Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-20

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per acre for alfalfa ground 20 from
800 TO $500 per acre for 8raoss. and
$1,000 to )s.5eo Tor the groves. The
towns are progressive. ~ are oon-
nected by good roads. ever which they
have good stage lines,
Leaving TulAre county, paused
thru the northern part Of California,
Oregon and western Washington. all
pros than the other places !
had visited.
m eastern Washington, around the
city OF Yakima, there was . very rich
irrigated valley. There they used
binders. and the grain looked a. II 1t
would make thirty to thirty-iivs BUSH
els Of wheat and about sixty bushels Of
oats. The alfalfa that was cut would
make about one and half tons per
acre.
Wishing to sec the shoshone project,
l only stayed In the Yakima district
one day. The first ] saw Of the Sho-
shone district was the nuge reservoir,
ten miles long and four miles wide at
the widest part. The dam that stores
this water IN $40 feet high.
The project 10 q COMPENSATORY new
one, and they said that only during the
last two years the land values had
gone up to the present level. Some
land near Powell. Wye. about the CEN
ter OF the district, has seld for S425,
and land u bringing 5000 several nilea
from the railroad. Seven years ago,
most Of this land was upsn to home
stealing. the government charging $40
per acre, giving the purchaser twenty
years to pay It in. and The only addi-
tional expense u the cost Of the ditch
es. Besides this, they have . charge OF
dollar per acre per rear for what
they call 20. and Nor operation
and maintenance. and ~ very few had
used over two irrigatiens. their water
charge was less than 30 cents per
acre. In any ordinary year. their an
nnal expense per acFs u lsss than two
dollars.
In that district there ,Aeems 70 Be q
strata Of rock that comes to the sur
face. causing what they call Doggy
land, and usually bringing the alkali
to the surface; these spots will mire
down q horse at times. Some thing Is
done to remedy this. and also some
open drain diches. When It - posi-
bic, the water 10 directed back into
the main bitches, avoiding any useless
waste. The bitches seldom need clean
ing more than once . year.
Usually the first year they double
disk the raw land. afNse dragging q
railroad iron over the sass brush and
burning It. In the sWiAg. wheat or
oats are sown, and, - they average
about seven inches Of ri1a . ysSr. they
have most Of the sprins 70 run their
bitches. In the summer they irrigate
ali they can and spend their spare time
the next Ave years with . scraper.
leveling the land, 90 that It all takes
water. When the land u entirely level
on the Shoshone project, . man can
irriEate about twenty acres day.
All government land - taken up
around Powell. but recently . new dis
trict was opened up east OF Powell.
but under the same water right, the
land costing $50 per acre. With twenty
years given 70 pay Il In, each man A.
ing on the piece wanted. and the win
ners being determined ~ lottery.
On my way from Frannie, town In
this new district to be opened up. to
Billings Montana. I met Hall, one OF
the fellows Of our old outnt on his way
back to Iowa. Soon after getting his
discharge, he went to Powell. on tho
strength Of the Recommendation Of