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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



lows: To Orrin H. Stratton of Spokane, Washington, 

 one 180-foot steel bridge span complete in place, two 132- 

 foot span and one 50-foot span in place. Contract price, 

 $12,000. To the Pacific Tank and Pipe Company of Port- 

 land, Oregon, contract for the furnishing and placing of 

 wood stave pipe, bridge floor, blow-off, contract price, 

 $18,972. To Barnard Bros, of Prosser, Washington, 

 trench for pipe, and canal excavation. The work involves 

 the excavation of 35,740 cubic yards of material and 1,000 

 cubic yards of blanketing. Contract price, $18,830. The 

 work of construction of the diversion dam and steel flues 

 will be performed by force account. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The biggest irrigation project yet coming before the 

 Board of Agriculture was recently filed with Secretary Ben 

 Hennessy, State Engineer, with an application for water 

 rights from the Cimarron River, Cimarron County, Okla- 

 homa. The water is to be taken before the stream reaches 

 the Oklahoma salt beds. Back of the application is the 

 Cimarron Canal and Cimarron Reservoir Company. Plans 

 of the company call for irrigating 120,000 acres in Cim- 

 arron County. 



The State Engineer of South Dakota has granted a 

 permit to Gregor Cruikshank, of Sturgis, for the right to 

 appropriate one second foot of the waters of Bare Butte 

 Creek for the irrigation of 70 acres of land in Meade 

 County. 



The Denver-Laramie Realty Company has a large 

 force of men and teams at work upon an irrigation project 

 12 miles south of Laramie, Wyoming, where they expect 

 to construct a mammoth reservoir. The land which it is 

 expected to reclaim through this project lies but three 

 or four miles from Laramie and is as rich as any in the 

 country. It is likely that Laramie will have an entirely 

 new agricultural community right at her doors before an- 

 other year has passed. 



It is quite evident that the Big Lost River Irrigation 

 Company has given up the idea of doing anything in the 

 way of construction work, for the present at least, as all 

 the force employed on the project has been called off, in- 

 cluding the Arnold engineering staff, which was re-sur- 

 veying the project in an effort to perfect plans for the 

 successful completion of the project. 



The Irving pasture lands in Pecos, Brewster and Jeff 

 Davis Counties, Texas, have just been sold to Kansas City 

 capitalists, who propose to develop an irrigation project 

 whereby at least 20.000 acres in 

 the Cuyanosa Valley will be 

 brought under cultivation. There 

 are more than 40,000 acres in the 

 pasture. The price paid for these 

 lands is stated to be in the neigh- 

 borhood of $800,000. 



CLARK & WRIGHT 



(Registered Land Attorneys) 



902 F St., N. W. 

 WASHINGTON, D. C. 



final proof and public land entries 



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information about 



THE SUBMARINE WEED CUTTING SAW 



does away with insufficient and laborsome methods of clearing. It ia 



easily operated f r om the banks, or, on large lakes just as well from boats, 



and cuts the 



weeds at the 



ROOTS. Em- i 



ployed by dif- ' = Dei 



ferent Dept's 

 of the U. S. 

 Gov't, several 

 States and many 

 cities, and highly 

 recommended by 

 water users here 

 and abroad. 



Write for illus- 

 trated circular and 

 references. Weeds Cut and Floating Down Stream 



ASCHERT BROS., Cedar Lake, West Bend, Wis. 



Edmund T, Perkins Engineering Company 



IRRIGATION AND AGRICULTURAL 



Investigations, Reports, Plans, Estimates and 

 Construction 



Financial assistance procured for projects 

 examined and approved by this company 



First National Bank Bldg., 



Chicago, III. 



Another large irrigation proj- 

 ect is in progress near Marfa, 

 Presidio County, Texas. A large 

 Kansas City irrigation company 

 owns 13,000 acres of land near 

 that place and will construct a 

 dam across the Alamito Creek. 

 The structure will be 997 feet 

 long and 108 feet high. With the 

 exception of the Medina River 

 dam, now in course of construc- 

 tion, this will be the tallest dam 

 in the state of Texas. 



September 16 has been set for 

 the election day when the matter 

 of organizing the union irrigation 

 district, the first in the state of 

 Texas, will be submitted to the 

 residents of the Raymondville dis- 

 trict. The district comprises 185,- 

 000 acres land and the completion 

 of the system contemplates the 

 expenditure of nearly $3,000,000. 



You may be losing thousands of 

 Dollars each Year. 



i Everybody knows there's money in Alfalfa if properly grown. 

 Alfalfa growers do not seem to realize the importance of saving 

 one crop each year for seed. Alfalfa seed is in great demand and 

 you can have a yield of from 2 to 6 bushels per acre per year 



Write for our Alfalfa Booklet FREE. It is written by Prof. 

 J. M. Westgate, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



We had Prof. Westgate compile this booklet especially for those inter- 

 ested in growing Alfalfa for seed and hay. We are interested in the 

 Alfalfa Seed Question because we are the only manufacturer* 

 of a machine built especially for hulling and cleaning Alfal- 

 fa Seed. The Booklet how- 

 ever, deals with Alfalfa only and 

 contains nothing concerning our 

 machinery. Write for it today. 



BIRDSELL MANUFACTURING CO., 



South Bend, Indiana, U. S. A. 



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