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trict will be presented to the county commissioners by 

 O. L. Brown, H M. Shoup and Edward Case. The pro- 

 posed district will comprise about 60,000 acres south of 

 the Arkansas river and east of Pueblo. The water rights 

 to be acquired comprise water from the western slope, 

 which will be diverted into the Arkansas. 



The Great Northern Irrigation and Power Company, 

 known as the Hughes-Kilpatrick Ditch Company, placed 

 on record recently a contract between itself and the state 

 for the segregation and sale of 140,000 acres of land pre- 

 viously withdrawn from entry by the government under 

 the Carey Act. It is understood that the project has 

 been financed and that water will be put on the land with- 

 in three years. 



Ten thousand acres of arid land in eastern Weld 

 county are to be reclaimed by means of pumping plants. 

 This is one of the most important plants for irrigation 

 by means of pumps ever attempted in Colorado. 



No definite word has been received from Paris about 

 the availability of the $2,000,000 for the completion of the 

 Standley Lake irrigation project, but Attorney Milton 

 Smith states that very shortly there will be news of 

 general interest to give out concerning it. 



Under authorization of act of Congress, passed March 

 1st, the Greeley-Arizona Irrigation Company, composed 

 of Los Angeles, Arizona and Colorado capitalists, is pre- 

 paring plans for the construction of a great dam on the 

 Colorado river, for the purpose of irrigating the lands 

 within the boundaries of the Colorado Indian Reservation. 



In spite of the extremely dry weather during the 

 winter, Morgan county irrigationists are optimistic. The 

 rainfall for November, December, January and February 

 amounted to .47 of an inch. The big Jackson lake, the 

 immense storage reservoir of the country, has twenty- 



seven feet of water against the headgate: the Riverside, 

 which was enlarged last season, has seventeen feet and 

 the Empire, the storage reservoir of the Bijou system, 

 has fifteen feet. This is sufficient water for early irriga- 

 tion. 



A proposition to irrigate 1,200 acres of land near Fort 

 Lupton for truck gardening purposes was presented to the 

 commercial club recently by an engineer of the Northern 

 Colorado Power Company. The plan is to sink wells and 

 get the water on the lands by means of pumps driven by 

 electricity. 



A large number of bids for the completion of the 

 Lake Hattie irrigation system were opened at Denver 

 recently and contracts will be awarded as soon as the 

 figures can be gone over and the value of the bids deter- 

 mined. The face of the dam will be covered with concrete, 

 the water being turned in and the concreting done from 

 rafts as the water rises. 



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