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ARIZONA. 



It is proposed to spend $250,000 in reclaiming 

 Paradise valley. 



The Gila Bend Reservoir & Irrigation Company 

 arid the Peoria Canal Co. have been sold by the 

 receiver for $900,000. 



The Phoenix city council is considering a proposi- 

 tion to pipe irrigation water through the town instead 

 of running it through in open ditches. 



The interest in the Grand canyon dam is increasing. 

 It is expected that within five years the waters of the 

 mighty Colorado will be irrigating farms in the Walla- 

 pai valley. 



There was rejoicing at Yuma" over the passage of 

 the bill by Congress dividing and allotting the lands 

 of the Indian reservation. The selling of the remain- 

 der to actual settlers will open up thousands of acres 

 of good land in the valley. 



Several sites for mills and dams have been claimed 

 on the Salt river, both above and below Tempe. 

 These locations are for mechanical power and manu- 

 facturing purposes. 



A ranch of one hundred and sixty acres is irri- 

 gated from the Salt river by a six-inch centrifugal 

 pump. 



The water supply of the Colorado River is suffi- 

 cient to irrigate several hundred thousand acres of 

 land. 



The Montrose Enterprise is trying to push the mat 

 ter of taking the Gunnison river into the Uncompah- 

 gre valley. If this object is accomplished nearly all 

 the land in the valley can be irrigated. 



CALIFORNIA. 



The Board of Directors of the Modesto Irrigation 

 District are reported to have recently let a $65,000 

 contract for the construction of head gates, flumes 

 and waste gates on the Modesto canal. 



Successful results have followed the boring of ar- 

 tesian wells in and about Santa Barbara, and the peo- 

 ple seem to be awakening to the fact that there is an 

 abundance of water within easy reach if they will 

 only take the trouble to bore for it. 



An artesian well 575 feet deep has been sunk by 

 George W. Durborow at Indio, San Diego county, 

 for the purpose of irrigating his fruit trees. 



Mr. Cogswell, of Monrovia, Los Angeles county, has 

 lately put a pump into a well 130 feet deep, driven 

 by a twelve-horse-power gasoline engine, and secures 

 sufficient water to irrigate 450 acres of land. 



The South Riverside Water Co. has an engineer 

 making an estimate of the cost of drawing water from 

 Elsinore lake. 



Kern county has an artesian well which delivers 

 4,000,000 gallons of water daily. 



Work on the Escpndido irrigation system is pro- 

 gressing satisfactorily. The new dam is now well 

 under way and the work will be pushed as rapidly as 

 possible. 



Richard Egan and a number of surveyors recently 

 left Los Angeles to measure the water in Santiago 

 creek. 



COLORADO. 



The survey of the new line of the Fort Morgan 

 canal has been completed. 



Observations are being taken on a quantity of seep- 

 age water that is finding its way back from the 

 canyon to the Platte in Wells county. 



IDAHO. 



An attempt is being made to develop artesian 

 water in the Snake River valley. Work on the Or- 

 chard Farm dam has been commenced. 



George W. Newell has three artesian wells on his 

 farm in the Snake River valley and expects to sink 

 enough more to irrigate his entire 640 acres. The 

 water from the wells is hot. 



A survey is being made on the projected canal or 

 the Farmers' Union ditch, which is to be taken out 

 of the Boise river above Star. 



KANSAS. 



Garden City has been inspected during the last 

 month by many excursion parties. The system of 

 windmill irrigation has been the object of interest. 



The Galloway cattle ranch, comprising about 12,000 

 acres of land in Edwards county, has been sold to 

 Cincinnati capitalists. They expect to divide it into 

 small farms and colonize it with Ohio farmers. Each 

 twenty acres or so will be irrigated with a pump. 



Haskell county held an irrigation meeting late in 

 August, which was very largely attended. 



E. J. Nason makes several pertinent irrigation sug- 

 gestions to the Washington Register, and closes them 

 with: " It is certainly a question of vital importance, 

 and any action upon it would be of benefit to all." 



Hon. C. B. Hoffman recently purchased 2<'0 acres 

 of land lying in the Smoky Hill bottoms adjoining En- 

 terprise, which will be placed under irrigation and 

 divided into ten or twenty acre tracts, to be leased 

 to men of families. 



Editor Cowgill.of the Kansas Farmer, proposes to 

 try the pump plan of irrigation. 



An irrigation pumping plant in Geary county, cen- 

 tral Kansas, was recently started by H. Morris and 

 W. Harlacker on Lyons creek, four miles south of 

 Junction City. Sixty acres will be irrigated. 



An enthusiastic irrigation meeting was lately held 

 in Great Bend, Barton county. 



There will be a great display of products raised by 

 irrigation at the County Fair of Finney county, which 

 begins October 4th. 



A farmer near Garden City tried winter irrigation 

 with very good results, having cut two crops of alfalfa 

 and securing a large crop of seed from his forty-acre 

 farm. 



The Lincoln Journal says : " Irrigation by means of 

 wind has progressed much beyond the experimental 

 stage at Garden City, Kas. The effect can be seen 

 to be marvelous, even from the car windows as one 

 travels across the district." 



Kansas is rapidly realizing the value of irrigation, 

 and work on pumping plants and other systems of 

 irrigating is progressing as rapidly as possible. Next 

 year will see a very large number of farms in the cen- 

 tral and eastern portions irrigated ; if not entirely, at 

 least a few acres will be experimented with. 



William Reece, Superintendent of the Falls City 

 Public Schools, is a native of New Baltimore, Ohio. 

 From June, 1885, to September, 1886, he traveled over 



