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Show THE WEST MiWni. j A I'ni'fo or .Hen 1'itl In Work on tlir West ! Cinal. j N'ow that the strong back of Winter has been thoroughly broken by muscular young Spring, the work on the Point Lookout braneh of the west canal has been resumed with earnestness. What little frost there was in the ground has been dissipated by old Sol and the work of excavation fan be prosecuted with satisfactory dispatch, PHiop Carl Jensen of Pear Liver City, who hai the contract, sialic. 1 a number of men and teams at. work a lew davs ago. The intention is to have the rock work roiindi ng Point Lookout and I he easier diteli work all in readiness by the beginning of the spring irrigating reason. Thin the water of Pear Uiver will ln turned in. bringing many thoumds of aero of otherwise almost worthless worth-less hind under cultivation. culti-vation. The only requisite t... make ail this tast tract very vnlu able lor orehurds, gardens and farming is water. The new canal brings this, which id manna to the starving land. |