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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Trust & Savings Bank, of Chicago, trustee, and F. H. 

 Jones, trustee, from delivering $46,000 worth of bonds of 

 the San Luis Valley Irrigation, Land and Power Com- 

 pany to the order of J. H. Avery,,jyas asked in a bill 

 riled by Frank W. Porterfield of Atlanta, Iowa, in the 

 superior court recently. Mr. Porterfield states that he 

 was chosen president of the company when it was or- 

 ganized in March, 1909, and that J. H. Ayery is only 

 "pretending"' to be president. Shortly after its organiza- 

 tion the San Luis Valley Irrigation, Land & Power Com- 

 pany deeded all of its holdings to a new company, or- 

 ganized under the same name; the new company giving 

 a trust deed to the American Trust & Savings Bank for 

 $750,000 worth of bonds. Mr. Avery is asking $46,000 

 worth of these bonds, and Porterfield says the delivery 

 would result in irreparable injury to himself and the 

 stockholders of the concern. 



A large municipal irrigation district has just been 

 formed in La Plata county, near Durango, and the Board 

 of Directors has been elected. The purpose is to secure 

 storage waters from the Florida river. The bonds have 

 not yet been voted on, but probably will be in July. 

 Eastern capital is now figuring with the directors. It 

 is the intention to irrigate a total of 25,000 acres. 



A map has been filed at Greeley, by Theodore D. 

 Jones, a Denver engineer, for a large reservoir in Weld 

 county, which will be known as Farmers Reservoir No. 3. 

 The reservoir will irrigate a large area of land in the 

 western part of that county. The estimated cost of this 

 project is $1,500,000. Water will be taken from St. Vrain 

 creek, Boulder creek, the South Platte river, Little Thomp- 

 son creek, Big Thompson creek and the Cache la Poudre 

 creek. 



Water has been turned into the intake ditch of the 

 Model Land and Irrigation Company's project. The dam is 

 not quite completed and the water is being used to irri- 

 gate land near Hoehne. When the dam is completed 

 it will reclaim 20,000 acres of land near Earle. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the 

 Southern Colorado Reservoir & Irrigation Company, of 

 Denver. The capital stock of the company is placed at 

 $1,000,000, with headquarters at Denver. The incorpora- 

 tors are David W. Brunton, Zeph C. Felt, Arthur Pons- 

 ford and Edwin S. Worrell, Jr. 



The early surveys and plans of Greasewood Reservoir, 

 thirty miles northeast of Greeley, are to be enlarged so 

 that it will have a capacity of 3,484,800,000 cubic feet of 

 water. The reservoir site is a natural one and is known 

 as Greasewood Lake. Water will be taken from the 

 Poudre river to irrigate 50,000 acres of land. 



The Consolidated Construction Company has filed 

 articles of incorporation, naming their capital stock at 

 $1,000.000. The main offices of the company will be in 

 Denver. This company has absorbed the Boston-Colorado 

 Power Company and the Park Irrigation & Water Com- 

 pany, each having a capital stock of $200,000. The new 

 company plans to irrigate 200,000 acres. The incor- 

 porators of the company are C. F. Underbill, president; 

 Thos. E. Bartlett, vice-president, and C. S. Ripley, treas- 

 urer. 



IDAHO. 



The department of the interior and the president of 

 the United States have approved the maps, and the secre- 

 tary of the interior has executed the contract with the 

 state of Idaho for the segregation of about 8,000 acres 

 under the provisions of the Carey Act. The land will be 

 irrigated under the reservoir and canal system by William 

 Owsley, a resident of Butte, Montana. The land covered 

 by this project will be irrigated by water taken from Mudd 

 lake. 



The contract for the construction of the big Crane 

 creek irrigation project which will cover 22,000 acres of 

 land adjoining Weiser has been let to the Slick Construc- 

 tion Company of Boise. It has proposed to construct a 

 dam, ditch and flumes. The dam will be located sixteen 

 miles from Weiser and will make a reservoir about four 

 miles wide and six miles long. The contract price is 

 about $950,000. 



A project embracing 6,000 acres of orchard lands on 

 the Council mesa in Payette Valley, is being financed 

 by a syndicate of London, eastern and western capital- 

 ists, who will spend $3,000,000. Those interested in the 



project are E. M. Hunter, representing Chicago and Des 

 Moines bankers and railroad officials; S. F. Champien 

 representing London, Chicago and San Francisco inter- 

 ests; Colonel E. M. Heighe, president of the Pacific & 

 Idaho Railway Company. It is announced that the 6,000 

 acres will be planted to fruit trees and is to be operated 

 as a commercial proposition, the owners dealing directly 

 with the merchants in eastern and western points and also 

 developing a market in London. 



The Sunnyside Orchard Company has installed a 

 pumping plant in the Snake river for the purpose of irri- 

 gating 1,000 acres of orchard land. The pumping station 

 contains two 40-horsepower engines and two ten-inch 

 centrifugal pumps, each of which will pump 350 miner's 

 inches. The water is lifted seventeen to twenty-eight 

 feet, according to the stage of the river, into a large 

 cement distributing station. Three main galvanized pipe 

 laterals extending from the distributing station lead across 

 the tract in three directions. 



Active work has begun on the Fish Creek irrigation 

 project and the contractor is under a bond to finish the 

 new dam in time for next year's crops. Under these 

 laterals and above them are some 10,000 acres still open 

 to homesteaders. 



The Secretary of the Interior is asking for proposals 

 for the enlargement of the main south side canal, Payette- 

 Boise irrigation project. This work involves the excava- 

 tion of about 342,000 cubic yards of material, and the com- 

 pletion of the contract is set for April 1, 1912. The bids 

 will be opened at the office of the Reclamation Service, 

 Boise, Idaho, on July 8, 1910, at which office specifications 

 are available. 



MONTANA. 



A new irrigation enterprise is being formed on Cho- 

 teau Coulee, northeast of Chinook. 



J. A. Frazer of Terry is constructing an irrigation 

 system on his farm near that town. Two miles of irriga- 

 tion ditches have been constructed for him by E. Roberts' 

 of Miles City. 



It is reported that a Chicago syndicate has purchased 

 the interests of the Ames Realty Company of St. Louis, 

 in the Dearborn-Carey land act project in Lewis and Clark 

 county. The new owners propose to spend $450,000 to 

 reclaim 36,000 acres of land. 



Work of rebuilding the Hauser lake dam twenty miles 

 from Helena on the Missouri river has been temporarily 

 suspended and will not be resumed until after the season 

 of high water in July. This dam is being constructed 

 by the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation. Work 

 has progressed to such an extent that the water will do 

 no damage to the permanent structure. 



The interior department has designated, under the 

 enlarged homestead act, approximately 400,000 acres of 

 land in Montana as not susceptible of irrigation from any 

 known source of water supply. This makes the total 

 area so designated in Montana to date 29,590,000 acres. 



A petition has been filed in the district court asking 

 for the organization of a district to be known as the Mill 

 Creek Irrigation District. The petition states that the 

 movement is for the formation of a district to use the 

 waters from Mill creek and its tributaries for irrigation 

 purposes. It has planned to construct reservoirs and 

 dams above the land to be irrigated. Mill creek flows 

 from the canyon in a northeasterly direction and empties 

 in the Bitter Root river a short distance from Woodside. 

 Several thousand acres of land are embraced in the dis- 

 trict to be organized. 





NEW MEXICO. 



Contractors have started work on the foundation of 

 the dam for the million dollar Oscura project in Lincoln 

 county. 



A party of Willard business men visited Belen re- 

 cently and consulted with the owners of the Willard 

 Townsite Company in regard to organizing an irrigation 

 company on the same plan as the one now doing work 

 in Portales, New Mexico. This is a pumping proposition 

 and much interest is manifested in the outcome. 



Commissioners of San Miguel county have been peti- 

 tioned for the formation of what will be known as the 

 Las Vegas Irrigation district. The land embraced in this 

 district lies between the Sanguijuela reservoir and Romero- 

 ville, between the line of the Camfield ditch and the city 





