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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



work cannot be completed within four years. J. A. 

 Wright, formerly of Colorado Springs, was reported to be 

 promoting the project. 



Th state land board recently approved the contract of 

 the Toltec Canal Company of Conejos county, providing 

 for the irrigation of 15,000 acres in that county. 



The recent opening of the Gunnison tunnel. Uncom- 

 pahgre irrigation project, Colorado, and the proposed 

 celebration of the event in September at which President 

 Taft has promisd to be present, has been widely noted in 

 the public press throughout the country. An erroneous 

 impression that there is to be a land drawing at the time 

 of the celebration has been given to newspaper dealers. 

 The fact is that all of the land for which water will now 

 be available is already in private ownership, or has been 

 entered. 



north side of the Feather river have been secured. 



Reclamation district No. 1 of which C. R. Body, of 

 Yuba City is director, is planning to issue bonds to the 

 amount of $100,000, making a total bond issue of $400,- 

 000 or $9 per acre. 



Owners of 10,000 acres of land in Paradise, Magalia 

 and vicinity are planning the organization of an irrigation 

 district with a view to securing a reservoir site from the 

 Pacific Gas & Electric Company and having that company 

 supply water for irrigation. 



It is reported that Eugene De Sabla, representing the 

 Natomas Consolidated Company, has interested capitalists 

 in his projects, and that he will shortly return to Sacra- 

 mento to begin active work in reclaiming lands within the 

 properties to be consolidated. Land lies largely in the 

 Sacramento and Sutler districts. 



CALIFORNIA 



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Edward N. Prouty, of Berkeley, who represents the 

 Honey Lake Land & Irrigation Company has filed on 

 060,000 miners' inches of water in the streams near Susan- 

 ville. Water is to be used in irrigating Honey Lake val- 

 ley lands. 



Land owners at Nogales and Paradise are organizing 

 an irrigation company. 



A special election in the Turlock Irrigation district, 

 called for the purpose of voting on a special assessment 

 of $89,000 for care, repairs and maintenance of previously 

 constructed works, resulted in a negative decision. 



The recently incorporated Solano-Yolo Land & Water 

 Company, capital stock of $500,000, proposes to construct 

 a power dam at Hell's Gate, west of Winters, and to divert 

 water at the same point by means of ditches, canals and 

 laterals for irrigation purposes in Solano and Yolo. Di- 

 rectors are C. M. Wooster, of San Jose, Harvey S. Love- 

 land, H. H. Sanborn, F. H. Gould, S. R. Chappell, of San 

 Francisco. 



The Putah Creek Ditch Company of Dixon is survey- 

 ing for an extensive system to supply waters to lands in 

 the northern part of Solano county. A. L. Darrow, of 

 Sacramento, and R. E. L. Stevenson, of Dixon, are the 

 principal incorporators. 



John J. Mooney, of Tehama county is planning work to 

 reclaim about 3,500 'acres of land, which he recently pur- 

 chased from the Canadian Trust Company. 



The Mutual Water Company of Escondido has begun 

 the work of replacing 7,000 feet of wooden flume with 

 rock. Other repairs and reconstruction on this company's 

 system will be undertaken in the near future. 



New York capitalists are said to be interesting them- 

 selves in a project to carry the waters of the Yuba river 

 from a point six miles above Marysville to a point near 

 Wheatland for the purpose of watering land between these 

 points. It is claimed that work will be begun within a few 

 weeks. 



With an authorized capital of $10,000,000, the Sacra- 

 mento Valley Irrigation Company, an auxiliary of the 

 Delaware Trust Company, has filed articles of incorpora- 

 tion. Incorporators are R. E. Robertson, F. M. Shive and 

 Harry M. Davis, of Wilmington, and it is said that these 

 three own all but fifty of the 100,000 shares of stock. It 

 it said that the company proposes to construct a dam at 

 Clear Lake and irrigate vast tracts of land in Glenn and 

 Yolo counties. Existing and abandoned reclamation pro- 

 jects in these counties and also in Lake county will be 

 combined and revived. Already the company has made ex- 

 tensive purchases of land. It proposes to develop this 

 entire section and is empowered by law to engage in 

 various lines of development work. 



It is proposed to extend the Oakdale Irrigation dis- 

 trict into San Joaquin county, thus placing water on about 

 ten sections of land not included in the original plan. 



Land owners in the northern part of San Joaquin 

 county and the southern part of Stanislaus county are 

 planning to organize an irrigation company to water about 

 63,000 acres, Engineer H. S. Crow, of Stockton is handling 

 the survey. 



Proposing to reclaim 80.000 acres north of Sacramento 

 in SuttT county, R. G Hanford is organizing a com- 

 pany with local stockholders. Options on land on the 



The Ft. Sumner Land Company, of Ft. Sumner, has 

 begun work on a new seven-mile canal to reclaim several 

 hundreds of acres. A pumping plant will be installed and 

 the company will build other canals in future. 



Engineers have made surveys for the sixty-five mile 

 canal extending from the Pecos river to the Banajon Mesa 

 and which, with its related reservoirs and laterals will irri 

 gate about 125,000 acres. The project is headed by A. A. 

 Jones and is known as the Jones Irrigation Project. About 

 $1,000,000 will be required to fully complete the work as 

 outlined. 



Engineers working under direction of D. A. Camfield, 

 of Greely, Colo., have completed their surveys for irriga- 

 tion work on the Las Vegas land grant near Las Vegas 

 by which 10,000 acres will be put under water. Mr. Cam- 

 field has 'said to have reached a decision to accept the 

 land grant several weeks ago and to be prepared to begin 

 operations at once. 



S. R. Edwards, of Willard, is planning to install pump- 

 ing plants to irrigate about 2,000 acres. 



Reports from Galveston, Tex., state that local capi- 

 talists have closed a deal whereby they will invest about 

 $500,000 in a townsite and water rights at Alamogordo. 

 N. M. The water supply will be developed for irrigation 

 purposes. 



The Rio Mimbres Irrigation Company, with a capital 

 stock of $300,000, proposes to reclaim thousands of acres 

 of fertile land in Luna county by the building of a reser- 

 voir on the Mimbres river, thirty-five miles northwest of 

 Deming, the stored waters to be conveyed down the val- 

 ley in a great system of canals. The stockholders of the 

 company are A. G. Shalding, Point Loma, Cal.: L. G. 

 Fisher, Frederick Ullman and Walter Page of Chicago, 

 and E. H. Bickford of Lake Valley, N. M. 



An irrigation company is being formed at Portales 

 for the purpose of entering into a contract for the con- 

 struction of a pumping plant to take water from the un- 

 derflow and reclaim about 12,000 acres. A committee has 

 investigated conditions at Garden City, Kansas, and Phoe- 

 nix, Arizona. 



ARIZONA 



It is reported that attempts on the part of the Ari- 

 zona-Eastern railroad to secure a right of way through 

 the San Carlos reservoir site have been thwarted and that 

 this project will now be pushed to completion. Sligh & 

 Clark are planning work to reclaim about 25,000 acres. 



An association has been formed at Phoenix to drill 

 wells for irrigation purposes in the Paradise Valley. By 

 this method, it is proposed to revive the old Verde Land 

 & Power company and water several thousands of acres. 



Judge Kibbey, of Phoenix, recently addressed farmers 

 in the Rellito county, giving information about the forma- 

 tion of a water users' association. It is proposed to or- 

 ganize this district to make use cf the waters of the Rel- 

 lito in irrigating about 10,000 acres. 



