THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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The completion of the reclamation works in the Ar- 

 royo Hondo and the placing under water and cultivation 

 of live thousand acres of fertile lands means more to 

 Santa Fe than the securing of a beet sugar factory or a 

 steel mill. 



OREGON. 



A four million dollar reclamation project is contem- 

 plated by the United States Reclamation Service at 

 Pendleton. 



Land owners in the eastern part of Klamath county 

 have presented a petition asking that a special election be 

 called this fall to vote on establishing an irrigation dis- 

 trict in the Langell and Yonna valleys. It is likely the 

 court will grant the petition. About 25,000 acres in the 

 valleys named are susceptible to irrigation. 



UTAH. 



The directors of the Provo Reservoir Company have 

 decided to commence work at an early date on the Utah 

 Lake irrigation project and pumps will be installed before 

 snow flies. The project will be prepared to furnish water 

 to land owners on the west side of the lake by next June. 

 The project will cover 15,000 acres of land on the west 

 side of Utah lake and also some in the south end of Salt 

 Lake county. 



The county commissioners, after considering the peti- 

 tion of people at Riverside for a pumping district for a 

 long time, finally granted the request after eliminating 

 from the district asked a considerable portion of land that 

 is benefited by the West-Cache canal and which will come 

 in the district asked for there. 



Orchardists of the town of Perry have concluded that 

 it is profitable to irrigate by electricity and during the past 

 summer a number of electric wells have been sunk with 

 the best of success by those experimenting in this way 

 and obtaining a good flow of water. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Kittitas reclamation district was recently created 

 at Ellensburg, Washington, by a vote of 350 to 10. The 

 bond election will be held in 60 days and work on the 

 big canal will be begun next spring. 



Several hundred acres of land owned by the Priest 

 Rapid Orchard Company have been taken over by B. R. 

 McMahon. The price paid for the tract was $160,000. It 

 is located on the banks of the Columbia river in the south- 

 eastern part of Washington and will be subdivided into 

 orchard tracts and irrigated by the Columbia river. 



Reports will have to be submitted by the Burbank 

 Irrigation Company, of Two Rivers, Washington, within 

 30 days, detailing the progress of the work which was 

 ordered done by the public service commission following 

 a hearing of a complaint from the patrons of the company. 

 The installation of a new irrigation unit, new ditches and 

 flumes and a new auxiliary steam plant are some of the 

 most important work prescribed in the order of the com- 

 mission. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The Republican Valley Reservoir and Irrigation re- 

 cently filed application and fee for water rights on 60,000 

 acres of land in Hitchcock and Dundy counties. The com- 

 pany, with headquarters at Denver, proposes to locate its 

 reservoir in Cheyenne county, Kansas, the whole project 

 to cost $1,481,000. The water will be taken from the south 

 fcrk of the Republican river. 



In looking into the matter of tracts which are subject 

 to irrigation in the Missouri valley, South Dakota, it was 

 found that in Hughes county there are seventy-seven sec- 

 tions which lie within one mile of the Missouri; in Stan- 

 ley county there are sixty-five sections within a mile of 

 the river, and in Sully county there are forty-five such sec- 

 tions. This means that there are 118,000 acres of land 

 within a mile of the Missouri which could be placed under 

 irrigation by small pumping plants. 



The Nebraska Advisory Committee of the National 

 Irrigation Congress has been called to meet in Lincoln. 

 The committee comprises Grant Shumway, of Scotts Bluff; 

 W. E. Guthrie. of Omaha; F. L. Haller, of Omaha; State 

 Engineer D. D. Price and Secretary W. S. Whitten, of the 

 Lincoln Commercial Club. 



The Denver-Laramie Realty Company has a large 

 force of men and teams at work upon an irrigation project 

 twelve miles south of Laramie, Wyoming, at Hutton's 



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, President 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. 



