THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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At a meeting of the Desert Land Board recently the 

 Chiawaukum Carey Act land project was canceled. The 

 board reached the conclusion that no work has been done 

 on the project and that none would be done. The project 

 was in the hands of the Portland Irrigation Company. 



Considerable progress is promised of the Klamath 

 reclamation project this year. The large diversion dam 

 and the canal, which will turn the flood waters of Lost 

 River into the Klamath River, are assuming proportions, 

 and the indications are that both will be completed on 

 schedule time. 



Farmers and fruit-raisers interested in the Josephine 

 Count}' Irrigation and Power Company met recently to 

 consider the advisability of going ahead with an irrigation 

 district, as ordered by the County Court on petition, or 

 countermand the instructions, to that effect given the 

 board of directors. It was decided that the best interests 

 of the community would be served by dissolving the pro- 

 ceedings for an irrigation district. This gives a clear field 

 to the Chicago-Rogue River concern to proceed with the 

 ditches. 



UTAH. 



It is reported that a syndicate of French capitalists 

 has proffered to finance an irrigation project which is to 

 take the waters from the Weber River down through 

 Provo Canon to irrigate the western part of Utah Valley, 

 Cedar Valley and the western part of Salt Lake County. 

 It is said that the project would cost $6,000,000 and that the 

 Frenchmen are ready to put up $10,000,000 if necessary. 



For the purpose of reclaiming thousands of acres of 

 land, which at present it is impossible to cultivate on ac- 

 count of the scarcity of water, a high line irrigating ditch 

 will be built in the near future along the southwestern por- 

 tion of the Salt Lake Valley. Prominent business men of 

 Salt Lake City and Provo are behind the project. 



Irrigating companies of Plain City and Hooper were 

 recently notified that they would have to look to the gov- 

 ernor of the state to appoint water commissioners. On 

 account of the low water the companies asked the com- 

 missioners to appoint a water master for each of the 

 streams that feeds the ditches in the neighborhood. 



The Teasdale Irrigation Company, of Teasdale, 

 Wayne county, Utah, filed articles of incorporation with 

 the secretary of state to carry on a general irrigation pro- 

 ject business. Capital stock, $10,000, divided into shares 

 of $r>.oo each. 



WASHINGTON. 



September 4 is the date set for a hearing by the Public 

 Service Commission at Pasco of a complaint against the 

 Burbank Irrigation Company at Two Rivers, which, it is 

 claimed, is not living up to its agreement to furnish water 

 to certain landowners-. 



Arrangements for the delivery of storage water to 

 the Yakima Indian Reservation ranchers for irrigation 

 purposes for the remainder of the season have been com- 

 pleted by the United States Reclamation Service, accord- 

 ing to the announcement of Acting Engineer A. H. Gul- 

 luckson. The water will be charged for at the rate of 

 $1.00 per acre. 



Three federal land experts have officially confirmed 

 previous reports as to the availability of the prairies south 

 of Tacoma for agriculture under irrigation. They place 

 the arable .acreage at about 100,000. 



Cooke & Sons of Spokane, were granted an extension 

 of 34 days on the contract for the completion of the main 

 laterals in the Cowiche-Yakima branch, Tieton unit, Yak- 

 ima irrigation project. The contractors were delayed by 

 reason of additional work required by the Reclamation 

 Service. 



The government has awarded contracts for construct- 

 ing canals and structures on the Prosser Division of the 

 Sunnyside unit of the Yakima irrigation project, as fol- 



AMERICAN 



RECLAMATION 



FEDERATION 



(Incorporated Not for Profit) 



WITH WHICH IS MERGED 



The Chicago Irrigation Association 



AND 



The American Irrigation Federation 



This Federation is organized for the pro- 

 motion and encouragement of the irrigation, re- 

 clamation, colonization and development of 

 land within the United States of America. It 

 maintains an office at 1110 First National Bank 

 Building, 38 South Dearborn Street, where there 

 is open to the public, free of charge, maps and 

 publications relating to the lands of the United 

 States. Questions relating to irrigation matters 

 will be answered by the officers of the Federation 

 and information given. 



THE OFFICERS OF THE FEDERATION ARE: 



EDMUND T. PERKINS, President 

 HENRY C. WOOD, Vice-President 

 D. H. ANDERSON, Secretary 

 WILLIAM W. VERNON, Treasurer 



THE DIRECTORS ARE: 



EDMUND T. PERKINS, Presidsnt Edmund T. Perkins 

 Engineering Co. 



HENRY C. WOOD, Wood & Lounsbury, Attorneys-at- 

 Law. 



WILLIAM W. VERNON, Secretary American Life 

 Insurance Co. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Publisher "Irrigation Age" 



PARKE WEST, Journalist 



W. P. VAN BUSKIRK, Vice-President, Standard Trust 

 & Savings Bank 



CHARLES F. FISHBACK, President, Porter, Fishback 

 ,. &Co. 



JOHN D. HIBBARD, President, North American Secur- 

 ities Co. 



ISHAM RANDOLPH, Consulting Engineer 



JAMES A. McLANE, James A. McLane & Co. 



RICHARD S. THAIN, Lewiston Land & Water Co. 



Organizations and individuals interested in 

 reclamation are invited to become members. 

 Detailed information concerning initiation fees 

 and dues will be furnished upon application to the 

 secretary. Address 



D. H. Anderson, Secretary 



30 North Dearborn St., 



Chicago, 111. 



