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ested. will be extended at once, new electric generating 

 machines installed and a big body of fertile land on the 

 west bank of the Columbia river reclaimed. 



Upon promise that the Pasco Water & Power Com- 

 pany will be reorganized and that water will be turned 

 into their lands without unreasonable delay, land owners 

 in the Two Rivers Irrigation district, Washington, have 

 formed a water users' association. Officers are as fol- 

 lows: President, S. B. L. Penrose, of Whitman College, 

 president: G. W. Chute, vice-president; Laura A. Richart, 

 secretary; W. C. True, treasurer. 



Under the public land laws, the Secretary of the 

 Interior has withdrawn from any form of disposition 

 whatever the following described lands for use as a 

 reservoir site in connection with the Yakima Irrigation 

 project. Washington: T. 17 N., R. 12 E., all Sees. 12, 13, 

 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32 and 33 (unsurveyed); 

 T. 17 N. R. 13 E., all Sees. 7, 8, 17, 18 and 19. 



These lands are situated within the Mt. Ranier Na- 

 tional Forest. 



The Director of the Reclamation Service has sus- 

 pended the contract with the Standard Building Com- 

 pany of San Francisco. California, for the construction of 

 the Sulphur Creek Wasteway in connection with the 

 Sunnyside Irrigation project, Washington. The company 

 ceased work, gave a bill of sale for the machinery, and 

 attempted to move the same from the ground, in direct 

 violation of the terms of the contract. 



Reports from Wallula, Wash., state that the Klickitat 

 Irrigation Company, organized about five years ago, has 

 resumed activities and engineers are now making surveys 

 to reclaim lands in the Horse Heaven district. 



G. W. Armstrong, manager for the Wahluke, Wash., 

 irrigation project, has let contracts for work designed to 

 reclaim 15.000 acres in this district. There will be about 

 twenty-three miles of canal. Water will be pumped from 

 the Columbia river. 



RancTTers in the vicinity of Quincy, Wash., have se- 

 cured the co-ooeration of the local commercial club in 

 an effort to invite inspection of irrigation experts with 

 a view to construction work that will reclaim a large 

 acreage in this section. 



CALIFORNIA 



VICTOR DAM BEGUN. 



Surveys for the preliminary work on the Victor dam 

 site at the Narrows of the Mojave River have been 

 started by the Mojave River Development Company, a 

 recently organized company of San Francisco and eastern 

 capitalists. The dam site is at a point near Victorville, 

 Cal., where the Mojave flows through a narrow pass in a 

 range of hills and on either side solid walls of rock rising 

 for several hundred feet. Thousands of acres of rich 

 land on the desert side of the San Bernardino Mountains 

 will be brought under cultivation. 



The Amercian Canyon Water Company, with valuable 

 rights on the American River, has filed a trust deed at 

 Sacramento, Cal., to the First Federal Trust Company of 

 San Francisco. The former company recently acquired 

 the North Fork ditch from the North Fork Ditch Com- 

 pany. It is proposed to supply water to Orangeville 

 Bluffs, Fair Oaks ond other districts in this section of 

 the Sacramento Valley. 



The Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company of Santa 

 Ana has received a report from Engineer J. B. Lippin- 

 cott of Los Angeles concerning proposed water develop- 

 ment plans in the Santa Ana Canon. On August 7 a 

 meeting of stockholders was held to consider the raising 

 of the capital stock of the company from $100.000 to 

 $500,000 to enable the company to raise money to carry 

 on the work of water development. 



Articles of incorporation of the Sacramento Valley 



West Side Canal Company were filed in San Francisco 

 recently. The company is formed for the purpose of "sup- 

 plying stockholders with water for irrigation and domestic 

 purposes." The ^corporators are: Fentress Hill, San 

 Francisco; D. W. Ross, Piedmont; J. L. Slater, Berkeley, 

 and J. H. Simpson, Jerome Hill, Jr., W. B. McCain, W. 

 S. Kuhn, J. H. Purdy and J. B. Van ^yagener, all of Pitts- 

 burg, Pa. The corporation is capitalized at $250,000. 

 S. H. Gilmore of Pittsburg is the attorney for the com- 

 pany. 



A. M. Fairchild of Los Angeles and other southern 

 California capitalists have in contemplation the establish- 

 ment of an immense irrigation and power enterprise for 

 Lake, Yolo and Solano counties, California. 



The project is to make a reservoir of Coyote Valley, 

 tc be used to irrigate lands in Yolo and Solano, in the 

 vicinity of Winters and Davis. 



ARIZONA 



COLORADO RIVER HIGH. 



The Colorado River has risen steadily and the dis- 

 charge at Yuma, Ariz., recently amounted to 150,000 

 second-feet, which is the largest recorded in the history 

 of Colorado discharges. Laguna dam, recently completed 

 by the Reclamation Service, in connection with the Yuma 

 irrigation project, which is passing through its first flood, 

 and the forty miles of levee lying below that structure, 

 are standing the test extremely well. The levee system, 

 it is believed, will be able to successfully resist a flood 

 very much higher than the one now passing. About 150 

 men are employed in the vicinity of the dam and in exca- 

 vating the main canal. The product of the steam shovel 

 is used in blanketing the levees and in strengthening the 

 shore near the dam. The Farmers' Pump has operated 

 continuously during June, and the ditches connected with 

 the Scoop Wheel have run most of the time, the supply 

 being gravity flow. 



Engineers of the Reclamation Service will prepare 

 farm unit plats of the Yuma irrigation project, Arizona- 

 California, based upon the proposition that 40 acres of 

 average land on the project is sufficient for the support 

 of a family. This is subject to diminution in the neigh- 

 borhood of towns and elsewhere, when by reason of mar- 

 ket conditions and special fitness of the soil, for the 

 growth of fruit and market produce, a lesser area than 

 40 acres may be sufficient. In such cases the minimum 

 acreage of the farm unit may be as low as ten acres. 



During June the contractors laid 14,000 cubic yards 

 of masonry on the Roosevelt dam, Salt River irrigation 

 project, Arizona. The masonry was all laid on the south 

 side of the gap through which the water is still flowing 

 from the reservoir. The south end of this part of the 

 dam is at an elevation of 169 feet. Near the gap the ele- 

 vation is 135 feet. The water in the reservoir is 110 feet 

 deep. The Government cement mill was operated 25 

 days, burning 11,500 barrels and grinding 12,000 barrels 

 of cement. The south canal is completed and work is 

 being pushed on the eastern canal. Work is progressing 

 favorably in concreting the sluicing tunnel. 



Contract has been awarded to William B. Pollock 

 & Co., of Yotingstown, Ohio, for furnishing ten-foot pen- 

 stock for the power house at Roosevelt dam, Salt River 

 irrigation project, Arizona. The cost to the Government 

 will be about $6,500. 



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