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It is reported that active work on the Colt project, in- 

 volving Lake Meredith and the irrigating of 200,000 acres 

 of land in Otero and Bent counties, will be commenced within 

 the next month. 



An estimate of the cost of the proposed Hardscrabble 

 Irrigation District places the cost at $788,000, or $65 per 

 acre, provided no more land is signed up. 



Plats have been filed by W. D. Gould, James Gould and 

 E. S. Gould for a new irrigation proposition on Crystal creek 

 near Crawford. The amount of land to be watered is 3,600 

 acres. The reservoir will be formed by a dam forty-eight 

 feet high, and will contain 56,407,000 cubic feet of water. 

 The ditch will be about eleven miles long, with a carrying 

 capacity of 300 feet. The estimated cost of the project is 

 $35,000. 



The Lower Rogers Mesa Irrigation District has pur- 

 chased 400 shares of the capital stock of the Park Reservoir 

 Company. The Park reservoir is about the same distance 

 from Rogers Mesa as the Dog Fish, the Crater, or the Holy 

 Terrors reservoirs. A ditch nine miles long is now under 

 construction which will carry the water to Leroux creek. 



It is rumored that an irrigation project which will re- 

 claim 60,000 acres of land south of Hayden and Craig, will 

 be commenced in the near future. It is proposed to take 

 water from Williams Fork a few miles above the Erry 

 ranch, carry it across the divide, and onto the Bear River 

 slope. 



The Western Reclamation and Development Company 

 and the East Colorado Springs Land Company are perfect- 

 ing plans for developing the underground flow of the waters 

 of Sand Creek. It is the intention of the promoters to furnish 

 water for about 5,000 acres of land which will later be cut 

 up into small tracts and ranches. The system of these com- 

 panies is to build a dam by driving piles into the bed of the 

 creek until they strike hardpan. and the spaces between the 



piles are then filled with cement. The work is under the 

 direction of J. B. Emmons of Denver. 



A western slope irrigation scheme has been started by a 

 syndicate of Colorado Springs capitalists, to water thousands 

 of acres of land in the San Miguel river valley in Montrose 

 county. The land which is to be opened up lies 50 miles south 

 of Grand Junction and 25 or 30 miles southwest of Montrose. 

 In order to bring the water from the headwaters of the 

 river where the syndicate has options on the water-rights, it 

 will be necessary to build 22 miles of flume. As the proposi- 

 tion now stands it is the intention of the promoters to build 

 a wooden flume of seasoned oak timber the entire distance. 

 Later on a steel conduit will be built in a large groove along 

 the mountain side so that its destruction by landslides will 

 be practically obviated. 



IDAHO. 



Ex-Senator F. F. Pettigrew, H. L. Hollister of Chicago, 

 and several others, have purchased 40,000 acres of desert land 

 from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and will irrigate 

 it. The land lies near Moses Lake and the purchase price 

 was $40,000. 



Application for a permanent segregation and maps of 

 the system of irrigation to be used have be.en filed in the 

 state land office by the Grasmere Irrigation Company. The 

 project is situated in the center of Owyhee county and sur- 

 rounds the smaller tracts belonging to the company of that 

 name. The temporary withdrawal of the land was granted 

 June 1st and the work is being pushed, with the prospect of 

 an opening late this fall. The price of water-rights is placed 

 at $65 per acre, with a maintenance fee not to exceed 50c 

 per acre. 



T. R. Jones, John A. Early and associates have filed an 

 application for the segregation of a large body of land in 

 Bingham county. Their application seeks to enlarge the 

 original segregation for what is known as the Blackfoot 

 North Side Irrigation project which covers 35,000 acres of 

 land in Bingham county. 



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