842 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Counties). Nor(h Carolina: Beaver Dam Swamp (Harnett 

 County), Flea Hill drainage district (Cumberland County). South 

 Carolina: Georgetown Farm Land and Homeseekers Co. tract 

 (Georgetown County). Texas: Jefferson County. Virginia: Pleas- 

 ant Grove drainage district (Norfolk County). 



III. Improvement of natural watercourses or construction of new 

 channels to provide outlets. — Maryland: Potomac River bottom 

 lands (Montgomery County). North Carolina: Buffalo Creek 

 (Cleveland County), Little Sugar Creek (Mecklenburg County). 

 South Carolina: Summerville drainage project (Dorchester and 

 Berkeley Counties). 



IV. Farm drainage. — Georgia: McRae farm (Telfair County). 

 Maryland: Clark farm (Talbot County). North Carolina: Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race (Guilford 

 County). Virginia: Strathmore Orchard Co. farm (Shenandoah 

 County). 



V. Drainage of irrigated lands. — Colorado: Arkansas River Val- 

 ley, Grand River Valley, San Luis Valley. Idaho : Various projects 

 distributed over the State. New Mexico: Pecos Valley. Texas: Rio 

 Grande Valley. Utah: Numerous projects scattered over the State. 

 Washington: Yakima Valley, Moxee Valley. Wyoming: Big Horn 

 Basin (including Grey Bull Valley), Shoshone Valley. 



PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION WORK. 



In addition to preliminary examinations having been made and 

 reports w^ritten for all the projects enumerated under drainage surveys, 

 similar examinations and reports have also been made for the follow- 

 ing: Alabama: Big Swamp (Lowndes County), Caleebee Creek (Ma- 

 con County), fami drainage in the prairie section. Florida: Pro- 

 posed Cedar Lake drainage district (Jackson County). Georgia: 

 Appalachee River (Gwinnett County), Little Satilla River and Red 

 Cap Swamp (Camden and Glynn Counties). Idaho: Mason Creek 

 (Canyon County). Illinois: South Branch of Rock River (Rock 

 Island County). Kentucky: Wet and overflowed land (Jefferson 

 County). Maryland: Dennis Bros. Lumber Co. tract (Worcester 

 County), Dublin Swamp (Somerset County), Marumsco Tax Ditch 

 (Somerset County). Massachusetts: Salt marsh land (Plymouth 

 County) . Mississippi : Lappatubba and Oconitahatchie Creeks (Union 

 County), State farm (Sunflower County), Tallahatchie River (Union 

 County), Yocona River drainage district (Lafayette County). Mis- 

 souri : Locust Creek Valley. North Carolina : Maxwell Creek (Duplin 

 County), Richland Township (Beaufort County), Upper Little 

 River (Harnett County). Oklahoma: Bitter Creek and Duck 

 Creek (Kay County), South Carolina: Black and Boggy Swamps 

 drainage district (Hampton County), proposed Broad Swamp drain- 

 age district (Williamsburg County), proposed Fishing Creek drain- 

 age district (York County). Texas: A. W. Gray tract (near 

 Brownsville). Utah: Earl-Ross project (Utah County). 



The following projects, for which this office has made surveys and 

 prepared plans, are now under construction by the landowners : 



Arkansas: Arkansas State farm (Lincoln County), Crooked Bayou 

 project (Desha County), Curia Creek drainage district (Indepen- 

 dence County), Camp Bayou project (Ashley County). Colorado: 



