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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Loomis, Washington, has been incorporated to irrigate 

 10,000 acres of fruit land in the Okanogan country. 



Support of an irrigation system which will water 

 300,000 acres of the Horse Heaven country, a vast section 

 of arid land in Yakima, Benton and Klickitat counties, 

 was asked in a joint memorial presented to the Washing- 

 ton Legislature recently by citizens of King and Kittitas 

 counties. The irrigation of the Horse Heaven country 

 has been under way for the past seven years and when 

 completed will be the largest system in the state of 

 Washington. The main canal, 122 miles long, is to be 

 built from the head waters of the Klickitat river, large 

 reservoirs are to be constructed, 200 miles of laterals will 

 be built, while 1,000 miles of distributing laterals will be 

 necessary. The cost of this system is estimated at 

 $13,000,000. which amount will be furnished by Minnesota 

 capitalists. It is estimated that the lands will support 

 a population of 150,000 and will add $100,000,000 to the 

 valuation of the state. 



This canal cannot be completed for another five years 

 and the homesteaders who have filed under the desert 

 lands act and who have been paying assessments on the 

 land by subscribing to the irrigation company must have 

 more time to prove up on their land or lose it under the 

 federal law, which ordains that desert claims must be 

 supplied with water within four years from the time of 

 entry. In some cases extensions have been made. 



Central and eastern Washington private capitalists 

 will start work in the spring of 1911 in a great irriga- 

 tion plant to water 1 t OOO,000 acres, which it is estimated 

 will cost, eventually, $55 000,000. 



OREGON. S 



Word was received at Klamath Falls, Oregon, not 

 long ago from one of the farmers in that vicinity who 

 has been visiting Washington, that the upper Klamath 

 Falls project is again to be taken up by the reclamation 

 service. This project was originally a portion of the 

 Klamath Falls project proper. 



Four thousand acres of land are to be irrigated by a 

 Portland syndicate in the Willamette Valley for which 

 water rights have been obtained. These lands lie near 

 the towns of Turner, Marion and West Slaton. 



There are millions of acres of valuable land in Oregon 

 which can be reclaimed with a proper system of irriga- 

 tion. Several private companies are doing what they can 

 in the Deschutes country. The government is irrigating 

 two sections by means of the Umatilla and Klamath 

 projects. The former irrigates 20,000 acres, a part of 

 which has already been opened for settlement. In the 

 latter project 190,000 acres of land are being reclaimed, 

 two-thirds of which lie in the state of Oregon. 



A large irrigation project is to be undertaken in 

 Harney Valley in the spring of 1911. Speaking of this 

 project C. W. Parrish says, "The future of inland Oregon 

 depends largely upon the success along irrigation lines." 

 The land in Harney Valley lies adjacent to the town of 

 Burns and this land, it is said, may be made to produce 

 most anything that grows, with the application of water. 



People of the Grant's Pass district, failing to get 

 irrigation from corporations, have resolved to take the 

 business in their own hands and have commenced to 

 organize an irrigation district under the laws of Oregon. 



Final report of Charles M. Redfield, Receiver and 

 Special Commissioner of the Deschutes Irrigation and 

 Power Company, was made to Judge Beam in the United 

 States court of Oregon recently. 



The report was accepted and Mr. Redfield discharged. 

 During- the time of the receivership, from April, 1910, 

 to October, 1910. when the company was reorganized, 

 Mr. Redfield received in cash $95.138, of which $44,000 was 

 in cash from the company and the remainder from pay- 

 ments of settlers on the company's lands. 



Sycamore, Illinois, people have recently closed a deal 

 for 24,000 acres of Hay River Valley land in Oregon. 

 It is stated that the purchase price was something like 

 $400,000. 



President Kern, of the Agricultural College, is assured 

 by the authorities at Washington that the support of the 

 Federal Government will be given to the extension of 

 the agricultural experiment work in that state. The irri- 

 gation experiments will be carried on throughout the 

 Willamette Valley. 



The irrigation of 20,000 acres of land in the upper 

 Umpqua and Cow Creek valleys in Douglas County, 

 Oregon, is a project undertaken by a company of Chi- 

 cago men represented by John C. White of Pittsburgh, 

 who has made his headquarters at Rosebud for the past 

 year. The company does not intend to buy any land 

 or right of ways for the enterprise. They plan to build 

 and maintain the irrigation system under the municipal 

 district law. which gives land owners along the route of 

 a proposed ditch the right to vote bonds for installation 

 of such a system and district toll for the use of water. 

 Mr. White estimates that the system will cost about 

 $800.000. 



George C. Clark, of Everett, has the contract for con- 

 struction of the Lost River Diversion Works, in connection 

 with the Klamath irrigation project. The work consists 

 of a concrete diversion dam, culverts, bridges, etc., and 

 involves about 5,500 cubic yards of concrete and 40,000 

 cubic yards of excavation and embankment. The contract 

 price is $98,556.50. 



W. H. Mason, of Klamath Falls, was the lowest bidder 

 for the construction of the Lost River Diversion Channel, 

 Klamath irrigation project. The contract involves the con- 

 struction of approximately 332,400 cubic yards of earth and 

 rock, to be performed within fifteen months from date of 

 award, for the sum of $63,607. 



UTAH. 



Plans are materializing for two Carey Act irrigation 

 projects that may mean the expenditure of two or three 

 million dollars in the reclamation of about 40,000 acres 

 of arid land. One project is in the Vernal district and 

 the other one is known as the Spanish Land and Water 

 Company and its application has been approved by the 

 Stated Land Board. The tract is in Grand and San Juan 

 counties and comprises 8,000 acres. The project would 

 cost the company over $700,000. Moat is the nearest town. 



The state of Utah has just completed the Piute Canal 

 and Reservoir project and is now contracting to deliver 

 water to the settlers on the lands covered by this one- 

 quarter million dollar project. 



"Less than 4 per cent of the land area in Utah is 

 now under irrigation and not more than 6 per cent can 

 ever be irrigated," is stated by the Wasatch Wave of 

 Heber City. Of the 22,000 acres susceptible to farming, 

 only one-tenth is now cultivated. 



Plans have been submitted the State Land Board 

 by the Blue Mountain Land and Irrigation Company, 

 which proposes to irrigate 135,000 acres of government 

 and state land in Rio Blanco and Routt counties, Colorado 

 and Utah. Water is to be taken from the White river. 



Five hundred feet of tunnel, Strawberry Valley irriga- 

 tion project, were excavated during the month of Novem- 

 ber and 563 feet were lined with concrete. This tunnel 

 when completed will be four miles long and will carry 

 water from a storage reservoir in Strawberry Valley 

 through the Wasatch Mountains and empty it into the 

 Spanish Fork River, from whence a canal eighteen to 

 twenty miles long will convey them to the irrigable area. 

 The tunnel is now 38 per cent completed . About 60,000 

 acres of land on the east shore of Utah Lake will be 

 watered by this system. 



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