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the lower one. The arrangement makes it easy to 

 place the whole apparatus near the bank of a stream, 

 or, if desired, the elevator could be placed at any con- 

 venient distance. 



ITALIAN CUREENT WHEELS. 



Two wheels on opposite sides of the swift Adige 

 River in Italy, just above the city of Verona, are fifty 

 feet in height, raising water forty feet. The construc- 

 tion is the lightest possible owing to scarcity of wood 

 in that region, the spokes being light single poles braced 

 by two sets of still lighter strips. The rim is a contin- 

 uous wooden box divided into compartments, each with 

 a sort of trap door which opens when entering the 

 water and closes of itself as it begins to rise. To this 

 box or rim the paddles are fastened on either side, 

 being nailed to cleats. They are braced at the ends by 

 slender sticks run through holes bored in the paddles 

 and keyed or wedged in place. It is usual to arrange 

 two wheels with a flume between them, though the ad- 



THE TRI-STATE LAND COMPANY AND THE 

 RECLAMATION SERVICE. 



G. L. 8HUMWAY. 



One of the requirements of the Reclamation Serv- 

 ice is that land owners under a projected canal must 

 form a water users' association. That part of the North 

 Platto project under the proposed interstate canal pro- 

 ceeded to do so. Understanding its primary initial 

 purpose was to secure water subscriptions for deeded 

 lands, the temporary board of directors was made up 

 of the largest land owners, the original composite own- 

 ing about half of the deeded land under the interstate 

 canal and above the line of the proposed farmers canal. 



This farmers canal is owned by the Tri-State Land 

 Company, of which Heyward G. Learitt is president. 

 It has one of the oldest appropriations on the river 

 and the original company has gone through various 



Of TAIL Or BUCKET 



B METHOD OF 

 FASTENING TO tfHfEL BR*J- 



Fig. 2. Wheel on Grand 



vantage of this arrangement is not evident. A wing 

 dam turns the current into a flume running under the 

 wheel. 



A floating current wheel also in the Adige River, 

 is used for operating a grist mill. 



A typical modern current wheel in Milan, Italy, is 

 used for power. The curved blades are made of sheet 

 iron, the entire framework being of steel. The water 

 runs swiftly down a sluice striking only the tips of the 

 blades. Owing to their curvature, it slides smoothly 

 up the blades, comes to rest, and is discharged with 

 very little velocity. An offset in the tailrace just below 

 the wheel provides ample waste way. 



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 1 year, and The Primer of Irrigation 



Valley Canal, Colorado. 



vicissitudes, including bankruptcy and sale under court 

 orders to H. F. Walker, who transferred it to the pres- 

 ent owner last November. Mr. Leavitt's company has 

 acquired about 40,000 acres of land under this canal 

 out of a total of about 70,000. The owners of prob- 

 ably 20,000 of the 30,000 acres not represented by 

 this company are asking for Government water, but 

 organizers of the water users' association deemed it 

 prudent to eliminate such membership for the reasons 



First It was believed that Mr. Leavitt's company 

 held vested rights to water these lands. 



Second To keep free from litigation. 



Third Not to take a position hostile to private 

 enterprise. 



Fourth Not to assume the responsibility which 

 up to this date no federal representative has given us to 





