PULSE OF THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY. 



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along the Yellowstone are building a canal from Grey Cliff on the 



Yellowstone to irrigate some 15,000 acres Payette, Idaho. 



Hon R A. Cowdensays that the Payette canyon canal is now as- 

 sured. It will be 15 miles long and cover 25,000 acres of choice bench 



land Farming ton, N.M. The Riverside canal is being extended 



and widened, and a large force has been set to work on the Coolidge 



ditch Santa Maria, Cal. Messrs Goodwin and Adams report 



good progress in organizing the settlers into an irrigation company 



Albuquerque, N. M. The Santa Fe Water and Investment 



Company are said to have purchased the city waterworks and will 



also start an irrigation system covering the city Beaver, Utah. 



John Farr and others have located a dam site at the narrows of the 

 Virgin river Ritzville, Wash. Plans are completed for re- 

 claiming 50,000 acres near this town Tucson, Ariz. C. W. 



Wright and others have organized the Canoa Land and Water 



Co. for irrigating in the Santa Cruz valley Wild Flower, Cal., 



will build irrigation works for 40,000 acres Lugonia, Cal. 



The Park Water Co. has been organized; capital, $50,000 



Saguache, Colo., is to have a storage reservoir at the expense 



of the state American Falls, Idaho. Organized, the Clear 



Lake Mining and Irrigation Co North Loup, Neb. Or- 

 ganized, the North Loup Irrigation Co Lodge Pole, Neb. 



The new Lodge Pole Irrigation Co. is a farmers' co-operative 



organization Bttnvell,Neb. Incorporated, the Burwell-Ord 



Irrigation and Power Co., to cover 20,000 acres along the North 



Loup river Roswell, N.M. The Penasco Irrigation Co. has 



located a reservoir site Asotin, Wash. It is proposed to 



irrigate 80,000 acres near this town. 



VALUABLE PAPERS. 



CANAL BUILDING. 



Sunnvside, Wash. The Sunnyside Canal, 40 miles long, is fin- 

 ished. It cost $559,000 and will irrigate 64,000 acres of land; D. R. 



McGinnis, Sec'y LaPlata,Colo. The Jackson Ditch Co ,who 



lost their dam last summer, have made repairs and are ready to 



deliver water again Yuma,Ariz. Work on the Gila Bend canal 



dam is being pushed as rapidly as possible, and a dam is going in 



that will defy the floods Bayard, Neb. The reorganizedNine 



Mile Company have nearly completed their ditch. The Alliance 

 canal, on the south side of town, is being pushed to completion; 



A. P. Kittell, engineer Galloway, Montrose Co., Colo. Hon. P. 



Galloway has nearly finished the dam across the Dolores Phce- 



nix, Ariz. Work has begun on the new mammoth dredger of the 

 Consolidated Canal Company above Mesa. It will be the largest 

 dredger used in the construction of irrigating canals in the world. 

 The crane will be 80 feet in length, and the construction of the 

 boat will consume over one hundred thousand feet of lumber. 

 Over 100 men are hard at work upon the Big Gila dam of the 

 Peoria Canal Company Modesto, Cat. The board of direc- 

 tors of the Modesto and Turlock irrigation districts have accepted 

 the dam from the contractors, and are surveying the districts for 



an extension of the canal system Yakima, Wash. The Belle 



Haven irrigation district is now operated under the Wright law 

 system. Santa Cruz, Ariz. Land under the new Allison ditch 



will be cultivated this year Poso District, Kern Co., Cal., will 



use its new canal this season Grapeland Irrigation District, 



Cal., have run an 800 foot tunnel under Lytle creek below Bed 



Rock Los Angeles, Cal. Dr. Mulholland reports the Indian 



Wells Valley system as well under way Fresno, Cal. The great 



Sunset canal, covering 300,000 acres and calling for 282 miles of 



ditch, has been commenced Bessemer, Colo. The reservoir and 



ditches are being completed Eddy, N. M. The Seven Rivers 



reservoir is filling up behind the new dam Perron, Utah. A 



large canal is being taken out of the Ferron river. 



"Water Pipe Trenches," Jour. N. E. Water-ways, New London, 



Dec "Determining Minimum Section for Overfall Masonry 



Dams," Enj*. News, N. T., Dec "Electricity in Suburban 



Development," Eng. Mag. N. T. Feb "Electrical Power 



from Niagara," Electr. Eng., N. 2"., Jan "Notes on Water 



Power Equipment," Eng. Record, N. T., Dec "Comparative 



Tests of Hydraulic Dams" and "Flow of Water Through an Ori- 

 fice," Sibley Jour, of Eng., Ithaca, N. T., Jan "Pipe Calcu- 

 lations in relation to Water Powers," Am. Machinist, N. T., Dec. 

 "About Siphons," Am. Machinist, N. T., Jan "Arte- 

 sian Waters of the San Joaquin Valley, Pal.," Eng. Record, N. T. 

 Jan "The Pumping Engine, its Faults, Points and Pecu- 

 liarities," Fire and Water, N. Y., Jan "Natural Filtration 



of Water," Eng. News, N. T., Jan "Revival of Farming," 



Contemporary Review "The Agricultural Problem," Econo- 

 mic Journal. "Electricity in Agriculture," Deutsche Revue. 



"Irritability in Plants," Revue Scientifique "Water 



Powers," Cassiers Mag "Irrigation and Prosperity," Head- 

 light, Deming, N. M. "An Agricultural State," a lecture by 



Prof. Mead, Tribune, Cheyenne, Wyo "What Irrigation 



Means for Kansas," Farmer, Topeka, Kan "Pumping by 



Wind Power," The Irrigator, Winter Park, Florida Reports 



of the State Agricultural Societies, Lincoln, Neb., Topeka Kan., 



Minneapolis, Minn, and Indianapolis, Ind. "Irrigation and 



Politics," Farm and Ranch, Dallas, Texas These papers 



can be obtained by sending through your local news dealer. 



LEGAL NOTES 



ACCOMPANYING JUDGE KERR's ARTICLE ON PAGE 113 



(1) It is said by the Supreme Court of California in the case of 

 Kidd v. Laird, 15 Cal. 161; s. c. 76 Am. Dec. 472, that water can- 

 not be held by private ownership; but that a right to its use may 

 be acquired, which will be regarded and protected as property, 

 but this right is not a special property in the water itself. 



(2) Persons filing upon and appropriating water are proprie- 

 tors to the extent of the beneficial use, and their title can be de- 

 feated only by failure of application of the water to a beneficial 

 use. Wyatt v. Larime & Weld Irrigation Co., (Colo. App.) 29 

 Pac. Rep. 906. Merely constructing an irrigation canal does not 

 give a prior right, unless the water diverted be applied to a bene- 

 ficial use; a mere diversion is not an appropriation to a beneficial 



use. Coombs v. Agricultural Ditch Company, (Colo.) 28 Pac. 

 Rep. 966. The same is true of an excessive appropriation. Id. 



(8) It has been said, however, that the liability of an irrigation 

 ditch company for failure to supply a certain volume of water to 

 the persons holding water rights, according to contract, cannot 

 be determined on the theory that the company is a common car- 

 rier. Wyatt v. Larime & Weld Irrigation Co., (Colo. App.) 29 

 Pac. Rep. 906. 



(4) Hillman v. Hardwick, (Idaho) 28 Pac. Rep. 438. 



(6) Stickler v. City of Colorado Springs (16 Colo.) 61; s. c. 26 

 Pac. Rep. 313, followed in Bloom v. West, 32 Pac. Rep. 846. 



(7) See South Boulder & R. C. Ditch Co. v. Marfell. 15 Colo. 

 302; s. c. 25 Pac. Rep. 504. 



(8) Wheeler v. Northern Colorado Irrigation Company, 10 

 Colo. 582; s. c. 17 Pac. Rep. 487. See Price v. Land Co., 56 Pac. 

 431; Railroad Co. v. People, 56 111. 365; Vincent v. Railroad Co., 49 

 111. 33; Mun v. The People, 94 U. S. 113; bk. 24 L. Ed. 77. 



