1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



281 



of citizens and land owners held May 

 15, at Bismark, was well attended. 



There is a great increase of senti- 

 ment in favor of the project among 

 the land owners. Many tracts of land 

 within the area proposed to be irri- 

 gated are owned by non-residents or 

 by companies, but these interests are 

 gradually coming in and many busi- 

 ness men are purchasing lands, there- 

 by becoming eligible to membership 

 in the association. It is believed now 

 that the association will be incorporat- 

 ed in a short time and the required 



years, and by pumping in dry 

 years. The timbered areas on the 

 lower bottom along the river bank 

 will also be examined to determine 

 how much of this area should be left 

 out of the project on account of the 

 value of the timber or for the sake of 

 protecting the bank from being washed 

 away. 



If, however, the land owners under 

 the Bismarck project do not take the 

 required steps to cooperate with the 

 government the work will be allowed 

 to drop for the present and the feasi- 



Bench Lands, Okanogan River, Washington. 



Brown Lake Reservoir Site, Washington. 



percentage of land owners will have 

 been signed up. 



The preliminary work on the Fort 

 Lincoln project will be completed 

 soon, and preliminary plans and esti- 

 mates prepared. A field party has been 

 directed to make surveys of the pro- 

 posed reservoir site on Apple Creek 

 in order that this feature of the Bis- 

 mark project may be better defined. 

 It is possible that two or three thou- 

 sand acres may be added to the origi- 

 nal area by this means, most of which 

 could be supplied by gravity in wet 



bility of the Fort Lincoln project will 

 be considered. 



a Washington Project. 



Observations of water supply and 

 related investigations on the Okano- 

 gan project, Washington, are being 

 pushed by the district (.-ngiiuvrs. to 

 the end that detailed estimates of cost 

 may be presented to the land o \VIKTS. 



The irrigable lands consist of 15,- 

 ooo acres of varying quality, lying in 

 a series of benches between the Oka- 

 nogan River and the hills surround- 



