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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



July 



another these were found to be im- 

 practicable from lack of dependable 

 water supply, or were tied up in com- 

 plications of vested rights to water, or 

 entagled with large land grants. Dis- 

 appointment followed most of the at- 

 tempts, but finally out of the large 

 number of projects examined the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior was able to de- 

 clare feasible the Klamath project in 

 the southern part of the State on the 

 border of California, and the Umatilla 

 project in the northeastern part of the 

 State. 



For the Klamath project the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior set aside the sum 

 of $[,403,000, of which $2,000,000 are 

 now available and are being used, the 

 remainder, $2,400,000, to be used in 

 the future. 



For the Umatilla project $1,000,000 

 have been set aside and contracts are 

 being let for the expenditure of that 

 sum. This is the first unit of the pro- 

 posed John Day project taking water 

 from the river of that name and carrv- 

 ing it across the Blue Mountains to 

 the fertile slopes south of Columbia 

 River. This project will cost upwards 

 of $10,000,000 and will require many 

 years for completion. The first part, 

 however, near Umatilla River can be 

 carried out within a relatively short 

 time. 



Funds f-r 



Klamath 



Project 



The Secretary of the In- 

 terior has transferred 

 another million dollars 

 to the reclamation fund for the Kla- 

 math project, making $2,000,000 now 

 immediately available for construction. 

 There has already been set aside the 

 sum (d $4,400,000 for this project, of 

 which the above stated $2,000,000 is 

 now being expended. 



The greater part of this will be 



spent in Oregon, a small portion of ir- 

 rigable land being across the line in 

 the State of California. Work is be- 

 ing energetically pushed on the con- 

 struction of the outlet tunnel from 

 Klamath Lake. Two lines of railroad 

 are being built from points in Cali- 

 fornia to the irrigated region in the 

 i- lamath project. 



Joy and 

 Sorrow 



There is some rejoicing 

 and much sorrowing 

 among the farmers un- 

 der the first forty-five miles of the in- 

 terstate canal, North Piatt project. 

 The cause of this paradoxical situation 

 is that the month of June saw the com- 

 pletion of this section of the great 

 ditch, the successful passage of water 

 to the end of the constructed canal and 

 its delivery for irrigation purposes, 

 and that like the foolish virgins a large 

 number of settlers were not ready for 

 it. 



On June 17th the water in the canal 

 had reached a point at about the 41st 

 mile, and on June 13th it had reached 

 the end of the 45th mile. The Whalen 

 ualls Canal Company is drawing at all 

 their head-gates a maximum of about 

 five cubic feet per second, with an 

 average of probablv not to exceed 

 three cubic feet per second. There has 

 been coming into the headgate a max- 

 imum of about 150 and a minimum of 

 about 30 cubic feet per second. 



Some 1,200 acres of land are in crop 

 and have been irrigated from the 

 canal ; the balance of the 20,000 acres 

 is not prepared to receive it. The lat- 

 eral systems under the Whalen Falls 

 Canal, and through which water is to 

 be taken from the Government canal, 

 are not built, with the exceeption of 

 one at the 25th mile, which was 

 opened about the middle of Tune. 



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