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Filings for the appropriation of water in eastern 

 Oregon for irrigation purposes by the Horsefly Irriga- 

 tion Company were completed recently, when the com- 

 pany filed its maps with the state engineer. The com- 

 pany intends to irrigate 20,00(1 acres of land. 



State Engineer Lewis has approved the permit of 

 Benton Bowers for the appropriation of water from Big 

 Butte creek in the Rogue river valley for the irrigation 

 of 8,200 acres of land. 



Announcement has been made by the reclamation 

 service that water for irrigation will be turned into the 

 main canal at Klamath Falls not later than May 1, 1913. 

 There has been some difference of opinion as to the time 

 that water should be available for irrigation. Some of 

 the farmers were of the opinion that water should be 

 furnished not later than April 15, while others fixed the 

 date at May 15. The matter was then taken up at a 

 meeting of the directors of the Water Users' Association 

 and Supervising Engineer Hopson and Project Engineer 

 Patch of the reclamation service, who decided on the 

 compromise date of May 1. 



The recommendation of Engineer Hellerman, who 

 visited the Klamath Indian Reservation to study the ques- 

 tion of irrigation there, has carried through an appropria- 

 tion of $50,000 to complete the work which was begun 

 several years ago and never completed. This will bring 

 under water about 9.00CT acres of level land in the southern 

 part of the reservation about twenty miles from Klamath 

 Falls. 



Ascertaining that the Central Oregon Irrigation Com- 

 pany, of Salem, had complied with its part of the contract 

 with the state for the reclamation of land in eastern 

 Oregon, the Desert Land Board has ordered paid over 

 to it $80,000 in notes given by settlers and held by the 

 state as a guarantee of the company to fulfill its 

 agreement. 



Early in August the County Court of Umatilla county 

 granted a petition for formation of the Teel irrigation dis- 

 trict, as presented by a committee of land owners. The 

 proposed irrigation project lies south and west of the 

 town of Echo, and contains over 20,000 acres of land. It 

 is situated between Butter creek and the Umatilla 

 meadows. 



The Secretary of the Interior has awarded contract to 

 the Portland Wood Pipe Company, of Portland, for 

 furnishing and installing about 3,950 lineal feet of wood 

 stave pipe from 18 to 40 inches in diameter, in connection 

 with the Minidoka project in Idaho. The amount of the 

 contract is approximately $6,000. 



UTAH. 



The A. H. Snow Development Company, with offices 

 at 116 East Second South street, Salt Lake City, has filed 

 articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State 

 capitalization, $50,000. The stock is all subscribed for and 

 fully paid in. A. H. Snow is president, W. H. Cain, vice- 

 president, and C. L. Snow, secretary and treasurer. The 

 company has already taken over a large tract of land in 

 Box Elder county and is draining and reclaiming it for 

 general agricultural use. The company will sell and 

 develop orchards, subdivide and sell small acreage farm 

 lands and deal generally in real estate. 



The completion of the Strawberry reclamation project 

 will bring about the irrigation of 14,000 acres of ac- 

 crescent lands on the south end of the lake, which is 

 included in the land withdrawn from entry some years 

 ago when the proposition of making a reservoir of Utah 

 lake by dyking was under consideration. Water for 

 this land when restored to entry will be taken from Utah 

 lake, the waters of which will be greatly increased by the 

 inflow and seepage from the Strawberry project. The 

 pumps will be operated by electric power obtained from 

 generating plants built by the reclamation service in 

 Spanish Fork canyon and which will be a part of the 

 Strawberry project. 



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clean-cut, true-to-grade ditch 

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These are the reasons that have made 

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 irrigation and reclamation work in the 

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Buckeye Open Ditchers have been in 

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