THE IRRIGATION AGE 



567 



Reclamation Notes 



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CALIFORNIA. 



Government engineers are prospecting lands in Dry 

 Lake region of Modoc county for the purpose of determining 

 those which can be brought under irrigation. 



The Yolo Consolidated Water Company of Woodland, 

 Yolo county, has sold its water-rights and interests to Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor Warren D. Porter of Watsonville and J. W 

 Forgeus of Santa Cruz. The new owners propose to build 

 a water system which will cost several millions of dollars. 

 The proposed system will irrigate many thousands of acres 

 of land in Yolo, Solano and Lake counties. 



A mutual corporation has been formed at Yerma, headed 

 by J. W. Tibbetts and W. F. Holt of Redlands, with a capi- 

 talization of $250,000 as the preliminary steps to put in a 

 submerged dam in the Mojave river about three miles from 

 Otis. The company has filed on 20,000 inches of water in the 

 river at this point. The plan is to build a series of canals, 

 six feet wide and eight feet deep, and the water raised by the 

 dam so that it will flow by gravity over 460,000 acres of rich 

 desert land. It is estimated that the cost of the project will 

 be about $3,000,000. 



R. D. Cutler of Red Bluff has filed on 5,000 inches of 

 water from the Sacramento river a few miles south of Red 

 Bluff, for domestic and irrigation purposes. 



Dr. P. L. Hamilton and Dr. Hal M. Parker of Chico, 

 have filed on 20,000 inches of water from Mill Creek, near 

 Morgan Springs, Tehama county, for power and irrigation 

 purposes. No definite plans have been announced. 



The Sacramento Irrigation Company has filed articles of 

 incorporation, with a capital stock of $100,000. The principal 

 office of the company is at Portland, Oregon. The company 

 has filed on 80,000 inches of water in the Sacramento river 

 three miles north of Red Bluff. The incorporators are J. W. 

 Ivey, Norman R. Smith and W. W. Woodward. 



A pump is being installed on the east side of Honey 

 Lake to pump the water from the lake into a ditch system 

 that will convey it to 20,000 acres of land in the vicinity of 

 Amedee in Lassen county. The land is to be colonized. 



A. A. Anton, residing in the Biggs section near Oroville, 

 has filed on 100 miners' inches of the water of Dry creek for 

 irrigation purposes. 



The Board of Directors of the South San Joaquin Irri- 

 gation District has established permanent headquarters at 

 Manteca. 



A proposition to dissolve the Rialto Irrigation District 

 was defeated by a vote of 71 to 54. 



C. M. Maze, who owns a ranch near Modesto, has in- 

 stalled a pumping outfit at a cost of $1,000 with which to 

 irrigate his late crops. 



The Madeline Irrigation Company of Madeline is taking 

 water from Tule lake to irrigate 1,5.00 acres of land near that 

 city. 



A decision in favor of Osborne Burke and others has 

 been rendered by the Supreme Court of California which 

 removes all restrictions on the matter of taking water from 

 the Walnut Irrigation District ditch. The Walnut Irrigation 

 District sought to restrain the plaintiffs from taking water 

 from its ditches and when the case was brought up in the 

 superior court a decision was rendered in favor of the plain- 

 tiffs. An appeal was then taken to the Supreme court, with 

 the outcome mentioned above. 



No. 3. Traction Gasoline Machine crossing the high Sierras of 

 Eastern Washington, where fuel and water are not to be had. We 

 made the 25 mile move in 8 hoars, using 20 gallons of gasoline at 19c 

 per gal. We had no team nor needed any. The one in the picture 

 did not belong to the machine. 



THE DESERT DRILL 



This is a Standard KEYSTONE Traction Cable Drill 

 driven by a two cylinder double opposed gasoline engine. 

 Size 3 has a 22 H. P. engine and is guaranteed for 500 ft. 

 depths. Size 5 has a 30 H. P. engine and is guaranteed 

 for 1000 ft. with manilla cable or 1500 ft. with wire line. 



Requires no fuel but gasoline. 



Requires no water except for cooling engine and a 

 little for the hole. 



Will go anywhere on its own power. 



Ask for Bulletin No. 7 



KEYSTONE MOTOR DRILL WORKS 



Beaver Falls, Pa. 



No. 3 Traction Gasoline Drilling in Eastern Washington, using 

 500 ft. of 2!4 in. cable and cutting 10 in. hole. Has 28 ft. string of 

 tools with 3 '4x22 ft. stem. This drilling was all hard basalt boulders 

 and our best day's work was 50 ft., using 15 gal. of distillate at 13 cents 

 per gallon. 



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