THE IKKIGATION AGE. 



Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



By a large majority, owners of 60,000 acres in the Stanis- 

 laus and San Juaquin counties voted on October 23 to form 

 an irrigation district. 



The California Irrigated Land Company has recently pur- 

 chased an additional tract near Biggs, and proposes to put 

 this land under water. 



The Madera Canal & Irrigation Company is defendant in 

 a suit brought by the City of Madera to compel the company 

 to pay $500 expended by the city in constructing a concrete 

 bridge across the canal. 



Farmers near Wheatland, Yuba County, are becoming in- 

 terested in pumping for irrigation purposes. Experiments 

 have proved satisfactory and many wells will be sunk within 

 the next twelve months. 



Acting as the representative of the Sacramento Valley 

 Irrigation Company, L. D. Waddell has bought the entire 

 holdings and interest in the pumping station on the west bank 

 of the Sacramento River in North Glenn County, from the 

 Sacramento Valley Land Company. 



Stockholders in the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Com- 

 pany are divided over the recommendation of the present 

 board to buy the Bixby holdings in the Santa Ana River. 

 The opponents consider this proposition unadvisable and de- 

 clare for a policy of retrenchment in finances. 



The Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company and the Ana- 

 heim Union Water Company, both cooperative concerns in 

 Orange County, have reached an agreement with the River- 

 side Water Company, whereby the latter may use 3,300 inches 

 of water. This arrangement ends long litigation. 



The Rio Colorado Land & Irrigation Company, composed 

 of Pasadena and Chicago capitalists, is preparing to construct 

 a dyke twenty miles in length on the Arizona side of the 

 river, opposite Needles, to irrigate a tract of 40,000 acres. 

 D. M. Martin, of Pasadena, is manager for the company. 



At a convention of land owners in the district lying in 

 the eastern section of Stanislaus County, the following officers 

 were nominated for the ensuing year: Treasurer, M. J. 

 Nightingale and E. N. Moulton; assessor, M. P. Kearney and 

 L. J. Dittemore ; tax collector, Carl Wolfer and D. C. Lee. 



H. A. Barre, of New York, and F. N. Flynn, an engi- 

 neer of Globe, Ariz., have formed a company to irrigate land 

 in Box Canyon in the Gila River basin, fourteen miles below 

 San Carlos. Wm. Sparks, of Globe, owns the water rights. 

 It is reported that the cost of the project may reach $3,000,000. 



The report of Edwin Duryea, of San Francisco, as sub- 

 mitted to the board of directors of the South San Joaquin 

 irrigation district at Manteca, estimates the cost of the sys- 

 tem at $1,861,500. The source of supply is in the Stanislaus 

 River. A special election will be held early in December to 

 consider the financing of this project. 



In its first application for the formation of an irrigation 

 district in Shasta Valley, lying west and north of the Shasta 

 River, L. J. Hibbrin^ met opposition from the Edson-Foulke 

 Company. The petitioners for the district have filed on 6,000 

 inches of the waters of Shasta River; 4,000 inches of Parks 

 Creek, and 2,000 inches of Willow Creek. 



The Chamber of Commerce at Lincoln, Placer County, is 

 considering the adyisability of forming a company to irrigate 

 by deep well pumping. It is said that investigations have dis- 

 closed the fact that the project is feasible. Lands have suf- 

 fered for lack of rainfall and farmers show great interest. 

 Several thousand acres adjacent to Lincoln may be irrigated 

 under this plan. 



C. W. Wooster Company, of San Francisco, has pur- 

 chased bonds on the Chowchill ranch, fourteen miles south 

 of Merced, to the amount of $1,000,000. The Wooster com- 

 pany proposes to construct an extensive irrigation system to 

 reclaim the 108,000 acres composing this ranch. Many of the 

 stockholders live in Scotland. E. L. Blythe, of Edinburgh, 

 arranged the bond negotiations. 



A. G. Wishon, of the San Joaquin Light & Power Com- 

 pany, is working on plans for a pumping plant run by elec- 



tricity, to place water on the east side foot hill country, east 

 of Fresno. Since the completion of the company's Crane 

 Valley power plant this project appears more feasible, and it 

 is understood that Manager Wishon will take immediate 

 steps to secure surveys and give attention to the details of 

 the pumping plant. 



The government has awarded contracts for the earth- 

 work on the distribution system for the Orland project, Cali- 

 fornia, as follows: Sections 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 to Anson 

 B. Munson, Stockton, Cal., $26,780; Section 3. William P. 

 Gay and S. D. Koons, of Orland, Cal., $3,109.50; Section 5, 

 George T. Hale, W. N. Downer and J. D. Smith, Orland, 

 Cal., $2,979.50. The distribution system involves the excava- 

 tion of approximately 200,000 cubic yards. The prices bid 

 range from 11^ cents to 14 cents per cubic yard. 



J. B. Lippincott, assistant chief engineer of the Los An- 

 geles Aqueduct Bureau, denies that he is authority for the 

 statement that the Aqueduct Bureau will irrigate 75,000 acres 

 in the San Fernando Valley. He asserts that there is suffi- 

 cient water under control of the aqueduct commission for 

 this purpose. It is estimated that the cost of a system to 

 supply this water would approximate $800,000 and there is 

 now a probability that local land owners will subscribe to 

 this amount in order that the project may be carried for- 

 ward under private ownership. 



The Alessandro irrigation district has been made de- 

 fendant in a suit by Henry Allan, as intervener in an action 

 commenced against the district by E. W. Freeman three 

 months ago, to recover $123,400. Directors of the district, at 

 the time it was dissolved by order of court, are also named 

 as defendants. Allan is represented to have bought bonds in 

 1892 and 1893 and upon these grounds asks the court to set 

 aside the decree of confirmation for the dissolution of the 

 district; that properties be sold and that D. E. Myers be 

 compelled to transfer to the district the property turned over 

 to him as trustee. The original suit was instituted in 1908, 

 but has never been tried. 



COLORADO 



A government land drawing, in connection with the Two 

 Buttes project, is scheduled for November 22. 



Farmers in the Holbrook Irrigation District recently 

 voted by a large majority to authorize a bond issue of $650,- 

 000. Six different items are involved in this issue. 



At a meeting of the" North Sterling irrigation district, 

 resolutions were passed authorizing th^ sale of $55,000 worth 

 of bonds. 



J. C. Hedgecock and Edward Lee, of Fowler, have re- 

 cently filed plans for reservoirs and ditches to irrigate about 

 4,000 acres in the Blueridge Valley. 



The Warner-Kinney Syndicate, of Denver, has made ap- 

 plication to the State Land Board for 15,000 acres in Cos- 

 tilla County. It is proposed to construct an irrigation 

 system. 



Local bankers are said to be backing a project to irri- 

 gate 2,500 acres in Park Center, and North Park, near Canon 

 City. It is proposed to carry the water along lower Four 

 Mile Creek. 



George Smith, of Grand Junction, has applied for ap- 

 proval on plans for Rapid Creek Reservoir No. 3, in Mesa 

 County. The water of Rapid Creek will be stored by a 40- 

 foot dam, at a cost of about $35,000. 



It is reported that the Fountain Valley Land & Irriga- 

 tion Company has placed bonds to the amount of $500,000 

 for the purchase of 20,000 acres of land near Colorado 

 Springs. Two new reservoirs are proposed. 



G. V. Leach, of Denver, has made application for the 

 segregation of 15,000 acres of land in Routt County. To 

 irrigate this tract, and 35,000 acres between Craig and Twenty 

 Mile Park, he proposes to construct an extensive system. 



Plans for the Omer Canal & Reservoir Company's supply 

 ditch, designed to irrigate 40,000 acres of land in Las Ani- 

 mas, Pueblo and Otero counties, have recently been filed. It 

 is estimated that the cost of this ditch will reach $150,000. 



Failing to secure a reasonable bid on the enlargement of 

 thirteen miles of the Montrose and Delta Canal, Uncompahgre 

 Valley project, the Secretary of the Interior has authorized 

 the Reclamation Service to perform the work by force ac- 

 count. 



The Amazon Investment Company, of Denver, has asked 

 permission from the state engineer's office to enlarge the 



