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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



NEW MEXICO. 



The Las Vegas grant board has signed a contract 

 under which the Camheld project is to be finished by 

 December 1, 1911, and under which water will be im- 

 pounded in July, 1911. The completion of this project will 

 ultimately bring 17,000 acres of land under irrigation. 



The Canadian Valley Irrigation District Board was 

 organized at Logan on October 22d. C. W. Abernathy 

 was elected president and E. L. Merrill, secretary. 



The farmers on the tract of the French Land and 

 Irrigation Company, near French, are considering the 

 advisability of forming an independent irrigation company. 



Harry Kinsell and James Reaves, of Stanley, have 

 filed a water right on the flood waters east of Stanley, 

 and will start work on the Stanley irrigation project about 

 the first of the year. 



It is reported that a big combination of city power 

 plants, having for its object the supply of water for irri- 

 gating New Mexico lands, is being attempted by inter- 

 ests representing John D. Rockefeller. It is reported that 

 the Albuquerque Light and Power Company, one of the 

 largest in the country, has already been sold to these 

 interests. 



Incorporation papers have been filed in the office of 

 Territorial Secretary Nathan Jaffa by the Farmington 

 Power and Irrigation Company, of Farmington. The 

 capitalization is $100,000, divided into 1,000 shares. 



A contract for $480,000 has been awarded by the 

 Orchard and Irrigation District to the Standard Con- 

 struction Company for the irrigation of 12,000 acres of 

 Mesa land lying north of Farmington, New Mexico. This 

 project has been under way for several years and the 

 many claimholders, as well as the owners of deeded lands 

 under the survey, nave worked to bring new life into the 

 project and feel now that they are in a fair way to reap 

 the reward of patience and diligence. 



Dispatches from Santa Fe state that the fate of six 

 large irrigation enterprises, involving the expenditure of 

 $10,000,000 or more, depends upon the outcome of the 

 hearing of six appeals before the Territorial Board of 

 Water Commissions, begun recently in that city. These 

 projects, the applications for which were rejected by the 

 territorial engineer on account of the stand taken by 

 the reclamation service, which claims all of the waters 

 of the Pecos for the Carlsbad Irrigation Project in Eddy 

 county, are those of Lake Urton of the Ft. Sumner and 

 Pecos Land Company, H. B. Jones, A. A. Jones and 

 others. The contention of the reclamation service is the 

 same as in the case of the Rio Grande, where an embargo 

 has been placed on all unappropriated waters of the 

 river and its tributaries because of the Engle dam. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed in New 

 Mexico by the Chama Valley Lands & Irrigation Com- 

 pany of Kansas City, Mo., which has a capitalization of 

 $100,000. Among the incorporators are Albert D. Hart, 

 R. E. Auchmoody and William Kent. O. O. Car of 

 Chama is named as statutory agent. 



MONTANA. 



The date of October 22d, which was scheduled for 

 the opening for settlement the Carey Act project on the 

 Dearborn river, was cancelled by the State Carey Board, 

 which holds that the work of reclamation is progressing 

 so slowly that the Great Falls Land and Irrigation Com- 

 pany will be unable to furnish water to settlers on June 

 1, 1911, as agreed. They will, therefore, not permit the 

 land to be sold until satisfied as to the time when the 

 water will be available. 



The McKeller Creek Reservoir Company, composed 

 of ranchmen whose land is tributary to McKeller Creek 

 on the west side, has filed articles of incorporation, with 

 principal office at Stevensville. It is the purpose of the 

 company to dam two small lakes at the foot of St. Marv's 



peak, which is the head of McKeller Creek, and also to 

 dam McKeller Crek and use the water for irrigation dur- 

 ing the summer months. 



The Billings Land and Irrigation Company of Bill- 

 ings has commenced action in the district court, seeking 

 to secure a right of way for a ditch through the land 

 owned by John H. Dover, situated between Huntley and 

 Billings. 



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The hearing of a petition for an irrigation *,r ct on 

 Blodgett Creek, near Hamilton, was heard by < n 

 Meyers in the district court on October 18th. 

 tion was granted ancl the boundaries fixed, 

 will include 1,400 acres of land. Dams ant! re? 

 be built for the purpose of impounding the 

 of the creek, so that they may be used later i(! 1 

 purposes. 





MISCELLANEOUS. 



The state engineer of Wyoming has approved the 

 water right and the state land board has approved the 

 segregation of lands for the project of the Riverside Irri- 

 gation Company, which will reclaim 150,000 acres of land 

 near Shoshoni. The company will install a pumping plant 

 in the Big Horn river, 18 miles above Boysen, Wyoming, 

 from which place it will obtain its electric power. The 

 main canal will be 20 miles long. The main ditch passes 

 close to the town of Shoshoni, Wyoming. 



A project involving 75.000 acres of land in the vicinity 

 of Douglas, Wyoming, is being undertaken by the North 

 Platte Valley Irrigation Company. The tract is divided 

 into two sections, one embracing 25,000 acres which will 

 be irrigated by pumping, and the other 75,000 acres to 

 be watered by the gravity system. Work on the pumping 

 system, which will be installed at a cost of approximately 

 $500,000, has been begun. The generating equipment, 

 water wheels, of the turbine type, and the pumps will cre- 

 ate 300 horsepower, and the current will be transmitted 

 twenty miles to the pumping stations, two in number, 

 where the high voltage will be stepped down so as to 

 serve the five three horsepower pumps in one and the 

 two pumps of the same capacity in the other station. 



Experiments made with the black, waxy land of Bell 

 county. Texas, to ascertain its adaptability to irrigation, 

 have proven successful and demonstrate the wonderful 

 producing capacity of the land under such conditions. 



The Pecos & Joyah Lake Irrigation Company of Pecos 

 has filed its charter with the secretary of state, with a 

 capital stock of $1,500,000. About 22,000 acres of land will 

 be irrigated by this company. 



A company known as the Pacific Reclamation Com- 

 pany of Elko, Nevada, proposes to open for settlement 

 in Elko county 35,000 acres of land. This land will be 

 irrigated by water taken from Bishop creek, and other 

 creeks in the mountains, and the company has asked for 

 bids for the building of dams, reservoirs and canals. The 

 company has taken up 10,000 acres under the Carey Act, 

 has purchased 15,000 acres from the Southern Pacific and 

 10,000 acres from M. Badt of Wells. 



A Louisiana land project has been financed by La 

 Crosse. Wisconsin, men and articles of incorporation have 

 been filed at Madison, Wisconsin. The company is known 

 as the Southern Delta Land Company and is capitalized 

 at $150,000. 



The San Benito Land Company of San Benito. Texas, 

 has purchased from C. P. Barreda 5,000 acres of land 

 located east of the Sugarlands, making in all 50,000 acres 

 which will be under the irrigation system of the San 

 Benito Land & Water Company. The canals will be ex- 

 tended to the new addition at a cost approximating 

 $100,000. 



The dedication of the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona will 

 take place March 18. The last stone was set in the walls 

 on February 5. From the foundation to the parapet of 



