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3. A relinquishment to the United States of 25 cubic feet 

 of water per second by the Prosser Falls Land and Power 

 Company free of all liens, conditions or charges of any kind. 



4. The securing without cost to the United States of all 

 necessary right of way for pipe lines, canals and incidental 

 structures for the works necessary for carrying out this agree- 

 ment. 



The secretary directs the Reclamation Service that when 

 these conditions are satisfactorily fulfilled construction of the 

 works necessary to irrigate the Prosser lands may be under- 

 taken, and that such construction shall be taken up in advance 

 of the commencement of work for any pumping plants for the 

 Sunnyside project. 



WYOMING. 



It is announced that Wm. Parson of Parson, Son & 

 Company of Chicago, has been elected president of the 

 Eden Irrigation & Land Company of Rock Springs. 



Representatives of the North Flatte Valley Irrigation 

 Company announce that arrangements have been made 

 to secure $2,000,000 for construction work. This com- 

 pany owns the present La Prele irrigation system and 

 under its project about 100,000 acres will be watered. 

 The company also proposes to develop water power. 

 Officers are as follows: J. P. Wilson, president; W. F. 

 Hamilton, vice-president, and W. J. Lester, general 

 manager. 



Land owners in the Parkman irrigation district were 

 called upon to vote on an issue of $150,000 bonds for con- 

 struction of a system, of reservoirs and canals. It is claim- 

 ed that the supply will be adequate to irrigate 14,000 

 acres in Sheridan county. It is proposed to utilize the 

 old Granger ditch. Preliminary surveys have been com- 

 pleted. Officers of this district are as follows: President, 

 I. McNutt; secretary, W. H. Wallace. Water will be 

 taken from the Tungue river at a point west of Sheridan. 

 A siphon will be necessary to carry the waters over Fool 

 creek. 



Thomas B. Lentry, acting as attorney for Gist Broth- 

 ers, La Plata county. Missouri, contractors, filed suit re- 

 cently at Chicago against the Wyoming Land and Irriga- 

 tion Company of that city in the municipal court asking 

 $100,000 for breach of contract. The suit involves a ditch 

 dug for the irrigation company at Basin, Wyo. 



On January 1st the government's Shoshone dam was 

 completed to within seven feet of the finished structure, 

 only about 600 cubic yards of masonry remaining to be 

 laid. Forty-five feet were added to the height of the dam 

 during December in spite of the difficulties incident to 

 the severe winter weather. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The Mississippi Land Improvement Company of 

 Brownsville, Texas, will increase its irrigation capacity by 

 the construction of dams. About 9,000 additional acres 

 will be brought under water. 



Reports from the Southern Alberta Land Company 

 operating near Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, state that 

 before suspension of work the first division of the project 

 had been about two-thirds completed. 



Preliminary surveys for its system of reservoirs and 

 canals have been completed by the Gravity Irrigation 

 Company of Hidalgo county, Texas. Active work will 

 be begun within the next few weeks. 



Land owners on both sides of the California-Nevada 

 state line are fighting over the right to waters of the 

 Walker river. For several years this controversy has 

 been before the courts in various forms. 



Land owners in the Sulphur Springs Valley near 

 Tucson. Arizona, are experimenting with irrigation by 

 pumping. It is claimed that these experiments have been 

 successful and that many wells will be sunk during the 

 coming season to provide against the annual mid-summer 

 drought. 



The total amount of masonry laid in the government's 

 Roosevelt dam, Salt River irrigation project, Arizona, up 

 to the first of January was 295,338 cubic yards, leaving 



