THE IERIQATION AGE. 



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Reclamation Notes 



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. Headers 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. 



The board of directors of the Otero irrigation district arc 

 planning extensive improvements. 



The Boyd Lake irrigation district is investigating the 

 advisability of including within its system a part of the 

 lands in Weld county. 



Articles of incorporation for the Kingsbury Reservoir 

 & Land Company have recently been filed. Headquarters 

 of the company are at Greeley, and it is proposed to irrigate 

 about 3,000 acres in Elbert county. 



A trust deed to cover a bond issue of $350,000 was re- 

 cently filed at Pueblo by the Teller Reservoir & Irrigation 

 Company. It is proposed to construct ditches for distribut- 

 ing water to the lands held by the company. 



The Northern Colorado Power Company reports suc- 

 cess in its experiment of supplying power for pumping pur- 

 poses. It is claimed that farmers near Greeley are arrang- 

 ing for the installation of pumps to irrigate. 



Directors of the Bent and Power irrigation district arc 

 said to be considering the advisability of issuing bonds in 

 order to construct a system of irrigation. Engineers em- 

 ployed by the district submitted a favorable report. 



Greeley capitalists are reported to be investigating the 

 old Lincoln county canal built years ago by E. E. Baker, 

 with a view to investing about $300,000 in a complete and 

 comprehensive irrigation project involving the constructing 

 of reservoirs on the Big Sandy to water 10,000 acres. 



Thomas Daley and W. H. Moore have filed application 

 for 30,000 acres of land in Pueblo county for irrigating pur- 

 poses. Daley wishes to have the land sold to him, when he 

 and Moore will erect an irrigating ditch. A tract of 40,000 

 acres was sold by the land board recently on the same terms 

 as Daley wishes. 



On petition of thirty or forty applicants, apparently 

 working in behalf of parties whose identity was not re- 

 vealed, the state land board recently ordered the sale of 

 12,000 acres of desert land in Pueblo county. The land 

 brought from $7 to $12 an acre. An effort will be made to 

 irrigate the area and settle it with colonists. 



The project known as the North Sterling irrigation dis- 

 trict is said to be financed and now ready to proceed with 

 the work of building the system to irrigate 80,000 acres in 

 Logan county. The land lies on the north side of the Platte 

 river. Parson Son & Co., of New York, are reported to have 

 purchased bonds to the amount of $2,080,000. 



Articles of incorporation of the Riverview Land & Irri- 

 gation Company have been filed with the county clerk at 

 Greeley. The incorporators are : Z. X. Snyder, president 

 of the State Normal school ; F. M. Hadden, a member of the 

 faculty; Victor Keyes and William E. Day. The company 

 will undertake the development of a 1,500-acre tract which 

 includes the town site of Sublette, 30 miles east of Greeley. 



John Gaffy and John A. Keefe, of Denver, and James 

 Hosier, of Park county, have filed maps and plats for the 

 construction of a 190 foot dam across Tarryall creek for 

 the irrigation of a tract of 81,000 acres in eastern Park 

 county. Water will be carried down the Tarryall and 

 through the Platte to a point of diversion to be determined 

 later. It is claimed that $1,000,000 will be required to re- 

 claim the tract. 



The Garden Park Irrigation Company and the Park 

 Center Land & Water Company will begin work at once on 

 a storage reservoir and dam nine miles northwest of Cripple 

 Creek, which is to irrigate the Park Center and Garden Park 

 ranch districts. Water will be furnished from Four-Mile 

 creek. The dam will be eighty-four feet high and the lake 

 half a mile by one and a half miles in dimensions. The work 

 is to be completed about March 1, 1910. 



It is reported that the Costilla State Development Com- 

 pany, in which Denver caoitalists are interested, is planning 

 to place on sale the 300,000 acres composing this grant. It 

 is claimed that the company has planned the expenditure of 

 $1,000,000 on irrigation works and that other large sums will 

 be spent in developing mines and water power. D. H. 

 Moffatt, of Denver, is heavily interested in the three com- 

 panies formed to develop resources of the Costilla grant. 



Twenty thousand additional acres of land will be watered 

 by the Dallas Divide & Reservoir Company, a corporation 

 which has been formed by local men. John I. Nowland of 

 Paonia is the president and J. V. Lathrop, a hardware mer- 

 chant of Montrose, is the secretary and treasurer. Nowland 

 recently organized another company known as the Nowland- 

 Thomas Ditch Company which will water 12,000 acres. All 

 of the land is situated on the high mesa between Montrose 

 and Ridgway. 



Eastern capitalists under the name of the Great North- 

 ern Irrigation & Power Company are said to be planning 

 the construction of a dam one mile wide and about 250 feet 

 in height in Routt county. Preliminary maps and surveys 

 have been filed with the county clerk at Denver but it is 

 stated that final plans cannot be outlined until engineers have 

 presented full reports. L. M. Hughes is attorney and G. G. 

 Anderson is consulting engineer for the new company. The 

 company proposes to generate water power and irrigate about 

 100,000 acres. 



On September 2 the Pueblo-Rocky Ford Irrigation Com- 

 pany filed in the office of the county clerk at Pueblo, a mort- 

 gage for $2,000,000 made to the Chicago Title & Trust Com- 

 pany and Harrison B. Riley. It is stated that this sum will 

 be required to construct an irrigation system for use in the 

 Orland and Ambursen dirtricts. This land lies to the south 

 and east of Pueblo. W. N. Cox, W. J. Lester and Fred 

 Harris are interested. The company has recently concluded 

 the purchase of 23,000 acres of land from the state at a cost 

 of $12 per acre. 



The Fox Smith Construction Company of Florence 

 has secured the contract for the completion of the Sheafer 

 dam for the Beaver Land & Irrigation Company at Penrose. 

 The contract is for $125,000 and is one of the largest ever 

 let in Fremont county. The work will be started by October 

 1 and must be completed by June 1, 1910. When finished 

 the dam will be ninety-two feet high, 400 feet wide at the 

 bottom and 1,050 feet wide at the top and 100 feet thick at 

 the base and twenty feet thick at the top. It will have an 

 impounding capacity of 5,000 acre-feet, sufficient to irrigate 

 the company's entire holdings in Beaver park. J. Q. Mac- 

 Donald has resigned as general manager of the company, to 

 take effect October 1. He will be succeeded by J. J. Cogan 

 of Penrose, manager of the Beaver, Penrose & Northern 

 Railroad. 



By the signing of a contract between the Laramie-Poudre 

 Reservoir & Irrigation Company and the Greeley-Poudre 

 Irrigation district, organized last April, final arrangements 

 have been made for the construction of a system to irrigate 

 nearly 125,000 acres lying north and east of Greeley and 

 including the towns of Ault, Nunn and Pierce. By the agree- 

 ment the irrigation company will construct the reservoir and 

 canals and guarantee completion before Dec. 1, 1911, and; 

 the district agrees to the purchase of the plant for $5,000,000 

 for which it proposes to issue bonds. The irrigation com- 

 pany proposes to use a series of reservoirs in the Laramie 

 and Poudre rivers and along the main line of the canal. 

 About 300 miles of ditch will distribute the water. From the 

 Laramie the water will be sent through a tunnel two miles 

 long into a branch of the Cache la Poudre and will be taken 

 up by ditches at the north end of the canon. To store water 

 there will be constructed a 200-foot dam in the Laramie river 

 and this will be supplemented by a series of large reservoirs. 

 Five concrete storage basins will be built on the plains. It 

 is anticipated that the forthcoming vote of property holders 

 will be favorable to this agreement. 



