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Show A Good Scheme. There is a feature of irrigation which our farmers farm-ers have not utilized as yet. A great many farmers farm-ers are short of water when there is an inexhaustible inex-haustible quantity on their farms only a few feet below the surface. If they would club together to establish an electric plant in the canyon from which their water comes, the power, transmittedj by wire to the farms and attached to pumps, would produce water enough to materially supplement sup-plement their natural water supply. The samo power would supply water for the home and garden gar-den and for all the stock on the place. It would do the churning, thrash the grain, bale the hay clip the horses, wash the buggies, light the houses and barns and make itself generally useful. Th( men who own a mountain stream and the farm' in the valley where the stream is discharged ought surely to utilize the power that has thriugl all time run to waste. It would, beside bein-; a economic measure, add immensely to the conforf of their homes. |