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ning about eighteen miles south of Las Animas, to Clay 

 creek, some ten miles east of Lamar, has now been com- 

 pleted and the engineers will use the information secured 

 by this survey to perfect final plans, and construction work 

 will begin shortly. 



MONTANA. 



Formal application has been made for the segregation of 

 10,000 acres of public land along Flatwillow creek in the 

 eastern part of Fergus county by the Fergus County Land & 

 Irrigation Company, in which are interested John Maginnis of 

 Butte, John Berkin of Butte, David Hilger of Lewiston and 

 other Butte and Lewiston men. The application has been for- 

 warded to Washington by the state Carey land act board. 



Fred C. Churchill has been appointed receiver for the 

 Great Falls Land & Irrigation Company of Montana by Judge 

 William Fennimore Cooper in the superior court on applica- 

 tion of A. M. Keasey, secretary of the company. An injunc- 

 tion was also asked to restrain A. W. Jeffries & Company, 

 holders of securities and notes of the company valued at 

 $16,000 as security for a loan of $6,600, from disposing of 

 the notes. 



For the purpose of widening and making repairs on the 

 Miller and McGirl ditch, about 13 miles east of Billings, E. 

 W. Colton of the Gergarz Engineering Company, has been 

 engaged recently in making a survey and settling the level 

 along the ditch. This ditch is an old one, but has been taxed 

 to its capacity and by the widening of it much more land 

 which was not heretofore under cultivation will be plowed 

 and put into crops each year. 



In response to petitions from settlers, made through 

 Senator Dixon, an order has been signed by the secretary of 

 the interior granting extension of the time to water users 

 under the lower Yellowstone reclamation project for making 

 payments of charges of construction, maintenance and water 

 rights. 



Litigation in the Sun River case is ended. The decree of 

 the court removes all hindrance to the government improve- 

 ment by irrigation of that great project. The attorneys stated 

 that by the early part of June the federal government forces 

 will be pushing with great activity the work of irrigating the 

 Sun River benches. 



Seven million dollars will be spent by the United States 

 on irrigation projects in the northern part of Montana during 

 the next three vears. 



The flow of water in the streams of the State of Montana 

 during the irrigating season should be above the normal this 

 year, according to the reports of the snow supply. There has 

 been a heavy fall of snow this winter in the high mountain 

 regions which produce the summer water and this has scarcely 

 been touched by the spring thaws so far. 



Notice has been received at the Miles City land office that 

 the recent order providing for stay of proceedings, looking 

 to a cancellation of entries under the lower Yellowstone irri- 

 gation project has been recinded and a new order issued. 



Assurance has been had from the government that .the 

 Sun River irrigation project work will be pushed ahead as 

 soon as the litigation concerning it is out of the way. 



NEW MEXICO. 



The approval of the Secretary of the Interior of the first 

 New Mexico Carey act project should result in the rapid 

 development of the million acres set aside for such projects 

 in that territory. Thus far the projects under that act, for 

 which so much was promised for the territory, have met with 

 all sorts of delays and difficulties, but the success of the 

 Lake Charlette project in Colfax County should encourage 

 further investment under the liberal provisions of the act. 



Another irrigation plan is being tried by Dr. H. D. Nichols 

 on his farm south of Tucumcari. A forty-acre plot will be 

 irrigated by the windmill and the ground is being prepared 



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