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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



through solid rock cliffs from the bottom of the reser- 

 voir into the canyon. The gates are located in this 

 solid rock tunnel, affording a safe and ample outlet to 

 the reservoir. 



After leaving the reservoir the water flows down 

 the Bluewater canyon, which is rock on the sides and 

 bottom, and, owing to springs of water in the canyon, 

 more water is delivered at the lands in the valley twelve 

 miles away than is turned loose through the tunnel at 

 the reservoir, the usual loss from seepage and evapora- 

 tion en route being completely overcome. The reser- 

 voir lies at an altitude of 1,000 feet higher than the 



direct inspection of the territorial irrigation engineer 

 and board of water commissioners. All plans and speci- 

 fications are approved by them. Irrigation ha-s been 

 practiced in New Mexico for over four hundred years, 

 and consequently the territorial laws protecting the 

 rights of water users are perhaps more perfect than in 

 any other portion, of the United States. 



SIGNS OF GROWING TRADE. 



Forced to largely increase its output in order to supply the rapidly 

 growing demand for its products, the Dempster Mill Manufacturing 



Sugar Beets and Potatoes, Bluewater Valley. 



Bluewater Valley and twelve miles distant. It drains 

 an area of approximately 240 square miles of heavily 

 timbered watershed. 



Approximately 25,000 acres of irrigable land are 

 comprised in the Bluewater Valley. At present there 

 are perhaps thirty-five families farming in the valley. 

 A good school, in charge of a competent male teacher, 

 main-line train service, daily mail, telegraph and tele- 

 phone service make the Bluewater Valley an excep- 

 tionally pleasant place to live. 



The scenery surrounding the valley is also beautiful. 

 Mt. Taylor rises at the edge of the valley to an altitude 

 of 12,000 feet, and is flanked on both sides by a row 

 of smaller, more regular, brilliantly colored bnttes, com- 

 pletely enclosing the valley upon the east and upon the 

 northeast and southern sides. On the western side low 

 foothills, upon which there is excellent grazing, extend 

 for a few miles, until they are met abruptly by a line 

 of limestone buttes. 



The Bluewater Development Company is extending 

 every courtesy and inducement to intending purchas- 

 ers. The farms so far purchased range in size from 10 

 to 100 acres. Terms of purchase are very easy, em- 

 bodying a small cash payment per acre, with the balance 

 of the payments extending over a term of years at 6 

 per cent interest. 



Settlers under the Bluewater project have the ad- 

 vantage of being under a reservoir thoroughly investi- 

 gated and surveyed and the engineering data for which 

 was compiled by the United States geological survey, 

 under the direction of the Department of the Interior. 

 The construction is also authorized by and under the 



Company, makers of water supplies, well machines and implements, 

 at Beatrice, Neb., is working on a large addition to its plant and is 

 making preparations to construct two more additions during the coming 

 summer. 



In the foundry addition now under way the company will install 

 a complete trolley system for carrying molten metal from cupolas to 

 the various parts of the foundry. This portion of the plant will then 

 consist of the following departments: Main foundry, 70x150 feet; 

 rattler and grinding room, 50x60 feet; core room, 30x65 feet; brass 

 foundry, 30x30 feet. The new addition will be 80x150 feet. The 

 company plans another addition to the south warehouse 30x140 feet. 



According to its present plans the company will also erect a new 

 implement factory 65x150 feet and three stories in height. All of the 

 improvements will be of concrete and brick construction and about 

 100 new hands will be employed before the close of the summer. 



NEWS FROM THE LOWER YAKIMA. 



The lower Yakima Irrigation Company has just placed 16,000 

 acres of land at Richmond, nine miles from Kennewick, Wash., under 

 the ditch. T. A. Du Bois of Spokane declares the company has spent 

 $300,000 in acquiring the land and putting it under water. He 

 added: "We have only 15 miles of ditches, the shortest amount in 

 the entire west for the acreage covered. There is a good town al- 

 ready at Richmond, and it is going ahead rapidly. In this district 

 we make a specialty of grapes, apples and peaches. The company will 

 soon acquire other holdings to the north and put water on them." 



REORGANIZE CUSTER COUNTY COMPANY. 



Idaho Irrigation & Power Co. Takes Over Old Project. 



The Idaho Irrigation & Power Company, incorporated under the 

 state laws of Washington, with Benjamin E. Hervey of Spokane, has 

 acquired the Custer County Irrigation Company's holdings in Custer 

 County, Idaho, by guaranteeing to the residents a new irrigation 

 plant to water 14,455 acres. This will involve an expenditure of 

 $150,000, the plant to be in operation within nine months. Mr. Hervey 

 has associated with him W. C. Reeder, O. R. Haight and W. S. Eg- 

 bors of Ritzville, Wash.; J. E. Reeder and Claude Reeder of Tacoma; 

 B. L. Reeder of Portland, and Albert Ewert of Harrison, Idaho. 



The company paid approximately $43,000 for the deeded water 

 rights, improvements of the Idaho company and other expenses neces- 

 sitated, besides the $16,000 of the former company incorporators. It 

 has fixed the price of water rights on the new project as $25 an acre, 

 payable in 10 years on the instalment plan. 



The water supply for the project is secured from the Little Lost 

 River and is to be fed through canals into a big reservoir to be lo- 

 cated on Dry Creek. The Custer County Irrigation Company, organ- 

 ized under the state laws of Idaho, was unable to complete the project. 



