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Company to secure a bond issue of $150,000. It is the inten- 

 tion of the company to build an extensive irrigation system 

 with which to irrigate land in the Yucaipa valley, near San 

 Bernardino. 



The private irrigation system which has been constructed 

 in Honey Lake Valley, near Amadee, is completed, and has 

 been put in operation. This system is supplied with water 

 from Honey Lake by a pumping plant, and provides water 

 for 6,000 acres of land. The plant consists of a 150-horse- 

 power gasoline engine and a pump capable of pumping 40,000 

 gallons per minute. 



A suit which may involve over $1,000,000 has been com- 

 menced in the San Bernardino court by Attorney C. C. Has- 

 kell, acting for Joel Scott Wheeler, against the Rialto Irri- 

 gation district. The sum named in the suit is $3,333.70, al- 

 leged to be due on principal and interest of irrigation bonds 

 issued under the Wright Act of 1887. The question involved 

 is as to whether the district could use bonds in payment for 

 a water system, which was to be constructed for the benefit 

 of the ranchers. The Wright Act expressly states that dis- 

 trict bonds can not be exchanged for work or labor. 



The Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company has leased 

 1,045 acres of land near Chico and will irrigate it by pumping 

 with electric power. 



B. de la Beckwith has brought suit against the Sacra- 

 mento Valley Irrigation Company, the Sacramento Valley 

 West Side Canal Company and the Central Canal and Irri- 

 gation Company for the title to 46 miles of canals, water 

 rights sufficient for the irrigation of about 300,000 acres, 

 laterals, ditches, etc., together with a large acreage of land. 

 The Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company is operated by 

 the J. S. & W. S. Kuhn of Pittsburgh, Pa., and they have 

 put over $3,000,00 into this undertaking through the 

 American Waterworks and Guaranty Company of Pitts- 

 burgh. That company has issued bonds in the sum of 

 $15,000,000 against the property involved and some $10.- 

 000,000 worth of the bonds have been subscribed for. The 

 validity of this bond issue is partly involved in the suit 

 pending. 



COLORADO. 



Charges of mismanagement are made on a complaint 

 filed in the district court by Edward C. Bryan, in which 

 a temporary injunction is sought against the Orchard 

 Mesa Irrigation Association and the Orchard Construc- 

 tion Company. The ditch has just been completed at a 

 cost of $1,000,000, and Mr. Bryan, who owns forty acres, 

 asks the court to prohibit further payment to the con- 

 tractors, claiming that the contract has been violated and 

 that the construction company has charged more for the 

 extra work required than had been originally agreed upon. 



Maps and statements have been filed in the county 

 clerk's office for the Kersey canal, which has for its pur- 

 pose the reclamation of 300,000 acres of land in Weld. 

 Morgan and Washington counties. The irrigation sys- 

 tem, when completed, will cost $1,073,540. Water will b'e 

 taken from the Platte river, with head gates six miles east 

 of Greeley. The main reservoir will be located at Home, 

 fifty-five miles west of Fort Collins. 



French engineers, representing French capital, have 

 been in Weld county looking over the completed and 

 projected work of the Denver Reservoir and Irrigation 

 Company, and it is stated that if the report is favorable 

 Paris capitalists are ready to take hold of the work and 

 complete it. 



Cassius Kerr, Michael Brady and Marion Stark of 

 Monte Vista, as trustees, have received a -deed for the 

 entire holdings of the San Luis Land and Irrigation Com- 

 pany, and for the canals, ditches and water rights owned 

 by the company, the consideration being $300,000 in bonds 

 at par of the proposed irrigation district to be formed 

 under the Terrace reservoir, about 20 miles from Monte 

 Vista. The district will be known as the Terrace Irriga- 

 tion District. It is the design of the promoters to organ- 

 ize the irrigation district under the state statutes, provid- 

 ing for about 35.000 acres, and issue bonds to the amount 



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Raising Fruit and Alfalfa 



in Pecos Palisades, 



Texas 



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IRRIGATION COMPLETED. 



The extensive Imperial Irrigation System, furnish- 

 ing abundant water to these Pecos Palisades lands, 

 now complete. Water now turned on. Farmers are 

 irrigating their land now and building homes. The 

 big Imperial Reservoir, covering nearly 2,000 acres, 

 holds six hundred million cubic feet of water, with 

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FRUITS AND ALFALFA. 



Facts about lower Pecos Valley are amazing. In 

 fruit the land should produce up to $1,000 per acre. 

 Peaches pay $1,000 per acre, apple trees are worth 

 $40 apiece, celery and asparagus $500 per acre, 

 berries up to $500 per acre, cantaloupe $300 to $500 

 per acre, alfalfa up to $125 per acre. 



Pecos Valley products won 22 first prizes at El 

 Paso Fair 1909, and some of its fruits BEAT THE 

 WORLD at the St. Louis World's Fair. 



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Land Commissioner Kansas City, 

 Mexico & Orient Railway 



1O2O Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo. 



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