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NEW COMPANIES. 



Arizona. Phoenix. Castle Dome Canal Co., reported as 

 having filed articles of incorporation. 



California. Los Angeles. Lamanda Park Water Co., in- 

 corporated by M. L. Raftery, H. F. Newell, William B. Carey, 

 John \V. Lohr and S. P. Demett. Capital stock $75,000; $2,500 

 actually subscribed. 



Los Angeles. Grand Junction Reservoir Co., incorporated. 

 Capital stock, $300,000. 



Oakland. The Leader Windmill Co., incorporated by W. L. 

 B. Cushing. J. C. Bulcter, W. G H. Rulling, J. C. Baker and G. 

 W. Bultner. Capital stock, $10,000. 



Pasadena. North Pasadena Land & Water Co., reported 

 trust deed for $50 000. 



Poso. Poso Creek Water Development Co., incorporated. 

 Capital stock, $5,000. Operating water works. 



Colorado. Pueblo. The Bessemer Irrigation Ditch Com- 

 pany will receive bids until September20 concerning the cleaning 

 of the Bessemer ditch, from the headgate to the west line of sec- 

 tion 8, township 21, range 64 west, Pueblo couuty, or any part 

 thereof. The probable amount of material required to DC re- 

 moved from the ditch in cleaning the same being from 30,000 to 

 50,000 cubic yards, and bids to be for the removal of such material 

 at a stated rate per cubic yard, the material so removed to be 

 placed in such manner as to strengthen the banks of the ditch. 

 The work to be commenced not later than October 5, and to be 

 completed within twenty-five days from commencing the same. 



Denver. The Pecos Valley Orchard Co., incorporated by 

 Thomas I. Edsall, James G. Hagerman and Arthur S. Goetz, with 

 a capital stock of $200,000. 



Denver. The Battlement Mesa Ditch and Reservoir Company, 

 incorporated by George Fogg, Thomas Miner, W. H. Stewart, 

 Henry Pomtier and Arthur King. Capital stock, $6,000. The 

 company will operate in Delta county. 



Denver. The Colorado Land and Immigration Co., incorpo- 

 rated. Capital stock, $100,000. 



Articles of incorporation of the Lincoln and Dawson County 

 Irrigation Company, capitalized at $500,000, are ready to file, and 

 it is the intention of the company to build an irrigation ditch 

 through the eastern part of Lincoln county and extend it about 

 fifteen miles into Dawson county. 



Florida. Rockledge. The Rockledge Beach Canal Co , in- 

 corporated with a capital stock of $20,000. 



Idaho. Boise City. The Farmers' Union Ditch Co. .incorpo- 

 rated by S. S. Foote, Phillip S Palmer, James G. Camp and W. 

 J. Flake. Capital stock, $50,000, of which $18,450 is subscribed. 



Nebraska. Lexington. Farmers' Irrigation Co., incorpo- 

 rated. Capital stock, $6,000, 



Lexington. Farmers and Merchants Irrigation Co., incorpo- 

 rated. Capital stock, $25,000. 



Lincoln. The South Side Irrigating Canal Co., incorporated 

 by H. M. Knoll, W. E. Young. C. C. Campbell, John D. Ander- 

 son, E. M. Young, George Dale and J. N. France. Capital stock, 

 $150,000. Water will be taken from the Platte river, the ditch be- 

 ginning on the south side of the river, in section 30, township 12, 

 range 26 west from Lincoln county, and end near the east line of 

 Rigold precinct in Dawson county. 



Lincoln. The Elkhorn Irrigation Company, of Holt county, 

 lately filod articles of incorporation, indicating that business is to 

 be commenced at once and with much vigor. 



Lincoln. Articles of incorporation of the Burwell Irrigation 

 Company were filed in the office of the Garfield county clerk. The 

 new corporation is composed of twelve representative farmers. 

 The capital stock is $50,000, and shares $100. It is proposed to 

 dig a ditch about twenty miles long, and to aid in tins the pre- 

 cinct in which Burwell is situated will be asked to vote bonds. 

 Owing to the fact that the crop was a partial failure here last 

 year, and for one or two years preceding that, many people will 

 be entirely destitute in a very snort time, and outside aid alone 

 can stand between them and suffering. 



Lillian. -The Lillian Irrigation & Power Co. is the name of a 

 new company just organized at Lillian. The incorporators and 

 officers are: David McGugin, president; R. H. Sargent, vice- 

 president; W. H. Russell, secretary; J. E. Ash, treasurer; L. H. 



Jewett, H. P. Gates, A. Wallace, Frank Doty, James Dare, Plin 

 Metcalf. A. J. Ricketts, A. Kellogg and G. W. Dewe 

 tal stock is fixed at $10,000. 



O' ' Neill. Elkhorn Irrigation Co., incorporated. Capital stock, 

 $25,000 



North Platte. Farmers & Merchants Irrigation Co., incorpo- 

 rated. Capital stock, $50,000. 



Wescott. The Wescott Irrigation & Canal Co. has effected an 

 organization. The company is composed of farmers and others 

 owning land under the proposed ditch and for the construction 

 of which this company is organized. Water will be taken out of 

 the river just below the Sargent bridge and will be turned back 

 into the river through Spring creek about four miles east of Wes- 

 cott. The present officers are: Peter Mickel, president; DeWitt 

 Comstock, secretary, and Elias Cleaveland, treasurer. Con- 

 struction work will commence as soon as the permanent survey 

 can be made and the necessary scrapers, etc., arrive. 



Kansas. Wallace. -The Wallace County Irrigation and Ag- 

 ricultural Association, incorporated. 



Missouri. Springfield. The Southwest Missouri Immigra- 

 tion and Improvement Co., incorporated by G. A. Ramsey, H F. 

 Fellows, Benjamin U. Massey, L. B. Richardson, J. C. McMa- 

 nima, J. N. Mallett and Charles A. McCann. Capital stock, 

 $2,000. 



Oregon. Cascade Locks. The Cascade Water Co., incorpo- 

 rated by D. L. Gates, H A. Levins, T. C. Benson, E. P. Ash and 

 G Hickok. Capital stock, $1,500. The principal object is to 

 construct and operate water works in that city. 



New Bridge, Union county. The Dry Gulch Ditch and Irriga- 

 tion Co., limited, incorporated by A. L. Stalker, H. J. Fuller, R. 

 H. Boyles, C. Leep, J. W. Koger, Mary Koger, W. E. Wood, Ira 

 Sacrider and G. N. Reed. The capital stock is fixed at $4,000, 

 divided into 2,000 shares. The purpose is to construct a ditch to 

 carry a portion of the water of Eagle creeks upon a portion of the 

 arid lands of that section of the State for the purpose of irriga- 

 tion. The ditch, when completed, is to carry 4,000 inches of 

 water at the headgate. 



Pendleton, Umatilla county. The Maxwell Irrigation Co., in- 

 corporated by Jas. A. Creswell and William Ogg. Capital stock, 

 $5,000. 



Salem. Oregon Wholesale Co., limited, incorporated by Wil- 

 liam Wirt, of Denver, and Archie McGill and Malcolm McDon- 

 ald, of Salem. Capital stock, $20,000. To construct and operate 

 canals, ditches and pipe lines for conducting water, to operate 

 water powers and to maintain water rights and privileges. 



Texas. Menardville.-^ The Clark Creek Irrigation & 

 Manufacturing Co. of Menard county has been chartered by W. 

 L Black, George L. and Louis H. Rang. The capital stock is 

 $10.000 



Beaumont. An artesian well is to be sunk. Gus. Warnecke 

 and H. B. Johnson, of Houston, Tex., are interested. 



Brown-wood. Low & Low will put in an irrigation plant, and 

 want nlachinery to irrigate 200 acres of land with nine inches of 

 water in fifteen days time. It is desired to elevate this water 

 twenty-five, feet and then carry it 400 yards. Plans and prices for 

 the works are desired. 



Laredo. Mr S. F. Kerr, of San Antonio, it is stated, has leased 

 a pumping plant of the North Laredo Land & Irrigation Com- 

 pany and will put in a pump with a capacity of 2,500 gallons per 

 minute. 



San Antonio A company has been organized with a capital 

 stock of $150,000 for the purpose of constructing a canal from San 

 Antonio to the Medina river. Z O. Stocker, of San Antonio, and 

 J S. Taylor, of California, are the organizers. The canal is to be 

 for irrigating purposes, and is expected to water about 20,000 

 acres ofland; route has been surveyed and map filed for record. 



Seguin.Mr. T. L. Johnson has organized a stock company 

 with a capital stock of $1,000,000 for the purpose of constructing 

 canals for irrigating lands in southern Texas. 



Utah. Ogden. The Bear Lake Irrigation & Ogden Water 

 Works has been incorporated. 



Washington. Kent. White River Land Co., reported in- 

 corporated. 



Canada.- Calgary. The Sheep Creek Irrigation Company, 

 (Limited), with a capital stock of $1,000, is applying for incorpo- 

 ration in order to sink wells, construct dams, cribs, embank- 

 ments, etc. 



FRUIT EXCHANGES. 



California. Los Angeles. The Toluca Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciption, incorporated by R. E. Smith, W. H. Andrews, E. B. 

 Lindesmith, A. M. Jones, W C. Wedington, Arthur Gayford and 

 I. W. Deupree, with a capital stock of $40,000, of which $1,380 is 

 actually subscribed 



Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz County Fruit Growers' Union, 

 incorporated by S. R Wallace, H. R Dakin, of Soquel, and A. 

 G. Rose, P. T. Stribling. F. A Hihn, W. H. Galbraith and S. F. 

 Grover, of Santa Cruz. Capital stock, $40,000. 



Toluca. The Toluca Fruit Growers' Association, incorpo- 

 rated. Capital stock, $40,000. 



Iowa. Sioux City The Iowa and Florida Fruit Co., incor- 

 porated by W. M. Mulleneaux, T. C. Prescott, G. A. Preston. J. 

 W. Hallam and W. S. Preston. Capital stock, $25,000. Will 

 commence business when $1,000 has been paid in. The organiza- 

 tion was formed for the purpose of buying and selling farm lands, 

 particularly in the State of Florida, and of raising fruit on its 

 own account. 



Washington. North Yakima Articles of incorporation for 

 the Yakima Fruit Company have been filed in the auditor's 

 office The capital stock of the company is 2;000, and the in- 

 corporators are, A. B. Weed, George C Mitchell, W. H. Red- 

 man, E. R. Learning, Frank Bartholet and Fred Parker. Shares 

 are of the value of S100 each. The objects of the corporation are: 

 " To purchase, take, own and operate all necessary apparatus for 

 curing, drying, evaporating and preparing for market fruits, ber- 

 ries and other agricultural products, and to sell and dispose of 

 the same; to buy, sell and exchange fresh and dried fruits and 

 other agricultural products, and to deal therein generally," etc. 



