THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



991 



NEW MEXICO. 



The Reclamation Service has a bunch of men at 

 work putting in concrete headgates in the laterals below 

 and around Otis. 



The people of Farmington and near-by districts are 

 greatly elated over the prospects of the immediate build- 

 ing of a high line ditch that will cover approximately 

 100,000 acres of now desert land. 



Engineers are expected to arrive in Tucumcari soon to 

 finish preliminary surveys of the big irrigation project of the 

 Pajarata Irrigation Company. Work will soon be commenced 

 on the reservoir. 



There are fifteen places in the road between Farming- 

 ton and Aztec where irrigation water is wasted in the 

 public highway, according to reports. 



Bids totaling over $75,000 have been awarded by the 

 Reclamation Service for the installation within the next 

 90 days of a steam power plant at the site of the Elephant 

 Butte dam. 



OREGON. 



In compliance with the request of settlers on the 

 Klamath irrigation project, Secretary Fisher announced 

 that he had indefinitely postponed the sale of 89 acres 

 near Keno, which controls the water power site on the 

 Klamath river. 



If the latest irrigation project in Malheur county goes 

 ahead with its work of putting water on 30,000 acres 

 around Vale, the county seat, it will make that young 

 city a hive of industry. The soil has wonderful fertility 

 and the sun shines 360 days in the year. 



With 4,031 votes more than the necessary two-thirds, 

 the stockholders of the Josephine County Irrigation and 

 Power Company, without one dissenting vote, ratified the 

 agreement made by the directors with George Sanders, 

 representing the Chicago and Rogue River Company, in 

 which the directors of the Josephine Irrigation Company 

 sold their ditch for $35,000 to the Chicago and Rogue 

 River Company. The system will be enlarged each year. 



The surveying crew of the state engineer's office, 

 which is making a survey of the entire irrigated district 

 of the Powder river and all the tributaries of that stream 

 are now working at Newbridge. When the survey is 

 completed, including all the ditches, a meeting will be 

 called and the water rights of the entire district adjudi- 

 cated. 



UTAH. , 



Stockholders of the Lehi Irrigation Company held an 

 important meeting recently to consider purchasing water 

 for 1,000 acres of land to be added to their present supply. 

 The Provo River Reservoir Company, which owns filings 

 on Utah Lake, proposes to pump the water 85 feet high 

 into a canal near the Saratoga Springs, conduct it through 

 a canal 12 miles long down the west side of Jordan River, 

 syphon it under the river and back into the Lehigh sys- 

 tem near the Denver & Rio Grande depot. 



City Engineer G. F. McGonagle is in Idaho looking 

 over the Payette irrigation project and incidentally look- 

 ing into the use of the Maginnis pipe fluming for the 

 lateral outlet of the gravity sewer. The Maginnis pipe 

 is being used on most of the big irrigation projects. 

 There arose a question as to whether or not the flume 

 would stand the alkali in the soil at the outlet of the 

 sewer and it is to determine this question that Mr. Mc- 

 Gonagle is investigating the usage of the pipe. 



WASHINGTON. 



Irrigation by means of whirling sprinklers is to be 

 carried out on an extensive scale in the Quincy district 

 in Grant county, upon a large tract of land a few miles 

 south of the town of Winchester. The apparatus espe- 

 cially designed for the experiment is larger and of greater 

 capacity than the sprinklers ordinarily used on city lawns. 

 Water will be lifted from a deep well by a double action 

 pump, driven by a gasoline engine. 



More than $2,000,000 will be expended during 1911 

 in the Yakima and Columbia Valleys by the United 

 States Reclamation Service, Indian Service and private 

 corporations for the extension or betterment of irriga- 

 tion projects. Much of the work has been going on this 

 winter. Chief of the work will be the gigantic tasks 

 of the United States Reclamation Service. 



The Bumping Lake reservoir will be given finish 

 touches, and work will be started on the Lake Keechelus 

 reservoir. The lateral system of the Pieton project will 

 be completed, this immense contract being in the hands 

 of Nelson Rich, of Prosser. 



R. F. Pettigrew, formerly Senator from South Da- 

 kota, testified recently in the big irrigation trial involving 

 the waters of Moses Lake in Grant County, Washington, 

 stating that it was his intention to irrigate 25,000 acres 

 of his holdings if the Ham, Yearsley & Ryrie firm had 

 not filed a contest. 



The Western Irrigation and Land Company of Cen- 

 tralia has filed with the county auditor a plat of a tract 

 of 17 ten-acre pieces of land on the Grand Mound prairie 

 which will soon be put under water and sold to small 

 fruitgrowers. 



NEWS. 



Charged with conspiring to defraud the government 

 out of valuable irrigation lands included within the Pay- 

 ette-Boise project, Idaho, intimidation of entrymen and 

 threats to kill in order to secure relinquishments, Horance, 

 Nathaniel and Isaac Bray and Walter Kyle, four promi- 

 nent land dealers of Boise, Idaho, were arraigned before 

 Judge Frank S. Dietrich in the federal court of that city 

 and pleaded not guilty. Their counsel intimated that the 

 defendants will fight the charge to the bitter finish. 



The Secretary of the Interior has awarded to Maney 

 Brothers of Boise, Idaho, contract for the enlargement of 

 the main south side Boise irrigation project canal. 



Surveys are being made on the Bavispe river, near 

 Angostura, Mexico, for one of the largest irrigation and 

 hydroelectric enterprises on the continent. The Richard- 

 son Construction Company of Los Angeles, California, in 

 which John Hays Hammond is largely interested, is pro- 

 moting the project. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A mass meeting of citizens with the Pecos Commercial 

 Club of Pecos, Texas, has been called by President Woody 

 Johnson, when the proposed Tri-County Irrigated Lands 

 Fair will come up for consideration, as the promoters of 

 this fair desire to conduct the same on an elaborate plan. 

 A proposition will also be submitted for putting down a 

 deep well in Pecos. 



The Santa Maria Irrigation Company of Santa Maria, 

 Texas, recently filed an amendment increasing its capital 

 stock from $10,000 to $20,000. 



The state engineer's office at Pierre, S. D., recently 

 issued a permit to Clarence McCain of Rapid Creek to 

 appropriate, twelve second-feet of water of Box Elder 

 creek for the purpose of irrigating land. The project 

 comprises the irrigation of about 760 acres. 



Down on the Medina river, Texas, under the guiding 

 hand of Dr. Fred Stark Pearson, one of the greatest irri- 

 gation projects in America is under way. Dr. Pearson 

 organized a $6,000,000 corporation in London, England, 

 and at once began work. This project will bring under 

 cultivation 60,00'0 acres of rich land, which will add to the 

 wealth of San Antonio. 



There will shortly -be launched in southern Idaho a 

 reclamation project aimed to redeem from the desert 

 600,000 acres of sagebrush land, and to cost in round 

 figures $25,000,000, according to Rile.y Atkinson, secre- 

 tary of the Southern Idaho League, who was recently in 

 Salt Lake City. The new project is the largest ever con- 

 templated on the face of the globe, and is to be known 

 as the Bruneau project. 



