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other lands which can be irrigated by gravity, the boundary 

 line on either side of the .valley to conform to a grade ele- 

 vation of 40 feet above high water mark on the river in its 

 respective latitude. The district embraces about 3,000,000 

 acres, and it is estimated that the cost of placing same under 

 irrigation will not exceed $9,000,000. 



An organization known as the Santa Fe Improvement 

 Company, composed of Santa Fe Railroad officials and Los 

 Angeles capitalists, are planning the construction of an irri- 

 gation project at Del Mar, near San Diego. Mr. E. S. Van 

 Dyke, who is a pioneer student of irrigation in Southern 

 California, has been commissioned to build the water system. 



The Hutchinson Company, of Oakland, a contracting firm, 

 has filed suit against the Patterson Ranch Company of 

 Fresno, alleging that they have several thousand dollars due 

 them for irrigation work on the ranch. 4T ne original con- 

 tract was entered into in June, 1909, and called for the con- 

 struction of canals, reservoirs, spillways, ditches, etc., on the 

 Patterson property, work to commence July 1, 1909, and to 

 be finished by December 1 of the same year. Later this con- 

 tract was extended to May 21, 1910. Work was finished on 

 May 16, 1910. 



H. J. Gray, a contractor of Sacramento, has brought ac- 

 tion against the Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company, for 

 a judgment of $87,344.75 for work done and damages to the 

 sum of $116,555, or a total of $203,899.75. Gray enetred into 

 a contract with the Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company 

 to build and construct various ditches and laterals in Glenn 

 and Colusa counties, and he sets forth in his action that the 

 irrigation company wilfully violated the terms of the contract 

 in that it delayed and made work impossible because it neg- 

 lected to indicate the work to be done by suitable stakes 

 driven showing the "cut" and "fill" to be made at intervals 

 along the lines of canals and ditches to be built. 



H. L. Gradon, a civil engineer of Oroville, has filed a 

 notice of location of 20,000 inches of water in Middle Fork 

 of the Feather river, to be diverted just below the mouth 'of 



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