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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



E. J. Blossom of Tehama has filed on 200,000 inches 

 of the floodwaters of Cottonwood creek to be taken from 

 the stream at a point fifteen miles west of that city. 

 The water will be stored in a huge reservoir and used 

 to irrigate 15,000 acres of land. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Moul- 

 ton Irrigated Lands Company of Yuba City, with a capital 

 stock of $500,000 divided into 50,000 shares at $10 each. 

 The company has extensive holdings in Colusa and Sutter 

 counties. 



The directors of the Oakdale Irrigation district have 

 awarded the contract for building 300 miles of laterals 

 and ditches to the Utah Construction Company, work to 

 be completed by March 1st, 1913. The contract is esti- 

 mated at $1,250,000. Work will be begun at once on the 

 7,000-foot tunnel that is necessary to bring the water 

 under a wide range of fields. The Oakdale district em- 

 braces 68,000 acres of some of the most fertile land in 

 San Joaquin county. Water for irrigation will be taken 

 from the Stanislaus river, where a diverting dam is now 

 under construction. 



Charles Teague of Modesto has purchased 640 acres 

 of unimproved land adjoining the city of Turlock and will 

 sub-divide the land into small tracts. The land is under 

 the Turlock irrigation system. 



The Secretary of the Interior has awarded the con- 

 tract to the Riverside Portland Cement Company of 

 Riverside for the delivery of about 10,000 barrels of Port- 

 land cement for use on the Yuma irrigation project. The 

 contract price is $1.37 T /2 per barrel, f. o. b. cars Riverside. 



The Consumnes Irrigation Company is preparing to 

 bring 20,000 acres of land lying near Herald under irri- 

 gation. 



Fifty thousand dollars have been paid to property 

 holders of the Newville section for options on property 

 for the dam site and lake site for the Newville irriga- 

 tion project. In addition to this options have been taken 

 one several thousand acres of land along the proposed 

 canal just west of the town of Willows. Capitalists 

 have made and approved plans for one of the largest 

 power plant in California to be run by water from the 

 lake. It is stated that water can be used twice for power 

 generating before it passes into the irrigating canals. 

 L. W. \varmoth of Paskenta, together with other capital- 

 ists, is interested in the undertaking. 



The United States Reclamation Service has com- 

 pleted 39 per cent of the work of building a siphon 

 under the Colorado river to carry water fourteen miles 

 from the Laguna dam on the Arizona-California border 

 to irrigate 55,000 acres of land in the Yuma valley. 



Work is to be commenced in the near future on an 

 immense pipe line system and reservoir for the irrigation 

 of a large body of land recently acquired by a number 

 of prominent ranchers who have incorporated as the 

 Citrus Heights Development Company. The principal 

 office of the company is located at Oxnard. The company 

 intends planting the several hundred acres to lemons. 

 The irrigation system will cost approximately $5,000. 



D. E. Lane of Sacramento, manager of the Doyle 

 Townsite Company, is preparing to construct an irriga- 

 tion system that will furnish water to a large tract of 

 land near Doyle. The preliminary work is now being 

 done and it is expected that construction work will be 

 commenced early in the spring. 



Fifty thousand acres of Tulare Lake lands, lying near 

 Alpaugh, are being placed under irrigation. This tract 

 of land is known as the Homeland Colony and is located 

 in Kings county. L. L. Brandenburg of Pasadena, who 

 is heavily interested in this section, is constructing twenty 

 miles of canals which will carry water over the project. 



The Hallwood Irrigation Company of Marysville have 

 commenced work on an irrigation system which will 

 water the Hallwood tract and Stahl holdings north of 

 that city. The- estimated cost of the project is $10,000. 



To turn a dry lake into an immense reservoir and 

 the subsequent irrigation of thousands of acres of fertile 

 land, is a plan disclosed here recently when C. H. Walton, 

 Albert Grant and W. P. McArthur of Los Angeles filed 

 with the county recorder appropriation notices which claim 

 3,000 inches of the surface flow and 50,000 inches of the 

 subsurface flow of the Mojave river, to be diverted through 

 a 20-foot ditch at a point near Otis on the Salt Lake Rail- 

 road. The appropriators plan to impound the water in a 

 dry lake bed and ^y this means bring 3,000 acres of rich 

 land under irrigation and cultivation. 



COLORADO. 



Farmers in the vicinity of Romeo are making exten- 

 sive preparations for the organization of an irrigation 

 district for financing the building of the Mogote reservoir, 

 six miles southwest of that town. The district will 

 embrace 20,000 acres of land and 18,000 acres have been 

 pledged. 



A number of ranchmen in the vicinity of Clifton and 

 Palisade will protest to Congress against the action of 

 the Reclamation Service, which refused to allow them 

 damages for injury to their lands because of the con- 

 struction of the High Line canal, for the reason that 

 they were homesteaders. 



Denver capitalists have formed the Tyrone Con- 

 struction & Irrigation Company to reclaim 25,000 acres 

 of land near Tyrone, Colo. The land is segregated under 

 the Carey Act. The project involves an expenditure of 

 $1,000,000. Work on the construction of canals, which 

 are to carry water from the Purgatoire and Apishapa 

 rivers, has already been started. Land will be ready for 

 settlement by the summer of 1912. The officers of the 

 company are Frank C. Dinsmore, president; Samuel H. 

 Alexander, vice-president, and C. Lorimer Colburn is the 

 engineer for the new project. 



At a meeting of the Palisade Protective Association 

 and the reclamation officials held at F'alisade recently, the 

 ranchmen voted unanimously to give right of way to the 

 canal on the route favored by the government. The land 

 owners have been demanding that their land not be 

 touched, as it would involve a heavy loss to their orchards. 

 The project as planned by the government will irrigate 

 about 53,000 acres of land in Mesa county. Water will be 

 taken from the Grand river for irrigation purposes. 



The Mountain Supply Ditch Company of Fort Collins 

 has been consolidated with the North Poudre Irrigation 

 Company. The new company will be capitalized at 

 $1,200,000 and will irrigate 40,000 acres of land. There 

 will be 10,000 shares. Each share will be entitled to 

 200,000 cubic feet of water. The Mountain Supply Ditch 

 Company, now owners to one-fourth of the North Poudre. 

 have valuable water-rights from the Michigan river and 

 other mountain streams. The North Poudre has a valu- 

 able irrigating system, but is lacking in water supply. 



The Cedar Ridge Irrigation Company of Grand Junc- 

 tion has let the contract for an imense reservoir, to cost 

 $40,000. The company plans to irrigate several thousand 

 acres of land lying near Fruita. 



The North Fort Morgan Reservoir Company, com- 

 prised of Denver capitalists, has completed a system which 

 will irrigate 6,400 acres of table land four miles north 

 of Fort Morgan. The project involved an expenditure 

 of $100.000 and the enterprise was financed without the 

 aid of irrigation bonds or eastern capital, its stockholders 



