THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



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drilled an artesian well in Roswell. A No. 6 American 

 centrifugal pump with a minute capacity of 1,100 gallons will 

 be used. 



The state land board has granted the application of 

 the Green River Irrigation Company of Castledale for 

 the temporary segregation of 165,000 acres of land on 

 either side of the Green rivers in Grand and Emery coun- 

 ties. The company proposes to obtain water by building 

 a diverting dam twenty or thirty miles up the Green river 

 from the first upper acreage and carry the water by grav- 

 ity ditches and flumes down either side of the stream to 

 the land. The company proposes to spend $5,000,000 to 

 put water on this land. 



Articles of incorporation of the T. H. Dodd Irriga- 

 tion Company of Hayden have been filed with the secre- 

 tary of State. The company is capitalized at $1,040. The 

 company will engage in a general irrigation business. 



E. T. Merritt of Salt Lake and W. T. Chamberlain 

 and P. H. Lund, an irrigation engineer, both of Denver, 

 have taken over a tract of 10,000 acres of fruit land 106 

 miles west of Grand Junction, in the Green River valley, 

 and have begun the construction of a sub-irrigation plant. 



The irrigation project in the Pecos Valley, under the 



direction of F. A. Hornbeck, land commissioner of the 



Orient Railroad, has been completed and water from the 

 Pecos river turned on to 25,000 acres of land. 



The Secretary of the Interior has withdrawn from 

 entry for all purposes all of Sections 13, 14. 23. 24, 25 

 and 26 in township 4 south, range 11 west, Uinta Special 

 Meridian, Utah. The lands thus included are necessary 

 in the construction of the Strawberry Valley reservoir 

 as they contain materials required for the Strawberry 

 Dam. 



It is reported that work will begin on the Spanish Valley 

 irrigation project as soon as the 8,000 acres of government 

 land, which it is to irrigate, are segregated under the Carey 

 act. The project, which is to cost in the neighborhood of 

 $750,000 is fully financed. 



Work has been commenced on the Bountiful-Stone Creek 

 Irrigation Company's project on the south bench above Boun- 

 tiful. The company"s object is to conserve the water of 

 Stone Creek, and to this end 18,000 feet of eight inch pipe 

 will be laid. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Pasco Reclamation Company is disposing of large 

 tracts to eastern buyers. Many of the purchasers will settle 

 immediately to improve their land, while others are taking 

 advantage of the improvement contract offered by the com- 

 pany, which agrees to plant trees and care for them until 

 ready to bear. 



Members of the Sandy Irrigation Company met recently 

 at Sandy and elected the following officers for the ensuing 

 year : W. W. Wilson, president ; Charles Linden, vice-presi- 

 dent; A. M. Nelson, treasurer; David E. Greenwood, secre- 

 tary, and Peter Hanson, director. 



The Western Land Irrigation Company of Centralia has 

 filed water rights with the county auditor for one cubic foot 

 of water per second from Scatter Creek. According to the 

 document filed, the company is to use the water for irrigat- 

 ing prairies. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The Secretary of State of South Dakota has issued 

 a charter to the Southwestern Land and Irrigation Com- 

 pany, having headquarters at Huron. The company is 

 capitalized at $100,000. 



The Porto Rico Railways Company, Ltd., has em- 

 ployed the Ambursen Hydraulic Construction Company 

 of Boston, Mass., as engineers for the construction of a 

 dam 125 feet high and 350 feet long for impounding stor- 

 age water for their present hydro-electric power plant 

 near San Juan. Work will commence immediately. 



The secretary of the interior has awarded contract to 

 the Illinois Steel Company of South Chicago, Illinois, for 

 1850 tons of 60 pound steel rails for use in constructing a 

 branch railroad to Arrow Rock Dam, Boise, Idaho, irriga- 

 tion project. The contract price is $64,306, f. o. b. cars, South 

 Chicago. 



Irrigation is to be fully tested out in Central West Texas. 

 The Stamford interests have installed machinery fifteen miles 

 below Stamford and are using the Brazos River as a source. 

 They have ditched for irrigation some fifty acres of land. If 

 this first experiment is satisfactory, they will experiment on 

 a very large scale. 



D. Clem Deaver, an Omaha man, has been chosen to pull 

 the lever of the mighty Shoshone project dam just completed 

 in Wyoming by the United States Reclamation Service, which 

 will put in operation one of the most wonderful irrigation 

 services in the world. The great event will be held June 

 23rd, almost an even five years after the day on which the 

 dam was started. 



One of the big irrigation projects in the northwest part 

 of South Dakota, which has not been receiving the attention 

 of the Big Belle Fourche project, but which will be a work of 

 considerable magnitude of itself, is a project on the Little 

 Missouri in Harding County, which will care for a large 

 acreage in the valley of that stream. 



Indicating that Yakima Valley irrigation plants have 

 passed their experimental stages and that permanent work is 

 being installed, 85,000 feet of concrete pipe is being manu- 

 factured and installed in the Yakima Valley this year by the 

 Cement Products Company, three plants being kept in 

 operation. 



A big irrigation well, recently completed on the ranch 

 of A. D. and Paul E. Walker, north of Fowler, Meade 

 County, Kansas, tested to flow 60,000 gallons per hour and is 

 jteadily increasing. It is in the famous alfalfa district of 

 eade County and will irrigate half a section of alfalfa. 



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The Lake Chelan Land Company, which is promoting the 

 Wapato irrigation project, has purchased the Peter and John 

 Indian allotments on the north shore of Lake Chelan and the 

 Methow Valley Irrigation Company has secured the consent 

 of all the heirs of the Antoine allotment, seven miles north- 

 east of Chelan, to the sale of that tract to the Methow com- 

 pany. 



Water has been turned on by the irigation companies in 

 the locality of White Bluffs and electric power is on the wires 

 of the Pacific Power and Light Company for the private 

 pumping plant. The Hanford Irrigation Company started its 

 big pumping plant at Coyote Rapids, ten miles above White 

 Bluffs, at midnight March 20th and water reached the White 

 Bluffs irrigators over the company's local distributing system 

 at 9:00 o'clock Friday morning. 



The general storm which visited the North Platte Valley 

 on April 29-30 was of enormous benefit to the farmers. It 

 put the soil in proper shape for spring planting and gave the 

 winter wheat and alfalfa the good wetting needed. Spring, 

 opens on the North Platte project with the settlers in general 

 cheerful and hopeful and hard at work on their farms. The 

 prospects for good crops are bright. At the present time the 

 canals are supplying 26.000 acres. Extension work has been 

 going forward during April on the High Line Canal and the 

 additional sites. One hundred men and teams are constantly 

 employed. 



Boys and young men in the Kansas agricultural college 

 are getting practical experience this term in the class of irri- 

 gation and drainage. In addition to the regular instruction 

 the students see the work now in progress on a tract of land 

 adjoining the college farm. 



Work of straightening the Little River in Oklahoma 

 Territory, which traverses Pottawatomie County from east to 



