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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



March 



on furlough on account of lack of 

 work, due to climatic conditions, has 

 been reassigned to duty at Wyncote, 

 Wyo., for work in connection with the 

 Interstate canal. 



Mr. W. S. Kanna, engineering aide 

 in the Reclamation Service, has been 

 transferred from the Washington of- 

 fice, where he has been employed in 

 the drafting division, to field duty at 

 Chinook, Mont., in connection with 

 the Milk River Project. 



Mr. Clinton R. Thompson was re- 

 cently appointed topographic drafts- 

 man in the Reclamation Service and 

 ordered to report to Mr. John E. Field, 

 district engineer, at Mitchell, Neb. 



Mr. A. H. Perkins, engineer, United 

 States Reclamation Service, was re- 

 cently transferred from the Washing- 

 ton office to duty at Cody, Wyo., on the 

 Shoshone Project. Mr. Perkins is a 

 graduate of the civil engineering 

 course, Cornell University, 1894, and 

 was transferred to the Reclamation 

 Service from the Bureau of Engineer- 

 ing in the Philippine service. 



The Secretary of the In- 

 Suspended terior has suspended the 



operation of the contract 

 of July 21, 1905, with Callahan Broth- 

 ers, and Phelan and Shirley, of Oma- 

 ha, Nebraska, for divisions 2, 3, and 4 

 for main canal, Fort Buford Project, 

 North Dakota and Montana. 



The suspension is made under pro- 

 visions of paragraph No. 21 of the 

 specifications, which provides that upon 

 failure of the contractor to perform 

 the work in accordance with the speci- 

 fications the Secretary may suspend 

 the contract and take possession of the 

 machinery, tools, appliances, etc., of 

 the contractor and make arrangements 

 to complete the work. 



The Secretary of the In- 

 terior has authorized that 

 the repair and recon- 

 struction of the Pecos irrigation sys- 

 tem at Carlsbad, New Mexico, be done 

 by the Reclamation Service under 

 force account and not by contract. 

 This authority was granted to obviate 

 the delay always incident to advertis- 



Repairing 

 of Pecos 

 System 



ing for bids and because of the fact 

 that the works must be completed at 

 the earliest possible moment in order 

 to save the crops on 10,000 acres of 

 land in that section. A large portion 

 of this area is in orchards and if de- 

 prived of water the orchards would be 

 ruined, entailing a loss of property 

 valued at hundreds of thousands of 

 dollars. 



The Secretary of the 

 Let ra Interior has approved 



the contract executed by 

 the President and attested by the Sec- 

 retary of the Strawberry Valley Water 

 Users' Association, Utah, guarantee- 

 ing repayment to the United States of 

 the cost of the irrigation works which 

 may be constructed thereby in connec- 

 tion with the Strawberry Valley Pro- 

 ject, Utah. Authority has been given 

 the Reclamation Service to prepare 

 plans and specifications for the work 

 and to submit them to the department. 

 The Secretary of the Interior has also 

 executed a contract on behalf of the 

 United States and approved the bond 

 of the International Contract Com- 

 pany, providing for the construction 

 work of schedule 4, main canal, Kla- 

 math Project, California-Oregon. This 

 contract calls for the construction of 

 five highway bridges at $1,158 each, 

 with 85-foot Howe truss, spans, super- 

 structures, complete in place, and one 

 bridge, 80-foot Howe truss, spans, and 

 superstructures, at $1,055. He has also 

 approved the bond and executed con- 

 tract on behalf of the United States 

 with Messrs. Hughes and Olsen, pro- 

 viding for the construction and com- 

 pletion of division one, of main canal, 

 Huntley Project. 



A contract has been let to Mason, 

 Davis & Co., of Portland, Oregon, for 

 the construction of schedules 1, 2, and 

 3, main canal, Klamath Project, Cali- 

 fornia-Oregon. This contract calls for 

 the construction of about 9 miles of 

 main canal, near Klamath Falls, Ore- 

 gon, with headworks, sluice gates, 

 bridges, and other appurtenances in- 

 volving about 600,000 cubic yards of 

 excavation, 3,100 linear feet of con- 



