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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



RECLAMATION NOTES. 



The town of Mitchell, Neb., has been selected as 

 headquarters of the engineers on the North Platte irri- 

 gation project until construction is completed. This 

 point is in the center of the project and it is proposed to 

 construct there a commodious office building for the 

 use of the Reclamation Service engineers. 



The Secretary of the Interior has today restored to 

 settlement the following described lands in the State 

 of Nebraska, which were withdrawn in 1903 for use in 

 connection with the North Platte irrigation project: 



SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN. 



T. 20 N., R. 54 W., Sees. 19 to 36 inclusive. 



T. 20, N., R. 55 W., Sees. 18 to 36 inclusive. 



T. 20 N., Rs. 56, 57 and 58. 



T. 19 N., Rs. 54, 55 and 56. 



These lands will not be subject to entry, filing or 

 selection under the public land laws until ninety days 

 after notice by such publication as the Commissioner 

 may prescribe. 



An item has appeared recently in several Colorado 

 papers to the effect that the Government has begun the 

 construction of a dam in Las Animas River for the 

 reclamation of thousands of acres of arid land in that 

 region. This statement is entirely erroneous, as the 

 Government has no interest in nor connection with any 

 engineering work on this stream. The only irrigation 

 project of the Reclamation Service in Colorado is in 

 the Uncompahgre Valley. 



Investigations and surveys in connection with the 

 Lake Basin project, Montana, having reached a point 

 where it has been determined that the lands withdrawn 

 on October 18, 1905, are not irrigable thereunder, the 

 Secretary of the Interior has restored these lands to 

 settlement, not, however, to become subject to entry, 

 filing or selection under the public land laws until 

 ninety days after notice by such publication as may be 

 prescribed by the Department. The area restored lies 

 principally in Yellowstone County and consists of about 

 sixteen townships. 



The Secretary of the Interior has executed a con- 

 tract with, and approved the bond of the United Iron 

 Works of Oakland, Cal., for furnishing gates and lift- 

 ing devices for use in the main canal and embankments 

 of the Payette-Boise project, Idaho. The contract calls 

 for fourteen 5x9 cast iron gates and guides weighing 

 70,000 pounds; eight 5x6 gates and guides, 32,000 

 pounds ; two standard 6x8 gates, with lifting devices and 

 hall-bearing pedestals for raising 80,000 pounds; and 

 twenty-two standard ball-hearing lifting devices for 

 raising from 15,000 to 30,000 pounds. The total con- 

 tract is for $15,045. 



Dakota. This contract calls for the construction of 

 nine and a half miles of canal, involving 465,300 cubic 

 yards of excavation, 85,000 cubic yards of overhaul, 500 

 linear feet of 24-inch terra cotta pipe, and 1,000 cubic 

 yards of puddling. 



The construction of the Truckee-Carson project, 

 Nevada, is progressing rapidly. At the present time 85 

 per cent of the works required to supply the first 180,- 

 000 acres is completed. During the present stage of 

 high water in Carson River the Truckee River is not 

 supplying the system, as the flow of the former is ample 

 at this time. Three vitrified pipe openings have been 

 set in the main canal and water will be delivered to set- 

 tlers under this part of the system during the month 

 of May. The old and new settlers under the main dis- 

 tributing system are now receiving their supply there- 

 from, and with the exception of two districts the lateral 

 system are now delivering water. It is expected that 

 the entire lateral system will be in working order at the 

 end of the month. On force account work now being 

 carried on by the Government in six camps, 400 men 

 and 450 head of stock are employed. 



Recent investigations and surveys having indi- 

 cated the desirability of modifying the original plans 

 for the construction and completion of the pumping 

 station for the Huntley project, Montana, the Secretary 

 of the Interior, with the approval of the contractor, 

 W. D. Lovell, has annulled that portion of the contract 

 which relates to the construction of the pumping station 

 and accessory structures. The change proposed by the 

 Reclamation Service will result in securing a simple, 

 compact and durable design for the machinery and 

 pumping station, which can be put into use at a less 

 cost than the original design. 



The public lands embraced in about 150 townships 

 in eastern and central Washington, withdrawn during 

 1903, 1904 and 1905, pending investigations to deter- 

 mine the feasibility of the Big Bend, Priest Rapids, 

 Palonse and Chelan projects, have been restored to set- 

 tlement by the Secretary of the Interior. They will 

 not be subject to entry, filing, or selection under thi* 

 public land laws, however, until ninety days after such 

 notice by publication as may be prescribed by the De- 

 partment. 



In conipliance with the request of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, authority has been granted the Reclama- 

 tion Service by the Secretary of the Interior to sell 

 cement and other supplies, and to furnish electric lights* 

 telephone service and sewerage connection to the Forest 

 Service located in Tonto Basin, Arizona, in the vicinity 

 of the Salt River project. 



The Secretary of the Interior has executed a con- 

 tract with Henry C. DeLaney, of Williston, N. D., for 

 the construction and completion of Division 4, main 

 canal, Lower Yellowstone project, Montana and North 



During the years 1904 and 1905 all the public 

 lands within an area of about one and a half million 

 acres in the Klamath region in southern Oregon and 

 northern California were reserved, pending investiga- 

 tions to determine the feasibility of reclaiming them 

 under the Klamath irrigation project. Of this area 

 about one-half has been restored to entry, the balance 

 remaining reserved as lands reclaimable, for reservoir 



