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THE LOWE FARM

pjldranlic-dolonizalsioii Syndicate

The Lowe Farm, comprising 16| soctions of land, of one
square mile or 640 acres each, is situate on the Brandon
Branch of the Northern Pacific "Railway, in Manitoba, about
10 miles west of Morris, on the Red River. It is a Railway
Station, named " Lowe Farm." This station, on the north
front of the farm, is nearly niidway between its eastern and
western boundaries. It has a frontage of six miles on the
railway, with the station in the middle.

The land consists of a very rich, black, deep humus, and
rests on a deep retentive clay sub-soil. It is in fact the very
best of, having been specially seletted in, the very heart of
the almost world-renowned " Red River Valley."

This land, which is practically inexhaustible, yields, when
cultivated, the largest crops in the Province of Manitoba. It
is not surpassed in richness on the continent of America.
It produces in the natural prairie state the richest herbage
found in Manitoba ; a condition highly favourable for obtain-
ing the largest crops, with the minimum of labour, of prairie
hay, for home use, or baling for export to Winnipeg.

Its situation in relation to railway lines and tlie centres
of commerce, as well in Manitoba as in the older Provinces of
the Dominion and the United States, is very favourable, as
may be seen by a glance at the accompanying sketch map.

The water supply of these rich lands and favourable
position, is deficient ; and it is for the purpose of supplying
this prime necessity, on an effective scale, and permanently,
that it is proposed to form a Syndicate.

The opinion of an eminent Hydraulic Engineer, Mr. T. C
Keefer, I; as been obtained as to the feasibility of the project,
and the comparatively moderate cost witli which it may be
carried out.

The water main would be a straij^ht line from the Red
River, at a depth of over seven feet from the surface (such
being tlie depth at which the pipes are laid for railway
water supply at Morris and elsewhere in Manitoba). This
main would supply all farms to a width of two miles on
each side, or four miles in all. These lateral supplies for
individual farmers would be regulated by automatic shut-off
stop-cocks, in receiving cisterns, about ten feet square,
excavated in the blue clay. Each cistern to be supplied with
a pump.

The water of the Red River runs deeply below the level
of the prairie, in the course which it has worked out for
itself. From the banks of the river the rise is very gradual,
being about 20 feet in 10 miles, to the Lowe Farm.

These conditions are very favourable for the proposed
hydraulic construction. And it may be added, the river
bank lot on the east side of the base line, formerly used as a
steamboat landing wharf, and situated in the best place for
the building and pumping machinery on the bank of the
river, is in the possession of the proprietor of the Lowe
Farm, and has exceptional value for the purpose desired.

The estimated approximate cost of taking a water main
and connections, over the area, above mentioned, from the
Red River as far as the Lowe Farm, from informations to the
present received, is about $60,000. But this estimate might
be altered with the character of the work. The expense of
the considerable item of excavation may be very much
modified by the use of the most approved methods of ditch-
ing for pipe laying in the conditions of prairie soil.

It is to be observed that investments for hydraulic sup-
plies, for promoting colonization, in large tracts of country,
which could not otherwise be settled, in the neighbouring
L^nited States, are no new feature. On the contrary, very

larce amounts of capital have been invested in such works
with results in tlie hii;host dcirrpe advantntreous to all con-
cerned. It may bo added, it has been found, that success and
protits liave always attended, when the conditions in relation
to enmneerincr and soil were favourable.

The essential condition of financial security of the present
project is the fact of the exceptional value and favourable
position of the lands affected by the proposed Works, and
equally favourable engineerinnf conditions, coupled with the
fact of the relatively very low prices at which lands can, at
present, in the absence of water supply, be obtained. But
with an efficient and permanent water supply, they would
immediately go up to very hit^h prices; and this particularly
in the face of a generally risinj^ market, in view of the
rapidly augaienting population and wealth of the Province
of Manitoba.

It is proposed to purchase by the Syndicate, in as fur as
may be found convenient, two sections of land, on each side
of the base line, and railway, which run side by side, from
the town of Morris, westward to the Lowe Farm, about ten
miles ; or further, if considered advisable, that is to say, two
miles on each side, or an extent of width of land of four
miles or four sections altonfether.

The extent of land thus to be acquired in a distance of
ten miles of road to the Lowe Farm is 25,600 acres, in ad-
dition to that of the Farm.

In relation to this consideration of extent of purchase of
land there is the fact that the exclusive possession, of the
essential condition of water supply by the Syndicate, would
give it absolute control over all the lands within the reach
of such supply, and also control of those land's further west
as far as Myrtle, for the reason that the amount of capital
which would be required to bring another main from the
Red River would be out of the reach of individual pro-
prietors.

If the Syndicate extend its operations only to the Lowe
Farm, with a main of sufficient capacity, to continue the

siipjily as far as Myrtle, it would liave monopoly, as respects
the distance beyond, to the extent of the amount of capital
necessary to construct its main to that point,

Assumin",' the estimated cost to be .%0,000 for the water
supply for two tiers of sections on each side of the railway
and hase line, for a length of ten sections, which is ten niik'S,
we have a total of 25,000 acres to be supplie<l, or an adde»l
capital value of $2 34 per acre. This refers to the purchase<l
lands to roach the Lowe Farm. The amount per acre would
be very much reduced by taking in the 16^ sections of the
Farm. Including these the added ca})ital value would be
only SI. 66 per acre. * Such an addition is extremely moderate
for procuring an essential condition of so much potentiality
as to convert lands which are at present little sought after, into
lands tlie most valuable and most desirable for farming pur-
poses in the Province of Manitoba.

It is projDosed to place tlie whole of the Lowe Farm in the
stock of the Syndicate, at the present price of the surrounding
lands, with the exception of section 31, township 4, range 2,
1 west.

This section, 31, contain sthe buildings, consisting of house,
barns, granary, stables, workshops, etc., of the Lowe Farm,
the railway station, and the railway section house ; and it is
on this section that it is proposed to construct a receiving
reservoir and pumping works, for a;ny desired extension of
the water main. Grain elevators or stores will be required
to be constructed on this section ; together with a school-
house, church, blacksmith's shop, store and post-office, inn,
etc. — in short, this section is a town site. The section con-
taining these conditions, has some additional value, over the
ordinary farming land.

It is to be observed that the most distant possible point
from a railway station (soon undoubtedly to be also supplied
with post-office and telegraph stations) is live miles ; that is,
from the tier of sections on each side of the railway ; and
the second tier would be only one mile further back. The
facilities, therefore, for all farmers on these tiers for sending

produce to inarkft and jiijotting liack all sorts of supplies, are.
the most favoiiraido possible. In estiinating an advantaf,'u
of this kind it must he borne in mind that when a farmer
has to team his grain and sujiplies for a distance as far as
ten miles, the cost is oipial to a value of 5 cents for a bushel
of wheat, and no farmer would hin»self contract to do such
teaminj; for less. If then we estimate the product of an acre
at 30 bushels (but on the Lowe Farm nuich more has been
obtained), proximity to a railway station is worth an annual
rental oi' S1.*0 an acre more than sinular land only ten miles
distant from a station, or in other words one-tenth of a
capital value of SI 5 an acre more for the product of one acre
teamed to market, to saj* notlung of a similar economy in
teaming in all kinds of supplies.

It is believed that the forerjoinij combination of condi-
tions constitute an unusual o[)portunity for very favourable
and secure investment, resting on undt)ubted rising values
of land.

To place tho estimate of increase of values at its lowest
terms, which would arise from the construction of tlie water
works proposed, it may he stated tliat the lands which may
now^ be accjuired at moderate prices, by the Syndicate 'from
the town of Morris to the Lowe Farm, and al.so ten nules
further west if desired, would, the momerjt a reliable su])[)!y
of w'ater w^as secured, rise to the price of S20 per acri,' at
the least. An oiier is alrcadv niade for farminij land, formiiiir
part of the Lowe Farm, of S20 per acre, on the condition of
water supply being afforded ; and as high as S50 per acre has
been offered for part of section 81, above alluded to, as the
town site section, on the condition of such supply.

At the pres(Mit time farming lands in themselves of less
intrinsic value at Portage la Prairie, in Manitoba — but where
there is the favourable condition of water everywhere obtain-
able in a gravel sub-soil, the railwaj'- facilities being the same,
— sell at $50 an acre^and upwards; and during the past
year inferior lands in many respects have changed hamls oji

tlio Red River at S20 an aero and been IjcUI for more, owing
to ilui fact of proximity to water.

Prairio fannini:; land in the older settled parts of the State
of Minnesota of inferior intrinsic valne sells at S^O and S50
per acre, and in the State of Illinois at very nnich hit^lier
figures. With the progress of settlement and accunuilntion
of wealth' in Manitolia, which are sure to come, and witli the
special advantages of richness of soil, favournhle railway
facilities, and the monopoly wiiich the propo.sed hydraulic
works would give, the prices qf land v/ould rapidly rise in
sympathy.

The Syndicate, in addition to being abb; to offer the prime
necessity of a ptu-inanent water supply to the settlers on the
land it would acnuire, could, if tliought advisable, offer the
inducement to contract to do ploughing for settlers by the
Stephen.son Steam Plough at a price of SI per acre, which is
about one-third of the ordinary price in Manitoba for such
work.

The Syndicate wouhl also be in a position to furnish at
modei'ate cost to each settler, a straw burning stove (of wldeh
particulars are stated in an Appendix herewith) which would
enable him to obtain all his fu.'l, both for warming and
cooking, from his surplus or waste straw, or from the weeds
and herV)age of the prairie. He would thus gain an advan-
tage also of prime importance, to settlers on the prairie.
One of these stoves has been used Avith great satisfaction
for a period of five years on the Lowe Farm for warming,
cooking and bakinof, and condensing water for farm use, no
other fuel of anv kind whatever having been used.

The papers in the accompan^nng Appendix show actual
operations which have been carried on, in connection with
the Lowe Farm, but which have been largely hindered owing
to the want of water supply.

Any or all of them might "be taken up by the Syndicate,
if thought advisable.

JOHN LOWE.
Ottawa, July, 1891.

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The papers io thin Appendix aru iiitenfled to hIiow tho iudustries
connected with the Lowo Farm, and tho faclHtinH and attmctionH which
they may afford to settlers under the HydrauUc Syndicate project. Any
or all of tliese Industrirs nii^ht l)e connected with the Syndicate as ti\ight
from thne to time ho thounhi adviNaV)le, in addition Ut its operations
with land and water supply ; or, as it nii^Tht bo thouglit advisable, to
increase the sphere of its activily.

All the Rtatements made are based on fads, which have been furnished
by experience, and which can be denionstraled whenever desired.

STATEMKNT OF COST OF OIinWIXG WHEAT BY STEAM

CULTURE.

Statement of cost to tho Farm, in actual outlay, per bushel of wheat,
based on expenditure per acre, at the present rates of vvaf^es and
materials, in Manitoba, not including interest of invcbtmcut nor coHt of
management : —

By Steam Plouf?h— Per Acre.

rioujihiiiK. one man, two boys, with board 17

One man and team for water, with board 13

Oil for engine and packing 02

One man and team with mower, cutting grass, for

fuel of engine 13

Harrowing by team 10

Seeding by press drill 16

Five pecks, or l.| bushels, wheat for seed $1 .25

Harvesting, cutting grain 1.1

binding cord, 2.\ lbs 38

" stooking 10

•' threshing from stook 30

(If the grain were stacked, the stacking would cost
$1 per acre, and the threshing from stack more
than double above qixotation for tlireshlng,)

Teaming grain one mile 10

92.00
Add for unforeseen expenses, wet days, etc 75

Total ¥3.71

The ordinary herbage of the prairie is generally suflicient for the fuel
of the engine; but after the first year the surplus straw would be more
than suniolcnt for all fuel.

Wheat at 30 bushels per acre thus raised would cost 12A cents per
bushel.

The product of wheat is put down in above statement at 30 bushels
an acre ; but yields of IM and 40 bushels i)cr acre have been obt ined at
the Lowe Farm and othjr places in the vicinity.

The ordinary cost of breaking an acre of the prairie is ^2.50, by horse
or oxen power.

The ordiiuiry cost of raising an acre of wheat in Manitoba by the
methods commonly employed is $9.

The ordinary cost of raising an acre of wl\eat in Ontario, as oiricially
stated by the Iiur(iau of Agricultural Statistics, is §10.43 for fall wheat,
and flo.cO for spring wheat, /

If barley weie cultivate 1 instead of wheat, by the Steam Plough and
Traction Thresher, with the (lathering Attachment, the cost of binding
cord, stooking, and two men's wages would be saved, taking from the
above ligure of $3.71 per acre, 61 cents, making the cost $3.10 per acre.

Counting the product of barley at 40 bushels t a the acre, tlie cost would
be 7'i* cents per bushel.

Larger yields of barley have been obtained at the Lowe Farm. Fifty
bushels and over have been grown.

In oats 86 bushels per acre have been obtained.

It is believed that with careful cultivation a fjuality of barley may be
grown in Manitoba suita,ble for the English market, with results more
profitable than the growing of wheat.

(Signed) John Lowe,

* Wm. Stkhiienson.

Ottawa, Anril 17th, 1891.

STRAW AND PRATRIE IIER13A(iP: FOR FUEL.

One of the greatest dilTiculties and expenses for the settler on the
prairie is to procure fuel for cooking and warming in the cold winters
which prevail in Manitoba. In the early years of the establishment of the
Lowe Farm, under the managemenr of Mr. Asa Westover, the cost of
procuring fuel for warming and cooking was found to be not only very
onerous but almost ruinous. INlr. Wm. Stephenson, the present Manager,
foimd such to be the fact during the first year of his occupation under
his arrangement with Mr. Lowe. He, therefore, applied himself to over-
coming this ditliculty by the construction of a stove, suitable for burning
straw and prairie herbage. He saw that if every farmer could grow or
use his own fuel, or, in other words, use his surplus straw and the
ordinary herbage of the prairie for that purpose, one of the very greatest,
—in fact, the greatest— dillicuUies of j)rairie life would be solved. He
accordingly invented a straw-burning stove which has been patented.

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This stove has been used continuously on the Lowe Farm for a period
of five years and not one stick of wood nor one pound of coal has been
used during the whole of that time for fuel for household purposes. It
has been found perfectly satisfactory for both cooking and Imking and
warming, and for converting many tons of snow into water both for
household uses and supplying the animals on the Farm.

The straw for this stove can be used either in the form of liales, or loose
in the form in wliich it comes from the threshing machine. It has been
used in the loose form at-the I.owe Farm. It is thrown from the waggon
into an adjoining shed, constructed of boards outside the house. The
stove is placed near the wall, fitted witli an iron entrance through which
the loose straw is thrust into the stove by means of an ordinary pitchfork.
An automatic acting iron door falls as soon as the straw is put into the
stove. All danger of lire is thus obviated.

In this way no litter of straw is made in the kitchen or tlie dwelling-
room warmed, and tlie stove at tlie Lowe Farm is so constructed
that the ashes when shaken fall into an iron receiver in the cellar and
there retain a (considerable heat under the Moor, which has a warming
influence.

The straw used for fuel might, if thought desirable, be pressed into
bales, which would burn slowly away, and retain heat for several hours,
by regulation of the draught, thus wairming tlie house at night.

The stove in use on tlie Lowe Farm is constructed to serve both for
the purpose of a heater and for cooking and baking and for condensing
water, — hot water being suitplicd 1m' a tap. It can be apportioned to the
requirements of the very finest cooking, either in boiling, frying, roast-
ing meat or baking any kin^d of pastry, from small articles such as pie,
tart, or biscuit to twelve loaves of Ijread at once in the oven.

The heat from this stove, even -'n very cold weather, is pleasant and
satisfyivig for warming purposes. This fire can be at all times immedi-
ately lit by the application of a match and it at once burns up. The stove
can, with equal faoiiiiy, be used as a furnace, adapted to the circulation
of hot Welter in pipes or the distribution of heated air.

The draught can be regulated by a damper to give the heat required.
The attendance, even when burning loose straw, is about the same as tliat
required by a common wood stove l)urning soft wood.

A stranger entering the kitchen or dwelling-room warmed by one of
these stoves would not perceive from appearance what kind of fuel was
used. lie would simply note the genial warmth.

Weight for weight the amouni of iieat in a ton weight of straw is
about the same as that in a ton weight of wood. The straw is very easily
drawn from the stack to the spot where it is required to be burnt. The
flame emitted being a light blue, sometl\ing similar to that from anthra-
cite coal, but without the unpleasant smell which often arises from the
escape of gas from the latter.

With the use of this stove on the Lowe Farm and ample supplies of
straw, Mr. Stephenson would not draw either wood or coal from Morris,
if ofFered to him gratis; or undertake to saw and split wood for fuel, if
teamed to the farm, in preference to using straw.

HAY AND STRAW SUPPLY AND PRKS3ING INDUSTRY.

The prairie herbage suitable for hay for some miles around the Lowe
Farm is the richest in all Manitoba. The supply at present is almost
illimitable and may be for some time to come.

Tile demand in Winnipeg for hay and straw is always very large and
apparently increasing with the rapid increase of the city. Supplies are
not found to come in as rapidly as desired.

Mr. Hawlf, a dealer in trrain and cattle feed at Winnipeg, made an offer
to Mr. Stephenson last winter to take 2()0 tons of straw at $7 a ton pressed.
This order, however, Mr. Stephenson was not able to till. Mr. Bawlf said
that straw for bedding, owing to its scarcity, is almost as valuable as hay
in Winnipeg.

With the machinery and appliances at present on tlie Lowe Farm, and
at the present rates of wages, hay can be put up very cheaply. The follow-
ing is a summary for cost, at the prices paid on the Farm, of 15 tons-

One man and two horses mowing, per day $2.07

One boy and one horse raking, one day 89

Five men and five horses stacking, half day 3.18

Grease and oil for machine 11

$0.25
Add for unforeseen expenses 1.40

$7.05
Or about 51 cts. per ton for hay i)ut up in stacks.

With a hay-loading machine, one and a half days' wages and board
could be saved, amounting to $1.01, on stacking 15 tons— reducing the
cost per ton below 50 cts.

There is at present on the Farm^tlie iron work of a Dederick Straw
Pressing Macliine, the wood work of which was destroyed by fire. It
would cost about $200 to replace the wood work of this machine and such
castings as might be necessary. With this machitie straw and hay can
be pressed into bales for the Winnipeg market at times of the j'ear Avhen
no other kind of work can be done, and always loaded directly on cars at
the Lowe Farm Station. As large a trade may be develo})ed in pressed
hay and straw as in thti growing of wheat on a large scale, at prices which
cannot fail to be very remunerative, in view of the very small cost of
stacking on the specifications above stated.

This work might, in fact, make a very important winter industry of
great advantage to all concerned, as well in the supply of needed neces-
saries as in the profit of those who furnished.

Bales of straw or hay can be built into walls, being set in a puddle of
clear blue clay, the same way as bricks are set in mortar. The strongest
man could not separate two bales of straw joined in tliis manner after
one day's adhesion. Walls built in this way are durable, frost-proof,
fire-proof and rat-proof. A rat cannot eat through a pressed bale. The

bales can be pressed so hard as to hold with firmiiesa a nail driven into
them.

Bales of this nature may be \ised for the construction of out-buildings,
which would be both warm and cheap. An ordinary frame house sheathed
witli tightly-pressed bales would be perfectly frost-proof in winter and
cool in summer.

DITCHING BY MACHINERY.

At the present moment over 800 miles of ditches require to be made in
the County of Morris, that is about two miles in connectign with every
section.

The Morris municipality is required by law to spend the whole of the
commutation money received from the Statute Labour Tax every year in
this construction. At present about $l,f)(X) a year is spent in this way,
an average of about $1,000 per annum has been paid for this work let
every year. With the increase of population in the count}', which would
undoubtedly come if water were available, this commutation money would
be very largely increased.

There is at present on the Lowe Farm the following ditching
machinery : —

1st. A heavy four-horse plough, specially con.structed for the excava-
tion of ditches.

2nd. A two-horse ditch sward cutter.

3rd. A foi;r-horse ditcher known as the Ditch Sward Scraper.

The plan adopted for ditching by the Municipal Council of the County
of Morris is to make ditches nine feet wide and six inches deep and to lay
out the roads between every section of land, which is one square mile, all
the road tax, as stat 1, being used for this purpose.

The cost of doing one mile of ditching is as follows :-—

One man and two horses, staking out and cutting

the sward, one mile, one day $2.,')0

One man and four horses ploughing, one day, one

mile 3.r)0

One man and four horses, scraping out the dirt
and putting it on the road two days, one
mile 7.00

(This machine takes out of the ditch and throws
on to the road one cubic yard of earth in every
minute of time.)

Time for measuring and taking the job, with
draughting team and unforeseen expenses, in
all 5.00

Total cost for one mile ^IC.OO

The amount of payment received from the Council for one mile at
8 cents per cubic yard would be $70. 10.

- The amount received at 14 cents per cubic yard would be $123.20.

The Lowe Farm has done several milea of ditching within the last
two yeaPH, at prices ranging from cents to 14i cents per cubic yard.

The above-mentioned machines, with <vhich this work is done, and
which have in practice been found in the highest degree roniunerative,
without any let or drawback in the working, are the InventionB of and
made i)y William Stephenson.

Very good profits could be made by doing work with thene machines at
4 cents per cubic yard, a price wliich would defy all competition in the
absence of similarly elFective machinery. From 12 to 14 cents ayardare
the ordinary price by the ordinary methods of ditching.

There is also on the Farm another powerful ditching and grading
machine, known as the " New PJrie Grader," capal»le of taking out 1,200
or 1,500 cubic yards of earth per day. This might be used with great
efficiency for ordinary road work and ditching.

Parts of tlie above-mentioned machinery can be so adjusted as to do
the whole, or the greater part of the work required for llie excavations
necessary for laying water pipes any distance from the Eed River west-
ward. No calculations have yet been made as to the savings in expense
by the use of such machinary over the ordinary contract prices, but it is
believed that they will be found to be relatively as great as any ordinary
ditching.

MEMORANDUM— ESTIMATE OF REQUIREMENTS.
Watek U.shd Per Day.

Ordinary farms with, say from five to ten animals, average 100 gallons
per day.

One mile of road, for two sections deep, 800 gallons per day ; or for both
Bides of the road, two sections deep on each side, l,tjOO gallons.

For ten miles of road, two sections deep, 10,000 gallons, or, say 20,000,
gallons daily.

Acres and Water SuPi'i.y.

One farm of one quart(;r section, 100 acres; or, four farms, being one
section, 6*10 acres.

Two sections deep, one mile of road, 1,280 acres ; or, on both sides of
the road, 2,.560 acres.

For ten miles, 2"), (500 acres.

The cost of water works, five-inch pipe, including all connections,
^00,000, would add in round numbers §2.o4 to capital value of land per
acre, that is for the purchase proposed as far as the Lowe Farm ; but
including the 16} sections of the Farm, the added capital value would only
be $1.66 per acre.

Capacity of pipe, increase in square of diameter, ^ inch 9, and 5 inch 25.

Dr. Selwyn, the Director of the Geologicd Survey, says a three-inch
pipe at the end of ten miles wouid give about 10,600 gallons in 21 hours, by
gravitation from a tank 25 or ;{0 feet high ; or, according to this, a five-inch
pipe would give 120,000 gallons in 21 hours.

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Mr. Ruttaii, C.E., says a two-inch pipe would give at the end of ten
miles 17,200 gallons in 24 hours, and a three-inch pipe .'K),C0O gallons in 24
hours at ten miles ; or, by delivering a supply uniformly along the main
47,300 gallons in 24 hours.

If this calculation is correct a two-inch pipe would give more than
twice the probable supply of water for the use required on the supposition
that each farmer on a quarter section, for a width of four miles of road,
ten miles in length, would require 100 gallons per day.

A five-inch pipe, increasing the delivery in the square of the diameter,
would give a greater supply of water. The delivery would be more than
six times greater.

A five-inch pipe would probably be ample for carrying the works to
Myrtle, that is ten miles further west than the Lowe Farm, But in view
of the not fully settled question of friction, in ten miles of pipe and con-
nections, it might be more prudent to use a six-inch pipe.

Estimate of Values of Lands Affected by the Proposed

Watek Supply.

The 2.5,()00 acres— that is, the ten miles between Morris and the Lowe
Farm, — which can now be purchased at very moderate price, by the addi-
tion of the water works, would be immediately converted t( minimum
value of $20 per acre, and would represent a value of $.512,000.

The same calculations hold good for going as far as Myrtle {the limit of
the breadth of country in which water cannot be got by wells), ten miles
beyond the Lowe Farm ; and a five or six-inch pipe at the Lowe Farm,
with an excavated reservoir at that point, would control the price of land
from the Lowe Farm to Myrtle in the same way as that below it, to Morris.
The belt of land which would be thus supplied is of exceptional natural
richness, — which cannot be anywhere exceeded.

[The Sketch Map at page 7 shows the position of the Lowe Farm, in
relation to the Syndicate project.]