THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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big reservoir site has been decided on. It will be on the 

 Purgatoire river about 18 miles south of Las Animas. 



The Pueblo County Commissioners have been asked 

 to levy an assessment of 30 cents an acre against the 

 50,000 acres of land in the new county irrigation district 

 which was established a few months ago. The first levy 

 to be made against the land in the district will be for the 

 engineering work and preparations for the bringing of 

 water from the other side of the mountains to water the 

 area. 



The Bent County Reservoir Company has let the con- 

 tract for the construction of a reservoir and canal system 

 on Rule Creek. This project has been under way for 

 several years and the system will eventually water 20,000 

 acres of land lying adjacent to the city of Las Animas. 



Work on the boring of a tunnel 14,725 feet long through 

 the continental divide under Jones Pass at the head of Clear 

 Creek has been started. The tunnel will cost about $589,000. 

 Water will flow through it from the Williams fork of the 

 Grand river into West Clear Creek and canals and thence 

 into reservoirs. The area to be irrigated comprises 109,675 

 acres close to Denver. Farmers and landowners in the 

 Henrylyn Irrigation district bonded their property at $-10 an 

 lyn Irrigation district bonded their property at $40.00 an 

 acre to build this irrigation system. 



F. J. Hartman of Riverside and E. R. Hartman of 

 Maher have taken over the holdings of the Paradox Val- 

 ley Land and Irrigation Company and the private holdings 

 of Paul S. Seeley, I. W. McConnell and C. G. Kinney, in- 

 cluding water filings, reservoirs and 4,000 acres of land 

 situated in West Paradox Valley. This land will be di- 

 vided into small tracts and placed on the market by the 

 recent purchasers. 



MONTANA. 



Government engineers have made a trip over the Flat- 

 head Irrigation project and report that 40,000 acres of that 

 land will be under completed canals and ditches by June 

 1, 1912. 



A suit instituted by the Northwestern Trust Company 

 of St. Paul, Minnesota, has been filed, in which this com- 

 pany seeks to foreclose a mortgage for $150.000 given 

 December 1, 1905, by the Miles City Canal and Irrigating 

 Company. 



Petitions are being circulated among land owners on 

 the north side of Prickly Pear Valley for the creation of 

 an irrigation district under the terms of the state law, and 

 it is proposed to reclaim in the first unit between 6,000 

 and 8,000 acres. If this is successful additional units to 

 the extent of 40,000 acres will be placed under irrigation. 

 Water will be taken from Lake Mauser. 



The Miles City Canal and Irrigation Company of 

 Miles City has brought suit against 43 users of the water 

 of the Tongue River to determine priority rights. 



OREGON. 



The American Surety Company has filed with the 

 State Land Board a bond for $50,000 as surety for the 

 Portland Irrigation Company's undertaking to protect 

 the state against the failure of that company to go ahead 

 and complete the Chewaucan irrigation project within the 

 specified period. The company is the new owner of the 

 project which will eventually water 12,000 acres of land 

 near Lakeview. 



Work on the Terrace Irrigation project near Monte 

 Vista is being pushed with all possible speed. The con- 

 tract calls for the completion of the project in time to 

 water the lands next season. 



It is stated that a move is on to construct a gigantic 

 irrigation project in northern Lake and Klamath counties. 

 A company will be formed with the object in view of tak- 

 ing water from Lake Odell and by bringing it in cement- 

 lined canals, irrigate the 350,000 acres lying in Christmas 

 Lake and Silver Lake valleys. 



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