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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



WASHINGTON. 



Farmers in the vicinity of Walla Walla plan to bring 

 water from the Touchet river to water 20,000 acres of 

 land in the lower Eureka Flat country. The estimated 

 cost of the undertaking is $100,000. 



L. M. Rice, W. H. Smith and I. L. Mossman, of 

 Olympia, have filed on 400 cubic feet of water per second 

 of the Nisqually river. The purpose of the promoters is 

 to furnish water to irrigate between fifty and one hun- 

 dred thousand acres of land lying east and south of 

 Olympia. 



The secretary of the interior has awarded the con- 

 tracts for the construction of 40 miles of main laterals of 

 the distribution system on Wide Hollow branch of the 

 Yakima irrigation project to Nelson Rich of Prosser. 



Engineers in the employ of the Klickitat Irrigation 

 and Power Company are camped at the headwaters of the 

 Big Klickitat, east of Mount Adams, where they will re- 

 main all winter. They will ascertain the winter run-off 

 of water in that section and obtain the exact data of the 

 flow of the Big Klickitat river. It is stated by engineers 

 that 4,000 feet of water will be required to cover the 

 300,000 acres of land in the Horse Heaven country in 

 Klickitat, Yakima and Benton counties. The project will 

 involve a concrete lined canal 122 miles long, with three 

 large primary laterals, aggregating 200 miles. The esti- 

 mated cost of the project is $12,000,000. 



Under the management of the United States Reclama- 

 tion Service work on the Prosser syphon has been begun. 

 The syphon will tap the Sunnyside Canal, 14 miles north 

 of Prosser, and will cross the Yaquina river at this point, 

 and will, when completed, water all lands under the old 

 Prosser Lake & Power Company's lands. 



Advices from North Yakima are that the Electric 

 Bonds and Shares Company, the Pacific Light and Power 

 Company and eastern capitalists will expend $90,000,000 

 in extending and improving the Hanford and Strahorn 

 irrigation projects, which are to be consolidated. 



Ten thousand acres of land known as the Whitestone 

 Flats will be watered by the project now under way, 

 under the direction of C. M. Zediker of Brewster. 



J. G. White & Co. of New York are developing 

 20,000 acres of fruit land in the Upper Columbia River 

 Valley in Stevens county, 125 miles north of Spokane; 

 $2,300.000 will be expended in development work. This 

 includes the building of the town of Marble, which will 

 have a model electric light, power and waterwoorks sys- 

 tem. Water for irrigation is taken from the Columbia 

 river. 



The Okanogan Irrigation and Improvement Company 

 began work November 15th upon a project to irrigate 

 16,700 acres of semi-arid land in north central Washing- 

 ton. It is estimated that $300,000 will cover the cost of 

 the project. 



J. M. Ellingsworth of Lincoln, Neb., is planning the 

 extension of the Bollinger irrigation ditch, by which 

 12,000 acres of brush lands in Methow valley will be re- 

 claimed. The lands are incuded in the Pateros, Tupper, 

 Antoine and Howard flats. Eighteen thousand acres of 

 land in other parts of the valley are already under irri- 

 gation. 



The first irrigation pumping project undertaken south 

 of the Snake river and west of Lewiston is nearing com- 

 pletion and will be placed on the market early in Decem- 

 ber. President Bryan of the Washington State College 

 is at the head of the project. Water is drawn from the 

 Snake river by two 75 horsepower engines. The tract 

 embraces 300 acres, and will be sold in small tracts of 

 5 and 10 acres. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Ket- 

 tle Valley Power and Irrigation Company, with a capital- 

 ization of $500,000. The main office of the company is 

 located at Republic. Incorporators are Henry B. Russell 

 and Joseph Manly. 



The city council of Walla Walla has been informed 

 by Flinch and Campbell, owners of Blalock orchards, that 

 they have instructed their attorneys to withdraw their 

 suit for $25,000 damages for the use of water. The com- 

 pany used water from Mill Creek for irrigation purposes 

 and claimed that the city's use damaged them. They now 

 state that they are using artesian water for irrigation and 

 do not need the water from Mill creek. 



The Pasco irrigation ditch was opened on October 

 14th. The water for the big ditch comes from the Snake 

 river through a 20-mile pipe line, which was built for the 

 irrigation of 16,000,000 acres of orchard land. The power 

 used in the pumping is generated at a large power plant 

 located 110 miles up the Natchez river in Idaho. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Deer 

 Lake Land & Irrigation Company of Spokane, with a 

 capitalization of $40,000. The incorporators are Peter 

 Gardiner, W. R. Eisenhour and M. M. Eisenhour. 



The Secretary of the Interior has granted extensions 

 of time ranging from 15 to 45 days for completion of the 

 contract of Messrs. George Cook & Sons of Spokane, 

 Washingtn, on the Tieton irrigation project. The engi- 

 neers report that the contractors were delayed owing to 

 the inability of the government to secure promptly rights 

 of way from the owners whose lands were crossed by 

 the laterals and ditches, and also to the material increase 

 of the amount of work required. 



The Columbia-Clarke Land Company of Spokane has 

 filed articles of incorporation. Capital stock, $22,000. 



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