THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



At a recent meeting of the Board of Supervisors at 

 Marysville, members of the Hallwood Irrigation Company 

 appeared before the Board with an appeal for assistance 

 from the county in bearing expenses of the necessary pipes 

 for the points where the main ditch and laterals of this 

 project cross the county roads. The bill set forth the 

 facts that the company is composed of taxpayers of Yuba 

 county and as their initial expense in installing the sys- 

 tem is very great they would like to have the county pay 

 for the culverts. The bill also states that the land to be 

 benefited by the proposed irrigation system consists of 

 0,000 acres lying northeast of Marysville. 



A contract was filed with the county recorder in San 

 Bernardino, recently, under the terms of which W. E. 

 Pedley, of Riverside, agreed to construct a conduit from 

 the intake of the Whitewater Reservoir and Power Com- 

 pany to the proposed power plant at San Gorgonio can- 

 yon for $66,750. Under the terms of the contract the 

 flumeway is to be completed by October, 1910. Accord- 

 ing to the terms of agreement Mr. Pedley is to accept 

 lands owned by the company at the east end of Ellsinore 

 lake, at San Jacinto, in payment of the flumeway, or is to 

 wait until the corporation sells these lands and take the 

 proceeds. The company has 1,200 acres near San Jacinto 

 lake and 750 acres at the east end of Lake Ellsinore. The 

 rights now controlled by the Whitewater Reservoir and 

 Power Company were originally secured by Poole Bros. 

 of Los Angeles. Mr. Pedley, in. a recent interview, stated 

 that the flume which he will construct will be five and 

 one-half miles long. The water will be conveyed to Ban- 

 ning, where it will be used to irrigate land for which 

 there is no present water supply. 



W. N. Woodson, proprietor of the Maywood colony, 

 of Corning, has installed a pumping plant to irrigate 140 

 acres of land 



Henry Hazelbush has recently installed a pumping 

 plant to irrigate his peach orchard near the town of 

 Biggs. 



Work on the government irrigation project at Orland, 

 under direction of Engineer W. W. Schlacht, is progressing 

 rapidly. The East Park reservoir dam is completed to 

 an elevation of sixty-six feet above the stream level, and 

 the dam will probably be completed by July 1st of this 

 year. The government is at present furnishing water for 

 irrigation for over 1,000 acres of land near Orland. This 

 water is taken from the flood waters of Stony Creek and 

 is furnished to water users at a nominal rate per acre. 



W. A. Durbow, of Oroville, has taken a contract to 

 build twenty-three miles of ditch in Lassen county. The 

 contract was let by the Madeline Meadows Land and Ir- 

 rigation Company. The water will be obtained from Tule 

 lake. There are 40,000 acres of land open to settlement 

 and more of it will be brought under irrigation. Under 

 tin- contract the work is to be finished by April, 1911. 



H. D. Graynor, of Redding, has filed on 125,000 inches 

 of water in the Sacramento valley near Iron canyon. 

 This is the largest filing of the year, and is thought to 

 foreshadow an extensive irrigation project. 



The Balfour, Guthrie Investment Company has pur- 

 chased 12,000 acres of land near Stockton known as the 

 .M;ir-h ranch, located in the Byron section, the purchase 

 price being $050,000. It is reported that the company 

 will install an irrigation system and sell the land in small 

 tracts. 



The Vernalis Farming Company, composed of F. E. 

 Densmore. A. G. Stalder. Fred Stalder, Charles Stalder 

 and Jack McGregor, of Riverside, has let the contract for 

 the construction of 5,000 feet of 18-inch pipe for irriga- 

 tion purposes. The gentlemen own 27,000 acres of land in 

 Stanislaus county. Water will be pumped from the San 

 Joaciuin river. 



The Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company has pur- 

 chased 7,000 acres of land near St. John. It is also re- 

 ported that the company has purchased the Finnell land 



near Corning for $500,000, but this report has not been 

 verified. 



The Pacific Farm Company, of Los Angeles, is the 

 defendant in an action begun against it by T. G. Schulze 

 and Grace Schulze. The plaintiffs allege they agreed to 

 buy four lots from the company in King's county on con- 

 dition that they would secure water for irrigation for 

 $8,000 in four installments. They claim that they paid 

 $2,000 and that the company failed to furnish water as 

 contracted for, resulting in their crops being a total loss 

 They ask judgment for $4,472, and reformation of the 

 contract. 



W. B. Reynolds, a well known fruit grower south- 

 west of Yuba City, has, installed a pumping plant with 

 which to irrigate his orchard. 



A special bond election was held in the southeastern 

 part of San Joaquin county recently to give the directors 

 authority to issue bonds to the amount of $35,000 to pay 

 the engineers' expenses and preliminary costs of the first 

 work of the district. A dam will be constructed on the 

 Stanislaus river. This district will embrace 71,000 acres 

 of land. 



Residents of Inyo county are interested in the for- 

 mation of an irrigation district. In discussing it at i 

 meeting held recently Mr. S. E. Vermilyea expressed the 

 opinion that systematizing the water management of the 

 valley under an irrigation district would treble land values 

 within five years. An irrigation district would handle 

 drainage questions as well as additional irrigation or 

 storage and thus reclaim much land which is now over 

 watered. 



In order to protect the south San Joaquin Irrigation 

 District against contractors who may band together and 

 submit exorbitant bids, a corporation known as the San 

 Joaquin Development Association was formed at Stock- 

 ton recently and articles of incorporation were filed with 

 the county clerk. The corporation is a non-profit one 

 and was organized with the sanction of the Irrigation 

 Bureau. It has a capital stock of $10,000. The new cor- 

 poration will aid in selling the $175.000 bonds recently 

 voted by the district. The directors of the development 

 association are: M. A. Bertheau, A. L. Cowell, George 

 W. Tatterson, Louis S. Wetmore and John D. Maxey. 



On the Orland irrigation project eighty-nine applica- 

 tions for temporary water rental service for 1910 have 

 been received, covering an area of 530 acres. It is an- 

 ticipated that 1,200 acres will be irrigated from Stony 

 Creek up to July 15. Water was turned into the south 

 canal on April 7 and since that time the head has been 

 gradually increased to 35 second feet. The East Park 

 Dam has been completed to a height of 66 feet above the 

 level of the stream. Ninety-eight concrete structures were 

 built on the distribution system during April and work 

 commenced on the seven inverted siphons under the 

 Southern Pacific Railroad, for carrying the water across 

 the railroad in the several ditches. 



COLORADO. 



The Bent County Reservoir Company, with holdings 

 thirty miles southwest of Lamar, has let the contract 

 for the construction of its irrigation system, at a cost 

 of $600,000. This work is to be completed by June 1, 

 1911. Water will be taken from Rule Creek to irrigate 

 20,000 acres of land. 



Maps for the reservoir and ditches of an irrigation 

 project in the vicinity of Abeyte have been filed at Trin- 

 idad. This project will reclaim 3,000 acres of land, with 

 water taken from Rito Seco creek. The estimated cost 

 of the project is $75,000. 



Construction of ditches and reservoirs in the Granada 

 and Holly irrigation district has begun. Under this 

 project, known as the Granada-Holly project, 40,000 acres 

 of land will be reclaimed. It is proposed to enlarge the pres- 

 ent Colorado-Kansas ditch, from its headgate to a point south 

 of Lamar, and from this point a new ditch will be constructed, 

 which will have a capacity of 818 cubic feet of water per sec- 

 ond. A reservoir, located in Rule creek, is a part of the water 

 system. The water from the reservoir is emptied into 

 the Arkansas river, and is carried in this river for eleven 

 miles, where it is taken out of the river at the Colorado 

 and Kansas dam. In addition to the water taken from 

 Rule creek, water is also to be taken from the Purgatoire 



