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capacity by raising the dam at its outlet 9 feet and increasing 

 the length of the retaining wall 1,559 feet. 



The Orchard Mesa County presents a busy scene this sea- 

 son as scores of teams are engaged in breaking the ground 

 preparatory to the planting of crops. The new irrigation sys- 

 tem is being placed in the finest possible condition and more 

 water will be pumped this season than will be required by 

 the farmers. 



Dr. B. L. Jefferson, register of the State Land Board, has 

 ordered the segregation of 136,000 acres of state land in La 

 Plata County at the request of the Interstate Irrigation Com- 

 pany. The company intends to begin the construction of a 

 $1,000,000 irrigation project that will reclaim this large tract 

 of land. It is planned to water this tract from the Animas 

 River. 



NEW MEXICO. 



While W. Goff Black of the Aztec Irrigation Company 

 has nothing of a final nature to give out regarding the ditch 

 project of his company, a few facts on this big enterprise 

 will be of interest to our readers. The ditch will take its 

 heading above Cedar Hill and will run east of Aztec, and then 

 cover some fine land on the San Juan river slope. In addition 

 to the land covered by gravity ditch, this company, which 

 owns and is enlarging the Aztec Electric Light Plant, will 

 pump on to land that lies just above their ditch line close to 

 Aztec. 



A recent edition of the Estancia Herald says : "There 

 are several thousand acres being broken between Estancia 

 and Stanley." Other exchanges tell the same story from 

 every part of New Mexico. Receiver Sims of the Federal 

 land office at Las Cruces declares that more land is being 

 broken in the Mesilla Valley this year than ever before and 

 that with each year more virgin land is brought under irriga- 

 tion and cultivation. 



MONTANA. 



Action has been filed against the Bitter Root Valley Irri- 

 gation Company by Louis H. Kales, asking a judgment of 

 $4,500 and costs to reimburse him for loss of last season's 

 potato crop, alleged to have been destroyed by reason of the 

 defendant's failure to supply water from its ditch to the land 

 owned by the plaintiff. A contract is alleged to have been 

 violated in the matter. 



IDAHO. 



The farmers of Carey and vicinity are organizing a dis- 

 trict under the new law to irrigate land along the Little 

 Wood River that cannot be covered otherwise. 



OREGON. 



The Ontario Townsite Company, of Ontario, has ordered 

 machinery, motors and pumps, costing over $8.000 to irrigate 

 1,000 acres of land adjoining the town. The work will be 

 completed this spring. 



Operations on the Klamath irrigation projects under the 

 direction of the reclamation service will soon be under way 

 and a busy summer's work has been planned. Already a 

 force of men and a number of teams are working on the' 

 canals and laterals, making whatever repairs are necessary 

 and placing them in shape for carrying water during the irri- 

 gation period. 



The reorganization committee of the Deschutes Irriga- 

 tion and Power Company, now the Central Oregon Irrigation 

 Company, is preparing the details of the proposition to be 

 submitted to the stockholders of the old company. The plan 

 in detail will be sent out in circular form to the stockholders 

 of the old company and the responses received will determine 

 what further steps will be taken in the matter of the protec- 

 tion of the holders of Deschutes stock. 



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