THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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A. M. Ham has instituted suit against the Grapeland 

 Irrigation district for $12,105 alleged to be due as principal 

 and interest on the district's bond issue in 1887 under the 

 Wright Act. 



The Plaouse Irrigation & Power Company is said to be 

 considering the advisability of reviving the Palouse irrigation 

 project. Extensive surveys for this project have been made 

 at various times. 



The Quincy Valley Water Users Association in which 

 owners of 2,000 acres of land in Grant County near Quincy 

 and Ephreta are interested has recently filed on the waters 

 of Pend Oreillo river near Newport, 46 miles north of 

 Spokane. Cost of the work is estimated at $20,000,000. 



The Hanford Irrigation & Power Company, from its 

 headquarters at the foot of Priest Rapids on the Columbia 

 river, is planning for extensive construction work early in the 

 spring. The work involves the expenditure of $1,000,000 and 

 the building of a high line ditch to irrigate 15,000 acres in 

 the valley west of White Bluffs. 



Kilbourne and Clarke of Seattle have been awarded the 

 contract for construction of a pumping plant for the Columbia 

 River Orchard company near Wahluke. The contract calls 

 for an electrically driven plant with a capacity of 40,000 gal- 

 lons per minute. This supply is believed to be adequate for 

 the irrigation of a 10,000 acre tract. 



W. S. Gamble is authority for the statement that the cost 

 of the proposed tunnel under the Cascade canal about five 

 miles west of Ellensburg will not exceed $300,000. This esti- 

 nate is based on the report submitted by Engineer Harry 

 Riddell. Stockholders of the canal company are seriously 

 considering the advisability of this construction work. A 

 proposition for the improvement of the present canals is also 

 before the board of directors. 



Owners of 50,000 acres in the vicinity of North Yakima 

 are planning to petition Secretary Ballinger for permission to 

 levy an assessment of $1.00 per acre to construct a high line 

 canal. The proposed ditch would be an extension of the one 

 already begun in Kittitas county and would be brought down 

 through the hills to Selah valley and thence through the 

 Moxee valley to the Sunnyside canal. Storage dams may be 

 constructed at Lakes Katches and Kitchles. 



Canal construction on the Tieton unit of the Yakima proj- ; 

 ect will be sufficiently advanced during the irrigation season 

 of 1910 to allow the furnishing of flood water to approxi- 

 mately 10,000 acres in Yakima county. The secretary of the 

 interior has granted authority to' furnish this flood water on' 

 a water rental bisis in the irrigation season of 1910, at the 

 rate of $1.50 per acre for the season to those water users 

 within the first unit of the Tieton project who make applica- 

 tion for such service before March 1, 1910. 



The secretary of the interior has formally approved a plan 

 whereby the Reclamation Service may undertake to furnish 

 water to about 2,200 acres of land in the vicinity of Prosser, 

 during the season of 1911. The conditions to be complied' 

 with in general are as follows : 



1. That the building charge for lands which have a 

 water right from the Prosser Falls Land and Power com- 

 pany as shown by the abstract of title and reports of the com- 

 pany which have been submitted to the office of the Reclama- 

 tion Service at North Yakima, be fixed at $31 per acre; that 

 the building charge to lands without water right be fixed at 

 $52_per acre, the same as for other lands in the Sunnyside 

 project, and that the operation and maintenance charges for 

 all such lands be the same as fixed from time to time for 

 other lands in the Sunnyside project. 



2. That before construction is authorized at least 90 per 

 cent of the lands having a Prosser Falls Land and Power 

 Company's water right, and 90 per cent of the lands having 

 no such water right, or a total amount of land which will 

 give an equivalent return in money on the basis of such 

 building charges, must be subscribed for in the Sunnyside 

 Water Users' Association, and the town of Prosser must 

 enter into a proper contract with the United States for the 

 supplying of the town with water for irrigation purposes sub- 

 ject to the stipulation that should the town secure the release 

 to the United States of 2J4 cubic feet of water per second, 

 being part of the five cubic feet of water per second held 

 by the Prosser Falls Land and Power Company for irrigation 

 purposes, the town of Prosser will receive a credit on account 

 of the charges under such contract to the extent of $2,900. 



GOVERNMENT 

 FARM 



Before they are all gone 



You get from Uncle Sam either a 320- 



acre farm, FREE, or an irrigated 



farm for the mere per capita 



cost of the irrigation system 



320-acre Farms Free 



The LJ. S. Government is now offering over 

 three million acres of homestead lands in eastern 

 Wyoming, along the Burlington Route, under the 

 new Mondell homestead law permitting settlers 

 to take 320 acres instead of the usual 160-acre 

 homestead. These lands are ideal for dry farm- 

 ing and hundreds of farmers have made a suc- 

 cess of this method of farming in the locality 

 where these lands are located. 



Irrigated Government Lands In The 

 Big Horn Basin and Yellow- 

 stone Valley 



where rich productive lands with perpetual water 

 right may be purchased for about one-half the 

 cost of land in the central states and where the 

 water can be turned on and off the land to suit 

 the convenience of the farmer, and where you 

 are not bothered with rain during harvest; where 

 a single crop can be made to pay for the land; 

 where 50 bushels of wheat and 75 bushels of oats 

 commonly grow to the acre. 



Don't Wait Longer, 

 But Get a Home To-day 



These lands are being rapidly taken up and 

 ere long all of the Government lands will be 

 gone. Thereafter land will be possible of ac- 

 quirement only at prices phenomenally high com- 

 pared to those of to-day. 



OUR PERSONALLY CONDUCTED EX- 

 CURSIONS on the first and third Tuesday of 

 each month and cheap homeseekers' tickets, on 

 those dates, allowing stop-overs in both direc- 

 tions, will give you an opportunity to examine 

 the irrigated lands and the Mondell lands on one 

 trip. 



OUR NEW FOLDERS WITH MAPS, show- 

 ing the location of all of the above-mentioned 

 lands and explaining in detail the crops raised, 

 the natural resources of each locality, and the 

 method of procedure to acquire title, will be sent 

 to you, free for the asking. Write for them to- 

 day. Free for. the asking. 



D. CLEM DEAVER, General Agent, 



Burlington Route Landseekers' Information Bureau 

 137 Q. Building, OMAHA, NEB. 



N. B. The winter weather in the Big Horn Basin Country is 

 fine and lands can usually be seen to advantage all Winter. 



