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having subscribed the necessary $100,000 and paid for 

 the work as it progressed. The water supply is secured 

 from Wild Cat creek. Among those interested are George 

 T. Prince, S. W. Widney, Walter P. Miller, Walter G. 

 Christie, Dr. James Arneill, H. S. Classon and E. S. May, 

 all of Denver. 



Articles of incorporation of the Pueblo Irrigated 

 Farms Company have been filed with the secretary of 

 state. Capital stock is $500,000. Principal offices of the 

 company are located in Pueblo. The objects of the com- 

 pany are to buy, sell and acquire farm lands in Pueblo, 

 Huerfano and Otero countries. 



Assistant U. S. District Attorney Ward has made 

 final proof before the state land referee at Montrose of 

 the federal government's water priorities under the Gun- 

 nispn tunnel project. These rights date back to 1901. 

 This action marks the completion of one of the greatest 

 tunnel projects in the United States. Three hundred 

 canals and ditches carry water to every section of the 

 175,000 acres of land under the Uncompahgre valley. The 

 government has already spent $4,700,000 on the system 

 and it is estimated that it will require $1,000,000 more to 

 complete the system. The last tract of government land 

 in the valley will be opened for settlers the coming spring. 



IDAHO. 



Between 8,000 and 9,000 acres of land were filed upon 

 at Jerome recently as the result of the opening of a 14,000 

 acre tract under the Carey Act on the North Side Twin 

 Falls tract, to be irrigated by what has been designated 

 as the first pumping system of the Kuhn interests in 

 Idaho. The Kuhn interests in Chicago are represented by 

 H. L. Hollister & Company, Home Insurance building. 



pany forfeited. The water users further refuse to nego- 

 tiate with the Farwell Trust Company or its successors, 

 the Woodland Company, of Chicago. The Kings Hill 

 project embraces 18,000 acres of land in the Snake River 

 valley. Several years ago the state entered into a con- 

 tract with the Kings Hill Irrigation & Power Company 

 for the construction of an irrigation project by which 

 the land could be watered. The lands were opened under 

 the Carey Act and subsequently settled upon. When the 

 project was about half completed it was discovered that 

 the construction company did not have enough money 

 to complete the project. New capital was interested 

 and eventually $1,500,000 was expended, but the project 

 is not yet completed. The settlers complain that they 

 have not enough water to irrigate their lands and ask the 

 state land board for a remedy. 



UTAH. 



The Grande Valley Fruit & Water Company of Denver, 

 Colo., is planning to place 5,000 acres of land under irri- 

 gation this spring. The land lies in the eastern part of 

 the state of Utah and is tributary to Denver's markets. 

 The company propose to secure about 70,000 acres addi- 

 tional from the government under the Carey Act and will 

 ultimately reclaim about 81,000 acres. The water supply 

 will be taken from the Grande river. The enterprise 

 contemplates an expenditure of about $250,000. 



The Strawberry tunnel, which the Reclamation Serv- 

 ice is building through the Wasatch mountains in order 

 to bring waters from Strawberry valley to irrigate lands 

 near Utah lake, is now 65 per cent complete. 



Work on the Portneuf-Marsh irrigation project in 

 Bannock county is being rapidly pushed to completion 

 and water will be delivered in time for irrigation this 

 season. There are 20,000 acres of land in the project. 

 The reservoir dam and other head works are completed 

 and the reservoir is being rapidly filled with water. The 

 Kidder-Peabody syndicate of Boston, Mass., are financing 

 the project. 



WASHINGTON. 



The residents of the Kittitas reclamation district have 

 voted five million dollars in special improvement bonds to 

 build an irrigating canal of water 91,000 acres of land. 

 The land lies near the city of Ellensburg. .Construction 

 work will be begun by July of this year. 



The United States government has constructed a 

 railroad twenty-one miles in length extending from Boise 

 to Arrow Rock. The road was built to carry laborers 

 and supplies for work during the next four or five years 

 on what is to be the highest- dam in the world, the 

 Arrow Rock dam, which will be 350 feet high. The flood 

 and excess waters of the Boise river, which the dam 

 will hold back, will be used in irrigating 250,000 acres of 

 land on the government irrigation project near Boise. 



The Yelm Irrigation Company, which was organized 

 nearly a year ago, have surveyors in the field now to map 

 out the route for the proposed Yelm irrigation ditch. Yelm 

 prairie and other prairie lands lying near the town of 

 Yelm will be embraced in the project which comprises 

 some 10,000 acres. The. ditch is to tap the Nisqually 

 river some distance southeast of Yelm and carry the 

 waters to the prairies for distribution. The estimated 

 cost of the project is $125,000. 



The Munsey Ditch Company has filed articles of in- 

 corporation, with principal office at Arco. The capital 

 stock is $13,600, divided into $100 shares. Water will 

 be taken from the Big Lost river to supply irrigation for 

 land in Blaine county. 



The Black Canyon Irrigation district has voted a 

 bond issue of several million dollars to finance the con- 

 struction of an irrigation project to claim 100,000 acres 

 of land lying in western Idaho, bordering on the Snake 

 river. Construction work on the project will be begun 

 immediately. The proposed plans for the storage of 

 water to irrigate the large area call for the construction 

 of a big dam on the main Payette river, three miles north 

 of Horseshoe bend, at a cost of several thousand dollars. 



OREGON. 



The Warner Lake Irrigation Company of Portland 

 has filed maps and plats with the government land office 

 at Lakeview, and applications for additional sites and 

 water supply whereby 150,000 acres of land in Warner 

 valley may be reclaimed. Water will be taken from 

 Honey and Deep creeks. It is the intention of the com- 

 pany to generate power from Deep creek as well as from 

 Honey creek and use the waters for generating power 

 and irrigating the lands. In addition to three reservoirs, 

 the company will use hydro-electric power pumping plants 

 on Flagstaff lake and drain its waters upon the lands, 

 thereby reclaiming many thousands of acres of land now 

 submerged by several feet of water. The total cost of 

 the enterprise is estimated at $3,000,000. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed with the sec- 

 retary of state by the Vale-Oregon Irrigation Company, 

 with a capital stock of $1.000,000. The principal office of 

 the company is at Vale. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed 1 by the Raft 

 River Reclamation Project Company. The purpose of 

 the company is to reclaim lands in Cassia county. Prin- 

 cipal offices are at Boise. The company has a capital stock 

 of $1,000.000. Water will be taken from the Raft river to 

 irrigate 60,000 acres of land embraced in the project. 



Settlers on the Kings Hill irrigation project, located 

 in southern Idaho, surrounding Kings Hill, have asked 

 the State Land Board to declare the contract that the 

 state has with the Kings Hill Irrigation & Power Com- 



The Goose Lake Irrigation Company's project, lying 

 twelve miles from Lakeview, is rapidly approaching com- 

 pletion. The company has expended about $1,000,000 to 

 handle the waters that come from Drews, Thomas. Cot- 

 tonwood and other creeks -into the lake, by building a 

 large dam at the mouth of the canyon, thus forming a 

 natural reservoir. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A permit has been granted by the state engineer of 

 South Dakota to W. O. Hulchins of Lindsay. Stanley 



