THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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Glass-Lindsay Land Company, Big Timber; 63,750 

 acres in Sweetgrass County; $40 to $50 per acre. 



Billings Land & Irrigation Co., Office Billings; 15,378 

 acres in Yellowstone County; cost of water rights, $50 

 per acre. 



OMHKK 



inquiries regarding Carey Act lands should be ad- 

 dressed to "The Desert Land Board, Salem, Oregon." 



Deschutes Irrigation & Power Co., Bend; 100,000 

 acres in Crook County; cost of water rights, $40 per acre. 

 "Waste land" is charged for at the rate of $2.50 per acre. 



A number of other la'rge projects are in various stages 

 of development, but not yet open for entry. 



NEW MEXICO. 



There are several projects in New Mexico in varying 

 stages of completion, but none of them, as yet, is open to 

 entry. Information in regard to these may be obtained 

 by inquiry of H. B. Hening, Secretary, the New Mexico 

 Bureau of Information, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 



SOUTH DAKOTA. 



No segregations under the Carey Act had been ap- 

 plied for up to May 1, 1910. 



NEVADA 



Several applications have been made for Carey Act 

 segregations, none of which has been approved by the 

 Department of the Interior. Information with regard to 

 these may be procured by addressing C. E. Deady, State 

 Land Register, Carson City, Nevada. 



Bureaus of Immigration or Other Official Bodies for the 



Dissemination of Authentic Information Regarding 



the Resources of the State Generally. 



IDAHO. 



Bureau of Immigration, Labor and Statistics. 



Address Boise. 



Jos. P. Fallen, Commissioner. 



WYOMING. 



Department of Immigration. 

 Address Cheyenne. 



UTAH. 



Bureau of Statistics. 

 Address Salt Lake City. 

 H. T. Haines, Commissioner. 



MONTANA. 



State Bureau of Agriculture, Labor and Industry. 



Address Helena. 



J. H. B^ll, Commissioner. 



NEW MEXICO. 



Bureau of Immigration. 

 Address Albuquerque. 

 , H. B. Hening Secretary. 



HOLLY, COLORADO. 



The Sugar Beet, Cantaloupe, Fruit and Alfalfa Country 

 of the Lower Arkansas Valley. 



Send $2,50 for The Irrigation 

 Age one year and 



The Primer of Irrigation 



Holly, Colo., is located in the eastern part of the state, 

 at the lowest elevation in the state (3,400 feet). The 

 Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Land Company has its 

 headquarters there, and also the headquarters of the Holly 

 Sugar Co., a corporation capitalized at $5,500,000. 



This is the first of a series of articles telling of what 

 is being done and what has been done in this live town 

 just over the Colorado side, in the Valley of Content. 

 All the irrigation world is having its attention directed more 

 and more to this valley. The Irrigation Congress to be 

 held at Pueblo, September 26-30, is responsible for the 

 most of this. The new Santa Fe Trail good roads move- 

 ment is responsible for some of it. Nine motor cars made 

 the remarkable endurance run April 24 from Hutchinson, 

 Kan., to Pueblo, Colo., 461 miles, in 23 hours, accompanied 

 by guide and relay cars. The East and West were -sur- 

 prised at such evidence of good roads. 



These cars passed through Holly on the Trail and 

 through the thousands of acres of irrigated land compris- 

 ing the country surrounding this garden spot. 



The fertility of the soil, the marvelous growth of the 

 little towns under the system, the climate, the good roads, 

 the opportunities, all attract attention, but in this article 

 let us consider the greatest body of water between the 

 Great Lakes and Salt Lake, with the single exception of 

 the Government Pathfinder dam. 



The main canal is eighty miles long, coming out of 

 the Arkansas River at Prowers, Colo. The following data 

 must be stated first, to appreciate the magnitude of this 

 system: 



Reservoirs. 



Area 

 Name. in acres. 



Nee Noshe 4,236 



Nee Gronda 3,285 



Nee Sopah 3,425 



Queen 1,990 



Available 



capacity 



in acre ft. 



67,180 



53,950 



20,496 



26,128 



167,754 



Total 12,936 



Canals. 



Length Cap'ity in 



Name. in miles. second ft. 



Fort Lyon 113.00 2,096.00 



Kicking Bird 36.50 1,000.00 



Satanta 12.50 300.00 



Comanche 16.78 400.00 



Pawnee 6.34 200.00 



Amity 80.00 870.00 



Buffalo 16.10 192.00 



The reservoirs are filled by running water through the 

 Fort Lyon and Kicking Bird Canals, which in turn take 

 water from the Arkansas River. From the reservoirs the 

 water is turned into the Amity Canal, through the Co- 

 manche and Pawnee Canals. 



This water supply rests for its foundation upon ear- 

 liest priorites in the Arkansas River, and such enormous 

 reservoir capacity that a supply sufficient for two years' 

 irrigation is always on hand. Think of a reservoir so 

 long you cannot see across it a body of water in a reser- 

 voir space made by man, comparing favorably with great 



