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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



TEXAS. 



An irrigation convention will be held in San An- 

 tonio, December 4th. It promises to be a very suc- 

 cessful one and the State is beginning to take an 

 active interest in irrigation. 



A survey is being made of the country a few miles 

 south of San Antonio preparatory to commencing 

 operations on an irrigation ditch between the San 

 Antonio river and the Corpus Christi road. Many of 

 the farmers through whose land the canal will run 

 have already signed articles giving it the right of way. 



The California Irrigation company has secured 

 subscriptions of 20,000 acres in the vicinity of Brown- 

 wood, Tex., and will begin work when 40,000 are 

 subscribed. The dam will be thirteen miles north of 

 Brownwood. The route is now being surveyed. 



NEW MEXICO. 



The Pecos Valley Irrigation company are making 

 arrangements to build a canaigre extract factory at 

 Eddy. 



The irrigation work on the Navajo Indian reserva- 

 tion is progressing rapidly under the charge of Mr. 

 E. C. Vincent. 



SOUTH DAKO A. 



Over 1,500 square miles of territory have been sur- 

 veyed this season for the proposed irrigation canals 

 in the Jim River valley. 



James A.Wilson lately purchased 320 acres of land 

 three miles northeast of Armour, adjoining a farm of 

 320 acres, which he already owns, and will commence 

 digging irrigating ditches at once. The supply of 

 water will be obtained from a six-inch well. 



There are nineteen wells now being used for irri- 

 gation purposes in Brule county, South Dakota, the 

 average length of the ditches from each well being 

 thirteen miles. 



COLORADO. 



The directors of the Fort Morgan canal, Fort Mor- 

 gan, Colo., contemplate the building of a better system 

 of checking the water at the head of the line. 



Work on the enlargement of the Larimer County 

 ditch in Colorado will be started after the water is out 

 of the ditch this fall. 



The board of directors of the Grand Valley canal, 

 of Grand Junction, Colo., are contemplating the exten- 

 sion of the canal below Fruita. The extension will 

 cover about 18,000 acres of fine fruit and farming land. 



IN OTHER STATES. 



Judge J. S. Waters of Hailey, Idaho, is interested in 

 a project to water 10,000 acres of land in the Gunni- 

 son valley, twelve miles north of Green River Station 

 in Utah. 



Operations are about to be resumed by the Agua 

 Fria Construction Co., of Benson, Arizona, and its 

 magnificent irrigation enterprise will be pushed to 

 completion speedily. A. R. Jennings, of Tempe, has 

 a contract for 10,000 barrels of lime, and will begin 

 burning at once. 



Construction of the Clear creek canal in Wasco 

 county, Oregon, which is to irrigate a large section of 

 country, is progressing favorably. Water will be 

 admitted to nine miles of the canal very soon and it is 

 expected to have twenty-five miles completed this fall 

 ready to irrigate next season's crops. Sixty teams 



and 150 men are employed on the canal, and more 

 are put to work as fast as they can be secured. 



Construction work on small irrigation ditches in 

 the Milk river valley, Montana, is very active. 



Dr. N. G. Blalock, Chairman of the Washington 

 Irrigation Commission, estimates that there are 2,400,- 

 000 acres of land susceptible of irrigation in eastern 

 Washington; of this amount about one million and a 

 quarter are in the Yakima valley. On the basis of 

 twenty-acre farms Yakima could therefore support 

 60,000 people on irrigated land. 



A canal is being constructed by the Fetterman 

 Canal Co. in Converse county, Wyoming. The canal 

 taps the North Platte river on its south bank about 

 five miles above Fetterman. 



D. R. McGinnis, secretary of the St. Paul Com- 

 mercial Club, claims that 200,000 acres of land lying 

 east of the Mississippi and northwest of Minneapolis 

 can be made very valuable by cutting an irrigating 

 canal from the Mississippi river, near Little Falls, 

 and terminating near the Twin Cities. 



Hahn Bros. & Co. of Muscatine, Iowa, are making 

 a success of raising sweet potatoes by irrigation. 



N. McDonald, a farmer of Hampton, Iowa, intends 

 to irrigate next year. 



The Goose Pond in Sac county, Iowa, is being sur- 

 veyed by its owner, W. G. Press, for the purpose of 

 ditching it. It contains 900 acres. 



Work will soon be commenced on the Wide Hol- 

 low canal in Washington by the North Yakima Canal 

 company. It will be sixteen miles long. 



The farmers along the Prosser Falls Irrigation 

 company's ditch have harvested a large corn crop, 

 although in many instances this is the first time seed 

 has been planted. 



Owen Burr, a market gardener of Flint, Mich., is 

 preparing a system of irrigation for his premises. 

 He will use the water from Gilkey creek. 



FOREIGN. 



A scheme is being advocated for the undertaking 

 of enormous irrigation projects in Western Central 

 Asia, the proposed scene of operations being in 

 Western Turkestan. This region contains about 

 300,000 square miles. The soil is good and yields all 

 the products of the temperate zone. Russia is inter- 

 ested in the project. 



At Spreckelsville in the Hawaiian Islands an im- 

 mense area of worthless sandy plain was brought 

 under* cultivation by the digging of an irrigation 

 ditch seventeen miles long. This is but one of the 

 various enterprises which have been carried to suc- 

 cess by Americans in these islands. 



RECENT LEGAL DECISIONS. 



Enjoining Sale for Void Assessment. Where an assessment 

 for irrigation purposes is void because not authorized by vote 

 of the electors of the district, a sale thereunder will be enjoined, 

 as such invalidity would not appear in the tax deed. 



Woodruff v. Peery. (Supreme Court of California.) 37 Pac. 

 Rep. 526 



Rights of Irrigation Company. Laws 1887 authorized an irri- 

 gation company to construct waterworks for irrigation, and 

 section \-i gave it power to acquire property " necessary for the 

 construction, use, supply, maintenance, repair, and improve- 

 ment of said canal or canals and works, and all necessary appur- 

 tenances." It was held, to authorize taking land for construct- 

 ing a pipe line. 



Rialto Irrigating Dist. v. Brandon. (Supreme Court of Cali- 

 fornia.) 37 Pac. Rep. 484. 



