THE IKRIGATION AGE. 



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of Las Vegas. A portion of the town of Las Vegas is 

 also included in the district. 



Applications and maps have been filed with the terri- 

 torial engineer for an immense irrigation project on the 

 Canadian river. Bonds will be issued to build the irriga- 

 tion system. J. B. Stewart, of the United States geological 

 department, visited Logan recently and took measure- 

 ments of the Canadian river, and expresses the opinion 

 that there is sufficient water to irrigate 75,000 acres of 

 land. The main dam for this project will form the largest 

 artificial body of water in the world, making a lake over 

 forty miles long and sufficient to cover 3,125 square miles 

 of ground at a depth of one foot. The irrigating capacity 

 of the reservoir will be 180,000 acres. 



Holmer W. Scofield of Alamagordo has filed an appli- 

 cation with Territorial Engineer Sullivan for water rights 

 on Tularosa and Tecolote canyons to irrigate 400 acres of 

 land. 



The Carlsbad project in Eddy county has made its 

 first payment to the United States government for money 

 expended in constructing the irrigation system. The water 

 users have met their dues with very few exceptions. Con- 

 siderable new land is being brought under cultivation 

 this season and practically the whole 20,000 acres under 

 the project will be using water before the end of the 1910 

 season. 



The Taos Valley Company's irrigation canal is .being 

 pushed rapidly to completion. Mr. J. B. Manby, of Trini- 

 dad, Colorado, has the contract. 



The application of E. F. Hardwich of Roswell for 

 water from Bogs on the Pecos river to irrigate 1,360 

 acres has been approved by Territorial Engineer Sullivan. 



J. J. Jacobsen of Deming has recently installed two 

 irrigation pumps on his ranch near that town. 



L. F. Hutchinson of Fruitland has applied for water 

 out of arroyos on the meadows in San Juan county, to 

 irrigate 320 acres. 



OREGON. 



F. J. Blakeley of Roseburg plans to build a storage.- 

 reservoir at the head of Applegate river, to irrigate the 

 valley in the vicinity of Grant's Pass. Petitions are being 

 circulated and signed for the formation of an irrigation 

 project. It is claimed by Mr. Blakeley and his associates 

 that sufficient water can be secured at the head of the 

 Applegate river to cover 40,000 acres of land. Eastern 

 capital is said to be backing Mr. Blakeley. 



The Oregon & Western Colonization Company, with 

 a capital stock of $12,000,000, have filed articles of in- 

 corporation. The company's headquarters will be in St. 

 Paul, Minnesota. W. P. Davidson, a well known land 

 operator of that city, has been made president. Other 

 officers of the company are: John Burchard, vice- 

 president; O. A. Robertson, treasurer; Joseph C. 

 Wood, secretary. This company has bought 600,000 acres 

 nf land in central Oregon. The immense tract was trans- 

 ferred entire, and represents a belt about 400 miles in 

 length and of varying width. Of this total, 660,000 acres 

 is agricultural land much of which will be placed under 

 irrigation. The remaining 140,000 acres is heavily tim- 

 bered. The land included in the purchase was originally 

 granted to the state of Oregon in 1865 by the United 

 States government and was in turn granted by the state 

 to the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Road 

 Corporation, formed for the purpose of constructing a 

 highway across the state. 



The lands embraced in the abandoned Upper Project 

 near Klamath Falls may now be irrigated. At a recent 

 meeting of the land owners which was attended by offi- 

 cials of the reclamation service, it was shown that land 

 owners are willing to sign up for government irrigation, 

 even if the cost should approximate $70 per acre. Parties 

 who are interested in the project are circulating petitions. 



Land owners on Rock Creek near Condon are pre- 

 paring to irrigate 15,000 acres of land by a co-operative 

 project, taking water from a reservoir at Devil's Gate. 

 Bonds will be issued to raise the necessary funds. 



It is reported that work on the Horsefly Irrigation 

 District near Bonanza, which was stopped by the govern- 

 ment because of dissension among the people interested 

 and their refusal at one time to pay the increased cost 

 of getting wa'er to their land, will be resumed shortly. 



A mass meeting was held recently and a plan outlined 

 for inducing the government to again take up this part 

 of the project and complete it. Chief Engineer Patch 

 promised to interest the government to take some action 

 if the owners would sign contracts at an estimated 

 cost of from $50 to $65 an acre. Engineer Patch stated 

 that it would be necessary to have 20,000 acres 

 signed for before the government would act. The Horse- 

 fly Irrigation District is a part of the Klamath project. 

 The people in this district have asked that the Horsefly 

 project be separated from the rest of the Klamath project 

 so that the land owners who will be benefited from the 

 Horsefly dam will only have to pay for their own 

 project and not help bear the expense of the rest of the 

 work. They have a new form of contract which they will 

 present to the government, which calls for the express 

 agreement between the land owners and the government 

 that if they sign up and the government begins the work 

 of completing the project the estimated money required 

 to build the reservoir and complete the system, be set 

 ;iside within the space of one year from the time of the 

 signing of the contract. If the government enters into 

 the proposed contract with the land owners to start the 

 Horsefly project, they believe they will then have some 

 assurance of its fulfillment. 



The state of Oregon has served notice on the Des- 

 chutes Irrigation & Power Company that unless steps are 

 taken to complete the segregations of land controlled by 

 that company and to get water on all the tracts, the state 

 will exercise its right and order the land sold at public 

 auction. The receiver has proceeded rapidly with the re- 

 port of the condition of the company and under the law it 

 will be at least five months before the state can sell any 

 of the land. This will give the receiver time to arrange 

 his affairs and resume work on the construction of irriga- 

 tion ditches for the completion of the contract of the 

 company with the state. 



C. S. Walters, who owns 140 acres of fruit land in 

 the vicinity of West Woodburn, is planning to establish 

 an irrigation system on his ranch. Water will be secured 

 from wells and will be pumped by means of gasoline 

 engines. 



The Middle Fork Irrigation Company has filed on 

 Lava Bed spring in the Upper Hood River valley and 

 will divert its water for irrigation purposes. The Lava 

 Bed Spring has the largest flow of any in the valley and 

 the water is of extreme purity and beyond possible pollu- 

 tion. The Middle Fork company filed on the water last 

 fall; it kept the matter a secret; constructed its ditches 

 and had water running onto the land before it became 

 known that any one had obtained water rights. The 

 Middle Fork ditch covers an area of 5,500 acres in the 

 Upper valley lying between the east and middle forks of 

 Hood river. 



On May 16, Charles M. Redfield, receiver of the 

 Deschutes Irrigation and Power Company, filed a report 

 of his receivership, showing the condition of the com- 

 pany. The report came as a result of the direction of the 

 court and was made in connection with the suit of Frank 

 R. Shinn and others against the power company. Ac- 

 cording to the report the receiver has received $51,435.67 

 since taking charge of the company. He has expended 

 $3,570.85. and had on hand April 10, $47,864.82. 



Indications are that the greater part of the first unit 

 of the Klamath irrigation project, embracing approxi- 

 mately 30,908 acres will be fully farmed and irrigated 

 this season. Water was turned into the main canal on 

 April 25 and the delivery of water to the farmers was 

 begun. Approximately 750 acre-feet of water have been 

 turned out of Clear Lake reservoir for the benefit of the 

 so-called swamp lands at the upper end of Langells Valley. 



UTAH. 



B. F. Walling & Company, of Chicago and St. Paul, 

 are interested in 76,000 acres of land in Beaver county 

 owned by the Beaver Irrigation and Power Company. 

 The company is organized under the laws of Idaho and 

 the land to be reclaimed is located in Beaver county, 

 Utah. At the annual meeting of the stockholders, which 

 was held at Boise. Idaho, the following officers were 

 elected: A. B. Lewis, president; T. C. Foley. vice-pres- 

 ident: Edward Kreihbeil. treasurer, and A. R. Lewis, sec- 

 retary. 



