THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



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Golden Drift Mining Company, owning a dam across 



Rogue River, about three miles east of Grant's Pass, 



was in position to furnish water. In order to further 



promote the general interest, farmers and fruit growers 



in that vicinity organized the Josephine County Power 



& Irrigation Company. This local organization entered 



into a contract with the Golden Drift Mining Company 



whereby the dam, water rights, machinery and pumping 



; absorbed by the purchasers. Under 



r o Josephine County Irrigation and Power 



'ompan-; 'juilt twelve miles of ditches and expended 



loney in development work, which re- 



gatipn for a large territory. The company 



directors H. L. -Gilkey, H. C. Kinney, 



Garner, E. E. Blanchard, O. S. Blanch- 



and J. E. Hair. 



rf the Chicago Rogue River Company 

 line Irrigation Company and its ditches 

 kS not received favorably. The tenta- 



The Central Oregon Irrigation Company, successors 

 to the Deschutes Irrigation and Power, will throw open 

 for settlement between 5,000 and 6,000 acres of land ad- 

 jacent to Prineville. The tract now being placed on 

 sale for the first time contains some of the finest land 

 in the entire segregation, lying between Prineville and 

 Powell Butte, and is a part of the Butte segregation. 

 This is the first opportunity that Prineville people have 

 had to secure Carey act lands close to town, and no 

 doubt many will take advantage of the last chance to 

 get an irrigated ranch in the present segregation. 



The lands under the Benham Falls project will be the 

 next to be put on the market at a cost of $60 per acre 

 to the settler instead of $40 per acre, the price of land 

 under the present segregation. 



E. J. Sommerville, of Pendleton, was recently ap- 

 pointed by Circuit Judge G. W. Phelps as receiver of 

 properties of the Inland Irrigation Company in posses- 

 sion of Henry W. Coe, his companies and sub-agents. 



A local syndicate composed of some of the members 

 of the Ontario Land and Townsite Company closed a 

 deal recently for all of the holdings of the Willamette 

 and Cascade Military Road lands. These lands surround 

 Ontario on the north, south and west, and much of it 

 is located within one mile of the business center and 

 practically all of it is within two miles of the city. The 

 new owners are already at work with a force of en- 

 gineers in platting the land in acre tracts, and will install 

 an irrigation plant that will water every acre. This 

 plant will be located three miles south of Ontario on 

 Snake River, from whence a pipe line 10,000 feet long 

 -will take the water to the high bench adjoining Ontario. 



The Secretary of the Interior has approved the plans 

 of the farmers living in the valley between Lost River 

 and Stukel Mountain, twelve miles south of Klamath 

 Falls. Water will be taken out of Lost river above a dam 

 which is to be bulit by the reclamation service, and which 

 will raise the water high enough so that it can be taken, 

 over a small ridge, which, without this, would have been 

 impossible without raising the water with a wheel or some 

 other force. About 1,500 acres of land are embraced in 

 the valley. 



An irrigation system which will reclaim 40,000 acres 

 of land in Josephine county in the north end of the Rogue 

 River Valley, including the Merlin and Grants Pass dis- 

 tricts, is practically assured. Porter-Fishback & Co., one 

 of the strongest bond houses in the country, has agreed 

 to finance the project on two conditions that a clear ab- 

 stract to the land and rights to the water can be shown. 

 Edmund T. Perkins, who has recently resigned from the 

 service of the government, has been engaged to make the 

 investigations. As soon as the report on the project has 

 been verified by Mr. Perkins for Porter-Fishback & Co.. 

 the Rogue River Valley Power & Irrigation Company 

 will begin the construction of an enormous impact dam at 

 Savage Rapids, seven miles from the city of Portland, as 

 well as one at Hell Gate, fourteen miles below Portland. 

 From these two dams it is believed that 15,000 horsepower 

 can be secured. 



Notice has been received at the Federal Land Office 

 at Lakeview of the restoration to settlement and entry 

 from the Silver Lake Irrigation project in Lake county, 

 of all of sections 15, 20 to 28, 33 to 36, township 28 south, 

 range 15 east; sections 19, 20 and 29 to 33, inclusive, town- 

 ship 28 south, range 16 east; sections 1, S, 3 and 10 to 14, 

 inclusive, township 29 south, range 15 east; sections 4 to 

 9, inclusive, 16, 17 and 18, township 29 south, range 16 

 east, Willamette meridian. This land will become sub- 

 ject to settlement on and after November 26th, but filings 

 will not be accepted by the Lakeview office prior to De- 

 cember 26, 1910. The land involved is situated about 10 

 miles northwest of Summer Lake and comprises 10,000 

 acres. 



The stockholders of the Anna River Irrigation Com- 

 pany of Lakeview have made plans to install a pumping 

 plant sufficiently large to irrigate 2,500 acres of land, and 

 the work will be begun at once. The estimated cost is 

 $3,000. A 14-foot dam has already been constructed and 

 by placing the power plant a short distance below the 

 dam sufficient power can be obtained to raise the water 

 40 feet, which will be sufficient to cover the land to be 

 irrigated. 



The Warner Valley Land and Irrigation Company of 

 Lakeview, through the state engineer, has applied for the 

 segregation of 150,000 acres of land, a part of which the 

 company caused to be withdrawn from entry under the 

 Carey Act a year ago. The company has a watershed of 

 800 square miles, and plans to take water from a reservoir 

 to be built at a point where Honey Creek leaves the hills 

 of the Warner mountains and flows to the Warner chain 

 of lakes. The plans of the company also cover the pump- 

 ing of water from Warner lake by electricity supplied 

 from power afforded by Honey and Deep creeks, where 

 immense storage and power reservoirs will be built. 



The Central Oregon Irrigation Company of Portland 

 has filed articles of incorporation, with a capital stock of 

 $1,000,000, and will take over the work of the Deschutes 

 Power and Irrigation Company. In the articles of incor- 

 poration it is shown that the company intends to develop 

 the Pilot Butte, Central Oregon, Benham Falls and North 

 Canals. 



At a meeting of ranchmen at Vale on October 25th, 

 it was estimated that from the money now in sight on the 

 Malheur project 45,000 acres of land can be covered in 

 the undertaking. The ranchers all expressed a readiness 

 to sign the agreements. The estimated cost of the project 

 is $1,000,000. The reservoir site is at Warm Springs, near 

 Riverside division dam in the canyon. 



The farmers of Burnt River Valley held a meeting at 

 Unity in October and discussed the development of an 

 extensive irrigation project for the valley. The plan as 

 proposed is to bond the land to be watered to raise funds 

 to build dams and reservoirs and make other improve- 

 ments. It is estimated that $100,000 will be ample to 

 complete the work. 



Extensive revision of the Oregon irrigation code is 

 provided in a bill introduced by representative Brooks 

 at Salem. The proposed amendments, if adopted, em- 

 body the best features of the irrigation laws of the 

 states of Wyoming. Colorado. California and Idaho, and 

 will assist irrigation enterprises in these states. Prin- 

 cipal among the changes is one enlarging the powers 

 of the board of directors of irrigation associations, thus 

 enabling them to treat with all complications arising. 



C. W. Fulton of Portland has filed a protest against 

 the legality of the Klamath Lake_ reclamation project in 

 the federal court. He represents interests opposed to the 

 closing of navigation on Klamath Lake for the purpose 

 of completing the government's $3,000,000 irrigation 

 project. Mr. Fulton stated in a recent interview that it 

 was necessary for him to attack the whole project in order 

 to gain the point desired by his clients. He also asserts 

 that the act by which the shore line of Klamath Lake 

 was ceded to the United States was illegal in that the 

 United States cannot obtain title to lands in such manner. 



