THE KLAMATH RECLAMATION PROJECT. 



for the different classes of irrigation, and how the different plants should 

 be installed and operated to work to the best advantage, the Office of 

 Experiment Stations has been testing a large number of irrigation pumps 

 throughout the State. The results of some of these tests are now in 

 press and those from the remainder will be published during the coming 

 year. 



Important in irrigation as are the subjects already mentioned — proper 

 methods of preparing land for irrigation and of applying water, the duty 

 of water and evaporation losses, and pumping for irrigation — there are other 

 subjects so pressing that the Office of Experiment Stations has not been 

 able to let them pass unheeded. The problems of two of the leading irri- 

 gation districts of the State have shown themselves worthy of attention 

 and a report dealing with them is now in press. The rise of ground water in 

 irrigated sections and the resulting damage and necessity for drainage 

 are being watched in several parts of the State. The feasibility of irrigating 

 grain in the San Joaquin Valley and the best methods of applying water to 

 it are under careful study. A bulletin is being prepared designed to show 

 the economy of permanent over temporary structures on California canals 

 and ditches. The relative economy of deep and shallow furrows in apply- 

 ing water to orchards, particularly to the citrus orchards of southern Cali- 

 fornia, is under careful consideration, some of the principal field work 

 of the past season having been carried on in connection with this subject 

 in the district around Riverside. 



In brief, the irrigation work of the Office of Experiment Stations in 

 California, as well as in the other western States, is the work of the irri- 

 gator. His problems are its problems. What he learns the Office of Ex- 

 periment Stations is seeking to learn, and wherever he needs help the Office 

 of Experiment Stations is seeking to furnish it. 



The Klamath Reclamation 



Pr ojec t 



H. L. HOLQATE, Esq.. Attornej for Klaanth Project 



IN the rock of rough marble the sculptor saw an angel. His practised 

 hand chiseled away the imprisoning stone, revealing to the world a figure 

 of beauty. With an equally prescient eye the United States Reclamation 

 Service sees in the Klamath Plateau of Southern Oregon and Northern 

 California, a land of thousands of prosperous farm homes, and with equal 

 skill the engineers of the service will reveal the agricultural possibilities 

 of this undeveloped region. 



Under the Klamath Project, the official name of this irrigation system 

 to be constructed by the Government, lie 250,000 acres of irrigable land. 

 About 145,000 acres are in private ownership and 105,000 acres are gov- 

 ernment lands. The public lands will be subdivided into tracts averaging 

 80 acres in extent, and under the law the private lands must be subdivided 

 into farms not exceeding 160 acres under one ownership. The average 

 size of all the farms will probably be less than 100 acres and the total 

 number of farms will be something more than 2,500. These farms and 

 the immense timber resources of the country will easily support a popula- 

 tion of 50,000 people. 



The Engineers of the Service are not here confronted with difficult 

 engineering problems. The water supply is abundant and nature has 

 provided the necessary reservoirs. The larger area of the irrigable land, 

 about 190,000 acres, will be supplied with water drawn from Upper Klam- 

 ath Lake situated in Klamath County, Oregon. This lake has an area of 

 60,000 acres, an average depth of about eight feet and an elevation of 

 4142 feet. The lake receives the drainage of an immense watershed. Its 



