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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1889)
.V. WKST SHOUK. BIG IRRIGATION SCHEME. COMPANY linn Itecn organized ly several mcin-In-m of tin- hoard of directors of the Northern Pacific, Charles A. (injury, William J. Itrycon hihI (i. A. Youiur. i if ('liiniL'ii. ami Walter N. land linn been brought under ditch, the poorer nettlm can purchase at a low rate, securing a jierpctual con trad fur a water supply at a fixed rate, which mn him practically independent and more certain of i bountiful harvest to reward his toil than when he de pends uiHm the clerk of the weather, with whom tain. (irangcr, S. I. Melntyre and Allrrt Klcinschmidt, of not even a verbal agreement, to water hiB crops. Helena, to curry nut an immense irrigation project. I Farmers are learning to understand this and irrigated The company lias purchased more than a million acres I lands are looked upon with more favor than formerly. of Northern Tacilic land in Washington mid Montana, which it protases to siiih ply with irrigating ditches and sell U settler. Several parties of engineers are in the Held, under the direction of J. I. Melntyre, irrigation engineer of Mon tana, who originated the scheme. The first fields of operation will I the Yak ima valley, in Washington, and the (iallatin valley, in Montana. The plan contemplates a most extensive system of irrigating canals, supplied in a large measure from storage reservoirs. It is only by suh combinations of capital that irrigation projects can Is- carried out on a large male ami the millions of acres of land now tuidrv for cultiva tion ! rendered productive. When the HKKK WK R AMAIN- H AGENTS OKIGON NOTES. WmIiw valley lies lonK both ;,!,.,, ()f tl' Hrram by that nan, nYh j, ,1B lxMin.la7U1.w1, ionglMIBl I.,,,,. ,,,. tlrs tnm tlif ocean many miles inland. A fw yrara avo it was alines) unknown, Imt il l now lslnK rai'iillv Alltel u, Tliwe I br.ul,lal lakes, Cltwr. Tm Mil. ,n, Five 1 Mils, in Dial n-ni.m, ars altra. ting a n-at : 'lesl of allium. n, , ths railroad ! Ironi tup-nt toll month o( tht Siulw 1 I Ml Mf NK.KII I Hit ' 1 M ' ,"'n,l".-lr,l ta.ll i, ,0(,t omP fllV0tile W. . .,-rl,, ,4 r,.,. , ,h. Ttiry arv.l Lutheran.! could i.itiin.li.nnii,,,,,, rvn.lpr tlirm eontmuou.ly navigable, by detectives. " Tl- lMl...fc.U,MM,(w,M, VM,rl. Urn. Wl TllS U-aillitlll fcyn.r. ,. I ii.jisii,th,w.ii1,1i t,.i. k." i.!,.,.., , '"mi mtiwy nn, ... , , 11111,'m, rvou on th, roM. , 0,,r m' win,er Clothing, with raw .. '"r 'tflf moMuremtmU. Send for on of z'zz: A b. steinbach & co, Flrtt and Marrlann Sta.. rOBTUND. OHI itON. A. B. STEINBACH & CO, POPULAR Clothiers& Hatters. GRAND OPENING or Fall and Winter Clothing, HATS AMU Furnishing Goods. j;mirt.i.uj!wut!A.xK. lia . '"'"'MU.I !, ., .. r..i. "-i i.w 0. Wk,rl, ..o.ll.- Smoke our SCHILLER key westcicars.