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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



CANALS. 



Colorado. The Citizens' Water Company has sent a small 

 force of men to commence work on its proposed reservoir at the 

 mouth of Goose creek, on the South Platte river. 



Alberta. Mr. A. W. Ponton, Indian department surveyor, is 

 now at the Blackfoot reserve superintending the construction of 

 the irrigation ditch commenced last fall. About 200 Indians are 

 employed on the work, which will shortly be completed it is ex- 

 pected The irrigation ditch put in by Mr. McMillan last year 



for Mr. Potter of High River is now at work. Though the water 

 was run into this ditch very late in the season for the first time 

 yet it proved a great success, and it is expected that very satis- 

 factory results will accrue from its operations this year The 



irrigation ditches are now at work in the Springbank district. 

 The water is being used all over that section where the ditches are 

 in operation. 



Wyoming. J. M. Brockway. Alexander Brockway, James A- 

 Brockway, David S. Brockway.Willard Virden, G. W. Dickson. 

 Mrs. Matilda Foggett and Miss Maggie E. Brockway, of Douglas, 

 have just located 2,000 acres of the choicest land on the Fort 

 Fetterman reservation near Douglas. It is the intention to at 

 once begin the construction of an irrigating canal from the 

 Platte river to irrigate the lands. The survey for the ditch has 

 already been completed. The selection comprises some of the 

 finest agricultural land in the state, and the development of the 



tract will mean a great deal to the city of Douglas Work has 



been begun, under the direction of Captain Ray of the Shoshone 

 agency, on the immense irrigation ditch on Mill creek. When 

 completed, a large body of agricultural land on the reservation 

 will DC watered. 



reserve of water to be used for manufacturing purposes. There 

 are about 3,000 acres of land yet unsettled that are accessible to the 

 ditch. Two large reservoirs are to be built for storing the water 

 when not in use on the land. 



Utah. The necessity of a high-water canal is becoming more 

 apparent every day. The people who own land near Wasatch for 

 which they have no water begin to realize that unimproved land is 

 a continual expense and no profit whatever. They are getting 

 thirsty for high-water, and it looks as though they were, at last, 

 making an effort to get it. According to recent estimates, a high- 

 water canal from the river can be brought through for $10,000. This 

 canal would bring under cultivation over 2,000 acres of land. Ac- 

 cording to this figuring, the water right would not cost more than 

 $5 per acre. It would reclaim 2,000 acres of land that to-day are non- 

 producing, and, practically speaking, worthless. With the canal 

 built, this land would be worth at least $25 per acre, or an aggregate 

 of $50,000. To put this canal through every acre of unimproved 

 land under the canal should be represented in the scheme. If one 

 man owns more land than he can work out water right for, there 

 are plenty of young men who would be glad to work on the canal 

 and take land for it. The scheme seems to be feasible. 



Nebraska. The irrigation ditch which is to be run through 

 the northwestern part of the state has been commenced near 

 Rushville. The estimated cost for the constructing of the ditch is 



in the neighboorhood of $2,500,000 A number of enterprising 



people living at or near Brady Island are taking initiatory steps 



to construct an irrigation ditch in that neighborhood There 



is a full head of water in the irrigating ditches of Dundy county, 



and the farmers are making good use of it There was a 



meeting of all persons interested in the big irrigating ditch which 

 it is proposed to construct from the lakes in the southern part of 

 Cherry county through Brown, Rock, and Holt counties. A num- 

 ber of Omaha men are largely interested in the territory through 

 which the proposed ditch would pass, and the promoters are con- 

 fident of enlisting their assistance in pushing through the project. 

 Competent authorities estimate that there is an ample supply of 

 water to irrigate 300,000 acres. At the irrigation meeting a resolu- 

 tion was passed that it was the sense of the meeting that the 

 ditch should be built, owned, operated and controlled by home 

 enterprise. Remember, if some foreign company builds this ditch 

 you and your children's children forever will pay tribute to 



it ..It reports that as a result of the current agitation over 100 



miles of canal are being constructed in Lincoln county by six 



different companies Water was turned into the Belmont 



canal as far as Pumpkin creek recently. There have been about 

 thirty-five teams at work cleaning sand from the canal, under 



superintendency of Engineer Lawrence The irrigating ditch 



begun at Rushville is mapped out for a distance of two hundred 

 miles, and will cost about $2,000,000. 



Washington. F. A. Twichell, as secretary of the Lake Wash- 

 ington Drainage Canal Company, has issued the following notice 

 of a meeting to be held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms: 

 " Notice is hereby given that a meeting will be held in the city of 

 Seattle for the purpose of the incorporation of the Lake Washing- 

 ton Drainage and Canal Company. All who intend to participate 

 in the movement to open a waterway from Lake Washington to 

 the Sound for the purpose of relieving the overflowed districts, 

 and especially all those who intend to subscribe money or land to 

 that end, or to join in the incorporation, are requested to be 

 present at that time, as it is the intention to begin active work at 

 once." 



NEW COMPANIES. 



California. Hesperides Garden Co., incorporated, Los An- 

 geles; $25,000. Dealing in real estate and water rights; cultivating 



orchards and vineyards. April 18 Fresno The Walters Ditch 



Co., incorporated, by Henry Walters, of San Francisco, Wm. 

 Helm, Henry Walters, Jr., Henry Pero and Jas. Stevens, of 

 Fresno. Capital stock, $5,000. 



Colorado. Articles of incorporation of the Keirnes Lateral 

 Irrigation Ditch Co. have been filed with the Secretary of State 

 for the purpose of constructing a lateral ditch to be connected 

 with the canal of the Water Supply & Storage Co. in Weld 

 county. W. H. Keirnes, S. T. Wells and J. B. Holmes are the 



incorporators The Fort Morgan Reservoir & Irrigation Co. 



has been incorporated with $150,000 capital stock by farmers in 



that section of the country The Sedgwick County Irrigation 



Co., capitalized at $100,000, to operate in Logan and Sedgwick 

 counties with the principal office at Julesburg, has been incor- 

 porated by B. Beatty, Peter Peterson, E. J. Walrath, B. Ballas, 



J . W. Shedd and J. S. Camahan The Farmers' High Line Canal 



& Reservoir Co. has filed amended articles of incorporation with 

 the Secretary of State, placing the capitalization at $75,000, and 

 making the stock assessable, providing however, that no assess- 

 ment snail be made for more than 10 per cent, of the amount of 

 the capital stock for any one year, and that after the first assess- 

 ment which may be made by the directors, no further assessment 

 shall be made without a majority vote of all the stockholders. 



Delta The Granby Ditch and Reservoir Co., incorporated; 



capital stock, $7,000; operating irrigating ditches, etc The 



Wolfe Drain & Water Supply Co. has been incorporated by 

 James Wolfe and others, with a capital stock of $5,000. 



Idaho. Articles of incorporation of the Riverside Irrigation 

 Co., Limited, have been filed with Secretary of State Curtis. The 

 company propose to extend the Methodist ditch, which is taken 

 out near Caldwell, ab9iit 15 miles down the river. A plan under 

 which the company is working is to give each purchaser of 

 water rights an equal amount of stock. By this method the 

 consumers will, in time, own the ditch. The directors of the new 

 company are Judson Spofford, W. P. Hard and A. J. Wiley, of 

 Boise; D. W. Ross, of Payette; I. H. Lowell, of Riverside. The 



capital stock is $150,00 The Payette Valley Irrigation Co. 



has filed with Secretary of State Curtis notice of the appoint- 

 ment of D. M. Hollins, of this city, to be an agent of the company. 



Articles of incorporation of the Crook Irrigation Co. have 



been filed with Secretary of State Curtis. This is the company 

 headed by A. J. Crook, of Payette, that has purchased the Last 

 Chance ditch at Emmett, which it is proposed to extend to 

 Payette. The capital stock of the company is $100,000, $16,000 

 being paid up. The directors are A. J. Crook, A. A. Branthoover, 

 R. Pearse, E. Antz and C. L. Haines, all of Payette. 



Nebraska. Elkhorn Irrigation Co., O'Neill; $25,000. 



Texas. The Jefferson Land, Loan and Irrigation Co. has 

 been organized, the purposes of which are to buy, sub-divide, 

 improve and sell on the installment plan, real estate; also to loan 

 money on real estate security. The authorized capital of this 

 corporation is $250,000, in shares of $100 each. The directors for 

 the first year are D. A. Bibb, G. L. Nash, Geo. W. Carroll, Thos. 

 H. Langham, L. P. Odgen, W. B. Dunlap, Guy W. Junker, John 



N.Gilbert and Jas. H. Rachford An artesian well will be 



sunk by E. M. Cook at Pearsall, Texas; capital stock, $60,000. 



South Dakota. Articles of incorporation were filed by the 

 Brown & Richards Co.. of Huron, with a capital stock of $100,000. 

 Its purpose, the buying and selling of real estate and locating 

 colonies. Directors: E. P. Soper, Charles S. Sinclair, James N. 

 Brown, R. O. Richards and Andrew Riegle. And for the Hetland 

 Building and Loan Association, of Hetland, Kingsbury county, 

 with a capital stock of $500,000. Incorporators: W. H. Egan and 

 others. 



