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the company, which is capitalized at $100,000, have been es- 

 stablished at Spokane. 



Officials of the United States Land Office in North 

 Yakima have received advices from authorities in Washing- 

 ton to accept maintenance charges for the present irrigation 

 season from water users under both the Sunnyside and Tie- 

 ton projects who are delinquent in both building and main- 

 tenance charges for past seasons. Water will be allowed 

 them this year as soon as the back maintenance charges 

 and those for this season are paid. 



Seventeen hundred acres of orchard lands, a short dis- 

 tance north of the city limits of Spokane, will be developed 

 the coming summer by Jay P. Graves, Clyde M. Graves and 

 Aubrey Lee White. Drill tests show the entire district is 

 underlaid by a large flow of water at depths of from 60 to 

 80 feet, making the problem of irrigation a simple one. 

 Wells have been driven and will be operated by electricity to 

 obtain water for irrigation. The distribution will be by 

 means of concrete pipes laid under the ground. 



Land owners under the Outlook, Snipes Mountain, 

 Grandview and Mabton pumping plants of the Sunnyside 

 canal, in central Washington, have voted to accept the prop- 

 ositions submitted by Frederick H. Newell, director of the 

 Reclamation Service, relative to the construction of the 

 works. The four plans will provide water for 15,000 acres 

 additional. Assurance has been received that the work will 

 be started immediately upon the signing of contracts by the 

 land owners and their approval by Secretary of the Interior 

 Fisher. It is expected that the pumping plants will be in- 

 stalled and laterals built in ample time to have water avail- 

 able by the spring of 1913. The plant cost is about $30 an 

 acre, the water charge being $52 an acre. 



These directors, who will have charge of the work, were 

 re-elected : Roy Dorothy, W. M. Allen and T. M. Elliott, all 

 of Brewster. In this way the growers will control the af- 

 fairs of the irrigated district, own the -water and hold theie 

 land intact. The lands, which extend north from the town 

 of Brewster several miles, and reaching back from the 

 Columbia and Okanogan rivers toward the fpothills, present 

 extremely favorable conditions for development under irri- 

 gation. With other areas lying contiguous to the Okanogan, 

 Columbia and Methow rivers, they combine to make a total 

 of 35,000 acres. 



Ihe Brewster flats proper, about 15,000 acres, formerly 

 were a part of the state's school land, the bulk of them 

 having passed into private ownership within the last four 

 jrears. They consist of comparatively level bunch-grass 

 benches, paralleling the Columbia river at elevations vary- 

 ing from a few feet to 500 feet above the water level. A 

 plan was formulated several years ago for reclaiming the 

 entire district, but was not carried out. It was purposed to 

 construct a diversion weir in the Methow near the town 

 of Twisp, where a supply of water is available sufficient to 

 reach every part of the ditch with a gravity flow. More 

 than 2,000 acres is under irrigation and a large portion is in 

 orchards. The soil is a sandy loam, liberally mixed with 

 the volcanic ash characteristic of the^ region. A strata of 

 gravel generally underlies the top sofl at a depth ranging 

 from two feet to eight feet, affording excellent drainage. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The state engineer of South Dakota has granted permits 

 for irrigation for 216 acres to Ray D. Walker of Fort Pierre 

 from the Cheyenne river; for 112 acres from Bad river to 

 Ada Dinsmore of Fort Pierre; and for 239 acres from the 

 same stream to Millett and Sumner of Fort Pierre. 



Engineers are collecting data to ascertain the cost of 

 reclaiming more than 30,000 acres of land in the Brewster 

 district 01 Okanogan county, northwest of Spokane, where 

 a bond issue of $1,250,000 for the district was carried by a 

 vote of 107 for and 6 against at a special election on April 2. 



The Cy ranch, located two miles southwest of Casper, 

 Wyoming, owned by Goy. Carey, is to be partially irrigated 

 by the use of a pumping station. A 12-inch centrifugal 

 pump will be installed which will pump water to irrigate 

 approximately 400 acres. 



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