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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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whence a pumping plant will lift it un to the higher land 

 of the farm. 



Surveyors under L. M. Markham will begin prelimin- 

 ary survey of the $4,000,000 Bent-Prowers irrigation proj- 

 ect, starting southeast of Las Animas. 



With the new experiments to be made in raising water 

 by electric power from the river flowing through San 

 Juan County, much will doubtless be accomplished in the 

 way of irrigation as a preliminary step in advance of the 

 gigantic canal project to be put in later on, which may, in 

 time, supplant the present irrigation system. 



According to L. M. Stimpson, Chief Engineer for the 

 project, the Great North Sterling Irrigation system, by 

 which 80,000 acres will be brought under cultivation at a 

 cost of $2,000,000 is practically completed. Engineer 

 Stimpson will now begin work on the Sedgwick project, 

 Sedgwick County, to irrigate 19,000 acres at a cost of 

 $700.000. 



On December 22d in Salt Lake, the Unita Land and 

 Water Company was incorporated with a capital of $200,- 

 000. The company was formed for the purpose of taking 

 over the Carey Act land enterprise, developed by the Uinta 

 Keaity & Investment Company of Vernal to put water on 

 and irrigate land. It is estimated that 10,000 acres will be 

 brought under cultivation soon. 



As the result of a canvas, taken in a general way over 

 Weld County, it is estimated that over 30,000 acres more 

 land will be brought under cultivation the coming season. 



County Treasurer P. W. Allen recently turned over to 

 Weld County the Denver-Greeley Valley irrigation district 

 land, because taxes amounting to approximately $60,000 

 were not paid. At a meeting held January 3 creditors of 

 the Standley Lake and Associated Systems present and the 

 matter of adjusting financial affairs were taken up. Sub- 

 sequently what is due Weld County will be paid. Charles 

 R. Brock, William R. Kenefick and Milton Smith are 

 among those who are interested in the project 



Plans for the formation of an irrigation district to be 

 known as the Fort Collins-Loveland district were an- 

 nounced when the organization committee served notice 

 it was petitioning the board of county commissioners to 

 call a special election to vote on a bond issue 



in the famous Spokane Valley have just been opened to set- 

 tlement near Cour de 'Alene, in Kootenai County, Idaho. 



Reports from Green Mountain, where a construction 

 crew under J. A. Mcllwee, contractor for the Laramie 

 Poudre Tunnel is cutting a three-mile bore through the 

 Medicine Bow Range, are that unless something unfore- 

 seen happens, within a short time the crew will break the 

 record for tunnel construction. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized the Rec- 

 lamation Service in connection with the Uncompahgre 

 irrigation project, Colorado, to construct by force account 

 the Cedar and Spring laterals, involving an estimated ex- 

 penditure of $35,000 for both. It has been found impos- 

 sible so far to let small contracts among local contractors 

 for this work. If the work of constructing these laterals 

 should be covered by contract it would leave the equip- 

 ment and animals of the Service idle, thus involving an 

 expenditure in the care of equipment and feeding and care 

 of animals for which no return would be received. In 

 view of these facts it is believed that the work can be per- 

 formed more economically by force account than by any 

 other method. 



IDAHO. 



It is stated that not less than one million dollars a 

 month will be spent in Idaho during the year 1911 develop- 

 ing irrigation projects this includes the amount to be ex- 

 pended by the government and the most of it will be for 

 labor. 



Four thousand acres of fine land along the Snake River, 

 near Medbury, are to be irrigated by waters secured from the 

 One Thousand Springs Company. 



Three thousand five hundred acres of choice fruit lands 



F. J. Eitel, Vice-President of the Elmore Irrigation 

 Company, who has been with surveyors in the upper 

 Mountain Home country, returned to Mountain Home 

 and report matters progressing in a satisfactory manner. 

 Lines have been run across High Prairie and Moore's Flat 

 to the south fork of Lime Creek and the work now on 

 hand is a complete survey of the Camas and Long Tom 

 reservoir. With adjacent systems of flumes, ditches and 

 tunnels, this work is being done in as thorough a manner 

 as if no system had ever been in existence in that sec- 

 tion. All of the land being re-surveyed was under the 

 old Mountain Home project, about which there has been 

 so much disruption and trouble. Under the Garnet regime 

 this section passed through varying difficulties and it is 

 now hoped that under the new arrangement a well de- 

 veloped system may result. 



The Spokane Valley Commercial Orchards Company 

 has been incorporated for $200,000 by business men of 

 Spokane to develop 2,000 acres of land west of Hayden 

 Lake, Idaho. 30 miles from Spokane. It is estimated 

 that $250,000 will be expended in improvements and this, 

 added to the original purchase price of the land, $175,000, 

 will bring the total expenditure up to nearly a half million 

 dollars. It is stated that an underground and domestic 

 water system will be installed. 



The Army and Navy Board has appropriated $7,113,43 

 to the two irrigation projects in Idaho; $6,500,000 to com- 

 plete the Payette-Boise and $528,000 to complete the 

 Minnidoka, according to present approved plans. The 

 expenditure of this vast sum of money means wonderful 

 prosperity in Idaho for a number of years to come. 



I. W. McConnell, Manager of the Idaho Irrigation 

 Company, visited Hailey recently accompanied by M. S. 

 Darrow, the well known engineer who has severed his 

 connections with the company to go east to assume the 

 superintendency of the Barber Asphalt Company in New 

 Jersey. Mr. McConnell was the engineer for the Path- 

 finder Dam in Wyoming, that is said to wall in the 

 largest reservoir in the world. He was also the engineer 

 in charge of the Gunnison Tunnel in Colorado. 



In accordance with the report of the board of con- 

 sulting engineers of the Reclamation Service, the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior has tentatively allotted the sum of 

 $1,000,000 to expedite the work on a storage reservoir 

 in the Boise River for the Boise irrigation project, Idaho. 



Negotiations are authorized for the construction of a 

 railroad or, in the event of failure of such arrangement, 

 to build a suitable road to the dam site at Arrow Rock. 

 Authority is granted also to erect the necessary power 

 plant and transmission lines to excavate diversion tunnels, 

 secure necessary rights of way and all other details pre- 

 liminary to actual construction of the -big dam in the 

 Boise river. The structure will be one of the biggest 

 dams in the world and its construction offers a very 

 difficult problem in engineering. 



The Secretary of the Interior has awarded contracts 

 to the following for furniture lateral head-gates in con- 

 nection with the Payette-Boise irrigation project. 

 Schedules 1 and 2, Gilbert Hunt Co., Walla Walla. Wash.. 

 $2,824. Schedules 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, Minneapolis Steel and" 

 Machinery Co., Minneapolis, Minn., $2,172. 



NEW MEXICO. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized the Rec- 

 lamation Service to renew a contract with the Elephant 

 Butte Water Users' Association for the delivery of water 

 to the Association for the irrigation of certain lands in 

 the Rio Grande Irrigation Project. New Mexico. The 

 object of the contract is to provide for the delivery of 

 water temporarily upon a rental basis to irrigated lands 

 under the Leasburg section of the project pending under 

 the terms of the Reclamation Act. 



