THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



I. W. T. Boulware of Biggs, has sold 1.200 acres of 

 land near Bangor to F. M. Turner for $11,000. The sale 

 comprises a tract of land lying under the Wyandotte Land 

 & Water Company's ditch. Mr. Turner will sub-divide his 

 land and sell it in small orchard tracts. 



For the purpose of carrying on the work of reclama- 

 tion in district No. 108. an assessment of $125,000 has been 

 levied on the land owners of the district. This district 

 embraces land lying near Colusa. 



The survey from Eagle Lake to Honey Valley for an 

 irrigation system has been completed. The lake will be 

 tapped and thousands of acres of land lying in the 

 vicinity of Merrillville and be placed under water. 



The directors of the Modesto Irrigation district held 

 a meeting recently and received a petition signed by a 

 majority of the property owners in the district, and cov- 

 ering mere than a majority of the property valuation, ask- 

 ing that an election be called to vote a fund of $50,000 

 for the purpose of completing the foothill reservoir. A 

 meeting was called for November 4th. It is estimated that 

 $50,000 will more than pay for the completion of the 

 reservoir which will be ready for water early in the 

 spring. 



The Solano-Yolo Land & Water Company of Dixon, 

 have perfected plans whereby 40,000 acres of land lying 

 in the vicinity of Winters and Dixon will be brought under 

 irrigation. This project involves the construction of a 

 large dam at Devil's Gate, a deep gorge in the Putah 

 Creek Canyon, above Winters. Those interested in the 

 project are C. M. Wooster and Charles Cunningham of 

 Dixon and W. A. Beard of Sacramento. 



A suit involving the validity of bonds issued by Per- 

 ris Irrigation district in Riverside county has been filed 

 by Amelia S. Quinton and other property owners who ask 

 the court to declare the bonds invalid and restrain the 

 Equitable Investment Company, a Maine corporation, 

 and others, from prosecuting the former action. It is 

 alleged that the bonds were illegally issued. 



Col. E. S. Weeden of New York, has purchased a 

 Keystone drill and installed it on his ranch, three miles 

 from Tres Vias. The drill will bore for water until a flow 

 of sufficient volume is encountered to place the land under 

 irrigation. 



A suit to condemn rights-of-way for an irrigation sys- 

 tem has been brought in the Superior court of Tehama 

 county against the Central Pacific Railroad Company, the 

 United States Trust Company af New York, and other 

 defendants. The plaintiff is the Sierra Irrigation Com- 

 pany of Tehama. The right-of-way desired is to be 100 

 feet wide and commences at a point on the west bank of 

 Mill creek, near Lyonsville, and runs southwesterly to 

 section 22, township 27 north, range 2 east, where a power 

 house is to be built. 



It is reported that the Natomas Consolidated of 

 Sacramento, organized a couple of years ago with a capi- 

 tal of $25,000,000, has purchased from time to time the 

 tracts of land lying between Mahew station and Folsom, 

 east of Sacramento, aggregating 37,340 acres, and that the 

 bulk of this land will shortly be brought under irrigation 

 and developed into one of the finest colonization enter- 

 prizes ever attempted in the west. Water for irrigating 

 the tract will be carried from the American river. The 

 land will be planted to fruit. 



A new irrigation district comprising 2,550 acres of 

 land lying east of the Pearson district and north of the 

 city of Courtland has been established. 



The Iowa Land & Water Company, of which Chas. 

 H. Kegley is president, and M. J. Nolan, secretary, and 

 which owns 9,000 acres of land on the main line of the 

 Santa Fe railroad at Solita, has completed its irrigation 

 system at a cost of $100,000. This water system is com- 

 posed of thirteen artesian wells with a perpetual uniform 

 flow of about 3,000 minor inches. 



The Mohave River, Land & Water Company of San 

 Bernardino has filed articles of incorporation, capital 

 stock $500,000. The syndicate has filed upon 60,000 inches 

 of water, and twenty-one good land locations. The in- 

 corporators are: L. M. Holt, J. T. Tibbott, G. W. Wil- 

 cox, J. W. Badger and H. J. Backus of Los Angeles, and 

 Geo. A. Cleveland of Ocean Park. The land to be re- 

 claimed lies between Otis and Daggett. 



COLORADO. 



The Chicosa Park Land & Irrigation Company has 

 filed articles of incorporation with a capital stock of 

 $100,000. The incorporators are: Jos. H. Loor, Robt. T. 

 Frazier and Edwin B. Haver. The headquarters of the 

 company are in Pueblo. 



It is reported that Bulkeley Wells and associates are 

 preparing to start the survey for their big irrigation sys- 

 tem on the San Miguel river, near Norwood. This project 

 when completed will water 40,000 acres of land. 



The completion of the old Bent-Prowers irrigation 

 'project is practically assured. The storage reservoirs for 

 the system will be located about 18 miles south of Las Ani- 

 mas, on the Purgatoire river, and the district to be irri- 

 gated lies between Rule and Clay creeks, and from five to 

 ten miles south of the Arkansas river. About 100,000 acres 

 of land in the vicinity of Lamar will be brought under irri- 

 gation by the Bent-Prowers system, which will cost in the 

 neighborhood of $4,000,000. 



At a directors' meeting of the Denver-Greeley Valley 

 irrigation district held recently, six and one-quarter sec- 

 tions, five miles east of Hudson, were voted into the dis- 

 trict. This makes a total of 60,000 acres in the district, 

 which is the required number the bond issue is to cover. 



Directors of the Greeley-Poudre irrigation district are 

 negotiating with B. D. Sanbourn for the purchase of pre- 

 ferred water rights out of Boyd lake, which the latter 



Plans are on foot to take water from Lake Loveland, 

 Seven Lakes and Boyd Lake to water 10,000 acres in the 

 eastern part of Weld county, a distance of fifty miles. 



IDAHO. 



K. L. Molen and R. E. Kutler of Hailey, have filed a 

 claim of lien against the Big Lost River Irrigation Com- 

 pany for $1,407.20 for services and labor performed upon 

 the canal known as the "Lower North Canal," used for 

 irrigation of the Powell tract. 



Hale & Crane, sub-contractors on the Idaho Irriga- 

 tion Company's works under the J. G. White Company, 

 have filed a claim of lien against the last named company 

 to recover $56,191.84. balance alleged due them. 



The Blaine County Canal Company has filed articles 

 of incorporation with its main office at Arco. The capital 

 stock is named at $20,000, in $1.00 shares. 



Bids for the work on an irrigation project comprising 

 22,000 acres lying in the vicinity of Salmon City are now 

 being submitted. This is a Carey Act project and is being 



