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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



A single power-house develops the electrical energy 

 for running all of the pumping stations. It contains 

 two 200-hp. boilers, set singly, for generating steam at 

 160 lb., each boiler being supplied with a superheater 

 which superheats the steam to 120 degrees Fahr. 

 Leading from the coal supply house outside the power- 

 house there is a small steel track, on which two i/2-ton 

 fuel cars carry the coal into the boiler room. The steel 

 btack is 150 ft. high. 



The turbine generators are of 225-kw. each, 6,600 



Condenser floor, showing condensers and vacuum pumps, a separate 

 surface condenser and vacuum pump for each steam tu'rbine. Circulat- 

 ing water ii supplied by the electrically driven centrifugal pump. 



volts, 60-cycle, 3-phase, with exciter direct connected 

 to the shaft of each of the generators. The turbines 

 are designed to operate at their best efficiency with 

 150 lb. steam at the throttle, 100 degrees superheat, 

 condensing into 28 in. of vacuum. The turbines are 

 fitted with an automatic system for filtering and sup- 

 plying the machines with oil. Two surface condensers 

 manufactured by the Wheeler Condenser & Engineering 

 Co. are installed, each condenser being fitted with 

 Edward's vacuum pump. Each condenser has a capac- 

 ity for taking care of 5,200 lb. per hour, maintaining 

 a vacuum of 1J4 in. absolute with cooling water at 

 65 degrees Fahr. 



The switchboard consists of five panels, two for 

 the generators, one for the exciters and two for line 

 service. On the generator and line panels are the 

 switches which control the oil switches, located in the 

 basement below the switchboard. 



The installation was in charge of Mr. Charles F. 

 Slichter, supervising engineer, and Mr. 0. H. Ensign, 

 electrical engineer, of the U. S. Reclamation Service. 

 The contractor for the plant was the D'Olier Engineer- 

 ing Co., Philadelphia. 



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 the Primer of Irrigation, a 260-page finely illustrated 

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Supreme Court Decisions 



Irrigation Cases 



RESERVATION OF WATER BY UNITED STATES. 



The general government has power to reserve the waters 

 on the public domain and exempt them from appropriation 

 under state laws. Conrad Inv. Co. v. United States. Circuit 

 Court of Appeals. 161 Federal 829. 



GRANTS OF ARTESIAN WATER RIGHTS. 



Where there are several grants to different persons of 

 rights to take specific amounts of water from an artesian 

 well, the ordinary rules as to grants apply, and each grantee, 

 taking with notice of the estates held by the prior grantees, 

 holds subject to such estates. CJiaron v. Clark. Supreme 

 Court of Washington. 96 Pacific 1040. 



DIVERSION IN ANOTHER STATE. 



The jurisdiction of the courts of Idaho to ascertain and 

 determine water appropriations within this state is not ousted 

 or defeated by the fact that a defendant sets up in his 

 answer that he has an appropriation of the waters of the 

 stream in controversy and that he diverts the waters from 

 such stream in the state of Wyoming for use and application 

 in irrigating lands situated within that state. Taylor v. 

 Huleit. Supreme Court of Idaho. 97 Pacific 37. 



GRA-NTS OF WATER RIGHTS AND SALE OF ARTESIAN WELL. 



Where the owner of an artesian well granted plaintiffs 

 a perpetual flow of a certain amount of water therefrom 

 delivered on their land, and then, when plaintiffs were in 

 possession and enjoyment of such flow of water, granted de- 

 fendant the land embracing the well, subject to all existing 

 rights to take water therefrom, defendant cannot be prg- 

 tected, in his interference with the flow, under the prin- 

 ciples applying, in the absence of contract, to diversion of 

 percolating subterranean waters. Charon v. Clark. Supreme 

 Court of Washington. 96 Pacific 1040. 



RESERVATION OF RIGHT OF WAY FOR DITCHES. 



Act Cong. Aug. 30, 1890, c. 837, 26 Stat. 391 (U. S. 

 Comp. St. 1901, p. 1553), provides that all patents for lands 

 thereafter taken up under any of the land laws of the United 

 States on entries or claims validated by the act, west of the 

 one hundredth meridian, should reserve a right of way for 

 ditches or canals, "constructed" by authority of the United 

 States. Held, that the word "constructed," as so used, did 

 not limit the reservation to a right of way for ditches 

 already constructed, but extended as well to those "to be 

 constructed" by the government in furtherance of its irriga- 

 tion scheme for the reformation of arid lands. Green v. 

 Wilhite. . Circuit Court, Idaho. 160 Federal 755. 



PRIOR RIGHT OF INDIANS. 



Where the Indians on the Blackfeet reservation had a 

 prior right to the use of the waters of Birch creek for irri- 

 gation to that of defendant, which had acquired 'by appro- 

 priation and purchase large quantities of land adjacent to 

 the creek, which it had proceeded to irrigate by mearis of 

 canals and a dam in the creek, a decree restraining defend- 

 ant from obstructing the waters of the creek to the extent 

 of 1,666^5 inches from flowing down the channel to points 

 of diversion for the benefit of the Indians on the reservation, 

 and providing that the amount pf water in excess of that 

 specified in the decree should be subject to the subsequent 

 order of the court, was proper. Conrad Inv. Co. v. United 

 States. Circuit Court of Appeals. 161 Federal 829. 



EXTENT OF APPROPRIATION. 



Section 1 of the desert land act (Act March 3, 1877, 

 c. 107, 19 Stat. 377 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1548] 6 Fed. 

 St. Ann. 393) provides that a claimant's right to water for 

 irrigation and reclamation must depend upon a bona fide 

 prior appropriation, but does not require that the appropria- 

 tion should be from one stream or source of supply, or deny 

 to a settler the right to use on his claim water to which he 

 has a bona fide right by prior appropriation from any 

 source. An owner of land consisting of two tracts, one of 



