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acres lie in the southern part of Weld county, while the 

 remaining 25,000 acres are near Denver along the line of 

 the Burlington railway. 



Articles of incorporation for the Royal Gorge Irriga- 

 tion Company have been filed at Denver, showing incor- 

 porators to be capitalists of Colorado Springs, and the 

 capital stock to be $500,000. It is proposed to reorganize 

 the Lida irrigation and Lida reservoir systems, and to 

 complete their construction by six supply ditches. Water 

 will be taken from the Arkansas river and Ten Mile creek 

 and various small tributaries of the Arkansas. A canal 

 sixty miles in length will convey water into Freemont and 

 Pueblo counties, where much of the land lies. The board 

 of directors is as follows: Thos. F. Daly, Geo. B. Tripp, 

 Jas. R. Moore, A. Sutton, F. Gilpin, D. F. Carpenter and 

 Henry C. Hall. The principal office of the company is at 

 Colorado Springs, Colo. Of the five thousand shares of 

 capital stock five hundred are preferred, and bear interest 

 at the rate of 6 per cent. 



CALIFORNIA. 



To secure an appropriation of $400,000 from Congress 

 for the improvement of the Sacramento and San Joaquin 

 irrigation project, state officials have directed requests to 

 their representatives at Washington asking that they co- 

 operate to this end. 



Engineers working in the interest of the Putah Creek 

 Irrigation Company have nearly completed their work, 

 and the company is planning condemnation of lands and 

 other steps necessary to the construction of its canal to 

 water 60,000 acres in Yolo and Solano counties. 



It is reported that the old Tulloch irrigation system, 

 lately controlled by the San Joaquin Canal and Irrigation 

 Company, has been offered to the new Oakdale irriga- 

 tion district for $650,000. This offer includes the entire 

 system except the power plant at Knights Ferry. 



At the annual meeting of stockholders held at Glen- 

 dora it was decided to reduce the water rate from four 

 to three cents per hour inch. Directors were elected as 

 follows: W. B. Gildden, president; C. C. Warren, Chas. 

 F. Gordon, F. H. Harwood, E. E. Card, T. C. Shiftman 

 and W. G. Hall. 



Secretary Eddy of the Stockton Chamber of Com- 

 merce has been instructed to investigate the feasibility of 

 storing water in a reservoir in the Calaveras County can- 

 yon. The United States Geological Survey has made in- 

 vestigations. Water thus stored could be used for the 

 irrigation of arid lands in this vicinity. 



E. A. Wiltsee of New York recently laid before the 

 directors of the Modesto and Turloch districts a plan for 

 storing water in an immense system of reservoirs in Tuo- 

 lomane canyon. He proposes an expenditure of about 

 $470,000 for a 160-foot dam at a point seven miles up the 

 river from the present diverting dam. Water thus stored 

 is to be used for both irrigation and power purposes. 



IDAHO. 



At a recent election in the Pioneer Irrigation District 

 at Caldwell, Arthur G. Street was selected as director 

 over G. T. Morse. 



J. E. Lane of Blackfoot states that he has financed 

 the Salmon River Land and Irrigation Company, which 

 propose to reclaim 5,000 acres in Custer county. 



The Idagon Irrigation Company has completed its 

 dam in Jump Creek and is building 20 miles of laterals to 

 cover 50,000 acres around Homedale, and in western 

 Oregon. 



Prominent citizens of Roswell have made plans for 

 the reclamation of a 2,000-acre tract known as Roswell 

 Park. To secure water from the Riverside ditch, a 4,500 

 feet inverted siphon will be constructed. 



S. G. Yerkes, general manager of the Southern Idaho 

 Reclamation Company, states that his company has no 

 connection with the Great Western Beet Sugar Enter- 

 prise. The company proposes to construct a reservoir on 

 the Long Tom basin, and it is to this fact that there was 

 report of connection between the two companies. Re- 

 cently the Southern Idaho Reclamation Company was 



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