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1911. No. 15 UDen -l. Cc.nal. 55.

W. O. W. Qnviiin sution, airl can supply installations of the s''ze of ths ATcr --t cloven years i tireless r.r.d work-: i3-jr ii--- i i oi til.1 reat Uaion Cilu as cri J. Frank Schell, in Apri', 1500, i Hiiially dedicated aciid the cheerin th'-usacJs, who came on pc-ci 1 trains from Lifiyai, OeVusas snd Washington to point between the two torns, where the dedication was to be held.

They cuuie iu trains, the' ciiue in carri in on horseback, luu'ebrck, and on they i .1 came with one purpose, to do homage to the genius cf tiie who liad conceived so stupendous enterprise. Wi tn compleitd this wiii oe the greatest irrigating can al in the entire Union. lis immensity is almost iccou-cciva'dc, for, with its it will le five and hutdrei miles lojf. The one portion that is alreary complete! is thirty-five rr'ies long work is progressing on ther portions. A pumping station has len npletei taking water from open canal levl: Rqycu v.bicii uj source ia th Atcbafalaya riv cr.

It pumps Et a r.ixiruuru rate i 150,000 gallons per minute into aip'etei canal, and tai.s is tuf ine tf hix pumpirg ttitna of the s.n capacity that 1 consii tnte tire il ih idaUg'itcroi the COVCt ver ana leased the i.vcf water sh 'ttly after, tvo o'clock in afteri.oot As the nt unrestraint" -r- i A a for ths who wants gj ana ttiun.e Tlte -5 ri.i i. wind Is to i Watir from Field "Wells. Oil Lafayette, April 19 The questiou of salt water iu Vermilion River is again to tha front, ar.d some ticuble may result it the source of the brine is not corrected. Mana ger Danicla and his assistaut Franklin Suiner, cf the Hunter Canal pumping station, fifteen miles below Lafayette made a trip today and investi gated the upper waters of the stream near the Anse la Butte oil fields. Ttey found a flow of salt water entering the Vermilion from the oil fields, which tested a high per cent-age cf salt, and the stream jeing very low, the influx of salt water seriously affected the purity of the Vermilion below the poiat of contamina tion.

The Hunter Cana'eople are now pumping water from their great plant near Milton on the Vermilion, and furnish water to thousands of acres of rice along the canal and its laterals and if the river becomes impregnated with salt the plant must shut down, and bring rum to an extensive section of rice country. The people on the oil field haye been warned that if they continue to allow the escape of salt water from the wells into the Vermilion they will be held responsible under the law, which strictly forbids this practice during the irrigation of the rice fields. Likesida Laconics. We are still getting fine showers and our gardens are c-rtaijly begiuning to look fine. Dewberries are begiuning to ripen but there has been so much burning off that there are very few iu this neighborhood.

Amos Broussard lost a fine horse last week. While hav-iug some belts pulled it broke its back. From all indications there will be a large increase this year in the acreage in this parish planted to cotton. The ravages of the pestiferous boll weevil the past three years have placed the small cottca farmer in a very precarious condition. He has learned, however, to raise corn, potatoes and feed stuffs, and thus become in a measure self-supporting and more independent.

It has been amply demonstrated here that by thorough preparation cf the soil, late planting of early maturing varieties of choice cotton fe v-aruilU3 aEU average yitia ot cotton can oe cDtaine in spue of the boll veevil, Wd will be at least 40 per cent crease in the cotton acreage, end many will also use fertilizers. Dr. Dowling poured coal oil over four beeves just slaughtered at Lake Charles because the owners of the slaughter pen had male no improvements since his in- said the meet was unfit for humau consumption. Salt present plant. There is seveu foot suction for th? pref as the water is tahxa up 'rem ths tunnel ia the sue it is divided iuto streams forty-two inches ia diameter, mukiag this th latest centrnugal pump evtr built.

The R. Woods Company cf Camden, being the builders. plant handles seventy-Eve ahousand gai'ous per minute as a minimum capacity and one hundred and fifty thousand gailous per minute as a maximum capacity. There are two iooo horse power Rus-sel four-valve compound con-diiuirg engines, with shafts ti.ver.iy two and one half inches in diameter and thirty teet in lerictb. The water is lifted through the plant into the maiu canal which when ccm plettd will be seventy-four et above sea level.

This is the only plaDt ever built tD3t lifis water tr such a height ia one lift with capacity enough to irrigate or coo acres, and when comnlet-ed will irrigate every section cf Southwest Louisiana that cares to be supplied from i source. The present plans of the owners of the company -template extending tie caia's into the State cf Texas. The main canal is three hundred and fifty feet wide and will be thirty-one rues ia length, with laterals two hundred and fifty feet branch off and running for various distances, gradually ir rowing, according to the rei.iirenieuts cf the territory Ia the right way for the various canals the iuy chose not only the dryest and richest soi1, but Jz.) the highest, and conse- rjwf-d fnit; ru-vpntv-fonr 1 -ir ftiof at tli? r.nnu)iiio tatuu it will gradually run through the canal by its own gravity, the slope extending from the pumpiug station in every direction through southwest Louisiana and castTexas. This will cause a flow of water through prairie land that is at present nearly all virgin soil. The boilers for this immense plant were made by the E.

Ketler Company of Williams-pot aud are water tube, 250 horse power, 1S0 steam pressure, with oil hurting tquipment patented by Luther Hawkins of Rayne, La. G. C. Kiap, a civil and ne-chanicel engineer of Massil-ion, Ohio, has been in active charge of the work from the time of its conception until its completion to 'the present and he, along with Mr. Schell was the recipient cf hearty congratulations yesterday.

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Box 149. Shrevepo La. A number of Woodmen went to LeRoy Sunday morning in carriages and autos to attend the unveiling of a monument erected ever the grave of Sidney Landry, a deceased member of Rayne Camp. Sovereigns Alfred Kahn, E. C.

Hawkin and J. A. Taylor officiating, assisted by brother sovereigns of Abbeville. After the ceremony an eloquent oration was delivered by sovereign Zick Broussard of Abbeville. Rayne Camp will conduct a similar ceremony at this pbee oa Sunday, April 30, at which time the monuments cf deceased Sovereigns J.

W. Wim-berly and W. B. Milligan will be unveiled. Rayne Trioune.

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Barrow made sixty bushels fine corn and seventy bushejs fine rice on 2 1-5 acres land, planted every eighth row ia corn. He bought the rice Feed from E-E. McGeb.ee, Pinckneyville, P. O. Miss.

Mr. McGehte says that rice ought to be planted on every in the South. Cultivated rice is a safer crop, outsells and out-keeps corn. All kinds of stock and poultry thrive on it. No failures; a record unfq'ie in the history of crcps.

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r.ir Jt the ana 2 1. 'toenaa V. th ocru an i 4 am 'I i ii -f r.d j-rev r-a t.s of j.c: 1 1 was raided to a heigh ot 74 fee' then reltasecl into t'le widi cinal the crod ed ot the business men cf the surrounding towns, aud the farmers for thirty miles or more around, shouted lustily. The canal Dcga.i to fill and as the wat uL pposed, started ou its tov.ard the other end the. i'arnirr, who will be the peopl to re ceiyc the greatest beiufit fn (he project, turned thir facts homeward.

The canal that brings the water to the pumping station frcm the Atchaf.ilaya -iver ia partially over the old bed cf Bayou Cturtableau and partly through a canal rty feet wide and fourteen feet deep, and at present exte- ds fcr four and one half mi'es, but when the whole work is completed this canal wi. be an air nd will theu be but oue mile iu length and seven ty five feet wide. canal empties into a tuni.el that passes under the tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad and is three huudred and forty feet in length, sixteen and one half feet high and twelve feet in width. The bottom of this tunnel is tea fet below sea level. The wate- passes through the tunnel from the canal, througu the umping tj jj.