THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Final opening of the first unit was made by public 

 notice March 27. The construction work on that unit 

 as far as then extended was completed. The barge was 

 launched May 6, the generating power' plant started 

 May 8, and water pumped into the canal on May 11; 

 8,500 acres was then under irrigation. All pumping 

 stations were in operation May 16. 



The first application made for water right was 

 June 11 and the first request made for water June 12. 

 The first water for irrigating purposes was delivered 

 June 23. Only three requests had been made to that 

 time. There was delivered water in June on request 

 for irrigating, enough to cover 138 acres 12 inches deep. 

 In June this was increased to 1,065 and in August it 

 amount to 315 acres. This makes a total of 1,515 acre 

 feet used in the season. There was a total of 1,515 

 acre feet used for irrigating purposes. 



It will be noticed that over two-thirds of all the 

 water used for irrigation was used in July. The 

 amount of coal used during the season was 360 tons in 

 May, 754 tons in June, 2,338 in July and 1,770 in 

 August. During August a large amount of coal was 

 used for the purpose of testing the various equipments 

 which were put in under contract. 



It will also be noticed that nearly 45 per cent of 

 the coal used for the season was used in July. The 

 result was that during this month the Reclamation 

 Service was crowded to the limit and the water could 

 not be supplied as fast as desired. 



The conditions under which irrigation was tried 

 at this project this season and the results obtained are 

 not such that any reliable estimate can be made as to 

 the amount of crop that can be raised. But where com- 

 parisons could be made the crop on the irrigated land 

 was at least double that on adjoining land not irrigated. 

 The crop was in many instances damaged before request 

 was made for water. That and the inability of the 

 Reclamation Service to supply water as fast as desired 

 often resulted disastrously to the growing crop. Better 

 results are expected next year. The Reclamation Serv- 

 ice has gained experience, and with increased capacity 

 of the power plant, it will be better able to meet the 

 demands. The farmers are more favorably inclined 

 and will give it a fair trial. The State Experimental 

 Station is going into extensive experiments and the 

 knowledge gained by them will be distributed to all in- 

 terested free of charge. The Reclamation Service is 

 very much interested in making this experiment a suc- 

 cess, and the indications are that it will be. Irrigated 

 farming will open a new area for North Dakota agri- 

 culture. The tendency has always been to skim over 

 too much ground, but success under irrigation requires 

 concentration of tilling more than on the number of 

 acres. 



THE PROGRESS OF SUB-DIVISION IN IDAHO 

 UNDER THE CAREY ACT. 



Send $2,50 for The Irrigation 



Age one year and 

 The Primer of Irrigation 



June, 1909, will witness the subdivision of thousands of 

 acres more of irrigated lands in Idaho under the Carey Act, 

 a brief description of which follows : 



The Idaho Irrigation Company, Limited, is incorporated 

 in accordance with the laws of Idaho, to develop certain lands 

 by irrigation under the Carey Act. 



It has secured the segregation of an extensive tract of 

 public land adjacent to the town of Shoshone and surround- 

 ing the town of Gooding in southern Idaho, with a site for 

 storage reservoirs and rights of way for canals, and the neces- 

 sary permits to appropriate and divert more than an ample 

 supply of water. A contract has been entered into with the 

 state for the construction of complete irrigation works and 

 the sale of water rights. 



A dam for the diversion of water to one of the tracts 

 and about fourteen miles of main canal leading to that tract 

 have been completed. 



The following are the directors, whose names are so 

 widely and favorably known in the business world that their 

 association with the company assures the success of the un- 

 dertaking without doubt or question : 



F. H. Buhl, capitalist, Sharon, Pa.; president of Twin 

 Falls Land & Water Co., Twin Falls, Idaho. 



Loring N. Farnum, third vice-president and general man- 

 ager of construction, J. G. White & Company, Inc., 

 New York, N. Y. 



Fred W. Gooding, vice-president of First National Bank, 

 Shoshone, Idaho. 



R. L. Hoguet, attorney, of the firm of Ivins, Mason, Wolff 

 & Hoguet, New York, N. Y. 



T. A. Howell, of the firm of B. H. Howell, Son & Com- 

 pany, New York, N. Y. 



C. B. Hurtt, president of Northwestern Investment Com- 

 pany, Boise, Idaho. 



James H. Post, president of The National Sugar Refining 

 Company, and director of Cuban-American Sugar 

 Company. 



Frederick H. Reed, first vice-president of J. G. White & 

 Company, Inc., New York, N. Y. 



L. C. Rose, vice-president of Colonial Trust & Savings 

 Bank, Chicago, 111. 



J. G. White, president of J. G. White & Company, Inc., 

 New York, N. Y., and chairman of board, J. G. White 

 & Company, Ltd., London, England. 



The management of the Company is under the general 

 direction of its board of directors, who will, in handling en- 

 gineering and other details, have the assistance of the organi- 

 zation of J. G. White & Company, Incorporated, with its 

 large staff experienced in engineering, construction and man- 

 agement. 



The contract with the state provides for the transfer of 

 ownership and management of the irrigation system to the 

 purchasers of the water rights on terms that fully secure the 

 bondholders. It provides also for an ample assessment to 

 pay for operating and maintaining the entire system. This 

 will be expended under the direction of the Company until the 

 control, including the repair and up-keep, of the irrigation sys- 

 tem shall pass to the owners of water rights or shares in the 

 reservoir and canal company. 



The estimates provide for the construction of a storage 

 dam and the necessary diversion dams, canals and ditches for 

 the wa(gring of 125,000 acres, which can be increased to pro- 

 vide water for 150,000 acres at relatively small increase cost. 



On one of the tracts of the project, on which the new 

 town of Richfield is located, a complete diversion dam with 

 head-gates and about fourteen miles of main canal have al- 

 ready been constructed. It is planned to spend a moderate 

 amount of money necessary to develop this town site, which 

 is located on the Ketchum Branch of the Oregon Short Line, 

 about twenty miles northeast of Shoshone. Richfield has a 

 splendid temporary hotel, postoffice, up-to-date general mer- 

 chandise store, two stores of lesser importance, several fine 

 residences and a number of others in course of construction. 

 The townsite contains approximately 1,900 lots, several of 

 which have been sold for prices ranging from $280 to $1,000, 

 respectively. A second town will be located on the new segre- 

 gation on the main line of the Oregon Short Line east of 

 Shoshone. 



