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TEXAS. 



The Fort Stockton Irrigation company of Ft. Stock- 

 ton has commenced work on its project in Pecos county. 

 The reservoir to be constructed will impound sufficient 

 water to irrigate 25,000 acres of land. 



Dr. F. S. Pearson of El Paso is planning an irrigation 

 project to reclaim 10,000 acres of rich land lying near Del 

 Rio. It is stated that the expenditure involved in the con- 

 struction of this project is $1,000,000. Water for irrigation 

 purposes is to be taken from Devil's river. 



Capitalized at $1,000,000, the Consolidated Reservoir 

 company of Grand Falls has filed its charter with the 

 secretary of state. The concern is to establish an irri- 

 gation plant and operate in Ward, Pecos, Reeves and 

 Crane counties. The principal office of the company is 

 located at Grand Falls. 



Emil Locke and associates of San Antonio are plan- 

 ning a system to irrigate 100,000 acres of land. The land 

 to be reclaimed lies in Bexar, Kendall and Comal coun- 

 ties. Two dams, one across the Cibolo, and the other the 

 dry Comal, giving a total reservoir capacity of 2,500,000,000 

 cubic feet, are to be constructed. Under the plans now 

 contemplated there will be two companies, the Comal 

 Irrigation company and Cibolo Dam and Irrigation com- 

 pany. It is further stated that they may finally be merged 

 into one, as by the construction of a tunnel several miles 

 above Cibolo dam the two reservoirs will be joined and 

 one flood will fill both of them. The tunnel constitutes 

 part of the project and by means of it the necessity for 

 an apron on the Cibolo dam will be obviated. 



The ^Mountcastle Land and Irrigation company of 

 Pecos, Fort Worth and Chicago, Illinois, has been incor- 

 porated at Austin, Texas, with a capitalization of $600,000. 

 The incorporators are G. C. Mountcastle and R. I. Merril 

 of Fort Worth, Texas; Sol. Meyer of Denver, Colorado; 

 E. E. Edwards, W. S. Rosenbaum, Fred Uhlman and A. R. 

 Crane, all of Chicago, Illinois. The first work of the new 

 company will be to perfect the present available water 

 supply, after which they will greatly enlarge the present 

 water supply. 



The El Fresnal Irrigated Land company of San 

 Benito, has filed articles of incorporation showing a capital 

 stock of $10,000. 



The Medina Irrigation company of San Antonio, 

 which was chartered to build the big dam and irrigation 

 system now in course of construction on the Medina river, 

 in Medina county, has filed a certificate of dissolution. 

 The property of the concern has been taken over by the 

 Medina Valley Irrigation company of Denver, Colorado. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Secretary of the Interior has announced that the 

 property now owned by the Reclamation Service, being 

 lots 1 and 2, block 268, Ker's Addition to North Yakima, 

 with the buildings thereon now occupied as an office in 

 connection with the Yakima irrigation project, will be sold 

 at public auction on October 15, 1912. No bids will be re- 

 ceived for less than $5,750. 



F. H. Phipps has been elected secretary of the Brew- 

 ster Irrigation district, which will undertake to water 

 15,000 acres on the Brewster flat. Surveys have been com- 

 menced and bonds will be floated after completion of the 

 surveys. The district has been formed under the state 

 law. The intake will be near the town of Methow, and 

 from there the water will be carried several miles to be 

 used in reclaiming the arid lands. 



Articles of incorporation for the Bacon Tract Irriga- 

 tion company have been filed. Principal office of the com- 

 pany is located at Spokane; capital stock is $20,000. 



The United Orchards Development Company of Spo- 

 kane propose to irrigate 634 acres of its holdings in the 

 Moses Lake district. The tract will be watered by wells, 

 and four pumping plants are to be installed immediately. 

 The company has been incorporated under the state law 

 of Washington with a fully paid-up capital of $50,000. 



L. L. Work, president of the First National Bank of 

 Oroville is authority for the statement that extensive irri- 

 gation is planned in the Okanogan valley. The land to 

 be reclaimed is divided into two tracts and two irrigation 

 districts have been formed. 



For Irrigation and Reclamation Work 

 Buckeye Open Ditchers 



FOR irrigation and reclamation 

 work the Buckeye Open Ditcher 

 has proved its efficiency and 

 economy. The machine is built in 

 various sizes, cutting ditches from V/i 

 to 12 feet wide at the top, and the 

 ditches can be cut true to grade. 



The Buckeye Open Ditcher has been 

 in continuous use for several years 

 under the most trying conditions in 

 the South and West, and by its use 

 thousands of acres of waste lands 

 have been reclaimed and made valu- 

 able. 



Write for Catalog 26 and let us tell 

 you where Buckeye Open Ditchers are 

 in use and what they have done. 



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