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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



COLORADO. 



Farmers in the vicinity of Golden are becoming inter- 

 ested in irrigation by pumping. R. Reed Morrill, manager of 

 the Golden Illuminating Company, has sunk a 12-foot well 

 and installed a centrifugal pump and irrigates a large tract. 



The North Fort Reservoir & Irrigation Company has 

 filed articles of incorporation and will have its main office 

 at Fort Morgan. Water will be taken from the South Platte 

 river to water 16,000 acres of land in Morgan, Logan, Sedg- 

 wick and Phillips counties. The capital stock of the company 

 is placed at $200,000, divided into 2,000 shares at a par value 

 of $100 each. The dam will be completed in March, 1911. 



The old town ditch which has served the town of Las 

 Animas for irrigation purposes for the past twenty-six years, 

 will be siphoned and used in the future by the farmers living 

 near Lamar. The contract for putting the ditch underground 

 has been awarded to the Las Animas Ditch Company and the 

 Marshall Murphy Construction Company at a cost of $10,000. 



Rollo Wilson of Denver, president of the North Poudre 

 and Weld County Reservoir and Ditch Company, has filed 

 piats covering claims on many reservoirs. The system con- 

 templates the building of fourteen reservoirs in Weld and 

 Larimer counties, costing $2,000,000 and the enlargement of 

 the Harrigan and various reservoirs owned by the North 

 Poudre Irrigation Company of Greeley. This project will 

 provide irrigation for thousands of acres of land near Carr 

 in Weld county, as well as a large acreage in Weld county. 



An irrigation district known as the "Hunter Mesa Irriga- 

 tion District" has been formed. J. T. Selby and J. E. Stauffer 

 of Rifle and C. C. Parks are directors of the new district. 



The contract for moving 600,000 cubic yards of dirt on 

 the main canal of the Pueblo & Rocky Ford Irrigation Com- 

 pany has been let. 



Work on the Shaeffer reservoir on Beaver Creek is 

 Hearing completion. The purpose of the dam is to store 

 water for Beaver Park, a large tract of land lying near 

 Florence. 



Through the efforts of the Antlers Orchard Development 

 Company, of which Colorado Springs capitalists are the chief 

 officers and owners, 4,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Glen- 

 wood Springs is to be reclaimed by the means of a system 

 of irrigation now being installed. A reservoir with a capacity 

 of 174,000,000 gallons is being built. The land was formerly 

 the property of the Farmers Company, whose dam burst 

 fifteen years ago, and no improvements have been made on it 

 since then until the present company purchased it. T. E. 

 Curtin is president of the concern, A. E. Sunderlin vice- 

 president. Lee Hany, formerly advertising manager for the 

 Colorado Midland Railroad is a member of the company and 

 has opened an office in the Equitable building in Denver to 

 handle the lands. The land to be reclaimed lies on the line 

 of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad and is between Antlers 

 and Silt. 



Kingsbury Bros., contractors of Masters, have com- 

 menced the tunnel reserve: r on the Laramie river for the 

 Greeley-Poudre ' irrigation system which will cost $250,000. 

 A dam 1,600 feet long will be built across the river to force 

 the water through the big tunnel into the Cache la Poudre, 

 from where it will be distributed into the ditches and reser- 

 voirs of the irrigation system. The dam will be 48 feet high 

 and will be erected at a point where the river turns north and 

 flows toward the Wyoming line. The reservoir will have a 

 capacity of 170,000,000 cubic feet of water. 



Improvements are being made in the Holbrook Irriga- 

 tion System. Reservoir No. 1 is practically completed. This 

 reservoir will hold about 7,500 acre feet of water and will 

 cost about $25,000. The Dye reservoir is not so far advanced 

 and will not be completed for some months. When finished 

 it will add about 5,000 acre feet more storage capacity to the 

 Holbrook system. This reservoir will cost in the neighbor- 

 hood of $18,000. 



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