GREAT IRRIGATION SCHEME.
A Sydney, N. S. W., correspondent writes as follows respecting a great government irrigation scheme: The New South Wales government has entered upon a spirited policy of water conservation and irrigation. It has been decided to construct a large dam on the Murrumbidgee river at a place called Barren Jack, from whence water will be carried in irrigation canals over an area of 358,000 acres. The work will involve the expenditure of about $7,500,000, and will represent the first part of a great national scheme. The dam is to be built three miles below the confluence of the Murrumbigdee and Goodradigbee rivers, and when completed, will be 200 ft. in height and 900 ft. in length.
At Smith, Kan., all water is metered and sold at five and one-half cents per 100 gals, up to 3,333 cu. ft., over that, at three cents. Nothing less than 1.907 ft. or 14,302 gals, in each six months is sold, as that figures up the minimum rate of $5. Every taker furnishes and must keep in repair his own meter and all pipes, hydrants and fixtures that go on his own property. All who live off the line of the mains can club together and put in such mains as the counsel approves of and the city fixes the rent to be paid.
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