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Government 



RECLAMATION NOTES 



Private 



Under this heading, THE IRRIGATION AGE will 

 hereafter run reports and news relating to irrigation 

 projects both government and private gathered from 

 the various sources at its command. Readers of the 

 AGE are requested to assist the editor by sending re- 

 ports of local projects, new organizations or progress of 

 outlined work in their vicinities. 



COLORADO- 



It is reported by officials that the Colorado Reservoir 

 & Canal Company and the Mutual Irrigation Company 

 now constructing a system to reclaim about 7,000 acres 

 in the Plateau valley, Mesa county, has nearly completed 

 its operations and will be prepared to supply water for 

 the season of 1910. About $100,000 has been expended by 

 the company, and it is claimed that the land is well 

 suited to fruit and orchard culture. 



With a capital of $2,000,000, the White River Trappers 

 Lake & Routt County Irrigation Company has filed articles 

 of incorporation. It is proposed to construct reservoirs in 

 Garfield and Rio Blanco counties and thereby to reclaim 

 more than 200,000 acres in Routt and Rio Blanco counties. 

 The water in the following lakes and streams will be con- 

 served by the new company: Trappers' lake, Marvine 

 lake, Lost lake, Big and Little Beaver creeks, Fawn creek, 

 Shell creek, Milk creek, Spring creek, Hewlett creek and 

 Coal creek. Two corps of engineers already are in the 

 county and have completed their work at Trappers and 

 Marvin lakes. They will move on to the creeks and to 

 Lost lake, completing their work in the course of a few 

 months. 



The Thompson-Olmsted Investment Company has 

 completed plans for the irrigation of about 4,000 acres 

 near Hayden in Routt county. Water will be carried by 

 1,500 feet of steel syphon from Elkhead creek. 



Having prepared plans for the irrigation of 30,000 

 acres near Browns Park in the western part of Routt 

 county, the Browns Park Water Company has been or- 

 ganized with a capital of $500,000. Water will be taken 

 from Beaver creek. Fred T. Henry, F. B. Davis of Denver 

 and Clinton E. Bivens of Steamboat Spring are incorpora- 

 tors. 



Sen. Chas. D. Griffith of Denver and E. W. Jackson 

 have purchased 25,000 acres of land about thirty miles east 

 of Denver and are planning the construction of reservoirs. 

 Water will be diverted from Running creek into Dry creek 

 and thence into the system of five reservoirs. 



William A. Havemeyer is said to be investigating the 

 Badito Reservoir, Irrigation & Land Company in Huerfano 

 county with a view to becoming interested in the $1,000,000 

 project. If constructed, the dam will supply water for 

 about 60,000 acres in this county. 



Attempts to consolidate the Antlers Orchard Develop- 

 ment Company and the Farmers' Irrigation Company at 

 Antlers has met with opposition. Litigation is expected 

 as a result of efforts of stockholders in the latter company 

 to prevent the merging of the two companies. 



The South Palisade Heights Irrigation Company has 

 been formed at Palisade and a pumping plant capable of 

 supplying water to 1,000 acres will be installed. Dr. J. W. 

 Gothard is president. 



Land owners in the vicinity of Watkins are investi- 

 gating the advisability of employing pumps to lift the un- 

 derflow for irrigation purposes. 



On August 12 the postal department barred from .the 

 mails the matter circulated by the San Louis Valley Land 

 & Irrigation Company. Officers of this company assert in- 

 nocence of wrongdoing and declare their willingness to 

 submit to investigation by federal officials. 



Commissioners of Adams county yesterday made the 

 final order for the creation of a new irrigation district 

 embracing about 40,000 acres of land lying west of the 



Platte river, which is to be irrigated by the Standley Lake 

 irrigating system, under the direction of the Denver Reser- 

 voir Irrigation Company. About 20,000 acres probably 

 will be included in the new water rights. 



The directorate of the Two Buttes Irrigation & Reser- 

 voir Company, which has a project in southern Powers 

 and northern Baca counties, was recently changed. A. N. 

 Parrish, W. C. Gould and S. L. Harris have purchased the 

 interests of W. D. Purse, H. H. Eberle and Lincoln Ban- 

 croft. Surveys for the work as outlined have been com- 

 pleted and the company will proceed with active work. 



Commissioners of Adams county are reported to have 

 passed favorably on the application for the formation of 

 the Denver Suburban Irrigation district. It is proposed to 

 issue bonds to the amount of $2,500,000 to complete the 

 work as projected. About 55,000 acres are involved and 

 the election over bonds will probably be held in November. 



T. C. Henry and George Henry of Denver have filed 

 at Grand Junction plans for an irrigation system extend- 

 ing from Palisade through Grand Junction to Fruita, which 

 will water 100,000 acres of land. The project will cost 

 about $2,000,000. 



The North Poudre Irrigation Company has sold 2,305 

 shares of the North Poudre Reservoir Company stock to 

 the Uaramie-Poudre Reservoir & Irrigation Company for 

 $175,000. The sale carried with it the control of the com- 

 pany and possession of a number of reservoirs. The com- 

 bined system will irrigate 125,000 acres of land. 



Articles of incorporation of the Pueblo & Rocky Ford 

 Irrigation Company were filed with the secretary of state 

 at Denver recently. The incorporators are W. N. Cox, 

 W. J. Lester and Fred Harris and the company is capital- 

 ized at $2,000,000. The company proposes to irrigate 100,- 

 000 acres of land south of Pueblo and the Orlando ditch 

 and the irrigation ditches and canals of the Amburson com- 

 pany will be controlled by the new company. A reser- 

 voir will be constructed in the bed of the Arkansas river. 



A million dollars are to be expended by the Denver 

 Reservoir Irrigation Company to reclaim about 80,000 ad- 

 ditional acres in the Greely district, about forty miles 

 northeast of Denver. This will include the purchase of 

 the rights of the Platte valley ditch, the purchase and en- 

 largement of the Milton reservoir, as well as the recon- 

 struction and enlargement of the Gilmore reservoir. This 

 new move by the Denver Reservoir Irrigation Company is 

 to be financed under the direction of the Trowbridge- 

 Niver Bond Company of Chicago. 



Preliminary survey has just been completed for the 

 proposed new pipe line to convey water from the Sangre 

 de Cristo range to the San Luis lake, a distance of twenty 

 miles. Ditches from the lake will furnish water for about 

 30,000 acres of land north of this city. The Kinney & 

 Warner Investment Company are reported to be the finan- 

 cial backers of the proposition. 



The formation of the Florida-Mesa irrigation district, 

 adjoining the city of Durango on the south, has just been 

 completed. This district comprises 20,000 acres of fruit 

 and agricultural lands, which are to be irrigated from the 

 waters of the Florida river, a tributary of the Rio Grande. 

 In the organization of the new district the holdings of the 

 old Enterprise Ditch Company have been taken over, and 

 the present water supply will be augmented by the build- 

 ing of a large reservoir up the Florida river, about nine 

 miles east of Durango. The reservoir is to be built of 

 concrete, and will have a storage capacity of about 32,000 

 acre feet, and will cost between $200,000 and $300,000. The 

 entire project is to be paid for in bonds of the district at 

 $30 per acre, payable in 20 years, and the total cost is to 

 be $600,000. 



Louisiana and Illinois capitalists are said to be inter- 

 ested in a plan to carry water from the north fork of the 

 Gunnison river, a distance of about 100 miles from a point 

 near Hothckiss around the Battlement mountains to Grand 

 Junction. Three reservoirs are under consideration. It 

 is estimated that $1,000,000 will be required and that the 



