1917] RUEAL ENGINEERING. 385 



Waco, Tex., and on the Trinity River at Dallas and Riverside, Tex., are re- 

 ported in tabular and graphic form. 



Warner Valley and White River Projects, J. T. Whistler and J. H. Lewis 

 (Oreg. Cooper. Work. Dept. Int. U. S. Reclam. Serv., 1916, Feb., pp. 123, pis. If, 

 fig. 1). — This report was prepared in cooperation with the State of Oregon. 



The development proposed by the Warner "Valley Project is the drainage of 

 46.000 acres of swamp land in Warner Valley, the irrigation of 33,000 acres of 

 these lands in the south end by gravity canals, and pumping to irrigate 27,000 

 acres in the north end. Among the features specially referred to are the 

 development of 2,000 electrical horsepower on Deep Creek for operating dredges 

 during construction and to furnish power to four pumping plants in North 

 Warner Valley on the completion of the project, and the provision for ample 

 storage in Big Valley and Coleman Valley to insure the reclamation of the 

 marsh lands in j'ears of extreme run-off. The probable cost of this development 

 as outlined is estimated at $1,726,000, or about $29 per acre. From the records 

 of discharge for the streams entering Warner Valley for six years it is esti- 

 mated that the mean annual ruu-ofC to the valley is 195,000 acre-feet, with a 

 maximum of 308,000 acre-feet in the seasonal year 1910 and a minimum of 

 84,000 acre-feet in the seasonal year 1915. The extreme maximum run-off, it 

 is stated, may reach nearly 600,000 acre-feet. 



The White River Project is located to the south and east of the Oregon 

 National Forest, in the vicinity of Mount Hood. " The drainage basin has an 

 area of about 350 square miles and is largely forested in the upper regions of 

 White River and tributary streams. . . . The mean annual run-off of White 

 River near Tygh Valley for four years is about 234,000 acre-feet, the maxiuunn 

 occurring in the seasonal year 1911-12 with 297,000 and a minimum in 1914—15 

 with 163,000 acre-feet. . . . 



" The soil, while shallow in places, is of fairly good quality and well adapted 

 to irrigation. The percentage of waste land in the gross irrigable area is 

 rather large, however, and the distributing system will, on this account, be 

 more expensive. Drainage, which in some localities may be necessary, will not 

 be difficult, as the topography of the region lends itself to an inexpensive 

 system. . . . With an assumed duty of 1.5 acre-feet delivered to the land 

 during the irrigation season, the plan of development includes (1) a storage 

 reservoir in Clear Lake with a capacity of 18.000 acre-feet, furnishing 12,000 

 acre-feet net storage supply; (2) a diversion dam at the mouth of Boulder 

 Creek; (3) two diversion canals, the one on the north being eight miles long 

 with a capacity of 130 second-feet, to water approximately 13,000 acres, and 

 the one on the south side of White River being ten miles long with a capacity 

 of 230 second-feet, to water approximately 23,000 acres; (4) a distributing 

 system for about 36,000 acres net. 



" The apparent cost of this proposed development of 36,000 acres is $36 per 

 acre irrigated, including the purchase of the White River power plant." 



The saving of irrigation water in wheat growing, A. and Gabrielle L. C. 

 Howard (Fruit Expt. Sta. Quetta Bid. 4 {1915), pp. H). — This bulletin describes 

 the soil, rainfall, temperature, and humidity of the Quetta Valley of India, de- 

 scribes the present methods of growing wheat, enumerates the principles under- 

 lying economy in the use of w^ater in wheat growing, and reports experiments on 

 water saving in wheat growing at Quetta. 



The soil of the valley varies from brown to black in color and is of loessial 

 origin. Flooding destroys its porosity and the surface is easily compacted. 

 Wheat was grown on natural moisture only and with a single irrigation. 

 Mulching was practiced as a water conservation measure in the first case and 



