PULSE OF THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY. 



165 



NEW COMPANIES. 



Arizona. Articles of incorporation of the Guaymas Water 

 Supply Company, Limited, have recently been filed at Tucson, 

 Ariz., by H. T. Richards, E. M. Richards and Geo. Montague. 

 Principal offices of the company will be at Nogales, Ariz. It is 

 proposed to furnish water for the town of Guaymas, State of So- 

 nora, Mexico, and for the irrigation of lands in the vicinity of 

 Guaymas, also for the construction and operation of street rail- 

 roads A water storage company has been organized at St. 



Johns People in the vicinity of Kingman are erecting wind- 

 mills and water tanks to irrigate land. 



Colorado. The survey for the big ditch on North river, near 

 Julesburg, is being pushed rapidly forward. The ditch will start 

 near Oshkosh, Deuet county, and will run to North Platte. It 



will be about 80 feet wide The bond of Contractor Dodge has 



been filed with the State engineer. It would seem that the con- 

 struction of a State storage reservoir at Saguache is now a settled 



fact Fort Collins is to have a new storage reservoir on Crow 



creek The Florence Improvement Company, Florence, Colo., 



to institute and manage electric plants, etc., in Florence and 

 Cripple Creek. Capital stock, $400,000. Incorporators. W. E. 

 Johnson, W. K. Johnson, A. R. Gumaer, W. Kuff and J. E. 

 Rockwell. 



Nebraska. The people of Cedar Valley will sink a test arte- 

 sian well There are 250 miles of completed canal around 



Gering and the citizens have united them into one association. 



The Niobrara River Irrigation and Power Company, of 



O'Neill, filed articles of incorporation on the 18th inst. with the 

 following well known business men of O'Neill and Atkinson as in- 

 corporators: A. U. Morris. R. R. Dickson, J. P. Mann, T. V. 

 Golden, Neil Brennan, G. C. Hazlett, O. F. Biglin and J. A. Test- 

 man of O'Neill, and Dr. J. L. McDonald and H. A. Allen of At- 

 kinson. The authorized capital stock is $2,500,000, divided into 

 $100 shares, at least $10,000 of which must be paid up before com- 

 mencing business on April 2, 1894. It is expected that their sys- 

 tem will irrigate at least one million acres. 



New Mexico. Articles of incorporation of the Zapato Irriga- 

 tion Company have been filed. The incorporators are August E. 

 Rouiller, Philip Mothersill, James W. Mitchell, William W. Jones 

 and Charles G. Cruickshank, all of the county of Sierra. The 

 capital stock is $100,000; single shares, $100. The principal place 

 of business is Engle, Sierra county. The starting point of the 

 canals is at Mitchell's dam, near San Marcial, and thence the 

 main lines radiate, one on the west and the other on the east side 

 of the Rio Grande valley. . The canal will be about 127 miles in 

 length, and will follow the base of the foothills on either side, ir- 

 rigating a tract of land of an average width of about one and a 

 quarter miles. 



Utah. The Marysvale Reservoir Company has filed articles of 

 incorporation. The incorporators are Jas. A. Chute, William M. 

 Hicks, Chas. A. Ames and Willis A. Ames of Salt Lake, and James 

 A. Melville of Filmore. The capital stock is fixed at $300,000, 

 divided into 300,000 shares of the par value of $1 each, which are 

 taken. The officers are Charles A. Ames, president; James A. 

 Melville, vice-president; James A. Chute, treasurer, and Willis A. 

 Ames, secretary. The company will establish dams for the 

 storage of water and the reclamation of arid lands on the east side 

 of the Sevier river, near Marysvale. 



Washington. It is reported that a large amount of Dutch 

 and Italian capital has been enlisted in an irrigating ditch to be 



put into the Yakima county in the spring The new map 



folder of the Sunnyside lands shows a railroad projected from 

 Mabton on the N. P. R. R. through the central portion of the 

 great irrigated belt, via the town of Sunnyside and on to Zillah. 



COURT DECISIONS. 



Liability for Assessment of Stock. Where a corpora- 

 tion sold some of its stock for payments of assessments, and bid 

 the same in, in which the stock-holder acquiesced it cannot on its 

 own motion treat the sale as invalid, and reinstate the stock- 

 holder, so as to render him liable for the assessment. Patterson v. 



Brown & Campion Ditch Co. (Court of Appeals of Colorado.) 

 34 Pac. Rep. 769. 



Appropriation of Water Rights. The right to the use of 

 water flowing in a stream may be acquired by actual appropria- 

 tion, without compliance with the provisions of the statutes, for 

 acquisition of water rights. Watterson v. Saldunbehere. (Su- 

 preme Court of California.) 35 Pac. Rep- 432. 



Liabilities for Injuries by Water. Where a company 

 collects large quantities of water on its premises for its own pur- 

 poses, and discharges the water upon the bed of a street, in conse- 

 quence of which the lot of an abutting owner is flooded, it will be 

 liable for the injury thereby occasioned. Baltimore Breweries 

 Co. * Ranstead. (Court of Appeals of Maryland.) 28 At. Rep. 273. 



Liability for Maintaining Ditch. Where an irrigation 

 company uses a ditch already in operation, and extends a new 

 ditch beyond the terminus of the old one, the owners of the old 

 ditch are not liable for the cost of maintaining the new portion. 

 Patterson v. Brown & Campion Ditch Co. (Court of Appeals of 

 Colorado.) 34 Pac. Rep. 769. 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 



" The Right of Appropriation and the Colorado System of Laws" 

 is the title of a valuable work recently issued from the press. 

 The author is Judge Harvey Huston, a man of much legal talent, 

 and one who has devoted a great amount of time and study to a 

 consideration of the subject upon which he writes. The volume 

 is not only valuable for all lawyers in the arid regions, but it 

 should be in the hands of all members of corporations and farm- 

 ers. It treats of the subject in an exhaustive manner, as may be 

 seen by glancing over the table of contents, which is as follows: 

 The right of appropriation; the regulation of the right of 

 appropriation; the adjudication of priorities; right of way 

 eminent domain; rates of charges for water; duties and lia- 

 bilities; offenses and penalties; divisions and districts; officers and 

 their duties; rights of towns, cities and counties; ditch and reser- 

 voir companies; irrigation as to desert and State lands. This is 

 the first complete classification of irrigation laws so far as Colo- 

 rado is concerned, and, in fact, no attempt has been made to that 

 end since 1886. The volume will be of service to readers in any 

 section of the arid West on account of its treatment of the com- 

 mon law principles of irrigation. For sale by Chain & Hardy, 

 Denver, Colo. 



" Engineering Results of Irrigation Survey," by Herbert M. 

 Wilson, has just been issued from the government printing office. 

 It is the most valuable work that has been sent out from this de- 

 partment for a long time in the line of irrigation. The author is 

 a close student of irrigation development. He is familiar with 

 the systems of the old world from personal examination, and has 

 also investigated all the principal enterprises in this country. 

 The volume is profusely illustrated and contains matters of engi- 

 neering character that make it of special value. 



PATENT REPORTS. 



514,559. Machine for measuring water from lakes, by William 

 T. Lambie, of Los Angeles, Cal. Filed July 26, 1893. 



514,616. Water elevator, by George W. Campbell, of El Paso, 

 Tex. Filed Aug. 16, 1893. 



514,659. Suction and force apparatus for pumping fluids, by 

 Waitman M. Morgan, of Kansas City, Mo. Filed Oct. 5, 1892. 



514,767. Device for protecting riparian lands from overflow, by 

 Wm. McCaughan, et al, of Gulfport, Miss. Filed March 23, 1893. 



514,848. Windmill, by Frank W. Eaton, of Ness City, Kan. 

 Filed March 31, 1893. 



515,378. Proportional water meter, by John Thompson, of New 

 York. Filed May 11, 1893. 



515,408. Windmill, by Charles B. Putnam, of Marion, Iowa. 

 Filed March 25, 1898. 



515,630. Hinge for windmill rudders, by Fred Waidner, of 

 Mishawaka, Ind. Filed May 27, 1893. 



515,698. Composition for boring or drilling tools, by Olaf Terp, 

 of London, England. Filed Feb. 17, 1893. 



