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THE IRRIGATION' AGE. 



Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



The Saint Louis Company of Oakland lias filed articles 

 of incorporation with a capital .stock of $100,000 full paid 

 The purpose of the company is to instruct irrigation 

 works. Directors of the company are Geo. W. Cox, Berke- 

 ley; John H. Thomas, Oakland; Walter de Varila, San 

 Francisco. 



Arthur L. Adams and S. V. Armstrong of San Fran- 

 cisco have purchased 1,100 acres of land lying near the 

 town of Marysville. The ranch lies under a privately 

 owned irrigation system which takes its water from Yuba 

 river. It is the intention of Messrs. Armstrong and 

 Adams to spend several thousand dollars on perfecting 

 the irrigation and drainage systems, and in cutting up 

 the land into smaller tracts for colonists. 



Dr. Hall of Los Angeles has purchased 640 acres 

 of land southwest of Tipton and will install pumping 

 plants on each 100 acres and plant all the tracts to alfalfa. 



At a meeting of the Turlock irrigation board, held 

 late in September, the directors closed an option on a 

 thousand acres of land which they held from the Warner 

 Land and Development Company. The land is located 

 a few miles south of Turlock and will be used by the 

 district as a site for the reservoir which has long been 

 contemplated. 



An investment of $10.000.000 will be made in an exten- 

 sive irrigation project affecting the welfare of Yolo and 

 Lake counties. White & Co., the New York bankers, 

 are behind the project. 



Incorporation papers for the Deer Creek Power Com- 

 pany, a concern composed of Chico stockholders, were 

 filed recently. The company is formed for the purpose 

 of engaging in the business of developing electric power 

 for lighting and other purposes and to impound water in 

 reservoirs for irrigation purposes. The capital stock of 

 the company is given as $1,000,000, divided into 10,000 

 shares of $100 each. The main office of the company is 

 located at Chico. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the 

 Orange Vista Irrigating Company, whose principal place 

 of business is Los Angeles. The capital stock of the 

 company is placed at $10,000. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Sol- 

 vang Water and Irrigation Company, principal place of 

 business, Solvang. The capital stock of the company is 

 given as $15,000, of which $3,950 is subscribed by twenty 

 members pf the Danish-American colony. The company 

 plans to reclaim a large body of land in Santa Barbara 

 county. 



The Forestry officers at work surveying proposed 

 reservoir sites on Rattlesnake creek, near Alturas, have 

 located a proposed site in which 50,000 acre feet of water can 

 be impounded. The reservoir would drain over eighty 

 sections of land and the water, which runs to waste every 

 spring, can fill the reservoir and give water sufficient to 

 irrigate a large area of land. It is estimated that the cost 

 of the system would be about $100,000. 



COLORADO. 



The Acting Secretary of the Interior has approved 

 the contract with the Grand Valley Water Users' Asso- 

 ciation, relating to the construction of the Grand Valley 

 reclamation project, and has authorized the beginning of 

 construction work. This approval was made upon the ex- 

 press condition that the government shall not be bound 

 by the contract unless certain amendments to the articles 

 of incorporation of the Grand Valley W. U. Association 

 are made at the regular annual meeting beginning on the 

 second Tuesday of January, 1913. This project con- 



templates the irrigation of 53,000 acres of land in Mesa 

 county. The work involves the construction of a diversion 

 dam in Grand river, about 60 miles of main canal and a 

 series of short tunnels in the first few miles of canal 

 having an aggregate length of about 20,000 feet. 



Western and European capitalists, represented in 

 Denver, by W. L. Rucker, who was chiefly instrumental 

 in working out the-scheme of reorganizing and financing 

 the Denver Reservoir Irrigation project, have taken over 

 a number of irrigation projects in the vicinity of Durango, 

 Colo., and Farmington, N. M. This company proposes 

 to expend about $850,000 in addition to the $25.0,000 al- 

 ready expended, and to bring under cultivation j!4,000 

 acres of rich farming land. The three projects which they 

 have taken over are the Florida Mesa project, which con- 

 tains 14,000 acres, a part of which is already under irriga- 

 tion; the Hammond project, which contains" about 12,000 

 acres and the Pine river project of nearly 22,000 acres. 

 The work has been fully financed and actual construction 

 work will be commenced at once. The company is under 

 contract to furnish water on all the lands by May 1, 1913. 

 No reservoir work will be necessary at present, but it will 

 require the construction of 36 miles of canal for the" 

 Hammond project, forty to fifty miles for the Pine river 

 project, while the Florida Mesa project is practically com- 

 plete. 



The Seaman syndicate of Denver has completed ar- 

 rangements for dissolution. The debts of the syndicate 

 will be paid in full and the farmers who purchased land 

 on contracts have been guaranteed a title to their prop- 

 erty. The syndicate purchased 12,000 acres of land and 

 built a $100,000 irrigation system and began selling land 

 to high class settlers. Most of the land was sold on con- 

 tracts which provided for the delivery of title upon com- 

 pletion of the payments. The company was unable to 

 carry out its agreement and have had to turn the prop- 

 erty over to eastern capitalists who will take care of the 

 affairs of the company. 



Sealed bids will be received up to October 31st by 

 the Fruitland Irrigation Company for the moving and 

 putting in place of 150,000 to 200,000 cubic yards of ma- 

 terial by hydraulic method. Plans and specifications can 

 be seen or had at the office of the company at Crawford, 

 Delta county, Colorado. The plant is now installed on 

 the ground. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized the 

 Reclamation service to complete the West Canal system, 

 reconstruct the South Canal outlet, South Canal flume and 

 structures on the Loutsenhoizer Canal, and to purchase 

 the necessary right of way for the completion of the 

 East Canal of the Uncompahgre Valley irrigation proj- 

 ect. This work is necessary for the permanent and 

 proper consolidation of the system and the extension 

 of the canals to new lands under the project. The total 

 expenditure involved is estimated at $113,275. 



IDAHO. 



An irrigation project, which has for its ultimate pur- 

 pose the irrigation of 15,000 acres of land lying above the 

 Farmers' canal, commencing at a point seven miles east 

 of New Plymouth and extending south and west, is well 

 under way, according to reports from Payette. Water for 

 irrigation purposes will be taken from the Farmers' canal, 

 which will be enlarged to carry the extra volume of water 

 which will be necessary for the new project. 



Plans have been completed to start construction work 

 on the Bruneau-Twin Falls irrigation project, which will 

 ultimately reclaim 600,000 acres of land located south of 

 the Snake river between the towns of Buhl and Bruneau. 

 The cost of construction is estimated at $20,000,000. Water 

 for irrigating the project will be taken from the Snake 

 river. A reservoir will be formed on this river by raising 

 the Milner dam. thereby banking the water of the stream 

 back up the river, submerging the town of American 

 Falls, and creating a gigantic reservoir. The main canals 

 will tap this reservoir above the dam and carry water to 

 the project. 



