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IN ARIZONA. 



Arthur P. Davis, of the government 

 geological survey, is making a preliminary 

 survey for a canal from Bull's Head to a 

 point in Mohave valley, below the town of 

 Fort Mohave. The canal will pass through 

 the high mesa back of Hardyville, and 

 will reach about fifty thousand acres of 

 the finest land in Arizona. The building 

 of this canal would open up to gettlement 

 this large tract of land, and be the means 

 of increasing the population and taxable 

 wealth of the county many fold. 



IRRIGATION NOTES. 



The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail- 

 way is soon to issue an attractive book de- 

 scriptive of the irrigated sections in the 

 Pecos Valley of New Mexico. 



The Pecos Irrigation Co., Carlsbad, 

 New Mexico, is to replace its wooden 

 flume across the Pecos river with a new 

 steel and concrete flume, the estimated 

 cost of which improvement is to be $50,- 

 000. 



The Rio Grande Land and Improvement 

 Co., with a capital of $5,000,000, has re- 

 cently been organized for the purpose of 

 irrigating a large amount of land in the 

 vicinity of El Paso, Tex. The source of 

 water supply is from the Rio Grande river 

 and from wells. 



F. H. Newell, chief hydrographer. 

 United States Geological Survey, passed 

 through Chicago, July 17, en route to 

 Denver, Colo., where he is to be the guest 

 of the Chamber of Commerce. M . New- 

 ell will also visit Phoenix, Ariz., and other 

 points in the irrigated sections of the 

 southwest. 



H. J. Page of Denver, receiver of the 

 Manvel Canal, has just completed consid- 

 erable work upon thak property. This 

 canal has its head gates on the south side 

 of the Arkansas river and takes water out 

 of the river about sixteen miles west of 



Granada, Colo. The canal waters about 

 4,000 acres of land at present. 



Prof. Charles S. Slichter, of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, assigned to the 

 United States Geological Survey, is at 

 present in California making a survey of 

 the underground waters in the vicinity of 

 Los Angeles. Prof. Slichter is the orig- 

 inator of an electrical method of deter- 

 mining the velocity of underground waters. 



Considerable interest is being mani- 

 fested in the development of the under- 

 ground water of the Rio Grande Valley in 

 New Mexico. A very interesting demon- 

 stration of the volume of underground 

 water was recently made in the vicinity of 

 Albuquerque by Mr. Paul B. Perkins of 

 Chicago, and a number of experiments are 

 being carried on by the New Mexico Col- 

 lege of Agriculture at Mesilla Park. 



The Texas Land and Irrigation Com- 

 pany has been organized with a capital 

 stock of $2,000,000, having as its object 

 the construction and operation of an irri- 

 gation canal starting in Austin county, 

 Texa?, on the Brazos river, to irrigate for 

 rice raising one of the richest bodies of 

 land in the South. It is estimated that 

 several hundred thousand acres of land 

 will be watered by this system. Surveys 

 show the land to have a fall that could 

 hardly be better, nearly fifty miles of sur- 

 veys have been made, deeds delivered to 

 right of way, and construction commenced. 



Lowell G. Lloyd, of Denver, Colo., has 

 returned from the East, having concluded 

 the organization of the Boyd Lake Irriga- 

 tion Co., with a capital of $250,000 which 

 will push the work upon the reservoir at 

 Boyd Lake, Colo. This enterprise has its 

 center near Loveland, Colo , and Boyd 

 Lake is said to be the only reservoir in 

 Northern Colorado that will draw water 

 from two water sheds, the Cache la Poudre 

 and the Big Thompson. The basin is four 

 miles long, three quarters of a mile wide, 

 and has a capacity of 2,000,000,000 cubic 

 feet of water. Engineers are now upon 

 the spot surveying for the work. 



