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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



The first plant for irrigation by pumping on a large 

 scale has been completed at Orchard Mesa, near Delta. 

 Water power is used to turn a 48-inch turbine, and this 

 furnishes power for the big pump which will raise the 

 irrigating water 200 feet to the top of the mesa. At 

 present the plant has a capacity of 400 acres, but can 

 easily be enlarged to furnish water for 2,000 acres. As 

 fast as capital can be secured the plant will be enlarged 

 to take in this additional land. 



A large irrigation project, embracing 1,000,000 acres 

 of land in Morgan and Phillips counties, will be financed 

 by Greeley capitalists, associated with Denver and Omaha 

 men. The company is soon to be incorporated as the 

 Narrows Reservoir and Irrigation Company and has a 

 capital stock of $25,000,000. The company expects to get 

 water to the land under their contract for $25 per acre. 

 Surveys have been made and approved by State Engineer 

 Comstock. A reservoir is to be formed by throwing a 

 twelve-foot dam, 1,000 feet long across the Platte river, 



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just over the line of Weld county in Morgan county. The 

 dam will be concrete and will supply a main ditch 60 feet 

 wide and fifteen feet deep, with a carrying capacity of 

 8,000 cubic feet per second. The ditch will be 65 miles 

 long and when completed, will be of cement. 



The election held in the Sedgwick Irrigation District 

 to vote $670,000 in bonds to ratify the contract with the 

 Camfield Development company to construct the reservoir 

 and ditches for the system resulted in a favorable vote on 

 all propositions. The district comprises 19,000 acres of 

 land in Logan and Sedgwick counties, on the south side 

 of the South Platte river. 



The Alfalfa and Sugar Beets Land Company has filed 

 articles of incorporation, with a capital stock of $50,000. 

 The head offices of the company will be at Pueblo, while 

 the lands owned by the organization are located in Otero 

 county. The company has 500 acres of land on the Ar- 

 kansas river directly adjoining the town of Swink. This 

 land will be divided into 5, 10 and 25-acre tracts and sold 

 to easterners, who are looking for such opportunities in 

 Colorado, and especially in the Arkansas valley. 



The Two Buttes Reservoir and Irrigation canal which 

 was built under the provisions of the Carey Act, and which 

 was begun two years ago, was completed on November 

 26th and turned over to the company, which was incor- 

 porated for the sale of land under the project. The 

 project embraces 20,000 acres of land situated in south- 

 eastern Colorado, principally in Banca county. 



Grover and Denver men, under the name of the 

 Grover Reservoir & Irrigation Company, are working on 

 a system of irrigation which will convert the territory 

 surrounding Grover from a dry farming district into an 

 irrigated region. The company has secured valuable 

 water rights, including springs between the Larson ranch, 

 south of Grover, to Cheyenne, besides flood waters of 

 Crow creek. 



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