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MISCELLANEOUS. 



W. Y. Price and C. G. Powell of Florence, Ariz., have 

 purchased 1,000 acres of land near that place and will install 

 a large pumping plant. 



The United Irrigation & Rice Milling Company, of Crow- 

 ley, La., will extend its canals about 25 miles, making 10,000 

 additional acres available for rice cultivation. 



The Gila Water Company, of Phoenix, Ariz., has let 

 the contract for the construction of a concrete dam at an 

 approximate cost of $100,000. This dam will be used to store 

 water for 80,000 acres. 



The Kinder Canal Company, of Lake Charles, La., has 

 purchased the property of the Calcasieu River Irrigation 

 Company and will enlarge the pumping plant and extend the 

 canals at a cost of $15,000. 



The Allis-Chalmers Company has been awarded the 

 contract for nine transformers for the use of the government 

 in its pumping work on the Salt river, Arizona, project. 

 The contract amounts to $8,100. 



An irrigation project to cost $25,000,000 is proposed in 

 Argentina, the principal railways to do the work, and be 

 paid by the government in 5 per cent irrigation bonds, with 

 the water rental to take care of the bonds. 



It is reported that Chas. W. Swenson, of Chicago, has 

 purchased the properties of the Toyah Valley Irrigation 

 Company. The purchase includes the townsite of Belmora, 

 and the consideration is said to be $375,000. 



Former State Senator D. P. Marum of Woodward, Okla., 

 has made application to the State Board of Agriculture for 

 water rights from the North Canadian' river to irrigate 20,000 

 acres of land adjoining the town of Woodward. 



About 59,000 cubic yards of material were placed in the 

 Belle Fourche dam, South Dakota, during October. The 

 dam when finished will create the largest lake in South 

 Dakota. Water in the canals was turned off the first of the 

 month and the ditches are being repaired. 



Up to the first of November the bore of the Strawberry 

 tunnel, at the government Strawberry valley project in Utah, 



was in 4,774 feet, 391 feet of which were excavated in October. 

 During that month the material encountered varied from a 

 fine to a coarse grained limestone mixed with sandstone. 



Capitalists of Goldfield, Nevada, have filed a petition in 

 the United States land office at Carson City for the with- 

 drawal of 200,000 acres of land in the Las-Vegas country, in 

 Clark county, under the Carey act. They intend to irrigate 

 by means of artesian wells. This work will require an ex- 

 penditure of approximately $4,000,000. 



Messages received by the chief engineer of the Yuma 

 irrigation project, from Washington, recently authorized the 

 immediate resumption of the government work which has 

 been in abeyance. It is definitely stated that the project, 

 which is now 70 per cent completed, will be finished without 

 delay, and that by November, 1910, 30,000 acres will be 

 under water. 



The Secretary of the Interior has awarded contract to 

 the Byron Jackson Iron Works of San Francisco, Cal., for 

 furnishing nine centrifugal pump units for use in connection 

 with the Salt river irrigation project. These pumps are to be 

 used to raise underground water for irrigation purposes, and 

 will be operated by power developed at the Roosevelt dam 

 and transmitted electrically nearly 100 miles to the pumping 

 stations. 



The force on the Garden City irrigation project, Kansas, 

 has been kept busy overhauling the machinery and getting the 

 boilers, turbines, and pumps in readiness for winter. During; 

 the irrigation season, which closed September 30, the pumping 

 plant was operated 95 days and 7 hours. About 7,500 acre- 

 feet of water were pumped, which irrigated 6,456 acres, while 

 9,300 acres were irrigated by river water. The total rainfall 

 during the irrigation season was 13.77 inches. 



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