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THE IREIGATION AGE. 



Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



An irrigation district embracing 3115 acres on the 

 Bear River near Wheatland was organized at a meeting 

 of the Board of Supervisors early in November. The land 

 lies in both Yuba and Sutler counties. 



Twenty-five thousand acres of land will be irrigated 

 in the Lowery section of Tehama county as soon as the 

 big irrigation system now being installed on the Gallatin 

 and Finell lands is completed. The system will be com- 

 pleted early in 1912. Eventually the system will cover 

 50,000 acres. The dam on Elder creek will be 500 feet 

 across the top and will be built of solid masonry. 



The great dam in Mokelumne River near Woodbridge, 

 lias been completed and will supply water to irrigate 60,000 

 acres of land in the vicinity of Woodbridge, Lodi and 

 other fruit districts in northern San Joaquin county. 



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

 a notice of location on 20,000 inches of water in Middle 

 Fork of the Feather river, to be diverted just below the 

 mouth of Brush creek, and used for power and irrigation. 



A. D. Cutler has filed a claim on 5,000 inches of water 

 in the Sacramento river at a point six miles south of Red 

 Bluff. The water is to be taken from the river by a 

 pumping plant and to be used for irrigation and domestic 

 purposes in Tehama and Glenn counties. 



W. H. Hanscom of Oroville has filed an appropriation 

 on 1,500 inches of water from Big Chico creek. The 



articles of appropriation set forth that the water is to be 

 used primarily for the generation of electric power; 

 secondly, for irrigation and domestic 



of 

 use. 



Thomas Brothers of Merrillville are constructing a 

 dam and a reservoir back of their ranch near that place. 

 The reservoir will have a capacity which will allow the 

 irrigating of several hundred acres of land. 



A party of government engineers under the direction 

 of W. H. Cole, chief engineer of the Indian Irrigation 

 service, is at work on the Mission Indian Reservations of 

 Southern California. These reservations represent thirty 

 separate tracts of land, and they are to be improved with 

 irrigation works for the benefit of the Indians. 



The San Ysidro Association of San Diego will take 

 over the business of the Little Landers corporation. To 

 finance the deal the association will form an irrigation 

 district, bond it for $20,000 and build its own water plant. 

 The district will embrace 30 acres of mesa land, a large 

 body of bottom land and a townsite. It is claimed that 

 there is ample water in the bottom lands, and that wjth 

 proper irrigation every portion of the colony site can be 

 watered. 



COLORADO. 



The particulars of the contract between the Bent- 

 Powers irrigation district and the Southwest Construc- 

 tion Company have been made public, and are of much 

 interest to those holding land in the district. The docu- 

 ment provides that at least 80,000 acres must be included 

 in the district. The land all lies within what is commonly 

 termed the Lamar district and is immediately adjacent to 

 that town. A dam is to be built across the Purgatoire 

 river, and also a dam for what is known as reservoir No. 

 2. The main laterals are to be constructed by the South- 

 west Construction Company at a cost not exceeding $60,- 

 ( 00, the laterals, headgates, bridges, etc., are not to cost 

 in excess of $25,000, and the rights of way to be procured 



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