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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Reclamation Notes 



Squirrel creeks, and these reservoirs will contain more than 

 2,000,000 acre-feet when filled. 



CALIFORNIA. 



Sacramento, California papers state that one of the 

 greatest enterprises in irrigation is the increasing of the 

 acreage in the Trucke-Carson project from 20,000 to 206,- 

 ' 000 at a cost of $3,000,000, of which $1,250,000 will be 

 spent on a dam. It is planned to have 300 or 400 men 

 employed on the project for two or three years. 



Work has been started on the reclamation of several 

 thousand acres of Tule land along the line of the Southern 

 Pacific Railway between Suisun and Benicia. The land 

 is owned by capitalists of San Francisco. 



President Taft recently signed what is known as 

 the Chuckawalla Irrigation Bill, which gives the Chuck- 

 awalla Development Company a concession to dam the 

 Colorado River above Parker. This large project, which 

 will be carried on in the eastern part of Riverside county, 

 is very important to people of that vicinity. 



The directors of the Hallwood Irrigation Company 

 held a meeting at Marysville recently. It was expected 

 to have the canal completed within three months' time 

 and that 5,000 acres, possibly a larger area, will be irri- 

 gated the first year. This district lies only a few miles 

 east of Marysville. 



The California Development Board has submitted a 

 bill which is now before the state legislature, calling for 

 the establishment of four or more demonstration farms 

 to be conducted in regions of the state which are not 

 likely to be brought under irrigation in the near future. 

 Not more than one of these farms is to be located in one 

 county. The bill asks for an appropriation of $15,000 

 for the equipment and maintenance of these farms the 

 first year and $7,500 the second year. 



The Sacramento Valle3 r Irrigation Company, which 

 owns 15,000 acres of land adjacent to Hamilton City, has 

 recently acquired a half interest in the Hamilton Beet & 

 Sugar Company's plant and announce that they intend to 

 commence extensive improvements in their business. 



A flow of water sufficient for irrigating adjacent lands 

 has been struck in several wells in the Richgrove district, 

 a tract of 3,000 acres recently put on the market by the 

 Ensign-Francis Company of Los Angeles. Richgrove is 

 located in the heart of the early orange belt of Tulare 

 county. 



COLORADO. 



The Orchard Mesa irrigation system is completed. Febru- 

 ary 21st the Orchard Construction Company, through 

 Messrs. G. J. and C. C. Magenheimer, turned over its final 

 check to Contractor J. J. Lumsden and this incident marked 

 the close of the work on the big system. 



Without a dissenting vote, the landowners in the Henry- 

 lin irrigation district have let the contract for the building 

 of ditches and reservoirs. The district lies in the vicinity 

 of Hudson. 



The contract provides for a system to cost $4,300,000 

 and includes the construction of the mountain tunnel to bring 

 the water of the Williams Fork of the Grand river into 

 Clear creek and from there into the Platte river. 



An irrigation project which will cost $3,000,000 to $5,000,- 

 000 will be started within a short time on land adjoining 

 Pueblo on the north and east. The new company will be 

 known as the Pueblo, Fountain, Chino & Squirrel Creek 

 Irrigation Company. Articles of Incorporation have been 

 filed. The company will secure water from the Chino and 



Contracts have been signed which assure the immediate 

 commencement of work on the Stanley Lake irrigation project 

 north of Denver. 



The jury in the case of J. A. Hughes vs. the Twin 

 Lakes Water Company returned a verdict awarding damages 

 of $1,500 in favor of Mr. Hughes, who sued for $2,450 

 damages, which he claims was caused to growing crops 

 on his farm near Boone by overflow water from the com- 

 pany's ditches. 



C. T. Pease, project engineer of the Gunnison tunnel, 

 announces that work is to begin immediately upon the new 

 canal, which will be taken from the south canal and con- 

 veyed along the side of the Uncompahgre valley as far as 

 Delta, to water a large amount of water above the present 

 irrigation system. This is made possible by the recent 

 appropriation of $1,500,000 for the Gunnison project. 



The question of forming an irrigation ditch covering 

 over 300,000 acres of rich land in Otero, Bent and Kiowa 

 counties, will be submitted to a vote of the resident free- 

 holders early in May, petition for the same having been 

 filed with the county commissioners. 



The recent validation in the district court of the $3,000,- 

 000 bond issue of the Mammoth irrigation district marks the 

 beginning in earnest of a project which contemplates the 

 reclamation of about 80,000 acres of as fine land as can be 

 found in either Prowers or Kiowa county and lying directly 

 tributary to Lamar. The Mammoth irrigation district was 

 opened less than a year ago and has made rapid progress. 



Plans for the reclamation of 36,000 acres near Trinidad 

 are reported with the filings of maps and plans of the Ty- 

 rone reservoir, Inlet and Outlet ditches. The project is 

 backed by O. C. Norton and C. L. Colburn of Denver and 

 the estimated cost of the reservoir and ditches is $240,000. 

 The reservoir is to be thirty-five miles northeast of Trinidad. 



The Terrace irrigation district, newly formed, has pur- 

 chased the holdings of the San Luis Land & Irrigation Com- 

 pany of Colorado Springs for $300,000 and will complete the 

 immense reservoir. The district embraces 34,000 acres, to 

 be watered frfom the reservoir. 



That Bent county is making good on its claim of being 

 the center of the district, having now in progress or course 

 of construction the greatest number of substantial irrigation 

 projects of any section of the state, is evident from present 

 activity. 



OREGON. 



During a conference with Representative Hawley, 

 of Oregon, and Frank Ira White, representing the Kla- 

 math Chamber of Commerce, Secretary Ballinger stated 

 recently that the government would proceed with the 

 construction of the Klamath irrigation project and carry 

 it to completion. 



The Secretary explained that the apportionment of 

 the reclamation fund as recommended by the army board 

 of engineers cannot stand, but that fund must be used 

 as needed. 



The government irrigation scheme devised by Cap- 

 tain O. C. Applegate in Klamath County promises to re- 

 claim 10,000 acres of land to agriculture, and make the 

 Indians on the Klamath reservation self-supporting. _ If 

 this promise is fulfilled one government irrigation project 

 will go on record as having made valuable returns on 

 the investment. 



Recent dispatches from Washington state that the 

 Senate has agreed to an amendment to the Indian bill, 

 appropriating $50,000 to resume work on the Modoc 

 Point irrigation project on the Klamath Indian Reser- 

 vation. 



Josephine County has become an alluring field for 

 irrigation companies that desire to install a general sys- 

 tem of canals and ditches. About two years ago the 



