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Show Delta Company Doings. The Delta Land & Water Co. is now working 125 men on their South Tract drainage work. They have installed a mammoth steel hotel range in their camp kitchen and are serving meals to 75 workmen at their tables. And are occasionally entertaining visitors from the outside country who come here to study the drainage system now being put in on the South Tract, and have now as a guest Engineer Kibben. Mr. Kibben is in charge of the Marcus Daily estate of Montana which has under irrigation 20,000 acres of land. He is here making mak-ing a study of the South Tract with the idea of gaining drainage information to be applied on this estate. The drainage system will be completed this fall and considerable consider-able acreage of the company lands will be cropped by them next summer. They are to put in 800 acres of fall wheat and several hundred acres of rye this fall, besides a large acreage of sweet clover. . The drainage 'system is working work-ing fine so far as it has gone and jarrying off an immense amount of mineral. When this system is completed and has been in use for a few years there is going to be some of the best agricultural land on the South Tract that can be found in the state. |