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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



west is started. The total cost will be $250,000. It is esti- 

 mated that 26,000 acres of land, now virtually worthless, will 

 be made tillable. 



Eight thousand dollars will be spent by the state of 

 Kansas and the federal government upon irrigation experi- 

 ments in the western part of that state this summer. Experi- 

 ments will be carried on at Garden City under the direction of 

 government irrigation experts. 



Nearly 1,000 acres of land which is under the Aber- 

 deen-Springfield Canal was filed on at a sale held in 

 Springfield on October 27th. The original tract embraced 

 80,000 acres, and with this sale the remaining acreage, 

 which has not been taken up, is reduced to 8,000 acres. 

 Value is added to the land by the fact that no reservoir 

 is used to store water to cover this tract. It being the 

 first Carey Act project in the state of Idaho, it has water 

 rights which only the drying up of the Snake river can 

 hinder. Water is taken direct from the river through a 

 well constructed canal for many miles to the south, where 

 it is diverted into two canals, one carrying the water over 

 the high land and the other to the lower lands. 



an owner of a reservoir desires to use the bed of a 

 stream for carrying stored water, he must notify the 

 State Engineer in writing, giving the date when it is pro- 

 posed to discharge the water, its volume in acre-feet 

 and cubic feet per second, the point of discharge and 

 the names of persons and ditches entitled to its use. 

 A special deputy will then be appointed by the State 

 Engineer to adjust the head gates of all ditches not en- 

 titled to stored water in such manner that those having 

 the right to use the water shall receive the volume to 

 which they are entitled. For the purpose of delivering 

 the stored water the deputy may, with the approval of 

 the State Engineer, employ as many assistants as may 

 be deemed necessary. 



The Consolidated Reservoir and Irrigation Company 

 has taken over the holdings of the Big Valley Irrigation 

 Company, the Grand Falls Lake and Reservoir Company 

 and the Grand Falls Mutual Irrigation Company, all sit- 

 uated in western Texas. The consideration was about 

 $600,000. 



Work is being rushed on the big canal of the Valley 

 Reservoir Irrigation Company, which is to water the 

 lands about Chapin, Texas. Five cars of machinery for 

 An act to provide for the safeguarding of the rights the pumping plant were unloaded recently and are being 



of persons conserving public waters in reservoirs and 

 prohibiting the misappropriation of such waters, was in- 

 troduced in the House of Representatives of Utah re- 

 cently by Rock M. Pope. The bill provides that wherever 



placed in position as quickly as possible. 



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the Fertile Northwest! 



Hilton & Company, of Powell, Wyoming, were the 

 lowest bidders for the construction of the north canal of 

 the Belle Fourche irrigation project in 

 South Dakota. This canal will run twenty- 

 four miles from the Owl creek dam to the 

 Newell district. 



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 non- irrigated sections. Free Govern- 

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At the annual meeting of the Browns- 

 ville Irrigation Company of Brownsville, 

 Texas, the following officers were elected : 

 A. W. Gardiner of Houston, president : Lon 

 C. Hill of Harlingen, vice-president ; A. W. 

 Wood, Brownsville, secretary and treas- 

 urer. 



Reclamation work at Project spur, 

 .about 20 miles from Hazen, Nevada, has 

 .been commenced by a party of 30 men 

 'under the direction of U. S. Engineer Til- 

 Hnghast. Work will be started on the dam 

 'as soon as spring opens, when it will be 

 ^necessary to employ a large force of men. 



' In the system of irrigaatioh under con- 

 struction by the Canadian Pacific Railway, 



1,586 miles of canals and ditches have been 

 completed, the contemplated project total- 

 ing 4,500 miles. The total expenditure will 



,be about $16.000,000, irrigating a tract of 

 3,000,000 acres. 



The Cotton Land & Water Company 

 of Tucson, Arizona, announce that work 

 will begin on the reclamation of 50,000 

 acres of irrigable land in Mojave valley, 

 California. Concrete channels will be built 

 from the Colorado river and pumping 

 plants will be established. 



An irrigation project, which will result 

 in the reclamation of 50,000 acres of dor- 

 mant land in Elko County, Nevada, has 

 just been started under the direction of 

 Engineer Van Nagle, assistant to State 

 Engineer Kearney, and representatives of 

 the Pacific Reclamation Company. The 

 proposed project is for storing the waters 

 of Marys River and irrigating lands under 

 the Carey act lying east of the river and 

 extending across Taber Creek to the lands 

 irritated by Bishop Creek. 



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