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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



irrigated. The great Sacaton reservation 

 on the Salt and Gila rivers will not be 

 allotted. 



Governor Hughes describes the situ- 

 ation as follows: " The statistics of last 

 year show Arizona to be enjoying more 

 than average prosperity. We have more 

 than five hundred thousand acres under 

 cultivation. We have reservoirs and 

 canals under construction which will add 

 more than half a million more within the 

 next two or three years. Our exports in 

 value last year reached nearly fifteen 

 million dollars of products of mines, 

 farms and range. I believe this output 

 be doubled during the present year." 



CALIFORNIA. 



California alone has, up to date, pro- 

 duced $1,350,000,000 in gold. Africa's 

 total product has been $138,000,000. 



Calaveras county, which had never 

 reached the top of the ladder since the 

 discovery of gold, has jumped to the first 

 place as the greatest gold producer in the 

 State, owing to the fact that its aggre- 

 gate output in gold in 1894 was $2, 124,548. 

 -Thus it increased $464,356 over 1893 and 

 $1,375,017 over 1892. The total produc- 

 tion of gold from 1880 to 1894, inclusive, 

 was $11,647,495. 



Irrigation has made great progress in 

 California during 1895, and still the work 

 goes on. A favorable decision from the 

 "United States Supreme Court on the 

 Wright Law is expected during the present 

 month. 



A new incorporation is the Sierra De- 

 velopment Company, at Sansalito, $250,- 

 000, with $2,500 paid in, to build dams, 

 reservoirs, ditches, etc., for irrigation. 



West Side Suburban Water Company, 

 at Los Angeles, $2,000,000, with $7,000 

 paid in; to build dams, ditches, canals, 

 etc., for irrigation. 



Pacific Water Company, at Kings City, 

 $300,000, with $200,000 paid in; Will- 

 iam E. Ward, Benjamin S. Coppock, H. 

 V. Morehouse, A. L. Burbank, San Jose. 



The Corina Land & Water Company 

 has been incorporated. Capital, all paid 

 in, $25,000. 



The South Tule Independent Ditch 

 Company has been organized. Capital 

 stock, $24,000. 



Squaw Lake W T ater & Mining Company, 

 $1,152,000, all paid in, to construct 

 ditches, tunnels, etc., for irrigation pur- 

 poses. The incorporators are San Fran- 

 cisco and Portland (Ore.) men. 



Paladale Town Company, at Los An- 

 geles, $100,000 with full amount paid 

 in; to build ditches, canals, reservoirs, 

 etc., for irrigation purposes. 



Patents have just been issued as follows: 

 550,710; irrigation headgate; to James 

 M. Eads, San Bernardino, Cal. 550,711; 

 irrigation headgate to same inventor. 

 548,779; irrigation hydrant; to George A. 

 Doyle, Perris, Cal. 



Mexican Water Pipe Company, at Los 

 Angeles, >apital, $500,000; directors, W. 

 L. Carter, O. C. Hinman, John T. Gaffey, 

 M. J. Nolan, G. A. Smith, Los Angeles. 



Southern California Improvement Com- 

 pany, at Los Angeles, capital, $500,000; 

 directors, Bruce E. Ritchie, Hinsdale, 111.; 

 J. M. Stewart, Chicago; W. E. Robinson, 

 C. E. Crowley, John Love, Los Angeles. 



Final surveys are being made for the 

 San Lorenzo Water Company's proposed 

 irrigation system at King City, Monterey 

 county. The height of the dam will be 

 100 feet, and will impound sufficient 

 water to irrigate about 15,000 acres of 

 level and fertile land in the vicinity. 



Southern California Mountain Water 

 Company, at San Diego, $3,500,000, with 

 full amount paid in. This company suc- 

 ceeds the Mountain Tecarte Company in 

 constructing the irrigation system of that 

 company, which includes four large dams, 

 and is calculated to irrigate most of San 

 Diego county south of the San Diego 

 river and west of the main range. 



California is now competing largely 

 with France and Italy for the dried fruit 

 and canned fruit trade of Mexico. 



The 27th anniversary of the founding of 

 the Patrons of Husbandry was celebrated 

 at Stockton on the 7th of December. 



The Los Aguilas ranch, consisting of 

 23,650 acres, in San Benito county, was 

 knocked down to Andrew B. McCreery 

 for $80,000. 



It is a fact that California is knocking 

 out Baltimore and Maryland in the canned 

 goods industry of the United States. 



Over 40,000 40-pound sacks of peanuts 

 were raised in Orange county the past 



