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Geo. W. Elder
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
City Property, Farm Lands,
Irrigated Lands, Grazing Lands
The following are the best I have to offer in ranches
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5645 Acres Stock Ranch, 300 acres irrigated, 200 acres in timothy and clover. 100 more to be seeded, water
costs nothing, 1000 acres good plow land, 20 springs never freeze, most of the land has south exposure,
2000 acres summer range all fenced, neat buildings, house cost $8000, other buildings to compare, 176
head cattle, 100 registered cows. PRINCE RUPER BLOOD. Will take $50.000 in good property as part
payment on this ranch. Price, $35.00 per acre
1650 Acres, 450 acres summerfallow, 100 acres now in wheat, 450 acres to summerfallow, can farm 1000 acres
of this ranch. 4 Room house, barn for 16 horses, water piped in house and barn. 30 horses, harness,
wagons, Deering combine, three 3-bottom Oliver plows, rail road warehouse on ranch for shipping grain,
a full line of farm machinery goes with the place. Price $30.00 per acre including outfit.
748 Acre wheat and dairy farm, 14 miles west of Pendleton. $3000 cash, balance 1-2 the crop delivered to the
elevator until the land is paid for, near warehouse and on the Columbia highway. $30 per acre. .
1127 Acres 28 miles north of Pendleton. 400 acres summerfallow, purchaser pay for summerfallow and $4000
cash, the balance 1-2 the crop delivered to the Elevator until land is paid. Price $30 per acre, interest
at 8 per cent.
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400 Acres Irrigated land, 94 acres on the river bottom and the finest land in Oregon. Pnce for the entire
tract $100 per acre.
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I have Irrigated farms from 10 acres to 400. some very well improved, suitable for dairying, hog raising win
ter quarters for stock and in fact good enough for any purpose.
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I have several business blocks close to the center of the business portion of the city paying a splendid income and
rented to responsible tenants, apartment house paying exceptionally large income op the investment, and
can be had on very reasonable terms. I also have some fine farm leases to sell together with fine outfits.
These owners have made money enough to retirefor life.
INSURANCE
I also represent the best Insurance Co’s for Life, Fire. Accident. Health & Accident, Automobile, Bonding
and growing crops.
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George W. Elder
818 MAIN STRET, PENDLETON
Phone 993
PHONE 331
has come into very general use on
Umatilla project largely through
ALFALFA INVESTIGATIONS the
the efforts of the Experiment Farm
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and the local repres entatle of the
taken from the field before and af Office of ‘Demonstrations on Recla-
ter irrigation to ascertain the pro mation Projects of the United States
per depth of water to be applied at Department of Agriculture. At pres
each irrigation. It was found that ent 25 to 30 percent of all the land
the sbil was capable of holding ap is layed out under the border meth
proximately an acre-Inch of water in od and 90 percent of the new land
each acre-foot of soil so the applica is employing it. Its use is rapidly
tions have since been limited so far spreading to the other light soil pro
as possible to four acre-inches which jects of the Columbia Basin as a re-
wets the soil to a sufficient depth suit of the unusual success secured
for plant roots. The duty of water on the Umatilla. The advantages
per acre-foot is determined by di of the system are that it Is a com
viding the tons of hay produced by paratively economical means of pre
the acre-feet of water applied. The paring land for irrigation originally,
results of this trial showed that that economical applications of wa-
slightly more hay could be produced ter may be made with it, that the
by irrigating once a week than by distribution of water is uniform and
irrigating once in two weeks but the labor of Irrigation is greatly re
that the additional hay yield was duced as compared with the flood
not great enough to warrant the ing or furrow methods.
additional labor inolved in irriga
The border method work being
tion and the additional water charge. done by the Experiment Farm with
The greatest return for the water alfalfa consists of length and width
used or in other words the highest of border experiments. The length-
duty of water per acre-foot was also of-border experiment has borders
secured on the plats irrigated once 100, 175 and 250 feet long and 22
in two weeks. The production on feet wide and the width of border
the plat irrigated once in three experiment has borders 20 . 25, 30,
weeks was so low that it would mot 35 and 40 feet wide and 200 feet
be economical farming to irrigate long.
at that long an interval.
The average amount of water used
on the length-of-border experiments
Border Irrigation
In the early years of irrigation was only slightly more on the 175
on the Umatilla project furrow irri- foot border than on the 100 foot
gation and wild flooding were sten- border but considerably more water
erally used. The furrow method was was required to irrigate the. 250 foot
border than the 175 foot one. Only
undesirable In that the head of
ter was divided so that the loss .68 acre-foot per acre required to ir
from deep percolation below the rigate the extra 75 feet which the
175 foot border was longer than the
root zone was excessive and it
difficult to reach the lower end» of 100 foot border but the extra 75 feet
the field. The wild flooding was of the 250 foot border over the 175
unsatisfactory because parts of the foot Border required 2.26 acre-feet
fields were irrigated more than once per acre.
On the width of border experi-
and the higher portions were not ir
rigated. These objections were net ment the amount of water as acre-
and overcome by the borden methe id feet per acre required to irrigate
because the head was not divided I • the 20 and 25 foot borders was equal
using the method and so could be » and the 30 foot border did not re
forced over the land quickly with quire excessive amounts but the 35
out excessive percolation loss. The and 40 foot borders required more
duplication of irrigation was over- water than consistant with good Ir
come by dikes which controlled the rigation practice. The amount of
water and when a border ia properly water required for the single appli-
constructed there are no high spots c tion was in the same proportion
as
which are difficult to irrigate.
a the
-— total amount of water requir-
By the border method of Irriga led < The optimum size o
e
tion the land is laid out In strips mint he governed by the type of soil,
from 20 to 40 feet wide and from the sim»« of land and by the head nt
water available.
In other words
100 to 250 feet long, the size de-gw.-
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pending upon the type of soil and earh piece of land as ts peculiar
the slope of land lengthwise.
The
water is controlled from spreading
problem’s and the way it is to be laid
out will depend upon these factors
too far sidewise by dikes at right but the above results " to size
angles to the ditch.
This method should be kept In mind.