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reservoir site. The reservoir will have a capacity suffi- 

 cient to irrigate 20,000 acres of land. The principal office 

 of the Carbondale Reservoir and Iriigation Company is 

 located at 801 Continental bldg., Denver, Colo. 



T. D. Nowles of Lamar, J. S. Hasty of Lamar, Don- 

 ald Mclntosh, Las Animas, C. D. Ray, Wiley, John 

 O'Neill, La Junta, were elected directors of the Fort 

 Lyon Canal Company at a recent meeting. 



It is reported that 200,000 acres of land lying near the 

 town of Saguache is to be brought under irrigation. T. 

 C. Henry of Denver has proposed that this land be 

 brought under an irrigation district and be irrigated from 

 waters stored in an immense reservoir to be constructed 

 on the headwaters of the Rio Grande river at Antelope 

 Park. The proposed reservoir will impound about 250,000 

 acre feet of water. 



An irrigation project that plans to reclaim 100,00(1 

 acres of land in San Miguel and Montrose counties has 

 been launched, entailing an expense of $4,000,000. Gen- 

 eral Bulkeley Wells of Telluride, Duncan Chisholm of 

 Colorado Springs, Chaloner Schley of Colorado Springs, 

 and Robert McF. Doble of Denver are the promoters. 

 About 43,000 acres of Carey Act land under the super- 

 vision of the state land board are to be included in the 

 tract to be irrigated, and a segregation of this amount 

 of land has already been ordered by the board. The 

 other 57,000 acres will be purchased outright. Water to 

 irrigate this vast area will be taken from the San Miguel 

 river near Placerville, and also from the watershed of 

 the Lone Cone. 



A finished survey has been made of the Buck and 

 Weisdorfer Irrigation system whereby 23,000 acres of 

 choice land in north central Kiowa county will be irri- 

 gated. The head works will be located on Rush creek 

 near the Lincoln and Cheyenne county line about fifteen 

 miles north of Haswell. It will obtain its supply from 

 twenty-three immense wells and two submerged tunnels 

 tapping the underflow. 



The United States government has begun suit in the 

 federal court against the Henrylyn Irrigation District 

 Company to prevent that concern from building its pro- 

 jected tunnel and canals through the Arapahoe and Pike 

 national forest reserves. 



The Home Supply Ditch and Reservoir Company held 

 its annual meeting in Loveland late in December. During 

 the past ten years an indebtedness of $40,000 has been 

 lifted by this company and more than $40,000 worth of 

 new work has been added to the property. 



Through a decision of the Colorado supreme court 

 in the case of the Welden Valley Ditch Company of Mor- 

 gan county against the Farmers-Pawnee canal company of 

 Logan county, the ditches in Morgan county will gain 

 56.6 feet of water, valued at nearly $170,000. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized the Di- 

 rector of the Reclamation Service to execute contract 

 with the Sayler Construction Company of Lamar, Colo., 

 for the construction and enlargement of Divisions 6 and 

 8 of the East canal, Uncompahgre irrigation project. 

 Colorado. The work involves the excavation of 81,000 

 cubic yards of material; the contract price is $18,060. 



OREGON. 



At a meeting of the incorporators of the Central Ore- 

 gon Pioneer & Irrigation Company held in Baker re- 

 cently, the following officers were elected: W. A. Pope, 

 president; S. S. Start, vice-president; C. T. Goodwin, sec- 

 retary, and Mrs. Blanche Rhineart, treasurer. The com- 

 pany-plans the reclamation of 40.000 acres of land in 

 Malheur county, which will require an expenditure of 

 approximately $150,000. The construction work will be 

 commenced immediately. 



100 feet depth to be used for irrigation next season, the 

 pump to be operated by a gasoline engine. This is the 

 first attempt at irrigation in this section and is being 

 closely watched. 



The irrigation -project near Laidlaw has been taken 

 up by the Columbia Southern Irrigating Company. The 

 company has filed its deed, maps, etc., and will have sixty 

 more days, according to its contract, in which to show 

 the Land Board that the project will be satisfactorily 

 financed. At the end of that time, if plans for financing 

 the project are not successful, further operations will be 

 suspended. 



A hearing which will have an important bearing on 

 the future of the Central Oregon Irrigation Company, 

 which is the reorganization of the Deschutes Irrigation 

 anad Power Company, will be held in the near future be- 

 fore the Desert Land Board of Oregon. Settlers in the 

 Deschutes valley have made complaints that the company 

 is not furnishing sufficient water for the lands under cul- 

 tivation; that it is not taking steps to complete its north 

 canal, etc. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



R. D. Yoakum of St. Louis, Mo., has installed a pump- 

 ing plant on his ranch near Sante Fe, New Mexico. The 

 plant includes a 50 h. p. oil engine capable of handling 

 2,000 gallons per minute. This is the largest individual 

 pumping plant ever installed in the Portales valley. 



The greatest Carey Act project in the United States, 

 embracing 240,000 acres of land in the Green River valley, 

 Utah, has been financed by Denver, Colo., capitalists. A. 

 W. Hille, A. L. Briggs, J. A. Simpson and H. G. Wilson, 

 all of Denver, are backing the project. The plans of the 

 company contemplate the damming of the Green river, 

 which flows through the tract. This dam will be built 

 in a natural reservoir site at a point where the river 

 passes through a narrow gorge. This will give the drop 

 necessary for carrying the water through the 337 miles 

 of canals that have already been surveyed. While the 

 company has not yet definitely decided on the price that 

 will be asked for the water, it is stated officially that it 

 will not exceed $100 per acre. 



Within the next sixty days the South Willow Irriga- 

 tion Company of Grantsville, Utah, will probably com- 

 mence work on improvements on their present irrigation 

 system, which will cost about $70,000. The present sys- 

 tem of cement piping which conveys the water from South 

 Willow canyon to the farms in the valley will be torn 

 up and replaced with steel pipe. 



C. A. Laird of Howe, Idaho, and other settlers under 

 the ditch system of the Elaine County Irrigation Com- 

 pany, have brought suit against that company for its 

 failure to deliver water for the season of 1910. They 

 claim $80,000 damages. 



The improvements on the Carlsbad irrigation project 

 in New Mexico are being rapidly pushed to completion. 

 At McMillan, the upper reservoir, the embankments will 

 be raised four feet, increasing the capacity of the reser- 

 voir 30,000 acre feet, making the total capacity over 60,000 

 acre feet. The estimated cost of the improvements now 

 under way is $75,000. 



The Secretary of the Interior has directed the Recla- 

 mation Service to accept a contract with T. C. Egglestort 

 of Denver, Colo., for furnishing two 21-foot diameter cyl- 

 inder gates for use in connection with the Avalon dam, 

 Carlsbad irrigation project, New Mexico. The estimated 

 value of the contract is $4,525. 



John Zalinsky. a German farmer living near Chemawa, 

 has erected a tower and tank above a drilled well of over 



Contract has been awarded to Marcus E. Getter of 

 Mitchell, Neb., for enlarging the parts of lateral 24 of 

 the North Platte irrigation project, Nebraska-Wyoming. 

 The total yardage involved is 14,000 and the estimated 

 cost of the work is $1,412.74. The work is to be com- 

 pleted by March 31, 1912. 



