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THE IEEIGATION AGE. 



Is It Logical? 



To spend hundreds and thousands of 

 dollars to reclaim land and make it valu- 

 able, and then allow your crops, your 

 orchards and your profits to be destroyed, 

 because they are insufficiently fenced, 

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 depended on ? 



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be necessary to return to the land holders their money. 

 Forfeiture now would prove a stupendous loss to the in- 

 vestors, while not affecting the farmers, who have already 

 purchased. The only asset of the reclamation company is 

 an equity which will materialize if certain work is finished. 

 Forfeiture proceedings will stop all new work and leave 

 the receiver to administer a property as he found it. Such 

 a course in reclamation projects violates the provision of 

 the state laws and opens the work to forfeiture. 



R. R. Lewis and associates of Pendleton, Oregon, have 

 secured possession of the Furnas tract lying half within 

 and half without the city of Hermiston. The consideration 

 was $56.000. Mr. Lewis states that one Portland and sev- 

 eral Pendleton men are interested with him in the project 

 and that they intend to subdivide the land into acreage 

 tracts from one to ten acres. 



John E. Spray, who owns a large tract of land two 

 miles east of Cottage Grove, is digging an irrigation ditch 

 two and one-half miles long from Mendall Falls, with which 

 to water 1,000 acres of land. Water will be taken from 

 Row river. The cost of the work will be about $5,000. 



It is reported that the Keno lands have been released 

 from the Klamath project and the landowners in that 

 vicinity will pay for the construction of a power plant. 

 The construction of the Keno ditch was undertaken by the 

 government and later abandoned because of insufficient 

 funds. 



UTAH. 



State Engineer Caleb Tanner has set aside a part of 

 the Provo river and Jordan river country as an irrigation 

 system under the name of the Utah Lake & Jordan River 

 Irrigation System. 



Articles of incorporation of the Littl& Missouri Irri- 

 gation Company were filed with the county clerk at Ogden 

 recently. The company is composed of farmers in the 

 vicinity of Pleasant View who will handle the general irri- 

 gation plans under way there. It will take over a number 

 of pipe lines and irrigation ditches and will undertake the 

 extension of the irrigation system throughout the northern 

 part of the country. The capitalization is placed at $9,000, 

 with shares at $5 each. The officers are: C. E. Storey, 

 president; George Sanders, vice-president; Wilson Cragun, 

 secretary and treasurer. 



Annie G. Lauritzen of St. George filed a petition with 

 State Engineer Caleb Turner to use the water of Oak 

 Springs, Washington county, for the purpose of irrigating 

 160 acres of land. 



The Uintah Irrigation project, built by the United 

 States government for the Indians of the Uintah tribe in 

 northeastern Utah is practically completed. This project 

 will bring 100,000 acres of land under ditch. The country 

 is being rapidly settled and the government is making im- 

 portant improvements within the reservation. When the 

 government threw open to entry two-thirds of the reserva- 

 tion five years ago, it allotted one-third to the Indians. As 

 additional compensation for the loss of the larger portion 

 of their land the government promised to irrigate the sec- 

 tion allotted to the Indians. The Indians to whom the 

 land has been allotted are not permitted to sell, but upon 

 their deaths the heirs may sell. 



Snell Johnson of Vernal has filed a petition with the 

 state engineer to use waters of Burch springs, Uintah 

 county, for the purpose of watering five acres of land. 



Ira W. Hatch of Panguitch, Garfield county, has filed 

 an application with the state engineer for the appropriation 

 of one cubic foot of water per second from Rock Canyon 

 Springs, for irrigation purposes. 



Doran, Lungburg & Wilson have withdrawn the in- 

 junction restraining the Mutual Irrigation Company from 

 forming an irrigation district. The difficulty was settled 

 outside of court and both companies came to an agreement 

 to support the forming of a new district, which means that 

 a $100,000 dam will be put across the river before fall. 



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