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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



An enterprise known as the Lima Reservoir and 

 Irrigation Company has been incorporated in Cen- 

 tennial Valley, Beaverhead county, Montana, with a 

 capital stock of $100,000. Object to build a dam 

 across the Red Rock creek, and a canal so as to put 

 water on some 80,000 acres of land lying below the 

 dam, and in the vicinity of the town of Lima. It is 

 expected that soon the canal will carry water to the 

 vicinity of Dillon. 



It is rumored that there is a project on foot for a 

 German syndicate to put out 300 acres of hops near 

 Payette, Idaho. We shall await developments with 

 a good deal of interest, because such a move would 

 at once bring this section of the country into promi- 

 nence it has not heretofore enjoyed, resulting in great 

 benefit to all. 



William H. Rowe, of Salt Lake City, was appointed 

 receiver of the properties of the Bear Lake and 

 River Water Works and Irrigation Company, at the 

 suit of the Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Company. 

 He qualified with bonds filed of $15,000 and will at 

 once enter upon his work. 



The largest irrigating flume in California has just 

 been completed. It is in Fresno county and is 52 

 miles long. It will bring 40,000 acres under cultiva- 

 tion. Many million feet of lumber will also be floated 

 down annually. 



In Paradise valley, Arizona, a Pennsylvania syndi- 

 cate has projected and surveyed an immense storage 

 reservoir on Cave creek. It will cost $250,000 and 

 will irrigate about 30,000 acres of rich land not far 

 from Phoenix. 



The irrigation construction or repairs expenditures 

 for 1893, in Scott's Bluff county, Nebraska, is reported 

 at $42,013 for twelve different ditches, seven being 

 new work, three enlargements and two repairs. 



The Chicago & Rock Island railroad have a fine 

 permanent exhibit, in Chicago, of the products of ir- 

 rigation from the Pecos valley, N. M. A good exam- 

 ple for others to follow. 



California puts the rest of the country under obli- 

 gations by supplying us with 33,000,000 pounds of 

 raisins every year, most of which are eaten in the 

 United States. 



San Luis valley, Colorado, farmers discovered this 

 year that it was more profitable to feed sugar beets 

 to hogs than to ship them to Utah sugar factories. 



It is proposed to build an electric railroad from the 

 town of Shoshone to Shoshone Falls, Idaho. The 

 distance is 40 miles. The power will be obtained 

 from the falls. 



Yakima and Sunnyside are enjoying almost a boom 

 in spite of the hard times. Their irrigation canals 

 have made a wonderful change in that part of Wash- 

 ington. 



Irrigation is the mania all over central and western 

 Nebraska, just now. 



America sent nine millions of dollars abroad last 

 year for olive oil. 



NEW COMPANIES. 



The largest hop ranch in the world, 600 acres in 

 one body, is in King county, Colorado. 



N. Yakima, Wash. The Prosser Falls and Priest Rapids 

 Canal Company have secured the money to build their irriga- 

 tion works Greelty, Col. The Benton Drainage Ditch 



Company propose to build a canal from Lake Windsor to Greeley, 

 utilizing the seepage water and draining the thousands of swamp 



lands along the route Emmet, Idaho. The farmers recently 



held a mass meeting to organize a company for irrigating the bench 



lands around Emmet Nampa, Idaho. The Nampa Land and 



Improvement Co. have elected Fremont Woods, president, and 

 P.W. Duffee, secretary Spokane, Ore. The Columbia Irriga- 

 tion Co. propose to reclaim the desert lands adjoining the Yakima 

 Indian reservation. The canal will cross the reservation and 

 benefit about 1,200 Indians, besides opening a large body of fine 

 lands to settlers Sargent, Neb. The Middle Loup Valley Irri- 

 gation Company, composed of farmers and local business men, 

 will build a canal thirty miles long to irrigate 50,000 acres of land. 

 E. P. Sargent is president. This canal is not to reclaim desert 

 lands, as the lands of Custer county have never failed to produce 

 good crops; but the prosperous people of that region propose to 



increase their means or facilities for greater prosperity Fort 



Morgan, Col. The Fort Morgan canal will soon be transferred 

 from the directorship of the Travelers' Insurance Co. to a new 

 company composed of the farmers owning lands under the ditch. 

 The farmers propose at once to repair and extend the system 



San Bernardino, Cal. A company has been incorporated here 



with a capital stock of $2,500,000 to erect a dam at Victor Narrows 

 on the Mojave river, 150 feet high, which will make a lake nine 

 miles long by three wide, a big thing for the Mojave desert if car- 

 ried out Brig- ham City, Utah. The citizens are much elated 



with the prospects of a branch of the Bear river canal being 



brought out on their side of the river Ellensburgh, Wash. It 



is reported that the Kittitas Valley Irrigation Canal Co. have se- 

 cured the capital necessary to carry out their work Prescott, 



Ariz. Messrs Snow and Storms propose to build a storage dam on 

 the Big Chino wash and irrigate 2,000 acres of land with flood wa- 

 ters. If there is anything in a name they ought to succeed 



Kearney , Neb. It is proposed to dig a canal from North Platte to 



Kearney Deming,N.M. E J. Reed and others have organized 



a company to irrigate the valley of the Rio Grande for a long dis- 

 tance above and below Albuquerque, placing the canals high up 



on the mesa Fort Morgan, Colo. Ex-Senator Dorsey says 



that the Bijou ditch is to be finished, and that the contract for bonds 

 has been signed Aspen^Colo. The Castle Creek Water Com- 

 pany have filed their articles of incorporation. J. F. Deveraux and 



others are pushing this work Boise, Idaho. D. C. Grosbeck, 



of Star, and others, propose to irrigate the lands on the bench on 

 the north side of the river between Boise and Middleton. It is a 

 farmers' co-operative enterprise Montana. The ranchmen 



