Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . o received and repaid his Allman has always done well on his farm, but last year a neighboracross the river made a larger dam higher up and took his water. AsKansas law on the subject is meager, and there is no local official toenforce it, Mr. Allman was in great difficulty when I saw him in the outcome was I have not heard. Professors from more thanone of our State institutions have camped on the Smoky river in thisneighborho
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . o received and repaid his Allman has always done well on his farm, but last year a neighboracross the river made a larger dam higher up and took his water. AsKansas law on the subject is meager, and there is no local official toenforce it, Mr. Allman was in great difficulty when I saw him in the outcome was I have not heard. Professors from more thanone of our State institutions have camped on the Smoky river in thisneighborhood during their summer explorations, but none have thoughtthis ditch, now eighteen years old, worthy of any report. A change hastaken place. Not only Western Kansas, but the middle and eastern sec-tions of the State, are talking about irrigation now. Not only is theArkansas valley being irrigated in the counties mentioned above, butstreams like the Republican, Sappa, the Prairie Dog, and the Cimarronare being utilized for this purpose. A small stream like Brush creek, inGraham county, has been dammed so as to irrigate twenty-five acres 130. 131 KANSAS. directly, by Mr. Nathan Krank, and about as much more is benefited bysub-irrigation from the pool above the dam. A small stream known asSpring creek, in Meade county, has been used to water four hundredacres on the Crooked L ranch, and in the same county, and in Hamilton,some irrigation has been done by artesian wells, on an aggregate of aboutone hundred acres. This meeting of the State Board of Agriculture devoting this time tothe subject of irrigation is another proof of the changed tendency of pub-lic opinion on this subject, and the fact that the National Congressintrusted an investigation of this matter to the Secretary of Agriculturelast spring, which is being continued ^through this winter, shows theextent to which national interest in the development of the region of theGreat Plains has extended. (The report of the summer
Size: 1270px × 1968px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidfactsaboutka, bookyear1903
