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county, to appropriate water from the Cheyenne river for 

 the irrigation of 32.81 acres of land. 



The Frenchman Valley Irrigation Company has been 

 organized in several western Nebraska counties for the 

 purpose of taking over much of the stock and holdings of 

 the old Culbertson Ditch Company. There are 10,000 acres 

 of land irrigated under the system at present. 



The secretary of the interior is asking for bids for 

 the construction of an earth dam and auxiliary works on 

 the North Platte irrigation project, about six miles north 

 of Minatare, Neb. The work involves the handling of 

 about 840,000 cubic yards of material, of which 630,000 

 cubic yards is earth fill, 157,000 cubic yards gravelly ma- 

 terial, 14,000 cubic yards unscreened gravel, 11,500 cubic 

 yards screened gravel, 14,000 cubic yards concrete and 

 12,000 cubic yards brule clay excavation, besides 45 acres 

 ' of sod stripping, 600 feet of wells and casing, 3,200 linear 

 feet of drains and the handling and placing of 250,000 

 pounds of reinforcing steel. The proposals will be opened 

 at the office of the United States Reclamation Service, 

 Mitchell, Neb., on February 28, 1912. The purpose of this 

 clam is to create one of a series of reservoirs on the main 

 interstate canal. The water impounded by this dam will 

 be used to irrigate 30,000 acres of land at the lower end 

 of the North Platte project. 



The Alamo Land & Sugar Company of Ebenezer, 

 Texas, is planning to irrigate 35,800 acres of land adjoin- 

 ing the city of Ebenezer. The company will construct an 

 irrigation system and the land will be subdivided into 

 forty-acre tracts. Water supply will be obtained from the 

 Rio Grande river. 



Articles of incorporation have been tiled by the Ameri- 

 can Overhead Electrified Irrigation Company with a capi- 

 tal stock of $200,000. The principal office of the company 

 is located at 20 Broad street, New York City. 



The North Platte Irrigation Company of Douglas, 

 Wyo., has completed a large irrigation pumping plant on 

 the Platte river near Glenrock, and will begin construc- 

 tion work, on ditches in which the pumps will pour 40.000 

 gallons of water per minute after raising it 40 feet. The 

 ditches will irrigate more than 30,000 acres of bench land. 



A. J. Clippy and A. B. Hamilton, both of Los Angeles, 

 Oil., together with other capitalists, are planning the 

 reclamation of an immense tract of land near the city of 

 Cibolia, Yuma county, Arizona. The main canal of the 

 system will be seventeen miles in length with one hun- 

 dred miles of ditches. Water will be taken from the Colo- 

 rado river for irrigation purposes. It is stated that it 

 will take two years to complete the project. 



P. J. Conway of Sweetwater, Nev., and Geo. P. Cos- 

 tigan of Sonoma, Nev., together with other Reno capital- 

 ists, have formed the Walker River Power Company, to 

 reclaim 50.000 acres of land in Mason valley. This land 

 has been segregated under the Carey act, and construction 

 work on the project will be begun early in the spring. 



\\ . G. Kleine, of Cleveland, Ohio, has purchased 

 120,000 acres of land situated in Upton, Crane and 

 Crockett counties, and will install a system of sub- 

 irrigation of the land, and colonize it with farmers from 

 the middle states. Laterals will be placed under the 

 ground and the water is permitted to seep through the 

 ground by openings in the concrete tubes every few feet. 

 The laterals on the Kleine farms will be fed from deep 

 water wells. 



The state engineer of South Dakota has granted a 

 permit to Louis LaPlant of Elwood, Stanley county, to 

 appropriate water from the Cheyenne river to irrigate 

 423 acres of land. 



H. M. Halff of Midland, Texas, has purchased 12 sec- 

 tions of land near that city for a consideration of $90,000. 

 Irrigating wells will be installed immediately and special 

 attention will be given to the raising of alfalfa. 



A receiver has been appointed for the Columbia 

 River Orchard Company of Seattle, Wash., which is 

 bonded for $5,000,000, the Washington Orchard & Irri- 

 gation Company and other companies subsidiary to the 

 first. 



The Empire Trust Company of New York has filed 

 for record in the deed of trust records of Medina county, 

 Texas, a deed of trust from the Medina Irrigation Com- 

 pany on all of its holdings, rights and benefits in the 

 county, valued at $6,000,000, as security for $6,000,000 five 

 per cent, thirty-year first mortgage bonds, issued by the 

 irrigation company.. 



State Engineer Miller, of New Mexico, has approved 

 the application of Furman & Burke of Denver, Colo., for 

 750 second feet of the Las Animas river, to reclaim 

 80,000 acres of land in San Juan county on the Colorado 

 boundary. 



Plans have been drawn and approved for the con- 

 struction of a fifteen-foot dam across the Colorado river 

 a few miles below Austin, and for the installation of a 

 hydro-electric plant for the purpose of irrigating several 

 thousand acres of valley land and furnishing power for 

 operating the machinery of farmers of that section. D. 

 B. Matthews, Chas. Jones and Goodwin Jones, of Austin, 

 are interested in the enterprise, which will cost about 

 $50,000. 



The foundation of the Strawberry Valley dam, a struc- 

 ture that is being built across the Strawberry river near 

 Provo, is completed. J. L. Lytle, superintendent in 

 charge of the project, states that the government will 

 have the work completed by the end of 1913. 



The contract for the construction of eight miles more 

 of the Piute reclamation project canal has been awarded 

 by the state land board to the Western Construction Com- 

 pany on a bid of $21,337. The canal is to be extended 

 from its present terminus, just west of Redmond in Se- 

 vier county, to a point eight miles north of that place, 

 to furnish water to about 2,000 acres of land in that 

 section. 



The La Sal Irrigation Company, with offices at Moab, 

 has filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of 

 State, to engage in a general irrigation business. The 

 capital stock of $8,000 is divided into shares of $10 

 each. 



TEXAS. 



The Medina Irrigation Company of San Antonio has 

 let the contract for the construction of 28 miles of canal 

 in Medina county, including flumes, dams, siphons and 

 culverts, to Roach & Stansell of Memphis, Tenn. The 

 contract calls for work to be completed by July. 1913. 



Chile is producing great harvests of cotton and other 

 valuable staples by extended irrigation. Already about 

 2,500 L 000 acres of her territory are being treated in this 

 way and about as much more of her land is available for 

 the same purpose. 



Several million dollars are being spent this year alone 

 on the Payette-Boise project. A dam has already been built 

 pine miles east of Boise, Idaho, in the Boise river, canals 

 'have been dug and preparations made for engineering ac- 

 complishments which will result in irrigating and reclaim- 

 ing 169,000 acres of land which are now arid and un- 

 tillable. Engineers have been at work on the project for 

 the last three years and it will take two more years to 

 complete it. 



Good books are like good friends; they are always ready 

 to be consulted and they always give good advice. 



See, that your shelves are lined with such books, and 

 above all see that you get THE IRRIGATION AGE regularly. 



CHANGE OF ADDRESS. 



Jas. A. Green & Co., Inc., engineers and contractors, announce 

 the removal of their Chicago offices, from 226 South La Salle street 

 to 111 West Monroe street. 



