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interests contemplate developing the land by pump irrigation 

 and colonizing it. 



Pearsall Land and Irrigation Company, with principal 

 offices in San Antonio, have filed a charter with a fully paid- 

 up capital stock of $100,000. The incorporators and direc- 

 tors are : W. S. Haynes, G. B. Gouger, George M. Clifton 

 of San Antonio, J. H. Bain of Stockdale, and W. W. MC- 

 Crory of Edna. 



A movement is on foot to construct a dam across the 

 San Diego creek near Alice, which will irrigate between 

 50,000 and 60,000 acres of land. The work under considera- 

 tion consists of an immense dam 17,000, feet long and reach- 

 ing a height of 63 feet. The cost of the project is estimated 

 at $1,000,000, and actual work is expected to start this fall. 

 The project is to be pushed through by the San Diego Irriga- 

 tion Company, an association of landowners, who will be 

 benefited by the undertaking. The main office of the com- 

 pany is at San Diego, Tex. 



The water right owners under the Barstow irrigation 

 system have organized in co-operation with the company 

 and adjacent landowners and are formulating plans toward 

 the construction of a reservoir to conserve the flood waters 

 of the Pecos river to augment the normal flow during the 

 irrigating season, as well as to place a large area under irrga- 

 tion. The reservoir site has been located and some work 

 already started, and as soon as matters can be shaped, bonds 

 issued, or money raised, the work will begin and be rushed 

 to rapid completion. 



The Denton Colony Company, of Carrizp Springs, will 

 construct dams across the Nueces river and install -pumping 

 plants and lay out a system of canals and ditches for the 

 purpose of irrigating 68,000 acres of land in Dimmit county. 



UTAH. 



Judge Joshua Greenwood and J. L. Louder, of Parowan, 

 and D. D. Houtz and W. L. Cook, of Salt Lake City, are 

 interested in a new irrigation project that will water several 



thousand acres of land. Trfe project is to be known as the 

 Rush Valley Reclamation project. The land is located in 

 Rush Valley in Iron county. The project involves the drain- 

 age of Little Salt Lake, building of a dam at the mouth of 

 Hydroglific canyon to form a reservoir for storing water 

 now exhausted by evaporation each year, and the cutting 

 of a canal. 



The Midwest Engineering Company, of Omaha, Neb., 

 has been awarded the contract at $16,380.39 for the con- 

 struction of drop, chute and bridge abutments on the Indian, 

 creek and Trail Hollow diversion canals of the Strawberry 

 Irrigation project. 



Strawberry tunnel, a four-mile bore through the Wasatch 

 mountains, was holed through on June 20th. This is one of 

 the most spectacular and important engineering feats of the 

 Reclamation Service, its purpose being to convey water from 

 Strawberry river in the Colorado drainage basin into the 

 great American desert, which has no outlet to the sea, where 

 it will be used in the reclamation of about 60,000 acres of 

 land in the vicinity of Utah Lake. The approximate cost of 

 digging this tunnel is $1,000,000. 



Caleb Tanner, the state engineer, has indorsed the project 

 of the Neponset Land and Livestock Company, which pro- 

 poses to irrigate 5,000 acres of land in the northeastern part 

 of Rich county, provided a government right to reclaim the 

 land can be secured. 



The Pa'nvant Irrigation Company, of Salt Lake City, has 

 filed articles of incorporation ; capital stock, $16,000, divided 

 into shares of $1.00 each. Water for irrigation purposes 

 will be taken from Sevier river to irrigate 16,000 acres of 

 land. 



Send $1.00 for 1 year's subscription to the IRRIGA- 

 TION AGE and bound copy of THE PRIMER OF IRRIGA- 

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 draulics add $2.50 to above price. 



BUCKEYE TRACTION DITCHERS REVOLUTIONIZE 

 RECLAMATION WORK IN THE SOUTH 



SINCE the "BUCKEYE" has been used in 

 reclamation projects throughout the 

 South, thousands of acres of waste land 

 have been reclaimed and utilized for colo- 

 nization purposes. 



Before the "BUCKEYE" became an im- 

 portant, factor in reclamation projects, the 

 cost and hard work entailed in drainage and 

 irrigation impeded the colonization of 

 marshy land. 



The "BUCKEYE" was the first machine 

 made that could be operated en roft, 

 land. The apron tractions carry the 

 ditcher over wet ground that will not sustain 

 the weight of a team of horses and an empty 

 wagon. 



It is also the first machine made that will 

 cut a ditch with a sloping bank at a contin- 

 uous cut. Ditches of from 2J^ to 12 foot top 

 can be cut with the "BUCKEYE", accord- 

 ing to the size of machine used. Every ditch 

 is of uniform size and perfect to grade. 



The "BUCKEYE" takes the place of from 

 50 to 160 men and does the work better, 

 faster and cheaper, reducing labor bills to 

 almost nothing. 



WRITE TODAY FOR CATALOGUE No. 26 



This explains the BUCKEYE DITCHER and shows 



y ou how you can turn your waste land into dollars. 



THE BUCKEYE TRACTION DITCHER COMPANY 



FINDLAY, OHIO 



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