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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 13014, 29 June 1906, Page 5

In California, there are upward of six. hundred electric, irrigation pumps in opera- ■ tioh ofi- the/different farms and fruit-or-chards, and ffiem are supplied with current generated back in- the mountains T.and transmitted ■to the -coast over linef. -In -most cases'these 1 power-houses were-, originally constructed to furnish the mines along the route with N power and light. The agricultural needs of the country 6am ein as.a, secondary consideration. • The result cf this co-opera-, tion has been to raise the price of imgated farm lands from 20Q and 300 doßara an acre to 500 and 600 dollars.