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boundary of the district. Work must be completed by 

 April 1, 1913. 



A plan has been formulated by the owners of a tract 

 of land situated between the Alameda county line and 

 Tracy, which, if executed, will place 15,000 acres of land 

 under irrigation. To raise the money necessary to make 

 the project possible, the property will be bonded. An 

 assessment of 5 cents per acre is to be levied to foot 

 the preliminary expense of organization. Water will be 

 taken from Old River to the McLaughlin place and thence 

 over the entire district. 



COLORADO. 



The Huerfano Valley Irrigation Company, which has 

 been working for the past four years on an enormous 

 irrigation project, embracing 50,000 acres in southwestern 

 Pueblo county, have filed a map of the Green Mountain 

 Reservoir with the Pueblo county clerk. The map was 

 filed by A. P. Sickman, of Denver, who is interested in 

 the project. The Green Mountain Reservoir will have 

 a capacity of 2,583,011,991 cubic feet. This is sufficient 

 water, according to irrigation engineers, to water 75,000 

 acres of land. The dam when completed will be 294 feet 

 high. Water will be taken from Big Graneros Creek, 

 Little Graneros Creek, Greenhorn, and others. 



The Ignacio irrigation project, which has been held 

 up six years because of alleged wild-catting methods, is 

 to be reopened by the state land board. The district 

 was granted to the Colrado Land & Water Company in 

 1906 and at an opening in June, 1909, ten thousand acres 

 were contracted for. Forty thousand dollars were paid 

 down in cash. It had been advertised that the land 

 would grow most anything desired sugar beets and tokay 

 grapes. The irrigation company blamed the erroneous 

 advertising upon a colonization company with whom it 

 contracted to secure settlers. Purchasers of the land com- 

 plained to the land board that the land was not up to 

 the advertisements. It ordered the company to refund 

 the money to those settlers who wished to withdraw. 

 The contract of the irrigation company has been held 

 void by the board and will now be reopened to bids. 



The Pueblo-Rocky Ford Irrigation Company has been 

 sued in the District Court by the Phillips Construction 

 Company and William O'Gara for $62,183.44, alleged to 

 be due on a 182,150 contract for the construction of a 

 dam across the Cucharas River. The construction com- 

 pany alleges that the irrigation company failed to file its 

 annual report for 1911 with the secretary of state, and 

 for that reason is liable for the debts of the company. 



The Secretary of the Interior has awarded contract 

 to Maney Bros. & Company of Boise, Idaho, for the 

 construction of twelve miles of the west canal, Uncom- 

 pahgre Valley project, in the vicinity of Montrose. The 

 work involves the excavation of about 210,000 cubic yards 

 of material in open cut and 1,750 linear feet of tunnel. 

 The price at which the work was awarded under the 

 proposal of the successful bidder is $78,363. 



A clear title was given the $5,100,000 bond issue of 

 the Greeley-Poudre irrigation district recently when two 

 suits attacking its validity were dismissed in the Supreme 

 Court Those attacking the validity of the project were 

 stockholders in ditches of the Greeley-Poudre district. 

 A settlement has been reached with them which re- 

 moves the only cloud upon the finances of the district. 



More than 40,000 acres of land lying between Denver 

 and Brandon are to be reclaimed by pumping. F. A. 

 Otten, of Nebraska, has let a contract for an irrigation 

 pump to be installed on his land, 1,120 acres, lying one- 

 half mile east of the town of Brandon and 60 miles east 

 of Denver. The entire acreage will be irrigated by the 

 one pump, which will be installed at a cost of $22,500. 



The Chicosa Basin Reservoir Ditch & Land Com- 

 pany of Pueblo has filed articles of incorporation with 

 the 'county clerk. The purpose of the company is to 



irrigate a tract of land lying south of the city of Pueblo 

 and disposing of it to homeseekers. The capital stock 

 of the company is placed at $50,000. W. L. Williams, J. 

 C. Hedgecock and A. E. Frazier, all of Pueblo, are the 

 incorporators of the new company. 



An irrigation district embracing 200,000 acres of land 

 is being formed by farmers in Saguache county. Water 

 will be taken from the Rio Grande River about 15 miles 

 east of Del Norte and carried north about 20 miles and 

 east about 10 miles to the tract to be watered. A 

 reservoir site will be situated on the upper Rio Grande 

 at Antelope F'ark, with a capacity of 262,000 acre feet. 

 The district will also acquire water from Carnero, 

 Saguache and Lagarita creeks. 



Work will be begun in the near future on the Holly- 

 Granada irrigation project, embracing 52,500 acres of rich 

 land lying adjacent to the towns of Holly and Granda 

 and south and east of the town of Lamar. Water will 

 be taken from Rule creek which runs into the Purgatoire. 



Arthur Day, receiver for the Denver Reservoir & Ir- 

 rigation Company, has been authorized to issue a ninety- 

 day promissory note, dated March 1, to Edmond Seymour 

 & Company of New York, for a loan of $25,000, with 

 which to pay necessary expenses and conserve its prop- 

 erty. 



The Henrylyn irrigation district, embracing 90,000 

 acres of land in the vicinty of Hudson, in southeastern 

 Weld county, has made a record in speedy irrigation 

 construction work, and will bring 20,000 .acres of its 

 land under cultivation this season, although the project 

 was only started in May, 1910. 



Construction of an irrigation system, covering 100,000 

 acres in San Miguel and Montrose counties, to be 

 watered principally from the San Miguel River, will be 

 started immediately. It is a project that has been held 

 up by conflicting claims to water-rights for years. The 

 state land board has now entered a contract with Dun- 

 can Chisholm of Colorado Springs and General Buckley 

 Wells of Telluride, over the protests of four or five 

 smaller irrigation concerns, for putting through the big 

 undertaking. With these two gentlemen is also asso- 

 ciated Chaloner Schley of Colorado Springs, a wealthy 

 former New Yorker, and it is reported that they have 

 at their command a supply of English capital. It is 

 estimated that the project will cost $5,000,000. The terms 

 to which the contracting company will adhere are: Sale 

 of water to 90,000 acres at $50 an acre; water to re- 

 maining 10,000 acres in east Paradox valley, at $65 an 

 acre; twenty years instead of the customary ten for pay- 

 ment of water; first payment by settler not due until 

 after he has secured a crop. 



The DeWeese-Dye Ditch and Reservoir Company 

 of Canon City have elected a new board of directors, as 

 follows: J. W. Dunlap, Dr. Allan Bell; H. J. Black, N. 

 B. King, and W. B. Rowland. Improvements will be 

 made on the ditches of this company so that they will 

 be in first-class condition for the coming irrigation sea- 

 son. Concrete headgates will be installed at the intake 

 of all of the principal laterals. 



At a meeting of the land owners under the Munici- 

 pal irrigation project held in P'ueblo March 8th, a bond 

 issue for $2,500,000 was authorized. The bonds will be 

 20-year 6 per cent irrigation bonds under the new Colo- 

 rado law which provides for municipal irrigation projects 

 and authorizes the collection of assessments against the 

 lands for the payment of principal and interest of bonds. 

 The company proposes to reclaim about 50,000 acres and 

 the assessment will be about $50 per acre. The water 

 ' rights of the Alamo Irrigation Company, a Denver pro- 

 motion, are to be purchased with a part of the money 

 received through the sale of the bonds. Piney creek, on 

 the western slope of the mountains, will be tapped and 

 the water brought to the eastern slope. It will be brought 

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