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Show Tho Irrigation "Sankcro." An l-nstcn farmer ci mlng to nn Irrigated Irri-gated eulley finds fieri thing ns dllterent from his ji customed life ns ho can well Imngne ee intist learn an entirely new Iiukuuko of iHimlug and a new net nt firming rules ilia neighbor greets nltn not with the remnrk, "it looks like ruin." hut. Have jou heard when the water Is coming In?" ni, Ihe ditches uro low- to. do ' Mn lenins to snak of miners' Indus end ner-lf.t of water, and he ran soon tell nt a Lhinco whether a ditch la eirrjlug llfty or 100 miners- Inches of wnlrr, he hi ire wlno discussion!! of hend-gnles, hend-gnles, wilrs, laterals, zanjes. he finds thnt ho Is -und-r' a eirtnln canal, which hy nnd bj will come lo seem lo him like nn Inexnrnhlo fate lie wll leery promptly make ths ncqu ilntnnco of Ihe Icing ot tho Irrl.-atcd land the zailjirn-lu Arizona called -sankero' In California Borneilmes Hliniiened tn sanks'-the water-master or dllch-rliler. n bron d m. n In overalls nnd n soinhnro, who drives iilin.lt In a , iwo-wheei-.,! can with a shovel nnd a long rook lined rork hy his site, nnd precious kon In Ids points lie Is the jei nnd I nay nr the nrld Innl the arbiter or fato, the dl.pciM.r of gi.n.1 nnd evil to be l.lrssed by turns uml eiirred bv turns, nnd lo iiceho ,aiii with iho inter iincnncern I illnrlbulis thn wnlir lie opens ihe head. Kiitn or riwh farmer a canal nnd when Iho woter has run the necesunrj lime ho nhiits ll ilojii ngnln nnd again locks It fiTf.'1! .'.' i1.1", " r I" ihort he seen tint It Is dlvlleil pioperly b, iwcen Hrullli and Jones uml I rnwn usuallv with Hndtli '.' I1!1. Joincf '"" '".""," ""I'lng him Ilk., in Ihe vallevs sul , In acctlsutlons If."1', ""., . "ttl.ll gs, bui be It said to ihe credit or u American, thero is many a z,ii,,,n who li unlversilli re-titi. re-titi. -. $ cominiiiilli ns un honest man -liny Bun until Hik.r, in Century. |