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WASHINGTON 



Atwood & Webb, of Kettle Falls, are planning to con- 

 struct a dam for irrigation purposes at a cost of about 

 $35,000. 



Reports from Kennewich state that J. M. Spencer, of 

 Plains, Mont., has arranged for surveys to reclaim 550,000 

 acres of sagebrush land in Grant county. A pipe line to 

 tap the Columbia and reach into the southeastern part of 

 the county via Marcus is proposed. It is said that $5,000,- 

 000 will be required to complete the underaking, and that 

 if completed it will be the longest gravity system in ex- 

 istence. Farmers have agreed to a levy of two and one- 

 half cents for the survey. With a prospect of securing 

 water at $20 per acre, it is believed that the project may 

 be bonded for a large sum. 



Officers of the Indian bureau are said to be negotiat- 

 ing with Indians who have delayed the government's re- 

 clamation work by refusing to sell their lands in the 

 Yakima reservation, and success seems probable. 



Settlers living near Moses Lake have formed an or- 

 ganization for irrigation purposes and have adopted the 

 name Moses Lake Development Company with E. T. Guf- 

 fin as president. For several years crops have been light 

 because of lack of moisture and settlers now propose to 

 construct an irrigation system. 



Private enterprise will develop the irrigation project 

 on the John Day and Deschutes river, which the govern- 

 ment several years ago abandoned, after having spent thou- 

 sands of dollars and several years' time, according to a 

 statement made by Dr. N. G. Blalock in connection with 

 the filing of incorporation papers for the John Day Power 

 Company. The papers state that the company is incor- 

 porated at $500,000 to generate water and electric power 

 and to supply water for irrigation and power purposes. 

 The land covered lies almost wholly in Oregon and em- 

 braces parts of Umatilla, Morrow, Gilliam, Wasco and 

 Sherman counties and part of Benton county. 



As soon as owners of 30,000 acres in the Horse Heaven 

 country west of Spokane agree to pay $60 per acre for 

 water rights, it is announced the Klickitat Irrigation Com- 

 pany is prepared to start work on the construction of 

 reservoirs to store water for 600,000 acres in this vicinity. 

 It is claimed that an expenditure of $15,000,000 will be re- 

 quired for the work and that the government has aban- 

 doned the project as too expensive. H. A. Hollenbeck, 

 secretary of the irrigation company, is interesting owners 

 of the 30,000 acres in question. 



Articles of incorporation for the Hutchinson Irrigation 

 & Land Company, with a capital of $160,000, have been 

 filed with the county auditor at Spokane. 



Supplemental articles of incorporation, changing the 

 purposes and intentions of the company, .have been filed 

 at Tacoma by the White Bluffs Irrigation Company. 



By constructing a dam on the Mad river, J. P. Shot- 

 well, of Cashmere, proposed to water several thousand 

 acres near this place. He has arranged filings on water 

 and is now arranging for the formation of an irrigation 

 company. 



Surveys of the extension of the Sunnyside canal so as 

 to furnish irrigation water for the vast tract of land be- 

 tween the Rattlesnake hills and Yakima river, to its rnouth 

 and along the Columbia river, have been started by a 

 corps of government engineers detailed from the reclama- 

 tion service office at Sunnyside, Zilich and North Yakima. 



Thirty-three thousand acres of land near the Tieton 

 project in the Yakima valley, Wash., west of Spokane, 

 will be thrown open to homestead entry on December 9. 

 All but 4,OCO acres of this tract is school or railroad land 

 and the plan for the entry is such as to indicate that there 

 will be another rush. It was first supposed that the land 

 would come under the Tieton ditch, but has been found to 

 be above the canal. It is valuable, but not irrigable by- 

 gravity. Advices from Washington, D. C., are that no 

 settlement can be made after July 29 until November 9, 

 but that on that date settlement can be made on the land 

 with entry on December 9. This is identical with the ar- 

 rangement of the Columbia river lands, which will be open 

 for settlement September 7. 



Steps are being taken at Coeur d'Alene and other 

 points in the panhandle of Idaho to secure the reclamation 

 of 60,000 acres of agricultural lands along the Coeur 



d'Alene river. Paul Clagstone, speaker of the Idaho house 

 of representatives, is at the head of the movement. 



A contract for the construction of a lined section of 

 Sulphur Creek Wasteway, Yakima irrigation project, 

 Washington, has been awarded to George Cooke & Sons 

 of Minneapolis, Minn. This work involves the excavation 

 of about 13,300 cubic yards of material and the placing of 

 about 2,100 cubic yards of concrete and 130 cubic yards of 

 paving. The contract price is $26,248.06. 



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Homesteaders on the northside of the Payette project, 

 acting under advice of government officials, have made 

 tilings on the waters of the Payette river to aggregate 

 5,000 feet per second and on Boise river of 2,000 feet. A 

 filing was also made on the Payette lakes as a reservoir 

 site. It is claimed that the new filings involve about 50,- 

 000 acres in addition to the 72,000 originally planned for 

 irrigation by the government. Filings were placed in the 

 names of the executive committee of the northsiders and 

 is to protect land holders in their water rights providing 

 the government cannot proceed at once with the Payette 

 portion of the project. The executive committee is as 

 follows: Walter R. Cupp, W. B. Compton, W. S. Hawkes, 

 W. B. Sawyer, H. E. Peterson, A. H. Albertson and L. E. 

 Bebb. It is reported that the North Side district will pre- 

 pare to issue bonds. 



Under the direction of the J. G. White Company, the 

 Dubois project will be revived. H. D. Mason, a New 

 York attorney, who represents this company, has filed an 

 application at the Blackfoot land office for the segregation 

 of 350,000 acres under the Carey act. It is proposed to 

 reclaim the land bv the flood waters from the Snake river. 

 The application has been approved by the land board. 



Three propositions for land irrigation have been pre- 

 sented to the board of directors of the Gem Irrigation 

 district near Caldwell and are now under consideration. 

 Engineer Edward Hedden proposes the construction of a 

 dam across the Snake river above Nampa ferry at a cost 

 of $506,000 with earthwork and other incidentals, costing 

 .a total of $908,000. The second was presented by Tro- 

 bridge & Niver, of Chicago, and specified the conditions 

 under which this company will become interested in the 

 project, and construct a gravity system. The third propo- 

 sition involved a pumping plant on the river and its 

 operation by electricity transmitted from the Thousand 

 Springs. No decision as to these three plans had been 

 reached before August 15. 



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A new pumping plant has been installed near Tolo for 

 the purpose of supplying water to about 3,000 acres of 

 land. Water is lifted ^rom the Roque river and driven 

 through steel pipes. 



The Jordan Valley Irrigation Company has filed on a 

 reservoir site of 1,800 acres at the head of the Jordan 

 valley and is preparing reclamation of land in eastern 

 Oregon and southwestern Idaho. This project will cover 

 land in the proposed government Owyhee project. Con- 

 struction work will be started this fall. 



Articles of incorporation for the Umatilla Irrigation 

 Land Company have been filed at Pendleton. The com- 

 pany proposes to take over the holdings of the Maxwell 

 Land Company at Hermiston. 



Judge Bradshaw, of the Dallas, has handed down a 

 decision sustaining the demurrers of the Deschutes Irri- 

 gation & Development Company in the three suits against 

 it as instituted by A. M. Drake, Florence Drake and the 

 Pilot Butte Development Company. Suit was instituted 

 to prevent the Deschutes company from using a greater 

 quantity of water than 169 cubic feet per second. Under 

 the Carey act, the Deschutes company has agreed to water 

 240.000 acres, and the court held that suit to enjoin the 

 company from taking the required amount of water for 

 this purpose was faulty, inasmuch as the state of Oregon 

 was not made a party to the action. 



A. M. Crawford, member of the newly formed state 

 land board, has investigated complaints of land owners 

 against the Deschutes Irrigation & Power Company, and 



