PAfcfe FOUR
THE MALHEUR ENTERPRISE
Saturday? January 20, 1917.
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PROSPEROUS TIMES
HE sale of the Warmsprings bonds and
the practical certainty that work will be
commenced within sixty days has had
its effect already. Those who have tra
veled over the country, searching for homes,
have already begun to enter this section and
now that there is promise of activity, will invest
their money.
Several options have been taken and others
are in negotiation. One or two pieces are cer
tain to be tranferred.
Buyers know the prices and conditions else
where and know that this section is the equal of
any in Oregon for quality of land and climate.
They can see that the water cost is about one
third of that elsewhere and that the overhead
charges are therefore one-third-.
The great haystacks and fields of cattle
feeding from them this winter show what can
be done with half a water right, and the future,
with a full water right, looks good to a man who
has sold a ranch for $75 per acre where two tons
was a good crop of hay and can buy a ranch for
less money where eight tons will be only an av
erage and the cost per acre less than $1.50 per
year.
The stock-raising homestead law will destroy
the ranges as they now exist. Large and weal
thy owners will buy their ten or twenty thou
sand acres and will enter upon an era of real
production of beef.
The short horn will replace the long horn.
One thousand pound two year olds will replace
the 1500 pound four year old steer and the meat
will be better and the waste less.
The sheep for mutton and wool will replace
the sheep for wool only. Stock raising will be
brought into the scientific class of affairs and
the raiser will make two dollars where he now
makes one, producing at the same time a better
product.
All of this leads to more intensive farming
and the production of ten tons of hay per acre
with stock in quantities on every ranch.
Ten years will see ten stockraisers where
there are now one in Malheur county and other
grazing counties.
The great Harney valley will be the para
dise of fine stock and huge grain fields will
stretch beyond the horizon.
Let us join in the procession and build the
Warmsprings and Bully creek systems and take
the lead in Oregon for progressiveness and
wealth. It can be done and the men are here
who can do it, let us therefore arouse ourselves
from the lethargic sleep of indifference and
"Let well enough alone talk, getting into the
road where driving is good.
ONE CENT LETTER POSTAGE
T is more than probable that the educa
tional campaign of the mail order hous
es and heavy users of the post office fa
cilities in the first class mail department
will succeed in getting that almost iniquitous
measure through Congress at the next session.
The measure is iniquitous for the reason
that it helps the poor not at all and does help
those who need it not but who desire to lay up
more wealth at the expense of the people.
The profit on the first class mail enables the
poor to receive their reading matter at the pres
ent cheap rate.
If the price of one magazine, say the Satur
day Evening Post, or Ladies Home Journal, or
Woman's Companion, were advanced in price
25 cents per year the takers of that magazine
would be paying that amount for the reduction
in first class matter. How many of the poor
write more than a dozen letters per year?
The mail oi'der houses deliver goods post
age paid, but it is not this postage which it is
proposed to lower, but the postage on their let
ters which run up into the millions every year.
One cent on each letter on ten million letters is
$100,000. A nice little saving per year for Sears
Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and others of that
class, all of which must come out of the people
whom they are lovingly trying to save.
From whence conies the funds which en
ables the farmer to have rural delivery?
Whence comes the funds to pay for the short
age in parcel post delivery? It comes from the
First Class mail profit. Take away that profit
and from whence will it come? It must come
from a raise on some other commodity passing
through the mails. It will not come from a raise
in parcel post rates, or if it does the mail order
houses will certainly put it on the price of their
goods: It will not come from any commodity
which is not paid for by the poorer people.
How long is it to go on that in saving the
people their donations to the already rich must
continually increase?
The burden of the 2 cent postage is on the
rich and prosperous, let us not transfer it to the
backs of the taxeaten poor.
The engineers examining the Warmsprings
project see nothing with which to find fault.
1 Sggal ' MdmriiseMMts
SUMMONS
In the Circuit Court of the State of
the 16th day of December, 1916, 'thc-
uregon ror Malheur county;.
Ella Heath, Plaintiff, vs. John. Mc
Namcc, Mrs. Mary .McNamce, Rob
ert D. Rorison, Mrs. Robert D! Ro
rison, his wife, Geo. H. BoJfish
and David Bombard, Defendants,
To David Bombard, of the above-
UttlMVU UUldlUillibO
IN THE NAME OP THE STATE
OF OREGON: You are hereby'. re
quired to appear and answer the com'
plaint filed against you in the above
entitled suit within six weeks from
date of the first publication of this
summons; and if you fail so to ap
pear and answer, for want thereof
the plaintiff will apply to the court
for the relief demanded in the com
plaint, to-wit: For a judgment against
the defendant John McNamce in the
sum of Four Hundred ($400) Dollars
upon one promisory note, togeth&r
with interest thereon from the l3t
day of April, 1913, until paid, at the
rate of ten per cent per annum, and
for Seventy-five ($76) Dollars as at
torneys' fees herein, and for the costs
and disbursements ot this suit.
And for a decree foreclosing a
mortgage given by the defendant,
John McNamce upon the Lot Four
(4) of Section Nineteen (19), and
Lots One (1) and Two (2) of Section
Thirty (30), in township Thirteen
(13) South of ranee Forty-two (42)
East, and the Northeast Quarter of
the Northeast Quarter (NEviNEVi )
of Section Twenty-five (25), in Town
ship Thirteen (13) South, Range Forty-one
(41) East, W. M., Malheur
uounty, uregon, to secure the pay
ment of the said promisory note, and
forever barring and foreclosing you
and each and all of the defendants
herein from all right, title and inter
est in and to said real property, ex
cept your statutory right to redeem
This summons is published in the
Malheur Enterprise, a weekly news
paper published and circulating in
Malheur County, Oregon, by order of
the Honorable Dalton Biggs, Judge of
the above entitled court, made nnd en
tered on the 8th day of December,
1910, and directing its publication
for six weeks, commencing with the
10th day of December, isn. and end
ing with the 20th day of January,
l'JlY.
DAVIS & KESTER,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Dec. 10-Jan. 20.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the County Court of the State of
Uregon, for Malheur County.
In the Matter of
the Estate of
Elsie Stradley, Deceased.
The undersicned havinc been an
pointed by the County Court of the
state ot uregon, lor Malheur Loun
ty, administrator of the estate of El
sie Stradley, deceased, and having
quauncu, notice is nercby given to the
creditors of and all persons having
claims against said deceased, to pre
sent them, verified as required by law,
within six months after the first pub
lication of this notice to said William
D. Stradley, at his place of residence
in liig uenu, Mainour uounty, Urc
gon.
WILLIAM D. STRADLEY.
Administrator of the estate of
Elsie Stradley, deceased.
Dated December 23rd, 1910.
First Publication Dec. 23. 1910.
Last Publication Jan. 20, 1917.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior,
U. S. Land Office at Vale, Oregon
December 21, 1910.
NOTICE is hereby eiven that Hen
ry J. Ryan, of Westfall, Oregon, who,
on June 4, 1913, made Homestead En
try, No. 02711, for WViNBM, EN
W't, Sec. 10, and who on July 28,
1914, made Add'l. Homestead Entrv,
No. 03454, for SWUNWH, Sec. 10,
SV&NBVt, SEViNW't, Section 9, all
in Township 10 South, Range 39 East,
Willamette Meridian, has filed notice
of intention to mnke Final Three
Year Proof, to establish claim to the
land, above described, before The
Register an Receiver, U. S. Land Of
fice, at Vale, Oregon, on the 2-Hh day
of January, 1917.
Claimant names as witnesses:
J. C. Spaulding, Jack Spaulding,
Don McCann, William Miller, nil of
Westfall, Oregon.
TII0S. JONES,
Register.
Dec. 23-Jan. 20.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
In the County Court of Malheur Coun
ty, Stato of Oregon.
In tho Mutter of the Last Will and
Testament of Daniel R. Dixon, De
ceased. Notice is hereby given that tho un
dersigned, M. G. Hope, tho duly ap
pointed, qualified and acting Executor
of tho Will of Daniel R. Dixon, de
ceased, has filed his Final Account
and Report, and by order of the said
Court, duly nuulo and entered on tho
10th day of January. 1917. tho hear
ing of said account will bo had at the
Court House at Vale, in said county
and stato, on tho 15tll day of Febru
ary, 1917, nt which time mid place,
any and all objections to said Final
Account and Report will bo heard and
tho said Account settled; and all per
sons concerned therein are further
notified to bo present and at said time
nnd place and show cause, if any
there be, why tho said Account and
Report should not be nnnroved and al-
I lowed, and tho undersigned bo dis
I charged as such executor, and his
I bond exonerated.
M. G, HOPE.
Jan. 13-Feb. 10.
SUMMONS
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Malheur County.
In the matter of the Guardianship
and estate of Preston II. Bogart,
Insane.
A petition having been, filed herein
by E. T. Bogart, guardian of the per
son and estate of said Preston H.
Bogart, insane, for a license to sell
the real property of said Preston H.
Bogart, described as lot 4, SEViSWU
of section seven, and lot 1 and NEVi
NWU of section 18, Township 15 S.,
R. 41 East, W. M., in Malheur county,
Oregon, containing 100.57 acres, more
or less, and that it is necessary and
beneficial to the said ward that said
property be sold, and it appearing
that Nancy Jane Bogart, J. F. Bogart,
Sarah Taylor, Merle Edwards and
Lily Ingram are the next of kin of
said ward, it is
ORDERED that said persons here
inabove last named, and all -persons
interested in the said estate, bo and
appear in said court at the court
room thereof in Vale, Oregon, on the
20th day of February, 1917, at the
hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of
said day, to then and there show
cause why a license should not be
granted for the sale of said real pro
perty, hereinabove described, and es
tate; that this order be published for
three successive weeks prior to said
day, in tho Malheur Enterprise, a
weekly newspaper published at Vale,
Oregon, and cifcualting in said coun
ty. Dated this January 18th, 1917.
geo. w. Mcknight,
County Judge.
Jan. 20-Feb. 10.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior,
. U. S. Land Office at Vale, Oregon
Jan. 11, 1917.
NOTICE is hereby given that Alva
C. Johnson, of Brogan, Oregon, who,
on January 22, 1914, made Homestead
Entry, No. 03074, for West Half
(W), Section 24, Township 15 South
Range 40 East, Willamette Meridian,
has filed notice of intention to make
Final Three Year Proof, to establish
claim to the land above described, be
fore the Register and Receiver U. S.
Land Office, at Vale, Oregon, on the
20th day of February, 1917.
.Claimant names as witnesses:
C. O. Powell, E. J. Stream E. G.
Mo'udy, all of Brogan, Oregon; J. O.
Moudy, of Vale, Oregon.
THOS. JONES,
Register.
Jan. 13-Feb. 10.
DON QUIXOTE
By Theodore Maynard
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior,
U. S. Land Office nt Vale, Oregon,
Jan. C, 1917.
NOTICE is hereby given that Hat
tie E. Welch, of Vale, Oregon, who,
on March 20, 1912, made Desert-Land
Entry, No. 0217S, for EH, Soction 10,
i lownsuip is douui, iinngc m ivasi,
The air is valiant with drums
And honorable the skies,
When ho rides singing as he comes
With solemn dreamy eyes
Of swinging of the splendid swords
And crashing of the nether lords
When Hell makes onslaught with its
hordes
In -.desperate emprise.
Oh, rides along the roads of Spain
The champion of the world,
For whom great soldans live again
With Moorish beards curled
But all their spears shall not avail
With one who weareth magic mail,
This hero of an epic talo
And his brave gauntlet hurled.
Clangor of horses and of arms
Across the quiet- fields,
Herald and trumpeter, alarms
Of bowman and of shields,
When doubt that twists and is afraid
Is shattered in the last crusade,
Where flaunts the plume arid falls the
blade
The cavalier wields.
Altho in that eternal cause
No liegeman gather now,
Nor flowered dames, to grant applause
Yet on his naked brow
All victor's laurels interwreath;
But he no dower can bequeath
But sword snapt short and empty
sheath
And errantry and vow!
k .?
Against his loolisli innocence
No man alive can stand,
Nor any giant drive him hence
With i sling or club or brand
For when his angry, buglo blows
There fall unconquerable foes,
Of mighty men of war none knows
To stay his witless hand,
i
All legendary wars seem tame,
And every tale gives place
Hoforo (ho knight's unsullied name
And his romantic fnco:
Yea, he shall break tho stoutest bars
And bear his courage and his scars
Beyond tho whirling moons nnd stars
And ajl the suns of space!
IRRIGATION ON SANDY SOILS
Willamette Meridian, has filed notice if the Irrigt
(Q) 1 of intention to mako Final Proof un- j ,im fnr.. inl
S( dor the 2nd pniagraph of the Act of j 5". .,00l,
By E, C. McClcllan. Elko, Nev.
Tho common practice and teaching
for irrigating open or sandy land is
to divert, as much water as possible
over the ground and irrigate it as fast
as possible, on tho theory that the less
time the water is upon tho surface
of tho ground tho less will bo the" loss
by water ifiowing into tho soil.
This method may bo nil right where
the water supply is great and tho
crops such ns to grow profitably when
composed of water principally; but,
never fill up so the water would flow
across. Our method there and at oth
er spots of like character was to turn
a very small stream into the; irrigat
ing' furrows, nnd then with a pointed
stick or (as I did when i was old
enough to take charge of the irrigat
ing) the end of the hoe handle shar
pened to a point, draw it. nlong the
furrow and, by puddling it, stop the
water from sinking into the ground.
In this way we were able to irri
gate this land with little more water
than needed for irrigating the balance
of the fields; and in the course of
years, and before I left home, those
spots had bdeomo so well filled with
finer sediment brought upon the land
by the water that wo had no more
trouble irrigating them than other
placc3 in the fields.
At that time our only thought was
to raise crops upon tho land with the
least water used in irrigation possi
ble; and it was only in later years
that I realized the all-important fact
that our system "was the one to secure
tho. best-rcsul'not only in quantity
per amount of water used but also
for quality. I knew that in feeding
our horses hay we had very little to
throw out of the mangers in waste,
while our nearest neighbor, who had
plenty of water, had to throw out of
the mangers half to two-thirds the
hay ho put in for the stock. I knew
that our horses that were fed all the
hay they could eat without waste of
any great amount and less than a
fourth the grain our nejghbor fed
would endure far harder work than
his would; that a ton of hay fed to
cattle in the winter kept them in far
better condition than 3 tons fed by
our neighbor; and that the cost of
("harvesting 1 ton of pioduce was less
than harvesting 3 tons; but there
were several reasons that I gave for
this difference. I thought our neigh
bor was extremely wasteful in feed
ing, and. that the hay he took from
the mangers and used for bedding for
the horses should have.been eaten by
them; and that the reason why our
horses came home from a trip haul
ing a heavy load, while our neighbor
would leave his load several miles
from home and go back after it the
next day, was duo to better manage
ment in handling tho horses. I also
laid all the blame upon the riders
when our neighbor's saddle horses
would give out in the hills, and the
riders would have to walk home,
leaving our riders to drive in and cor
ral the bands, of wild horses that were
worked together every fall; but I had
to stretch my imagination to do this,
for I knew that in many cases our
men. were very hard riders.
But what I want to tell is some
thing about tho workings of water in
the soil in relation to plant life and
growth, and reasons why tho method
of irrigation with large quantities of
water on open soils is not the right
one.
If you will go out upon any kind
of agricultural land and take up and
sxamine the soil for several feet in
depth you will find that the top soil
is finer and contains more sediment
in it than lower down; and that as
you dig down it generally becomes
more and more open with depth. This
is not always the case, but is gehcr-
Vy-
There are three reasons I can give
."or this. First, the alternate frecz
ng and thawing of the soil particles
.ends to disintegrate the original sol
ds. Second, water flowing over the
surface brings more or less sediment
in solution, which,- ns the water flows
along or sinks into the ground, is left
behind on tho surface or close to it.
Third, water under the surface has
a constant tendency to rise to the sur
face where it can evaporate and mix
with the air; and in coming up will
carry along in solution elements
which it can very often get rid of
only by getting close enough to the
surface so it can evaporate.
There is only one opposite method
of any consequence- which will carry
these fine particles and tho elements
downward, and that is water flowing
into the ground in such large quanti
tics that it will not only, carry with it
downward what itihas'when it enters
the soil, but will take in and carry
down tho other sediments and ele
ments that may bo near the surface;
and this flow continued for any length
of time will drain tho soil of the nee
essary food elements required for
plant growth. In tho course of time,
with the finer- earth particles washed
down nnd out of the land, and the
food elements also carried away,
there will remain a soil incapable of
holding wator for nny length of time,
and not containing nny of the ele
ments required for food plant growth.
Of course, the farmer can replace
tho food elements at great expense,
but will it pay to do this when it is
a certainty that large part of it will
bo washed down and away from where
tho plant roots can reach them ?
:-: Summary of Irrigation Law
"In summing up the operations of
the Irrigation District law in Ore
gon," Mr. Cupper said, "we find that
there have been seventeen districts
organized covering approximately
10,375 acres, that bonds aggregating
$7,511,000 have been issued, while ap
proximately $089,600 have been sold.
There is now irrigated within the
boundaries of Irrigation Districts ap
proximately 32,200 acres of which
25,000 acres were irrigated prior to
the organization of the respective dis
tricts in which they are located.
"Assuming that the districts or
ganized during 1916 have not had
an opportunity 'to develop, it is be
lieved that a better understanding
can be gained by summing up re
sults obtained on districts organized
prior to 1916, as follows:
Number of districts 11
Total number of acres in
the district 207,675
Acres actually irrigated af
ter district organization 9,200
Irrigated prior to district
'organization 4,000
Total bonds voted $5,761,000
Total bonds sold $ 689,600
rrigator has any -regard for j "
xlnnionts in lu'a Inml nn4 ia TIlO IlCt result of tho Camnnlo-n fur
pniagraph of the Act of , . .. ' V . ... . . ' . w .t.. . ...
March 3. 1915. to establish claim to . "'OKmg tor quality in the crops he ""giies seems to nave oeen to put
the land abovo described, before the raises, ho will never use this method. ! $',e-9,.2t0 nnd Hiram Johnson into ac
Register and Receiver, U, S. Land Raised in tho western part of Ne- t' circulation. Columbus Ohio
?n.lce', nKY",c' .W2n' 0,1 th0 12thivudn. where tho precipitation is less ' State Journal.
than tho twornge in the seminrid ro
day of February, 1917.
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L iatniaiiL iiunina hh w.uiumbgj: i
Lula Colwull, Cora UaH, Phi! Hass, 1 Kions of the United Statos. my carli-
Wall Street is a little calmer, but
Wilbci t Colwell, nil of Vulu. Oregon. , u.t recollection of irrigation is that occasional shivors still run down
Tiinti mvpo .
j of puddlins thu furrows that wove m Hroau and Exchange at the thought
Jan. 13-Feb. 10, lnu news. '' to stop the water lrom wuu peace may urea out again at
Hawing into tho ground. At one par- any moment. ttoston lnmscnpt.
Wilson merely want the bolliger-1 tieular plaeo in my father's lands we
cuts to get together, whereas the real ! could turn all the water we had upon There's just ono sure way to find
difficulty would be to get them nprt. it, and sink it nil within a space M poac hunt it up in your "Funk and
-Philadelphia North American, "ect tn diameter, nnd the land would Wagnalb- uoton transcript
"It is believed" that there is no back
interest due on Irrigation District
bonds in Oregon. This is rather sur
prising, in view of the prevailing
opinion that irrigation securities are
not desirable. This condition may be
largely due to discriminating judg
ment of the bond buyers but due
weight must be given to the charac
ter of the securities offered.
"Viewed from the standpoint of the
landowner, -who wants his land irri
gated, it, can hardly be said-that the
irrigation district plan has proven a
success. However, it is one thing to
point out that the district p)an has
not been productive of satisfactory
results. It is another thing to show
where it has failed and suggest
remedy. This difficulty may lie with
tho Irrigation District law. It may
be duo to the class of projects in Ore
gon, or it may be that irrigation it
self is at fault, or, perhaps even more
probable, a combination of all.
"We cannot change our irrigation
projects nor irrigation, but wo do
have something to say about it. It
is generally conceded that the district
law has been so amended that its pro
visions are uncertain and conflicting
in many particulars and that addition
al amendments will doubtless be pro
posed at tho coming session of Leg
islature. It has therefore been pro
posed that the Irrigation District law
bo re-enacted. Should this be under
taken the new statute should be log
ically arranged and consistent
throughout.
"If past experience in irrigation de
velopment have not taught a lesson
which will be productive of results
in future activities along this line,
we must face with chagrin the fact
that it is a little difficult for us to
learn and also that we have a good
many irrigation failures ahead of us,
as well as behind us."
Among the most important of the
changes which Mr. Cupper offers for
tho improvement and strengthening
of the present Irrigation District law
may be briefly sunimarizea as fol
lows:
Extend tho authority of the State
Engineer's supervision over Irrigation
Districts to include field investigation
as a means of eliminating tho ele
ment of exploitation.
Tho State Engineer should have su
pervision over the engineering work
dono by tho district and the engineer
for the district should be nppointed
upon his recommendation.
election held under tho act to bona
election held under the ae to bona
fide landowners within the district
crty cannot be held for the debts of
the district.
The qualification of a "bona fide
claimant to an uncompleted title un
der the public land laws of the Unit
ed States or the State of Oregon,"
who is construed to be entitled to vote
under the act, should be made more
specific and limited to such entrymen
upon vacant public lands as have sub
mitted final proof and received a cer
tificate but whose title is not perfect
ed by tho"'issuance of patent.
The "red tape procedure" under
present secret ballot elections, with
their attendant expense and "design
ed only to mislead the landowner un
der the guise of protecting his inter
ests" is farcical; does not apply as a
check to exploitation nnd should be
abolished. Election procedure should
bo as open and simple as possible.
tne board of directors' system
should be changed so as to elect only
one director each year, instead of all
three or five, as a precaution against
radical change in policy and the pro
motion of a fixed and stable policy of
development.
Cities and towns, as tho direct ben
eficiaries of irrigation development
immediately contiguous, should be in
cluded within tho irrigation districts
and made to help pay for their de
velopment.
Substitute the system of assessing
benefits and damae-es for th
development for the present statute'
requirement that each irrigable acre j
within the district shall pay the same
amount us evory other irricable acre. 1
which does not seem equitable, inas
much as some portions df a district
are less oxpensivc to reclaim as oth-
ers, and this latter system has led to
serious complications in some instance
Provisions should be made for vot
ng bonds to pay off bonded indebted-
"The Irrigation District plants
the latest hope,, if not the last hope,
for a number of years to come for
big irrigation development," declares
Mr. Cupper. "It is designed to give
the irrigator water at cost, and that
cost as low as may be consistent with
reasonably substantial works. Just
insofar as it accomplishes this result
will it succeed. There is no room
for exploitation between the cost of
irrigation and the price the irrigator
can afford to pay.
"The first essential to the success
of a district plan is a workable, well
safe-guarded Irrigation District law,
and I trust that the coming session
will see fit to enact such a statute.
Such a statute, will doubtless assist
a number of Oregon projects, where
the estimate cost of construction is
low, to secure the necessary funds,
and insure completion, if the act ia
administered along practical lines."
RESULTS OF RECLAMATION
The usual data were collected at tlio
close of the irrigation season of J3
regarding the results being attained
by the irrigators. Those figures show
the annual advance in the settlement
and development of the Government's
reclamation projects. In 1916 over
1,000 farms and 50,000 acres were
added to the cultivated area of the
various projects, and irrigation wa
ter was served to 18,600 producing
farms. Over 800,00p acres were ir
rigated, and crops were harvested
from over 760,000 acres. During 1915
the latest year for which crop statis
tics are available, tho average for all
reclamation projects in value of crops
per acre was $24, an increase of 50
cents per acre in comparison with the
statistics for 1914. At the same
time the total production increased
one and a half million dollars, to ov
er $18,000,000.
In 1915 two projects were added to
those producing annual crops worth
over a million dollars the Uncom
pahgre Valley, Colorado, and the
North Platte, Nebraska - Wyoming.
The Salt River project, Arizona, con
tinues to lead in total returns, with
crops worth $3,660,000, closely fol
lowed by the Yakima project, Wash
ington, producing from less than half
as large an area crops estimated at
$3,418,000.
The foregoing figures are restrict
ed to areas covered by the water-user
census or crop reports, which in gen
eral cover lands under canals operat
ed by the Reclamation Service. On
several of the "projacts ".additional
areas received water, developed by tho
project works but delivered through
canals not oprated by the Govern
ment. This was the case on the
Strawberry Valley -project, Utah,
where water was delivered for the
first time from the Government
works. In this way an additional 40,
000 acres were served by the Govern
ment projects, bringing the total irri
gated area to over 850,000 acres. At
the same time the works were capable
of serving nearly 1,500,000 acres.
Crops of 1915.
The figures for 1915 show no mark
ed change in the character of crops
grown or their relative areas. More
than half the total cropped area is'
devoted to hay and forage crops.
slightly less than one-third to grains,
and less than 5 per cent each to fruit,
vegetables, and sugar beets. There
is evident a gradual increase in the
proportionate area of bearing fruit.
The depression in the cotton market
that followed the outbreak of war in
Europe resulted in a large reduction
of the area utilized for this crop, but
the later recovery in prices is not yet
reflected in the statistics.
Alfalfa continues to dominate the
crop statistics from the irrigated
areas. In 1915 it occupied nearly
half the cropped acreage and yielded
over one-third the total crop value.
The Kaiser sucirests holdine- the
immediate peace-conference in some
"neutral city," which lets Milwaukee,
Cincinnati, and St. Louis out of the
running. La Crosse Leader Press.
Britain will fight on, says King
George. He must have seen Lloyd-
George's speech in the papers. Phil
adelphia North American.
More friends are of the sort who
will help you into trouble than will
help you out.