NEWS AND NOTES 



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Ten thousand two hundred and forty acres 

 lying in Tps. 20 and 21 S., R. 28 E., Willa- 

 mette Principal Meridian, for the Emigrant 

 Creek Reservoir in connection with the Har- 

 ney Project, Oregon. 



Under the Dechutes Project, Oregon, Will- 

 amette Principal Meridian: Sixteen thou- 

 sand six hundred and forty acres in T. 24 S.. 

 R. 6 E., for Crescent Lake Reservoir; T. 

 23 S., R. 6 E., all of unsurveyed township, 

 for Odell Lake Reservoir ; 23,040 acres in 

 T. 25 S., Rs. 6 and 7 E... for Big Marsh 

 Reservoir. 



Senate Committee to Visit Irrigation Projects 



United States Senator Thomas H. Carter 

 of Montana, chairman of the Senate Com- 

 mittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid 

 Lands, advises R. Insinger, chairman of the 

 Board of Control of the National Irrigation 

 Congress, that he will attend one or more 

 days at the seventeenth session in Spokane. 

 August 9 to 14, but he does not believe the 

 committee will be able to be present in a 

 body. He adds : 



"The committee will start on a tour of in- 

 spection of the various reclamation projects 

 of the Government about September I, ac- 

 companied by the Secretary of the Interior 

 and the Director and Chief Engineer of the 

 Reclamation Service." 



The committee, which is composed of thir- 

 teen Senators, will visit the projects in Kan- 

 sas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, 

 Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Wash- 

 ington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah and California. 

 passing one or more days in every com- 

 munity to familiarize itself with what has 

 been accomplished under the Federal Rec- 

 lamation Act, and to ascertain if any changes 

 are required in the statute to make it more 

 effective. 



Irrigation in Washington 



More than 100,000 acres of land, exclusive 

 of Government projects, will be added to the 

 irrigated area in eastern and north central 

 Washington this year, and arrangements are 

 also under way to put water on thousands 

 of acres of land in northern Idaho and Ore- 

 gon, western Montana and southeastern 

 British Columbia. As most of these lands 

 will be devoted to apples, peaches, pears, and 

 plums, it is estimated that from 7,000,000 to 

 10,000,000 trees will be planted during the 

 next fourteen months, giving employment to 

 hundreds of men in various parts of the 

 Inland Empire this spring, next fall and the 

 spring of 1910. 



Reports are also current in Spokane that 

 the Federal Government will take up the 

 Benton and Kittitas projects, 877,800 acres, 

 in Yakima, Klickitat, and Benton counties, 



a! rrady reported upon by the Reclamation 

 Service, and it is believed that the Palouse 

 projects, 100,000 acres, abandoned by the 

 Reclamation Service because of the lack of 

 funds, will receive attention this year. Other 

 government works in Washington to be 

 taken up include 50,000 acres in the Ellens- 

 burg district, 200,000 acres in the Rattle- 

 snake and Coal Creek districts, and 10.000 

 acres in the Okanogan country. 



The Government will in time have re- 

 claimed 1,500,000 acres of wholly or partly 

 waste lands in the state of Washington at an 

 estimated cost of $50,000,000, which is pro- 

 rated among the owners of the land where 

 water is used. The projects in operation 

 and under construction by the Reclamation 

 Service include these works in the Yakima 

 Valley : Sunnyside, 90,000 acres, to cost $i,- 

 600,000 ; the Tieton, 30,000 acres, costing 

 $1,500,000, and the Wapato, 120,000 acres, 

 to be completed at a cost of $1,500,000. 



The National Irrigation Congress at Spokane 



Prepartions for the National Irrigation 

 Congress, in Spokane, August 9 to 14, are 

 being vigorously pushed. Mr. R. Insinger, 

 chairman of the board of control, is the 

 leading promoter. Governors Shallenberger 

 of Nebraska, Campbell of Texas, Spry of 

 Utah, and Ansell of South Carolina have 

 named delegates, as have also Mayor Critten- 

 den of Kansas City, Mo., and Mayor Fugard 

 of Pueblo. The latter city expects to send a 

 special train or two and capture the Congress 

 for 1910. Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver. of 

 Iowa, chairman of the Committee on Agri- 

 culture and Forestry, who is planning an 

 extended trip throughout the Pacific North- 

 west, announces that he hopes to attend the 

 congress. 



Senator Dolliver is deeply interested in 

 the problems pertaining to agriculture and 

 forestry, also questions of deep waterways, 

 drainage, good roads, and home-building, all 

 of which questions will be discussed by ex- 

 perts, including statesmen, scientists, rail- 

 road presidents, and financiers. 



Dr. J. G. Schurman, President of Cornell 

 University, announces the appointment of 

 Prof. Liberty Hyde Bailey, director of the 

 College of Agriculture at Cornell, as the 

 representative of that institution. Professor 

 Bailey was head of President Roosevelt's 

 farm-life commission and, as such, toured the 

 Inland Empire and Pacific Northwest last fall, 

 acquiring familiarity with western conditions, 

 including irrigation, forestry, waterways, 

 swamps, reclamation and the like. 



August 13 has been fixed upon as Gov- 

 ernors' Day, when chief executives of the 

 northwestern states and others of the East 

 and South, will be present at the invitation 

 of Gov. Marion E. Hay, of the state of 

 Washington. President Taft and several 

 members of his Cabinet are expected, and 



