Show GREAT 18 irrigation shortly after sending th irrigation bill to the president congress passed i resolution author zing the director ol 01 the census to compile statistics relating to irrigation for the crop ye ir ot 1902 the data no v assembled this work ill be comparative simple most of it being done by coi to se cure this information inquiries still soon pe sent out to irn gators throughout the united states ahe ca operation hose interested in irr is earnest 1 solicited for upon their prompt re will depend erl airel the value of these statistics this is in pirt a sup elementary tary work the results of which will be utilized in the work soon to bo undertaken b the deportment of the 1 interior under the pro fusions of the irn gallon b 11 in rutih the number of irn gators es elusive of indian increased from 9 21 in 1889 to 17 in 1899 or percent and the number of acres irrigated from to 69 or 8 per cent ahe average value of baym land per acre of irrigated laud 37 40 ahe ditches in operation in 1899 had a length of 2 miles cost 0 o 72 and irrigated acres there were acres from wells the irrigated area in crops 0 as acres yielding products valued at the area boated in pasture was acres |