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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



May 



poses to all of the Pacific coast area from 

 Los Angeles to the sea, including the 

 supplying of city water to Santa Monica 

 and Playa del Rey. 



Another California venture provides 

 for what is termed the most extensive 

 irrigation canal project in the State of 

 California, contracts having been let for 

 the completion of a canal which will 

 extend from the northern boundary of 

 Glenn county to the southern border of 

 Colusa, watering one of the richest sec- 

 tions of the state, through a distance of 

 85 miles. Press reports say that Elwood 

 Mead has pronounced it the best irriga- 

 tion project in the state. Twelve years 

 ago $700,000 were invested and 60 miles 

 of canal were completed, but the finan- 

 cial distress of 1894 involved the com- 

 pany, and work was abandoned. Now 

 it is predicted that water will be turned 

 into the canal from the Sacramento 

 River June 4, and will be carried on a 

 6o-foot bottom at the rate of 3,000 cubic 

 feet per second. About 4,500 acres on 

 the big Glenn ranch have been bought 

 up by the company, which proposes to 

 break up such large tracts into small 

 holdings. Business men of San Fran- 

 cisco, Colusa, Willows, Fresno, and Los 

 Angeles, forming the Central Canal and 

 Irrigation Company, are back of the 

 .enterprise. 



TheButte County Canal Company, in 

 the same state, will divert the waters of 

 the Feather River to cover 180,000 acres 

 in Butte county in the neighborhood of 

 Oroville, Biggs, Gridley, and Liveoak. 

 Articles of incorporation for the com- 

 pany have been filed, and plans look 

 toward a 1 5-mile main canal, with 6-foot 

 bottom and a combined length of nearly 

 200 miles in main and lateral ditches. 

 It is promised that the rate per acre for 

 water will be the lowest in the state. 



No less than six irrigation projects 

 are getting under way in' Wyoming, 

 some of them of considerable impor- 

 tance. The Boulder Creek Canal Com- 

 pany, in Fremont county, intends to 

 reclaim by irrigation 7,000 acres of land 

 with water from Boulder Creek, about 

 20 miles north of New Fork. The En- 

 campment-Platte Valle)' Ditch Company 

 has been organized at Saratoga, Wyo., 

 to construct a g-mile canal from the 



Encampment River to cover i , 100 acres 

 of land on the west side of the Platte. 

 Omaha (Nebr.) capital is being inter- 

 ested in a plan for a large canal to take 

 water from the Big Horn River, 50 

 miles south of Basin City, Wyo. It is 

 proposed to cover all the land known as 

 Gooseberry Flat, comprising many thou- 

 sands of acres of fertile soil. The Bi-g 

 Horn Canal Company has built its main 

 canal from the Big Horn River to Fif- 

 teen-mile Creek, a distance of 15 miles. 

 Here a tunnel will be necessary before 

 further progress can be made. All of 

 the land under the present ditch has 

 been filed upon by a colony from Indi- 

 ana. The Wiley Ditch Company, which 

 takes its water from the Grey Bull 

 River, has just had a suit, on account of 

 alleged shortage of supply, decided in 

 its favor, and the farmers along its 

 ditches are promised an abundance of 

 water for all purposes during the coin- 



ing season. 



The Big Horn Basin Development 

 Company will reclaim 250,000 acres of 

 land in the neighborhood of Guernsey 

 under the provisions of the Carey act, 

 and will construct a canal 80 miles 

 long, with a storage reservoir to hold 

 20,000,000,000 cubic feet of water. 



Contracts have been let for damming 

 the Snake River in Idaho at a point 65 

 miles above Shoshone Falls and building 

 65 miles of canal on the south and 24 

 miles on the north side of the river, not 

 including laterals, which will irrigate 

 340,000 acres under the new govern- 

 ment irrigation law. The dam will cost 

 $400, oooand the main canals$2, 500,000. 

 The latter will be 80 feet wide at the 

 bottom, 1 60 feet at the top, and will 

 carry 10 feet of water, raised 40 feet 

 from the river. 



Lumber Last month FORESTRY 



Manufacturers AND IRRIGATION re- 

 Endorse corded the meeting of 

 Forestry. the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation at the national capital, and more 

 recently the annual session of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion was held in Washington on April 

 20 and 21. A warm interest in forest 



