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completed. The dam is of concrete and measures 328.4 feet 

 from foundation to the crest. It is 175 feet long at the top 

 and 85 feet long at the bottom. The reservoir back of the 

 dam has a capacity of 456,000 feet and will serve to irrigate 

 130,000 acres of land situated about 75 miles east of the 

 Yellowstone National Park. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



It is reported that Denver men and money are behind 

 a $1,000.000 reclamation and irrigation project which will 

 reclaim 100,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Holbrook. 

 Arizona, on the line of the Santa Fe. The land lies along 

 the Little Colorado river. It will require an expenditure 

 of $1,500,000 to complete the project. Among the men in- 

 terested are Charles A. Stokes, J. H. Sherman and A. M. 

 Patten of Denver and D. J. Meyers of Boulder. 



The Swenson Land Company of Chicago, operating 

 the Toyah valley in Texas, has closed negotiations with 

 eastern capitalists which will enable them to further de- 

 velop the property. A large reservoir will be built which 

 will bring 6,500 acres of land under irrigation, and this 

 supply, in addition to the other plans for conservation of 

 storm water, will make the total acreage in the valley un- 

 der irrigation over 25,000 acres. 



Superintendent Rastall, of the government Indian 

 school at Pierre, South Dakota, has been experimenting 

 with artesian water for irrigation. Mr. Rastall had no 

 practical knowledge of the use of water and has simply 

 tried this as an experiment. He has, however, this season 

 secured the services of a couple of Idaho men who are 

 skilled in the use of water on irrigated farms and who 

 will this summer make a practical test of that class of 

 work at the school. If the work proves a success, it will 

 mean a large extension of the irrigated farming in South 

 Dakota. The lands will be watched with more than local 

 interest, 'as the question of practical use of artesian water 

 for irrigation in the state of South Dakota has been dis- 

 cussed from both sides for years. It has never been put 

 to a practical test by men who were thoroughly familiar 

 with that manner of farming. 



The Florida Irrigated Farm Company of Astor, Flor- 

 ida, has acquired title to 125 acres of land near the town 

 of Astor and will begin clearing and improving it at once. 



A tract of land near Waycross, Georgia, comprising 

 140.000 acres, has been sold to western investors for de- 

 velopment purposes, at a reported consideration of 

 $700,000. 



At a meeting of the executive committee of the Texas 

 Irrigation Company, held at Fort Worth, Texas, the last 

 week in June, a committee was selected to which was re- 

 ferred the work of examining and codifying the laws of 

 Texas relating to irrigation. The committee elected M. L. 

 Swinehart of Pecos, Texas, president of the Congress; 

 Chenault O'Brien of Beaumont, Ben Campbell of Houston 

 and Henry Closner of Chapin. 



At a recent meeting- of agriculturists held at Mickleton. 

 New Jersey, much interest was displayed in the subject of 

 irrigation. Two of the most prominent agriculturists at 

 Gloucester county board of agriculture advocated the in- 

 stalling of irrigation systems. 



It is reported that Rapid City, South Dakota, parties 

 are planning a large private irrigation scheme by which it 

 is hoped to put water on 57,000 acres of land west of Rapid 

 City between the land of the Northwestern and the Mil- 

 waukee railroads. The plan involves the building of a 

 laVe between Owanka and Creston. the lake to be three 

 miles long and one and a half wide and thirty feet deep. 

 Tlie Corbin Morse ditch is to be extended to empty into 

 the lake, which is to act as a reservoir for the tracts of 

 land that can be made highly productive with irrigation. 



The Gulf Coast Irrigation Company of Lyford. Texas, 

 has purchased a large acreage on the west side of that 

 town. 



W. L. Church, an engineer' employed bv the Ambur- 

 son Hydraulic Company of New York and Boston visited 

 Phoenix. Arizona, lately for the purpose of visiting the 

 Frog Tank irrigation project, of which W. H. Beardsley 

 is the promoter. The Amburson company are builders of 

 reinforced concrete dams for irrigation work and it is their 

 purt>ose to furnish estimates on the cost of a dam for this 

 project. 



An Irrigation Farmer in Colorado says: 



"This spring my laterals were full of thistles and trash, so we could not run 

 the plow, as they would gather under the beam and put the plow out. As I was 

 passing one of these ditches with the 20th Century Grader, thought we would 

 try, but did not think we could do anything with it until we had taken the trash 

 out. Well, once up and once back, and I had the prettiest ditch you ever saw. 

 Took out the trash and everything and left the ditch clean. 



"We loaned our 20th Century Grader to a neighbor at tl.OO a day. When 

 he returned it he paid us double the price, as he said he made more and better 

 ditches in three days than he could make in a month with scrapers." 



A.J.NORDLOH. 



Blade reversed for grading 



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