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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



facts concerning the river, that the farmers of the valley 

 are unduly alarmed and that more water is being wasted by 

 uncapped artesian wells in a single month than the White- 

 water river empties into the vallej' in a period of five years. 



A. B. Aitkin of Corning has filed on 1,000 inches of water 

 in Mahoney creek near that city. The water will be used 

 for stock purposes, maintaining reservoirs, irrigation and other 

 domestic purposes. 



The United States Reclamation Service is making an in- 

 teresting experiment in Modoc and Siskiyou counties. It is 

 trying to create a new outlet for Tule lake, and thereby 

 reclaim hundreds of acres of land in northern California. 



Ranchers in the vicinity of Chico are much interested 

 in a surface pipe line irrigation system that has just been 

 installed by G. L. Barham at his 40-acre ranch two miles 

 from the citv of Chico. Water is being pumped by means of 

 a 7}4 horsepower engine and is forced through 5-inch steel 

 pipes to the field. The pipe is made in ten-foot sections, 

 arranged so that each can be stretched to any desired 

 length, and can be made to lead in any direction. Mr. Bar- 

 ham has 23,000 feet of pipe and says that it is sufficient for, 

 a 75-acre field. 



The Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company has let the 

 contract for the construction of a large irrigation ditch 

 south from Willows, into the northern part of Colusa county. 

 Part of the work will cover the ground already covered by 

 the old canal, but it will be enlarged to carry twice the 

 amount of water that it now carries. The contract has been 

 let in divisions, four contractors taking part of the con- 

 struction work. The amount of dirt to be removed is 1,500,- 

 000 yards. 



Residents of Rackerby have presented a petition to the 

 board, asking the county supervisors to give them aid in 

 arranging irrigation plans. The petitioners claim that the 

 Feather River Irrigation Company charges $36.56 per inch 

 annually and will allow only 30 inches of water to each 



The San Diego Improvement company has completed 

 its irrigation system on the Lakeside Farms tract near Lake- 

 side. This system has a capacity of 24 inches an hour. 

 The company is composed of Montana men who have ex- 

 pended a large sum in fitting up this tract which has been 

 divided into small farms. 



The electrical machinery for operating the big gates in 

 Laguna dam, Yuma irrigation project, is being installed. 

 Water was run in all the canals on the reservation during 

 May, the canals in most cases having been checked to their 

 full height. A total of 380 acres of this land has been 

 cleared by the settlers and six of the farmers have received 

 water for irrigating small tracts. 



Work is progressing rapidly on the siphon under the 

 Colorado river. On the Arizona side of the river the shaft 

 has reached a depth of 148 feet, and on the California side 

 it is down 97 feet. All the material opposing the passage of 

 the cutting edge has been removed by divers and the caisson 

 is now being loaded with steel rails and cement to force its 

 passage. 



COLORADO. 



Articles of incorporation of the Service Creek High Line 

 Ditch and Reservoir Company were filed with the county 

 clerk recently. The capital stock is placed at $100,000 and 

 is divided into 800 shares at a par value of $125 each. The 

 main office of the company will be located at Cedaredge. The 

 incorporators are: C. S. Blanchard, R. W. Curtis, C. H. Dil- 

 lon, Wm. W. Dingman and Phil Stephens, all of Cedaredge. 

 Water will be taken from Surface Creek which is fed by a 

 cluster of lakes situated at the top of Grand Mesa and 

 which covers an area of nearly ten miles square. Water will 

 also be taken from Tongue creek. 



company's reservoirs and ditches has been filed in the office 

 of the state engineer. The project consists of two large 

 reservoirs and a ditch 19J/2 miles long. The estimated cost 

 of the project is $500,000. The reservoirs will be supplied 

 by the waters of Dallas and Cow creeks. Both of the reser- 

 voirs are located near Ridgway, one of them covering 300 

 acres, the other 700 acres. Their capacity is 62,000 acre 

 feet of water. Five thousand acres of the land is located 

 in Ouray county and 15,000 acres in Montrose county. 



At a recent meeting of the residents of northern Prowers 

 and southern Kiowa counties, the Monmouth Irrigation dis- 

 trict was organized. The project will embrace 120,000 acres 

 of land in the Arkansas valley and will cost about $4,000,000. 

 The land to be reclaimed lies north of Hartman and Bristol 

 and will be watered from the Monmouth reservoir and by 

 the use of unappropriated water from the Purgatorie and 

 Arkansas rivers. 



One of the last obstacles to the success of the Colorado 

 Southern Irrigation company's project near Pueblo has been 

 removed by the approval of Secretary Ballinger of the Interior 

 department to the contention of Dall DeWeese, concerning the 

 priority rights to the flood waters of Grape creek. Several 

 years ago Mr. DeWeese conceived the plan for this great 

 project, and he made filings for conserving the flood waters 

 of Grape creek. Later his rights to these waters was con- 

 tested by T. C. Henry of Denver and others who sought in 

 the United States land office in Pueblo to have the filings 

 of DeWeese set aside as invalid on the ground of prior 

 claims by Henry. After an investigation by the land office 

 Mr. DeWeese's claims were approved, whereupon Mr. Henry 

 appealed to the general land office at Washington, which 

 approved the filings of the Pueblo land office. Mr. Henry 

 then appealed to the secretary of the interior, who has 

 rendered the verdict as above stated. 



Under the direction of William Abbot, of La Veta, the 

 irrigation district near that town will no doubt be brought 

 to a successful conclusion. The proposed system will irri- 

 gate 12,200 or 15,000 acres of land. 



At a meeting of the directors of the San Luis Valley 

 Irrigation district held in Center recently, the contract for the 

 construction of the big dam on the upper Rio Grande was let 

 to Knowles, Ellsworth & Klaner of Salt Lake City. The 

 figure named in the contract is $230,000. The entire plans 

 for the dam were submitted to the state engineer for inspec- 

 tion and he has returned them with his approval. Construc- 

 tion work will commence in the near future and the dam 

 will be finished in the spring of 1911. 



The Happy Home Reservoir & Canal Company of Mont- 

 rose has filed articles of incorporation and the plat of the 



By obtaining a controlling interest in the Poudre Valley 

 Reservoir Company, the Laramie-Poudre Irrigation Com- 

 pany is assured the use of the Poudre valley ditch and the 

 litigation over this ditch has been brought to an end. The 

 Poudre Reservoir Company brought suit a few months ago 

 to enjoin the Greeley-Poudre district, a part of the Laramie- 

 Poudre district, from enlarging the ditch. The Camfield 

 interests which control the Laramie-Poudre company, have 

 purchased 57 per cent of the stock of the reservoir company. 

 The holdings of the reservoir company consists of about 

 $700,000 worth of property. 



Judge Gamble of Greeley has granted a temporary in 

 junction against State Engineer Comstock on the petition of 

 the Lower Platte and Beaver Canal Company. The injunc 

 tion states that State Engineer Comstock must permit the 

 Lower Platte and Beaver Canal Company to divert, at its 

 headgates in the south Platte river, the water which is dis- 

 charged into the stream by two seepage ditches constructed 

 by the company adjacent to the Empire reservoir. 



Maps of the Shell Canon Irrigation and Supply canal 

 have been filed with the county clerk. It is the intention of 

 this company to reclaim 8,000 acres of land in the extreme 

 northeast portion of Las Animas county. The company is 

 backed by J. W. Fisher of La Junta and the estimated cost 

 of improvement is $65,000. 



