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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



born, Halstead L. Ritter and Joseph C. Helm. D. A. 

 Camfield is also interested in the company. The lake 

 covers 2,022 acres. 



A ditch plat was filed with the county clerk recently 

 by J. Albert Wright of Denver, the president of a new 

 irrigation company. It is proposed to spend $3,500,000 

 in the construction of a ditch 105 miles long, to irrigate 

 150,000 acres, arid with a capacity of 2,350 cubic feet per 

 second. It is 69 feet across, top measure; 45 feet, bottom 

 measure, and 12 feet deep. It is to be called the Excelsior 

 High Line Ditch. The land to be irrigated lies north of 

 the Gunnison river. The water will be taken from 

 eighteen creeks. 



Water has been turned into Standley lake, an im- 

 mense reservoir to irrigate 100,000 acres of land north- 

 west of Denver. Water for this system is taken from 

 Clear creek and South Boulder creek. A tunnel has been 

 built through the mountains and water diverted through 

 it from the western slope to add to the supply. Joseph 

 Standley, president of the Denver National Company, is 

 at the head of the enterprise. Denver and Chicago cap- 

 italists are interested. The enterprise is known as the 

 Denver Reservoir Irrigation Company. 



Residents of the Golden-Littleton irrigation district, 

 embracing about 15,000 acres of land near Denver, have 

 refused to approve the contract entered into with the 

 directors of the Camfield Development Company whereby 

 the latter company was to furnish water to the district 

 from Williams fork of the Grand river by tunneling 

 through the divide at Jones' pass. The reason advanced 

 by the residents of this district for opposing the contract 

 is that the government figures regarding the supply of 

 water to be taken from Williams fork did not agree with 

 those of the construction company's engineers. 



The Riverside Land and Irrigation Company, whose 

 announced purpose is the reclaiming of immense tracts 

 of desert fruit land between Delta and Palisade, is being 

 investigated by agents of the federal government. It is 

 not, its officers say, being investigated against its will. 

 The officers and directors of the company yesterday is- 

 sued a public statement outlining the purposes of the 

 company and declaring that the most rigid investigation 

 is invited. J. A. Wright, president of the company, re- 

 peats an offer made before to place all the facts before a 

 committee named by the chamber of commerce of Grand 

 Junction for complete investigation. 



Active work has begun on the De Weese irrigation 

 project, near Canon City. The first dam and reservoir 

 will be constructed about four miles from Salida on the 

 Arkansas river and will have a capacity of 100,000 acre 

 feet. From this reservoir the water will be conveyed 

 down the channel of the Arkansas to a point near Texas 

 creek, where a diversion dam will be built in the river. 

 From this point a canal twelve miles in length will carry 

 water through the canon of the Arkansas, leaving the 

 river bank near Barkdale. hence diverging across Web- 

 ster park for a distance of six miles to Grape creek. Here 

 the main canal is joined by the waters conveyed down 

 the Grape creek channel from the reservoir on upper 

 Grape creek in the Wet Mountain valley. The second 

 reservoir is situated near Westcliffe, in Custer County, 

 and has a capacity of 125,000 acre feet. The dam retain- 

 ing this reservoir will be 187 feet high. A 1,600-foot tun- 

 nel will be bored through a mountain ridge. Contracts 

 have all been let. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Work on the Casa Grande Valley Canal Company's 

 project is rapidly progressing and the main canal will be 

 completed within eight months. 



A temporary irrigation plant has been installed on the 

 farm of John Uglow, two miles north of Starke, Fla. The 

 plant is being installed by Livingston & Co. 



Alex Mead of Greeley, Colo., A. A. Edwards of Fort 

 Collins, and D. A. Canfield of Denver, together with ten 

 other irrigationists, will promote a big irrigation enter 

 prise near Yuma, Arizona. 



Farmers in the vicinity of Flprence are experimenting 

 in well pumping for irrigation. Charles Stewart of that 

 city has installed a ten-inch centrifugal pump and forty- 

 horsepower gasoline engine, with which he will be able 

 to irrigate his eight hundred acres of land. 

 (Continued on page 331.) 



GET A 



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 U. 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, Cene>al Agent, 



Burlington Route Landseekers' Information Bureau 

 137 Q. BuUding, 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. 



