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Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



Well drilling operations at the Magee Ranch at Las 

 Flores have resulting in getting a flow of 110 inches from 

 a 15-inch hole on a tract west of the ranch house. This 

 'vill be used to irrigate 250 acres of sugar beets. 



Well No. 7 of the Beaumont Land & Water Com- 

 pany, which was sunk last November, was tested recently 

 and found to maintain a flow, under continuous pumping, 

 of 55 inches. The pump, which is a 14-inch centrifugal, 

 has only recently been installed. The well is located about 

 six miles north of Beaumont, in the Edgar canyon, and is 

 "til feet deep. 



The project of Crescent Reclamation district to levy 

 an assessment of $8,855.74 for additional levee work has 

 been approved by the supervisors. 



Property owners near Coalinga and members of the 

 irrigation committee of the Coalinga Chamber of Com- 

 merce held a meeting recently at which plans were dis- 

 cussed for the movement which they hope to start to get 

 government aid for the big irrigation project which has 

 been promulgated. No definite plans have yet been out- 

 lined and until they are it is said that nothing will be 

 made public. 



A plan for the relief of the homesteaders under the 

 Uma reclamation project has been perfected by the govern- 

 ment, and will go into effect within a month. Under the 

 old project each settler must pay within ten years $55 

 an acre for his land in annual installments of $5.50 per 

 acre. The second annual payment was due March 15, and 

 a large number of the settlers claimed that it was impos- 

 sible to meet the payment because the crops would not be 

 ready for harvesting until the middle of April. The new 

 plan increases the price of the land to $65 per acre. The 

 annual installments, however, are small. It is provided 

 that the first payment shall be $5.50 per acre; the second, 

 $1: third, $2; fourth, $3.50; fifth. $5; sixth, $7; seventh, $!); 

 eighth, $10; ninth, $11, and tenth, $12. 



The Southland Nurseries of Terra Bella will install 

 an overhead irrigation system to cover the forty acres of 

 land included in its holdings. It is planned to start work 

 within a few months, equipping ten acres on the start. 



The Utah Construction Company, which is building 

 the 300 miles of canals and laterals for the Oakdale Irri- 

 gation District, has had to suspend work on six tunnels 

 in division 1 of the canyon of the Stanislaus river, owing 

 to the hardness of the rock. They are installing electric 

 power and will use compressed air to drill holes for the 

 powder. This section is the only one on the ditch where 

 the work is standing still; the other work is progressing 

 in a satisfactory manner. On the line of the Oakdale 

 ditch is one tunnel 7,000 feet long the longest tunnel ever 

 built for irrigation purposes. 



Seattle capitalists have purchased 2,000 acrew of land in 

 Yuba county in Brown's valley belonging to C. C. Finne- 

 more and A. J. Brady of Marysville. The land has been 

 used for pasturage purposes, but will now be irrigated 

 and colonized. 



Surveyors are now platting the South San Joaquin irri- 

 gation district. The surveys will show the grade and the 

 high and low places so that a man will know just where to 

 locate his alfalfa patch or orchard so that the water will 

 be utilized to the best advantage. A large storage reser- 

 voir, known as the Woodward reservoir, covering 1,400 

 acres, is one of the important features of the South San 

 Joaquin district. This reservoir is located near I'-ugene 

 and is fed by the Littlejohn and other small creeks. 



William Newport of Ferris is installing a 60 horse- 

 power Dumping plant on his Menifee ranch south of that 

 city. The seventh well on the ranch has been completed 

 and Mr. Newport is confident that he will have an 

 abundant water supply to irrigate a large acreage of 

 alfalfa. 



The Kuhn irrigation project in Glenn and Colusa 

 counties is completed and water has been turned into 

 the system for irrigation purposes. This project embraces 

 more than a quarter of a million acres. 



At a meeting of the stockholders of the Enterprise 

 Canal & Irrigation Company, held in Fresno recently, the 

 property was deeded to the Fresno Canal & Irrigation 

 Company. 



The San Joaquin & Kings River Canal & Irrigation 

 Company, whose principal place of business is Carson City, 

 Xev., has filed a certified copy of a certificate of amend- 

 ment to its original articles of incorporation. The capital 

 stock of the company is $1,000,000 divided into 100,000 

 shares of a par value of $10 each. 



COLORADO. 



The completion of the North Sterling irrigation reser- 

 voir at Point of Rocks puts Sterling and Logan counties 

 in line to cope with any other irrigated section in the 

 entire country. Eight thousand acres of fertile land will 

 be brought under cultivation. The approximate cost of 

 the project is $2,800,000. The dam is one mile long and 

 87 feet high. 



D. A. Camfield, of Denver, president of the construc- 

 tion company who are building the Greeley-Poudre irri- 

 gation system, is authority for the statement that the 

 system will be completed by the middle of this month 

 and that water will be flowing through the Laramie-Poudre 

 tunnel by May 1. 



The concreting in place of hoists and gates of the 

 Montrose and Delta canal headworks was commenced and 

 the eight canal gates were set during the past month. 

 The installation of a new concrete floor in the Gunnison 

 tunnel was completed for a distance of 3,831 linear feet. 



The San Luis Land, Light & Power Company, com- 

 posed of Colorado and eastern parties, has been organized 

 to take over the irrigation properties of the seaman Syn- 

 dicate in the Terrace District of Conejos county. The 

 construction of 30 miles of canals and laterals, reservoirs 

 and dams will be carried to completion at an approximate 

 cost of $2,000,000. The contract for the work has been let 

 to Anderson. Orde & Swope of Denver. The project 

 when completed in 1913 will serve to furnish water to 

 34.000 acres of land in the vicinity of La Jara. Water 

 for irrigation will be taken from the Alamosa river. 



Application has been made for a receiver for the 

 various companies interested in the construction of the 

 Sunnyside irrigation system, which was to water 25,000 

 acres of land near Du Beque. Charges are made against 

 Denver men who were to have built the system. 



The Park Land & Irrigation Company of Grand Junc- 

 tion has purchased 3,920 acres of land lying near Grand 

 Junction, owned by Thatcher Bros., of Pueblo, for a 

 consideration, it is stated, of $40,000. The tract lies on 

 what is known as Pinon Mesa and the Westwater coun- 

 try. Sixteen hundred acres of the 3,920 acres is irrigable 

 land, and 700 acres are already under cultivation. This 

 1,600 acres will be retained by the company and will be 

 divided into small tracts and sold. The tract will be 

 watered from the Big Park irrigation system. 



The Indorado Realty Company, of Vincennes, Ind., 

 has purchased the Dupont tract, consisting of 6,220 acres 

 lying under the new Pueblo county municipal irrigation 

 district. 12 miles west of Pueblo. The consideration is 

 $600.000. The new purchasers will divide the land into 

 five and ten-acre tracts to sell to eastern farmers. Office , 



