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carefully noting every change and are watching the rise, 

 so that if it should gradually approach the top of the 

 dike now being built, a safety or relief tunnel can be 

 quickly blasted out sufficient to take care of the extra 

 discharge. It is not believed, however, that it will be 

 necessary to resort to such an expediency. 



E. C. Grable of Greeley, Colo.; F. O. Wendelken df 

 Ft. Collins, Colo.; and E. J. Bell and C. P. Arnold of 

 Laramie, have incorporated the Interstate Reservoir Con- 

 struction Company, with a capital of $500,000, to build a 

 reservoir with a capacity of 80,000-acre feet and reclaim 

 40,000 acres of land in Natural Basin, eighteen miles west 

 of Laramie. The company will build a reservoir and con- 

 struct canals and ditches costing $497,000. 



OREGON 



NEW GOVERNMENT PROJECT. 



A. P. Davis and D. C. Heney, engineers for the 

 Reclamation Service, are reported to be making surveys 

 and otherwise investigating conditions west of the Uma- 

 tilla and south of the Columbia rivers in Umatilla and 

 Morrow counties, Oregon, wtih a view to construction 

 work for the reclamation of about 70,000 acres. It is 

 proposed to construct a dam across the Umatilla river 

 near the mouth of Butter creek. An obstacle to this 

 work is found in the present lands which must be flooded, 

 some being under cultivation. 



J. T. Whistler, formerly with the Reclamation Service, 

 has been making investigations and surveys at the junc- 

 tion of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers near Eugene, 

 Ore., with a view to the formation of an irrigation com- 

 pany to develop this project. 



Reports from Baker City, Ore., state that Avans Almi- 

 rall, of New York, and O. C. Finkelnburg, of Baker City, 

 are financing a project about thirty miles northeast of 

 that city on the Thief River. It is proposed to carry 

 canals across to Richland. The same company is plan- 

 ning another dam on Balm creek, about twenty-five miles 

 northeast of Baker City. 



After considerable litigation the Deschutes Irri- 

 gation & Power Company, of Salem, Ore., is in a position 

 to open an irrigated tract of 2,300 acres to settlement. 

 Land lies in the Deschutes Valley. 



Farmers' unions of Crook County, Ore., meeting at 

 Madras in that county, have presented a formal request 

 to the government to investigate conditions with a view 

 to reclaiming about 250,000 acres in and near Crook 

 County. It is claimed that the rainfall is so irregujar 

 that many homes must be abandoned unless an extensive 

 irrigation system is constructed. 



NEW MEXICO 



GOOD HEAD IN RIO GRANDE. 



The weather conditions on the Carlsbad and Hondo 

 projects, New Mexico, have been rather dry, although 

 local showers on the Carlsbad have relieved the situa- 

 tion and the crops are improving. 



There has been a strong flow of water in the Rio 

 Grande during the month and the main canal of the 

 Leasburg Unit has been carrying about 400 second-feet. 

 The river has averaged 7,000 second-feet and all farmers 

 depending upon it, both the Leasburg Unit and private 

 canal owners, have been amply supplied. 



The second cutting of alfalfa is finished and a splendid 

 crop was secured. The cantaloupe industry, which is a 

 very improtant one under this project, has a fine outlook 

 for the season. 



Farm unit surveys are progressing rapidly and a 

 party will soon be put on the El Paso Division. The 

 work at Engle Dam site consists in testing improved 

 devices for removing material from the river bed. 



HERE AND THERE 



The Toyak Lake Irrigation Company, with head of- 

 fices at Temple, Texas, has recently been organized for 

 the irrigation of a large tract of land in Reeves County. 

 The company's stock is held by local parties and Gran- 

 ville Sims is president. 



By order of the court, the receiver of the Houston 

 Land and Irrigation Company, Houston, Texas, will re- 

 ceive bids for the entire real estate holdings of this con- 

 cern, said to aggregate in value about $300,000. 



R. M. Quigley of the Kenefick, Quigley & Russell 

 Construction Company, Kansas City, claims contracts 

 for construction work for the Lake Hattie Reservoir and 

 Irrigation Company on the Big Laramie River in Wyo- 

 ming, and for the Bar Lake Irrigation Company, near 

 Denver. The former work will involve the reclamation 

 of about 50,000 acres. 



It is announced that a syndicate of Denver capi- 

 talists has purchased the Eureka canal in Ford County, 

 Kansas, for a consideration of $250,000. Improvements 

 involving large sums are outlined with a view to the 

 irrigation of about 50,000 acres. 



Seattle capitalists are said to be backing a project 

 for the construction of a dam and canal to carry water 

 from Massacre, West and Middle Lakes, in northwestern 

 Nevada to irrigable lands in Washoe vounty. It is re- 

 ported that about $300,000 will be expended in the con- 

 struction work. 



Reports from Mexico City state that the Mexican 

 government has arranged to loan $3,000,000 to Manuel 

 Cuesto Gallardo for the construction of a dam across 

 the Puero River at its entrance to Lake Chapala and the 

 building of laterals and canals to reclaim about 150,000 

 acres. 



About 60,000 cubic yards of earth were placed in the 

 big dam, Belle Fourche irrigation project, South Dakota, 

 during June, making a total yardage to date of 1,137,000. 

 Paving blocks are being placed on the water slope and 

 1,000 cubic yards of gravel were placed. Owing to a 

 heavy rainfall early in June, little irrigation was required. 

 About thirty filings were made on land under the project, 

 mostly on forty-acre tracts around the townsite. 



The Sinaloa Land Company, a California organiza- 

 tion, is now working on an irrigation system that will 

 supply water to about 75,000 acres of land in the valley 

 of the Culiacan River, near Mazatlan, Mexico. The 

 main irrigation canal will be fifteen miles long, and there 

 will be many miles of lateral ditches. 



Citizens of Townsend, Mont., are preparing data to 

 be presented to the Reclamation Service and the senate 

 committee on reclamation, concerning the reclaiming of 

 a large body of land. The plan looks to the building of 

 a high-line ditch, running close to the foothills, from 

 above Toston to the neighborhood of Canyon Ferry, the 

 water to be taken from the Missouri, which will reclaim 

 40,000 acres of government land and about the same 

 quantity in private ownership. 



Will pay for the IRRIGATION AGE 

 one year and the PRIMER OF 

 IRRIGATION. 



