
future reference.
Four hundred twenty two cubic feet
shall constitute a ton of clean. native
blue joint hay, after thirty days and
up to three months settlement in stack
but when the same shall have been
over six months in the stack. three
hundred forty cubic feet shall he con-
sidered a ton.
AS to all other kinds of hay after
the same shall have settled in stack
from sixty days up, five hundred and
twelve cubic feet shall constitute a
ton OF alfalfa or rough slough grass,
after the same shall have been in the
stack 30 days and up to one year.
four hundred anl fifty cubic feet shall
constitute a ton.
Measuring of hay in stack the fol-
lowing is hereby made the legal me-
thod of measurement: The width and
length of the stack shall be measured,
and the distance from the ground
against one side of the stack to the
ground against the other side of the
stack, directly over and opposite, shall
be taken in linear feet and inches, and
then the width shall be subtracted
from the measurement over the stack,
as above indicated, the result divided
by two and the result multiplied by
the width, and the result thus obtain
ed multiplied by the length which will
give the number of cubic feet contain
ed in the stack and the tonnage shall
thereupon be determined by dividing
the total number of cubic feet allowed
under the provisions of this act for