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Show Artesian Irrigation. notith Dakota has taken a lessor from her various droughts, and is prepari.: to irrigata the vrliole..6tate. . There are k-lakeB k-lakeB or riTers whence to draw the water supply, hence artesian wells must be resorted re-sorted to. There is a state board of irrigation, irri-gation, and a state engineer of the same. The possibilities of artesian wells seem infinite. They can be utilized as power for mills, farm carpenter shops and dairies. dai-ries. The overflow can be gathered anJ turned into a pool for a pretty fish po j 1. making a picturesque object in the la.i 1-bcape 1-bcape and giving a valuable food supply in a state where fish are in the nature oi things scarce. Once drilled, an arte;-i:tr well will turn a desert into an oa,ii which will produce more abundantly than land where rainfall is sufficient to be depended on. But the question is, How shall the wells be dug? They are expensive, the machinery for digging them is costly and liable to make an unexpected break just when consequences are worst. The state board of irrigation has this an2 other problems to face, with a determination determi-nation to solve them. The Dakota Farmer Farm-er proposes that several farmers club together and build wells for each othttr on the co-operative plan. The machinery ma-chinery costs from 1,000 to $2,000. Companies are so anxious to dispose of their goods that they will sell machinery ma-chinery on time, part cash, the rest i one or two year3. With these indue ments farmers might manage to get four or five wells with one set of machinery, ma-chinery, doing the work as well as buying buy-ing the machinery on the co-operative tUan. |
