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THE IRKIGAT10N AGE. 



river. The Granada-Holly district was organized in Jan- 

 uary of this year. W. A. Merrill of Lamar is president. 

 The total bond of the district will be $1,250,000. 



Plats of the Calahan reservoir No. 2 in the Fountain 

 Valley, near Colorado Springs, have been filed with the 

 county clerk, by A. P. Calahan. The proposed reservoir 

 will be filled from the overflow of Fountain creek. 



Water was turned on in the Orchard Mesa ditch 

 near Grand Junction on May 21, to water 10. COO acres of 

 fruit land. \Vater is taken from the Grand river and is 

 brought into the pumping station near Palisade, and 

 from there lifted to the land. The cost of the system is 

 approximately $1,000,000. 



Secretary Tobin, of the Water Users Association, of 

 the Western Slope, has issued a call for a special meeting 

 of the stockholders of the Uncompahgre Valley Water 

 Users Association, to be held in Olathe, June yoth, for 

 the purpose of taking action on the purchase, by the 

 association, of the Garnet ditch and all other ditch com- 

 panies of the valley which have, up to that time, reached 

 an agreement on a proposition for transferring their 

 ditches to the association. Supervisor Engineer Walter 

 has refused to recommend to the Interior Department 

 the purchase of ditches where the price exceeds the esti- 

 mate made on them by the reclamation engineer, without 

 an affirmative vote on the part of the Water Users Asso- 

 ciation. 



State Engineer Comstock has rendered a decision to 

 the effect that a water right exists and has force for the 

 beneficial use at the time when it might be used, and 

 that it does not entitle the owner to store water after 

 he has waived the use of it on the time or times when 

 he might have used it. This decision grew out of the 

 act of the Beaver Creek Irrigation Company, in turning 

 into their reservoir water which might have been used 

 for irrigation, but was stored instead. The company bought 

 a large number of water rights, many of them being very 

 old priorities. The decision rendered by Engineer Corn- 

 stock affects almost every irrigation district in the state 

 of Colorado. 



A plat has been filed with the county clerk at Fort 

 Collins for F. W. Bowen, of Chicago, for a reservoir 

 site nine miles in length, at a cost of $1,250,000. Part 

 of the proposed site lies in the state of Wyoming and 

 part in Colorado, the purpose being to impound the 

 water of the Laramie river. The description covers some 

 of the land already filed upon by the Laramie-Poudre 

 Reservoir & Irrigation Company. It is intimated that 

 this filing is a plan on the part of Wyoming parties 

 to fight the efforts of the Laramie-Poudre Company to 

 use the water of the Laramie river. The officers of the 

 latter company have expressed the opinion that an effort 

 to block their operations will fail. 



J. A. Hayes, Irving Howbert, H. McGarry, J. T. 

 Miliken and L. L. Aitken, of Colorado Springs, together 

 with Denver capitalists, are planning to reclaim thousands 

 of acres near Manitou Junction. The Western Reclama- 

 tion Company has been organized for this purpose. By 

 means of submerged dams, open cuts or sumps, the water 

 of subterranean streams will be utilized in bringing under 

 cultivation a vast area of what is now semi-arid land. 

 The holdings of the East Colorado Springs Land Com- 

 pany, comprising 11,000 acres, will probably be the first 

 to be brought under cultivation by the new system. 



At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Fort 

 Lyons Canal Company at Las Animas, a decision was 

 reached authorizing a bond issue to the amount of $675,000, 

 to take up the former bond issue of $250,000 and to make 

 improvements on and finish the present canal and reser- 

 voir- system. Permanent headquarters of the company 

 have been established at Las Animas. The new reservoir 

 on Horse creek, which has a capacity of 26,000 acre 

 feet, has just been completed, and the reservoir on 

 Adobe creek, having a capacity of 90,000 acre feet, is 

 almost finished. The main canal of the system is 113 

 miles long. The system irrigates about 75,000 acres of 

 land. 



Residents of Phillips county have organized an irri- 

 gation district, to connect with the "Narrows" project 

 near Fort Morgan. At a recent meeting, held at Holyoke, 

 officers were elected as follows: S. S. Worley, president; 

 W. G. Helland and O. C. Zingg. vice-presidents; Roy 



Howser, secretary; G. L. King, R. G. McKibbon, Oba 

 Canaday, Burl Osborn and A. P. Cronk, directors. 



The Bent County Reservoir & Canal Company of 

 Las Animas have let the contract for the construction of 

 their irrigation system to the Kaw Construction Company 

 . of Kansas City. Mo. Water will be taken from Rule and 

 Muddy creeks to irrigate 20,000 acres of land. About 

 twenty-five miles of canal will be built. The system is 

 to be finished in the spring of 1911. 



J. C. Teller has withdrawn from sale the land known 

 as the Pueblo Gardens. Mr. Teller will convert 2,000 

 acres of this land into an experimental farm, and by 

 this method will demonstrate the productiveness of the 

 land. A dam for irrigation purposes is being rushed to 

 completion. 



It is reported that C. C. & J. G. Magenheimer, 

 representatives of the Woodland Company, of Chicago, are 

 planning to take over the Udlock Power and Irrigation 

 proposition in the Plateau Valley, and that as soon as the 

 work on the Orchard Mesa ditch is completed, will com- 

 mence work on a great irrigation project which will cost 

 several millions of dollars. 



Bulkley Wells of Telluride, J. P. Schley and F. M. 

 McPherson, of Colorado Springs, have submitted a prop- 

 osition to the State Land Board asking the temporary 

 withdrawal of 160,000 acres of land in Montrose county, 

 which they wish to reclaim by irrigation under the Carey 

 Act. It is proposed to take 600 feet of water from the 

 San Miguel river and carry it to the land. 



A large number of Germans from Lincoln, Neb.. 

 have purchased land in the Denver-Greeley Valley Irri- 

 gation district and will colonize a large tract. They are 

 all well-to-do farmers and thoroughly understand the 

 cultivation of sugar beets. 



Engineer Pease of the Reclamation Service has an- 

 nounced that water will be turned through the Gunnison 

 Tunnel on July 1. 



At a recent meeting of the farmers living in the Otero 

 irrigation district, it was voted to issue $150,000 addi- 

 tional bonds to be expended in ditch and reservoir im- 

 provements along the Otero canal system. 



"Larry" Finch, Walter P. Crose, both of Montrose, 

 together with Denver and Fort Morgan capitalists, are 

 planning an irrigation project which will reclaim approx- 

 imately 30,000 acres of land. The company has in- 

 corporated under the name of the Horsefly Irrigation, 

 Power & Development Company. Surveys have been 

 made and waters from Horsefly creek have been filed upon. 

 The lands embraced in this project are situated near 

 Montrose. 



The water users of the South Palisade Heights Irri- 

 gation District have made a contract with John R. Gor- 

 don of Pueblo to install a gas producer plant, for the 

 purpose of raising water from the Grand river to irrigate 

 their land, located south of the Orchard Mesa project. 

 The amount of land to be irrigated is 700 acres. The 

 cost of construction of this plant is approximately $86,000, 

 which guarantees the delivery of water to the highest 

 point of the land. This amount does not include the 

 building of the main ditch, which will be about a mile 

 and a half long. The cost of maintenance, it is claimed, 

 will be about $10.00 per acre. 



E. B. Haver, of Pueblo, together with a group of 

 capitalists of that city, has purchased 5,000 acres of state 

 land, twenty miles east of Pueblo, and south of Bopne, 

 and will irrigate it by an extension of the Welton ditch. 

 Additional water rights have been secured from the Huer- 

 fano river underflow, and other sources. Over $50,000 

 was paid the state for the land purchased, and a much 

 larger sum will be expended in the construction of mains 

 and laterals for the irrigation system. 



Surveyors are at work on the line for the proposed 

 Havermyer irrigation canal, which will water several 

 thousand aces adjoining the town of Grand Valley. Work 

 will be started this month. 



Halligan dam, on the north fork of the Cache la 

 Poudre river, forty miles northwest of Fort Collins, is 

 completed, and water turned on. This dam is part of 

 the North Poudre Irrigation Company's system and cost 

 more than $200,000. The capacity of the reservoir created 

 by the dam is 270,000,000 cubic feet, and will water 8,000 

 acres. 



A preliminary injunction, restraining the American 









