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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



The Walton lateral, which taps the main irrigation ditch 

 near Sunset, is being extended southerly through the Clark, 

 Krehe and Kerrigan tracts. The ditch will water a large 

 section of country west and south of Encinal station. 



Announcement has been made that the Great Western 

 Power Company will build at Big Meadows, in northern Cal- 

 ifornia, a reservoir that will surpass in capacity the Roosevelt 

 dam and reservoir in Arizona and the Assouan dam in Egypt. 

 Sufficient water will be stored for the irrigation of 300,000 



Water has been turned into the main ditch and laterals 

 of the Hallwood irrigation district. Four thousand acres of 

 land will be under irrigation when the system is perfected, 

 and it will be possible to extend the" benefits to 7,000 acres. 

 The water will be taken from Yuba river at DeGuerre Point. 



The United States Department of Agriculture is issuing a 

 report entitled "Irrigation in San Joaquin Valley, California," 

 by V. M. Cone, which is available for free distribution as long 

 as the supply lasts on application to U. S. Irrigation Investi- 

 gations, Berkeley, California. 



Petition was recently granted to Hobart Heiken and 

 others by the Board of Supervisore of Yuba City to form a 

 reclamation district, comprising about 1,100 acres of land near 

 Tudor and to be known as the Independent Reclamation 

 District. 



The Moulton Irrigated Lands Company has a force of 

 mechanics busy installing a big centrifugal pump at a point 

 on the east side of the Sacramento River, opposite Prince- 

 ton. This is one of the Largest pumps, if not the largest, 

 in Colusa County or Superior California, and will throw a 

 stream of water 24 inches in diameter. 



Work is moving rapidly on irrigation ditches and general 

 improvement of the irrigation system at Blythe, Palo Verde 

 valley. 



Irrigators of Riverside and Orange counties have a force 

 of men diverting over 20,000 inches of water of the Santa 

 Ana River to gravel lands. 



The Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company is notifying 

 the farmers that it will again offer prizes this year for best 

 farm development work, as was done last season. The prizes 

 have not vet been made known. 



A party of twenty-six Los Angeles capitalists interested 

 in the development of a big irrigation project in the upper 

 end of the Surprise Valley, in Modoc County, made the trip 

 to that extreme corner of the state recently by going prac- 

 tically all of the distance through Nevada. They took the 

 route by way of Goldfield and Reno, Nevada. 



A proposition is being considered, which in all proba- 

 bility will be accepted, for increasing the acreage of Reclam- 

 ation District No. 108 in the southern part of Colusa County. 

 There are now in the district about 40,000 acres and if the 

 work outlined is carried out, it will take in all of the land 

 covered by the old district, thus adding 20,000 acres. 



The Northern California Power Company has set a crew 

 of men at work digging a tunnel 6,000 feet long in connection 

 with its Dry Burney conservation and irrigation project. Dry 

 Burney Creek is to be dammed and a storage reservoir of 

 1,540 acres is to be made. The average depth of the water 

 will be 20 feet and there will be enough of it to generate 

 6.000 horsepower electrically. 



COLORADO. 



The County Commissioners have set June 17th for an 

 election to decide on whether a municipal irrigation district 

 shall be established in the Boggs flats section. The project, 

 if carried, will necessitate a bond issue of $5,000,000 and water 

 will be brought from the western slope by a tunnel through 

 the Continental divide. 



The right of an irrigation ditch to sell its surplus water 

 to other ditches below its intake was raised in a suit tiled in 

 the federal court in Denver recently against State Engineer 

 C. W. Comstock by the heirs of Julia Merritt. Judge Lewis 

 issued a temporary restraining order. 



Charged with wrongfully retaining possession of valu- 

 able papers, books and securities belonging to the Denver- 

 Greeley Valley Irrigation Company, Frank F. Smith and 

 Bernard J. Ford, former officers of the company, have been 

 made defendants in a petition for a writ of mandamus filed 

 in the district court by W. W. Louden, president of the board 

 of directors, on behalf of himself and all other members. 



Smith was removed from the presidency of the board by 

 a majority of his associates April 4, 1911. It is said that 

 Ford's office of secretary was declared vacant in March and 

 Louden was elected to succeed him. 



That the Uncompahgre valley project may lose the allot- 

 ment of $1,500,000 which was made to it from the special 

 $20,000,000 bond issue, unless something is done soon to bring 

 about a unification of the project, was the ultimatum issued 

 to the water users recently by Supervising Engineer Morris 

 Bien. Thousands of acres in this valley have been put in 

 readiness for water, but the work of completing the ditches 

 and the laterals to the land has been held up by the govern- 

 ment because all of the private ditches have not been brought 

 under government control. Engineer Bien said many projects 

 in the West are clamoring for money and the secretary of 

 the interior is not inclined to wait much longer for the unifi- 

 cation of the Gunnison tunnel project. 



E. T. May and L. A. May have deeded their rights in 

 a number of irrigation ditches and reservoirs to the Pueblo 

 Northeastern Irrigation Company of Pueblo. The water 

 rights 'conveyed will be used to irrigate about 50,000 acres 

 of land northeast of the city under the Pueblo Northeastern 

 company's ditches. 



By bringing water from Boyd Lake down the Big 

 Thompson, the Platte and the Empire Canal, irrigation water 

 will be furnished for 20,000 acres near Wiggins and Vallery, 

 in the west part of Morgan county. The only work required 

 to place the water on the land will be the building of nine 

 miles of ditch from the Empire reservoir to the edge of the 

 district. The cost will not exceed $35.00 per acre. 



The Hewlett irrigation system of Meade, by which 

 several thousand acres will be provided with irrigation, is 

 progressing. Three -large reservoirs made by erecting dams 

 a cross gulches have been connected by a string of ditches. 

 The work will cost $20,000. 



Reconstruction work on the Swink and Otero ditches is 

 going ahead with all possible speed. The old flumes and gates 

 ?.re being replaced with concrete work. The force of men is 

 working fifteen miles south of Elder, between Fowler and 

 Swink. 



That the effort of the Larimer and Weld Irrigation Com- 

 pany to secure a change in the point of diversion of fourteen 

 second feet of water, recently purchased from the Chamber- 

 lain Ditch Company, will meet with stubborn opposition was 

 evidenced recently when the city of Greeley and the Greeley 

 Irrigation Company, joint owners of Greeley No. 3 canal, filed 

 in the district court an answer to the petition of the Larimer 

 and Weld company resisting the application. It is understood 

 that the Hotel mi'll of Ft. Collins and the Cache La Poudre 

 Irrigation Company will oppose the change. 



The preliminary survey of the Bent and Prowers irri- 

 gation district was completed last month and L. M. Mark- 

 ham and his party of surveyors returned to Lamar. The 

 entire survey from the Purgatoire river on the west, begin- 



