struck. A man can not imagine that the trees grow there. I do not think y and compete with a country that does I think we can raise all kinds of fruit quires more population. The holdings good family if it is well irrigated. Th understand it. Some give too much v live on 60 acres. But I think it would acres; 40 acres would make a good h River the supply of water is abundant on it. There is a large amount of wat need storage. There is plenty of wate whole country. I am speaking of Lev not raise fruit in the garden without L. F. Cartee, formerly surve horticulturist by irrigation, gav of his own work and observatio Idaho sage-brush land is capable of latitude anywhere, not only all they forty different varieties of grapes on Catawba. That does not ripen becau is of fair quality; better than any of of wheat on our irrigated land is fro bushels; occasionally 70 to 80 bushels as wheat-25 to 50 bushels. Timothy alfalfa returns 6 tons. Red clover wi to the acre. This is the finest apple 12 miles in width. The secondary hed by steep ascent, making them feet above the bottom-land. These here covered with succulent grasses. fertile in capacity, if water can be make Montana a typical region in storage and subsequent distribution reclaimable area in the lower valley nder a system of scientific engineerf from 3,000,000 to 8,000,000 acres. ed and distribution so systematized ay be reached and quickened, the y compassed. Nor does this statedrainage or hydrographic basin of valleys found there, many of which litional 4,000,000 acres to the area of a report made by the authorities of ge portion of the main Yellowstone ves the valley land area at 384,000 y valleys within the county, includ and Otter, it gives their valley areas olied from the Yellowstone alone is use in the areas under consideration Average number of bushels per acre in Montan Average for the United States Average per acre for whole arid region The number of farms is 1,519 and the average value of land is the past ten fiscal years 6,904,461 posed of in Montana, of which to upon, sold, or patented during th 30, 1889. The statistics presented as to i It appears that there were in 186 structed at a cost of $806,500. 1 many have been used for irrigati 1,000 miles. There are now part larger or district systems, constr rations: Plains to the north west of the North uire for their arable use an extended at they can be so reclaimed is testiestimate is made of 8,000,000 acres, by private parties or companies has nber of valleys, viz: The Klamath northern California; the Boisé River Valley, Washington and Idaho; the on, and in the Rogue River Valley, are large and furnish enough water tches, which could be supplemented or when the demands increase. The and productive. The Great Plains well known, is a promising country. ith water during the summer months, › Lewiston has falls and rapids, and ning irrigation ditches to the lower r named present the usual characterroded channels, low, narrow valleys, ning widely one or the other side of es, and then again rising into grassNorth Yakima and Ellensburgh can be in extensive scale. The Moxie ranch The waters of the Yakima and the sons, and without any storage w tremely large area of country. In the extreme southeastern sect east to Lewiston, in Idaho, there i vegetables, in which the use of irr of the land. It is a region also of water, and it illustrates, too, the r ing altitudes. The average annual five years past at 18 inches; at Da inches. That is a rise of less than above sea-level at Walla Walla is 1,675 feet. The advantages offere Some State census figures, which s in Washington during two years east of the Cascade range. In 188 persons; in 1889 the estimate ma 000. In the western counties the eastern counties it was 97,868; an total increase for two years is give tween 117 degrees and 121 degre while that west of the Cascades g Oregon is estimated to have rec same two years or less, of whom |