The settlers within the Bridgeport unit have exhibited great patience and determination in waiting for the coming of the time when water would be available for irrigation. These qualities will insure wonderful development and prosperity for the district when the government has the work completed and water is at hand. The settlers will then be able to possess themselves of the reward that is due to them for such patience and determination, and millions of dollars will be added to the value of the agricultural products and to the taxable value of the property of the count}- and state.

As the district is indebted in part to the energy of F. E. Williams, so the editor is indebted to Mr .Williams for the preparation of the data relating to the Northport irrigation district.

For many years the land owners whose holdings are across the river north from Bridgeport have been pleading with the government for an extension of the Tri-State Canal, in which the United States has a onefifth carrying capacity, to cover the large tract of level land that has been waiting for the application of water that it might give forth abundantly. Other projects on the Platte above Bridgeport have been pushed strenuously by those interested and the lands north of Bridgeport have been forced to wait longer than seemed to be fair to their owners. A number of Bridgeport citizens have at different times interested themselves in the matter.

Mark Spanogle, ably supported by Attorney Williams, took the affair in hand and a meeting of land owners was called for I )ecember 9, 1916. On that date a very enthusiastic meeting was held in the rooms of the Bridgeport bank, which was presided over by Mark Spanogle and at which the follow ing named persons were present : Humphrey Smith, B.