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down the Arkansas river with other water from the 

 eastern slope and stored in reservoirs, from whence it 

 will be conveyed by canals to the lands to be irrigated. 

 The land to be irrigated lies southwest of Pueblo and 

 includes most of the Boggs Flat district. 



IDAHO 



A 10,000-horse power hydro-electric plant will be 

 built on the Payette river, near Boise, for C. L. Tall- 

 madge, of New York City. Plans and specifications are 

 now being prepared by the W. H. Rosecrans Engineer- 

 ing Company, 30 North La Salle street, Chicago, 111., 

 who are the consulting engineers. Bids will be received 

 in about thirty days. 



MONTANA. 



The government will hold an important sale of lots 

 April 18, on three townsites on the Huntley project. These 

 lots are located in the towns of Ballantine, Worden and 

 Pompey's Pillar, and the majority are in the business 

 portion of the towns. Under the ruling of the depart- 

 ment, all purchases of lots on the day of the sale will 

 be given a term of five years to complete payment. These 

 tcv.'nsites are surrounded by a thickly settled and com- 

 pact farming community, the average farm holding being 

 40 acres. Each of these towns is on the main line rail- 

 way. 



The Emmett Irrigation Company of Emmett will re- 

 place all wooden structures on their system with modern 

 metal flumes, siphons, etc. Plans and specifications are 

 now being prepared by the W. H. Rosecrans Engineering 

 Company of Chicago. 



Residents of Bonners Ferry, Copeland and Porthill, 

 in the extreme northern part of Idaho, and farmers and 

 business men of Crestin, B. C., held a meeting recently 

 at which plans to irrigate 80,000 acres of land in Idaho 

 and the province of British Columbia were discussed. 

 Resolutions were adopted calling upon the premier and 

 ministers of agriculture, lands and public works of the 

 province and others interested to investigate the plan, 

 also to appoint a competent engineer or commission to 

 report upon its feasibility and the best methods to be 

 adopted for the reclamation of this acreage. 



Articles of incorporation for the Valier-Montana Land 

 & Water Company have been filed with the secretary of 

 state. The purpose of this company is to complete the 

 work commenced by the Conrad Land & Irrigation Com- 

 pany some years ago. The capital stock of the new com- 

 pany is placed at $3,000,000. The Conrad company was 

 only capitalized at $250,000, and the project was too 

 large for that amount of money to handle properly. The 

 directors of the new company are Patrick Kelley, A. E. 

 Sctiwingel, W. S. Frary, Omar J. Malcolm, J. A. Mc- 

 Donough, J. McCambridge and W. Olsen, all of Valier, 

 each of whom has paid in one share of common stock of 

 the value of $100. 



Philo Hansen, Joseph Dawes, E. A. MacPherson, M. 

 Genzenberger and Al F'aynter, all of Butte, who are in- 

 terested in an irrigation project near South Plains, are 

 making arrangements for spring work. The big irrigation 

 ditch out of Combest creek will be continued and other 

 improvements made for the benefit of the orchard tracts. 



Contract has been awarded by the Secretary of the 

 Interior to the American Hoist & Derrick Company of 

 St. Paul, Minn., for furnishing four electric hoists and 

 derricks for use_ in the work of construction on the Ar- 

 rowrock dam, Boise irrigation project. The price for 

 this equipment is $14,836.91. 



An experimental irrigation well is being sunk on 

 the farm of V. A. Wolcott two miles north of Plains. The 

 well is 12 feet square and will be put down to a depth 

 to insure plenty of water for irrigating a 40-acre tract. 

 The result of this enterprise is being watched by many 

 who purchased tracts in the valley last fall. If it proves 

 a success many others will put down wells. 



Get a Buckeye Open Ditcher and Cut 

 Your Excavation Cost 



TT HAS been proven time and again that the Buckeye Open Traction D-itcher will cut 

 -* down the cost of excavation work from fifty to seventy-five per cent when used in connection 

 with the reclamation of land, irrigation projects or extensive road building. 



Reduces Labor Bills 



The Buckeye Ditcher reduces labor bills to almost 

 nothing and takes the place of from 50 to 150 men 

 with spades and shovels, and does the work quicker 

 and better, digging a ditch of uniform size. 



Di^s Ditch with Sloping Bank 



The Buckeye Ditcher is the first machine ever 

 built that will dig a ditch with sloping bank at a con- 

 tinuous cut. It is built in many different sizes, cutting 

 from 2J^ to 12 foot top, with any slope desired. 



Works on Very Soft Ground 



The Buckeye Ditcher has made an excavation 

 with a 4^ foot top and a 2 foot bottom, at a depth 

 of 3^2 feet at the rate of 6 lineal feet a minute, while 

 being operated in wet or soft ground. The apron 

 tractions make it possible to use the machine on land 

 that will not sustain the weight of a team of horses and 

 an empty wagon. 



Write Today for Catalogue No. 26 



if you want to learn how to reduce your cost of ex- 

 cavation work and turn hundreds of acres of waste 

 land into dollars. 



The Buckeye Traction Ditcher Co. 



FINDLAY, OHIO 



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