THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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which means many new homes, new orchards and fields and 

 many millions of dollars to be taken from the soil. 



IDAHO. 



Because of failure to supply water as agreed, the Idaho 

 Irrigation Company, of Richfield, has released settlers from 

 payment for principal, interest or maintenance for water fur 

 nished this year. 



Active work has been begun on the construction of a 

 dam in the Council valley to reclaim about 25,000 acres. J. J. 

 Allison is promoter of the company, known as the Lost River 

 Irrigation project. 



The Kuhn interests are said to be preparing a project 

 for the reclamation of 54,000 acres in the Raft River valley 

 in Cassia county. Filings have been made on the flood 

 waters of Raft river and it is proposed to construct a dam 

 107 feet high and 1,500 feet long. The project was said to 

 be dependent on the construction of the Utah-Burley rail- 

 road, now assured. 



Land owners in the Gem Irrigation district, near Cald- 

 well, voted to adopt the Trowbridge & Niver proposition for 

 a gravity system for the irrigation of their lands. Water 

 will be stored at a reservoir located on Jordan creek and 

 carried twenty miles in the Owyee river to a point of diver- 

 sion about twenty miles above Nyssa, from whence it will 

 be conveyed in open ditches. 



Engineering crews have started work on permanent sur- 

 veys for the Kings Hill Extension Irrigation Company, 

 which proposes to construct an irrigation system to reclaim 

 about 20,000 acres lyine along the Snake river bottoms be- 

 tween Glenn's Ferry and Medbury. Two great siphons will 

 be constructed to carry water across the canyons of the 

 Snake river for a distance of about fifty miles. Storage res- 

 ervoirs will hold flood waters of the five creeks draining the 

 Bennett mountains. 



CALIFORNIA. 



Francis Cutting, of Red Bluff, has filed on water rights 

 in the Sacramento river and proposes to irrigate a large 

 tract by pumping. 



Eight hundred men will be put at work on canals and 

 laterals for the irrigating system being established by Pitts- 

 burg capitalists in Colusa and Glenn counties. 



Final surveys for the government's irrigation project at 

 Iron canyon, near Red Bluff, have been completed and it is 

 said that active work will be begun this year. 



Orchardists in the vicinity of Yuba City have turned 

 their attention to deep well irrigation and it is said that 

 more than forty wells have already been sunk while many 

 others are in contemplation. 



Engineers are now working on plans to straighten the 

 mouth of the Sacramento river and thus reclaim nearly a 

 half million acres. Work to reclaim a 10,000-acre tract in 

 the Egbert district has been begun. 



It is reported that the Lassen Irrigation Company, of 

 Johnstonville, is purchasing land at the head of Baxter Creek 

 and proposes to construct a dam to form a large reservoir 

 for waters of Baxter Creek and other small streams. 



The meeting of property owners in Paradise, scheduled 

 for last month, has been postponed. The Pacific Gas ft 

 Electric Company is promoting the formation of a district 

 to which it proposes to supply power for irrigation purposes. 



Directors of the Bend Colony Irrigation Company held 

 a meeting at Red Bluff recently and decided to clear reser- 

 voirs and expend a considerable sum in improvements. Thos. 

 Williams was chosen president and B. F. Stone was elected 

 director. 



Water Company No. 7 of Holtville has accepted what 

 is known locally as the Schenck proposition. This will ex- 

 tend the water for irrigation to between 6.000 and 7.000 acres 

 lying- west of the Alamo river considered top high to be 

 reached bv the canals of water district No. 1, in which it is 

 located. The construction of flumes, ditches, etc., will be 

 undertaken this fall. 



Congressman Needham and Dr. W. E. Clapp, of Los 

 Angeles, are said to be interesting themselves in the forma- 

 tion of a Wright irrigation district in the West Side country 

 near Modesto. Preliminary surveys are now being made and 



it is claimed that several sources of water are available. I: 

 is said that ranchers are willing to organize providing sur- 

 veys indicate that a project is feasible. 



Reports from Woodland, Yolo county, indicate a warm 

 fight between the Putah Creek Irrigation Company and the 

 Yolo-Solano Land and Water Company for possession of 

 water rights in this vicinity. The latest move is a decision 

 on the part of the former company to change its point of 

 diversion to Cannonball rock on Putah creek about one 

 mile from Winters. An amended application shows this 

 change in plans. 



In reply to the charge of landowners in the Turlock 

 irrigation district that the sum of $89,000 is not needed for 

 improvement and maintenance, the board of directors has 

 issued a statement declaring that unless the vote on the 

 special assessment is affirmative it will be necessary to col- 

 lect in advance for water. They further assert that unless 

 the special tax is authorized there may be litigation which 

 will involve the district for several years before settlement. 

 It is reported that the sentiment for the special tax is 

 favorable. 



Land owners in the vicinity of Oakdale have presented 

 a petition to the county board for the formation of an irriga- 

 tion district under the Wright law. The date of the election 

 has been set for October 23. About 63,000 acres will com- 

 prise the district, two-thirds of which lies on the south side 

 of the Stanislaus river. Messrs. Rodden, Gilbert and Crowe 

 have made filings on the Stanislaus, Tuolumne and Cal- 

 veras rivers. It is said that local sentiment is decidedly 

 favorable to the formation of the district. In conjunction 

 with the South San Joaquin district, already formed, it is 

 proposed to purchase the water rights, canals and surveys 

 of the San Joaquin Canal & Irrigation Company. The 

 latter company is said to name a figure of $700,000 as its 

 selling price. 



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UTAH. 



Officers of the upper irrigation district at Theadore are 

 offering bonds to the amount of $225,000 to complete the 

 system. 



Acting as trustee for the Buckhorn Irrigation Company, 

 George A. Snow of Chicago has applied for the segregation 

 under the Carey Act of about 30,000 acres in Emery county. 

 The company proposes to expend about 300,000 in the con- 

 struction of irrigation works to reclaim 40,000 acres, provid- 

 ing action by the government is favorable. 



Frank Lott of Denver and several associates have recently 

 succeeded in segregating about 35,000 acres in Wasatch and 

 Uintak counties, to be reclaimed under the Carey Act. By 

 constructing a canal about twenty-eight miles long from the 

 junction of the Duchesne and Strawberry rivers, the com- 

 pany expects to expend about $500,000. Aside from the 35. 

 000 acres involved in the segregation, the company intends 

 to water about 15,000 acres now under private ownership. 



Application has been made by the New Castle Reclama- 

 tion Company for the necessary water to irrigate 16.'640 

 acres of land in Washington county, the water to be taken 

 from Pine Vallev creek. The quantity requested is 3,000 

 acre feet, the flow being ten cubic feet per second. The point 

 of diversion will be on the north fork of Pine Valley creek. 

 The works will consist of a dam and canal, the latter to be 

 25,000 feet long, fifteen feet wide at the top and seven feet 

 wide at the bottom. 



At West Portage a company has been organized which 

 will be known as the Portage Irrigation, Reservoir & Power 

 Company, with headquarters at West Portaee. Arrange- 

 ments are now completed whereby the company takes over 

 the irrigation systems in Sections 6, 10, 9, 2 and 17, Town- 

 ship 14 north. Ranee 4 west. Salt Lake meridian. C. W. 

 Hall is president; William H. Gibbs, vice-president; R.. C. 

 Harris, secretary and treasurer. These officers, with J. F. 

 Conley and John Heaton, form the board of directors. 



The North Branch of the Western Irrigation Company, 

 an association of twenty-five residents of the precinct of Farr 

 West, Weber county, to operate an irrigation canal connect- 

 ing with the canal of the Western Irrigation Company near 

 a point on the line of the Southern Pacific in Weber county, 

 has filed articles with the secretary of state. S. D. Rawson 

 is president ; Charles F. Larkins. secretary and treasurer, and 

 these, with E. O. Williams and Jacob Thomas, are the di- 



