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mated that the engine will raise over 300 barrels of water 

 per day. 



W. W. Blake, president of the Casa Grande Land, 

 Power and Development Company of Casa Grande, Ariz., 

 has purchased a "Keystone" drilling plant at a cost of 

 $4,000. This machine will be used in boring the system 

 of wells situated near Casa Grande. 



The Roosevelt dam in the Salt River irrigation proj- 

 ect in Arizona has been completed. The reservoir has 

 a capacity of 61,000,000,000 cubic feet. It is 280 feet high, 

 180 feet long on top and contains 326,000 cubic yards of 

 masonry. The project will not be formally opened until 

 fall. When completed this project will embrace 240,000 

 acres of land and will cost approximately $8,640,000. 



C. E. Hemperly and C. L. Hawley have installed pumps 

 on their homesteads southeast of Mesa, Ariz., with which 

 to irrigate their lands. 



A temporary injunction has been granted by Judge 

 Maxey of San Antonio, Tex., in the case of William P. Clark- 

 son, trustee, vs. Samuel Velpe Briggs et al. The suit 

 involves the use of the waters of the Pecos river for the 

 irrigation of lands non-riparian to the river. The defend- 

 ants are alleged to have been wrongfully diverting the 

 ordinary and natural flow of the Pecos river. The appli- 

 cation for injunction asked that the defendants be en- 

 joined from diverting these waters, except in subordination 

 of the plaintiff's prior rights to such waters as the riparian 

 owner. The question involved in this suit is an important 

 one and it will no doubt affect many of the irrigation 

 companies now building vast systems of canals to carry 

 water from various rivers far into the interior for irriga- 

 tion purposes. 



F. A. Hornbeck, land commissioner of the Kansas 

 City. Mexico & Orient Railroad, has announced that the 

 Imperial irrigation project on the company's line in Pecos 

 county, Texas, will soon be completed. This project includes an 

 irrigation lake two miles square and seventeen feet deep 

 and sixty miles of main canals. Water will be delivered 

 to the farmers in August. W. W. Follett, of El Paso, 

 is in charge of the irrigation work. Over $250,000 has been 

 expended in building this irrigation system, which will re- 

 claim about 25,000 acres of land. 



At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the 

 Santa Maria Irrigation Company, held at Brownsville, 

 Texas, early in May, the following officers were elected: 

 E. C. Forto, president; W. A. McNeil, vice-president; F. S. 

 Champion, general manager and secretary; R. C. Bryant, 

 second vice-president; R. H. Kern, Jr.. treasurer. This 

 irrigation plant is located near Santa Maria about thirty 

 miles above Brownsville. 



An irrigation plant will be installed at the Virginia 

 Truck Experiment Station, Princess Anne county, Va. 

 It is believed by the governing board that irrigation will 

 prove an interesting subject for truck experiment and 

 possibly show how the natural facilities of the truck sec- 

 tions may be advantageously supplemented. 



The state board of irrigation met recently at Lincoln, 

 Neb., and the application for water rights on Blue river 

 was taken up. The board some time ago granted Morris 

 Freshman and Henry Miller, both of Beatrice, a right to 

 construct a dam on the Blue river between Beatrice and 

 Holmesville. About two months after this privilege was 

 given them, George Steinmeyer of Beatrice started pro- 

 ceedings in the district court at Beatrice to prove that 

 the state land board has no right to grant power sites. 

 If Mr. Steinmeyer wins his point it will mean the an- 

 nulment of a large number of sites, developed and unde- 

 veloped, granted by the board of irrigation since the 

 irrigation laws were enacted by the Nebraska legislature 

 in 1895. 



H. W. Fusselman. a farmer living near Trexlertown. 

 Pa., has installed an irrigation system on his farm near 

 that town. Mr. Fusselman had the system installed last 

 year and the results were highly satisfactory. The govern- 

 ment, hearing of this irrigation scheme, investigated and 

 offered assistance in order to develop methods that would 

 be of use to other agriculturists. The government has 

 decided to send an agent to Mr. Fusselman's farm this 

 year. He will lay it put in a scientific manner, and much 

 interest is manifested in the outcome. 



The Committee on Irrigation of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, Rochester, N. Y., held a meeting recently and dis- 

 cussed the possibilities of irrigation and reclamation in 



that vicinity. The plan most favored is the use of the new 

 barge canal as the main ditch. In places where the soil is 

 so dry as to be almost barren proper irrigation ditches 

 could be run through the property and the required water 

 drawn from the canal. Another meeting will be held soon 

 to find a plant, secure the co-operation of the farmers 

 and get them to undertake the work. The members of the 

 committee are as follows: C. F. Garfield, chairman; Her- 

 man Russell, Kingman Robbins, D. B. Murphy, Granger 

 Hollister, George W. Lynch, William C. Barry, Charles 

 J. Brown, R. M. Searle, F. L. Lamson, H. L. Fairchild, 

 Cogswell Bentley and Roland B. Woodward. 



The Amargosa Land & Irrigation Company, having 

 about 18,000 acres of land south of Goldfield, Nev., expects 

 to receive title for the land from the government land 

 office within the next few weeks. This will be the first 

 appropriation under the Carey Act in the state of Nevada. 

 The company has also made application for additional 

 acreage, which in all will approximate 100,000 acres if 

 sufficient water can be developed. The first section will 

 be irrigated by pumping the surplus water from the Amar- 

 gosa river. Water will be flowing upon the land within 

 ninety days from the time actual work is begun upon the 

 pumping plant. 



Emil Howenstine of Huntington, Ind., is the first 

 person to undertake an irrigation proposition in Indiana. 

 Mr. Howenstine is a truck gardener, and for many years 

 his gardens have suffered from drought. He has in- 

 stalled an engine of several horsepower and a pump which 

 will lift water from the Wabash river to the top of the 

 bank, from which the natural slope of the land will carry 

 it over the lands. Mr. Howenstine will put his irrigation 

 scheme into practice, first, in a six-acre field of straw- 

 berries, and if the plan proves successful he will extend it 

 to another portion of his farm. Farmers and truck men 

 of the country are watching his experiments with much 

 interest. 



Dr. W. S. Chaplin of Mercedes, Texas, has resigned 

 as president of the American Rio Grande Land & Irri- 

 gation Company, and it is announced that Mr. W. E. 

 Guy of St. Louis has been elected his successor. 



The Stiles Business Club of Stiles, Texas, has taken 

 under consideration a proposition to start an irrigation 

 farm as an experiment. 



A Chicago syndicate has recently purchased 1,000.000 

 acres of Louisiana swamp land on which the work of recla- 

 mation will soon commence. The property will be trans- 

 ferred to the United Irrigation & Rice Milling Company, 

 and the syndicate will take $1,000,000 in first mortgage 

 bonds on the property of the company. The L'nited 

 Irrigation and Rice Company owns and operate a com- 

 plete irrigation system of 143 miles of canals, sufficient to 

 water 60,000 acres of land. 



The Valley Reservoir & Canal Company, of Chapin, 

 Texas, has awarded the contract for the construction of 

 the first eight miles of canals for irrigating 100,000 acres 

 of land in Hidalgo county. 



Construction work on the canal of the irrigation sys- 

 tem belonging to the Collegeport Canal Company, is prac- 

 tically completed, and it is expected that one part of the 

 pumping plant, with a capacity to water 10,000 acres, 

 will be installed in time to furnish water for the season's 

 rice crop. The pumping site is located about ten miles 

 below Bay City, Texas. 



The Espejo ranch, comprising 18,600 acres of land, 

 located in the Rio Grande valley, fifteen miles below 

 Laredo, in Webb county, has been purchased by Frank 

 Curtice Smith, V. A. Petty, J. Tom Williams and others 

 of San Antonio, who will develop a large irrigation prop- 

 osition. This property has a two-mile river frontage, and 

 a small part of the ranch has been under irrigation for 

 the past few years. 



The Secretary of the Interior has instructed that 

 preliminary work in connection with the Rio Grande irri- 

 gation project be begun at once. Actual construction of 

 the foundation of Engel dam, the most important engineer- 

 ing feature of the project, will be begun by July 1, 1911. 

 The Rio Grande project will embrace 180,000 acres of 

 land lying between Xew Mexico, Texas and Mexico. The 

 estimated cost of the project is $9,000,000. The Engel 

 dam. which will be made of rubble concrete, will be 

 2fi5 feet high, and the length of the crest will be 1,400 feet. 



