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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Department of Agriculture. The farm will include 160 

 acres of alfalfa and 40 acres of diversified products. 



The Kingsville Power Company of Kingsville is in- 

 stalling three motor driven air compressor pumps, all 

 within a radius of three miles of that city. One of the 

 pumps will be located on the 500-acre farm of B. F. 

 Yoakum, and is placed as an experiment to determine 

 whether or not this is the most economical means of lift- 

 ing the water from wells. The other two wells are on 

 the property of the Kleberg Town and Improvement 

 Company, about three miles from Kingsville. 



The Leonceita ranch, located midway between Fort 

 Worth and Alpine, and embracing 42,000 acres of land, 

 will be placed under irrigation at once. The project is 

 being financed by the Commerce Trust Company of 

 Kansas City, Mo., and will cost more than $1,000,000. The 

 land will be placed on the market within six months. A 

 large dam will be constructed at the foot of a deep can- 

 yon and the water will back up for many miles with an 

 average depth of 30 feet. The reservoir will be fed by 

 five creeks and a number of small springs. 



Five thousand acres of rich land lying adjacent to 

 Corpus Christ! will be irrigated by water impounded from 

 Tule lake, according to the reported statement of Capt. 

 W. A. Fitch, of San Antonio, who is interested in the 

 project. The captain states that the plans are well under 

 way and that construction work will probably commence 



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before July 1. Tule lake reservoir has been estimated to 

 be capable of impounding 786,695,677 gallons of storm 

 waters within a year, and the seepage is less than 3 per 

 ce'nt. 



The Medina Townsite Company of San Antonio, with 

 a paid-up capital stock of $25,000, has been chartered in 

 the Department of State. The object of the company is 

 to improve and sell townsites in the state, specifying no 

 definite localities. The shares are $100. 



The Melvine Land & Irrigation Company of San An- 

 tonio has filed its charter with the department of state. 

 Capital stock, $50,000. Incorporators: W. R. King, F. 

 G. Hillje and T. F. Mangum, all of San Antonio. 



J. M. Brooks, of Boston, Mass., will spend more than 

 $300,000 in placing 28,000 acres of land under irrigation 

 near Fort Stockton. Mr. Brooks recently purchased the 

 land from Pecos Valley ranchmen in three separate tracts. 



Work is progressing rapidly on the proposed Cotulla 

 irrigation district, which will bring 50,000 acres of land 

 under irrigation. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the 

 Markham Irrigation Company. Capital stock, $50,000. 

 Principal place of business, Markham. Incorporators: 

 Hudson Pellis, Levering Moore and Jesse Andrews, all 

 of Markham. 



UTAH. 



The San Juan Irrigation Company of Grayson has 

 filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. 

 The capital stock of the company, is placed at $100,000, 

 divided into shares of $10 each. 



An important decision has been rendered in the con- 

 tempt proceedings recently tried in the case of the Span- 

 ish Fork Irrigation Company vs. Leven Simons, et al., 

 the original case having been tried and judgment entered 

 in 1899. In this case Leven Simons, H. B. Ricks and 

 James Ballard, three of the defendants in the original 

 case, were cited for contempt in violating the original 

 decree, which involves the water of Spanish Fork river. 

 The decision absolves the three men from any intentional 

 contempt in using the water contrary to the decision, 

 but assesses all the costs against the three men. 



A number of prominent irrigationists of the state of 

 Utah are planning to bring under cultivation about 150,- 

 000 acres of land, about 20,000 acres of which lie in 

 Weber and Davis counties. In a recent statement, Mr. 

 David O. McKay, of Ogden, who has been active in 

 the work, said the cost of building reservoirs for the 

 conservation of the surplus or flood waters from Weber 

 and Provo rivers would be $5,000,000. Mr. McKay is 

 of the opinion that two reservoirs should be built; one 

 to be known as the north project and located near Coal- 

 ville in Summit county; the other to be known as the 

 south project and located near Charleston, in Wasatch 



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A Seattle irrigator's opinion: "As I am using kerosene, my run- 

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