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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



A corporation known as the Yolo Water and 

 Power Company, with offices at Woodland, will place 

 50,000 acres of land in Yolo and Lake counties un- 

 der irrigation. White & Co., New York bankers, 

 have bought out the Craig and Stephens interests, 

 controlling the Y'olo Water and Power Company, a 

 corporation furnishing water for the irrigation of 

 land near Woodland, and will carry to completion 

 one of the largest irrigation systems in the west. 

 The company purposes to ultimately reclaim 200,000 

 acres at an expenditure of $11,000,000. 



The Sharer Investment Company, J. R. McKinnie, 

 J. E. O'Donnell and J. P. Kane, all of Los Angeles, 

 have purchased the 2,400-acre ranch of J. H. Henry of 

 Pasadena. The consideration is reported to have been 

 $125,000. The land lies near the town of Fallbrook in 

 San Diego county. The owners will spend a large 

 sum in the development and subdivision of the ranch, 

 cutting it up into five, ten and twenty-five acre farms. 



Ross & Stearns, of Los Angeles, have purchased 

 1,300 acres of land lying near Riverside in the Moreno 

 valley, on which they will develop more water, piping 

 it to the highest point of each tract. Citrus trees will 

 be planted on most of the land. 



Construction of the second unit of the irrigation 

 system being installed on Planada Lands has been com- 

 menced. Mr. Lambert, an irrigation expert of Los 

 Angeles, is in charge of the work. The section now 

 being constructed will be built on the concrete dis- 

 tributing plan and is said to be one of the most effec- 

 tive and complete pieces of work ever considered in 

 the San Joaquin valley. 



The Middletown Irrigated Farms Company, of 

 Middletown, N. Y., having as its object the irrigation 

 of California lands, has filed articles of incorporation 

 showing a capital stock of $75,000. The incorporators 

 of the company are Chas. A. Evans, Harry D. Gould, 

 Albert C. Ogden and Dewitt S. Horton, all of Middle- 

 town, N. Y. 



At a meeting held at Glendora recently by the 

 stockholders of the Glendora Irrigating Company, 

 Glendora Mutual Water Company, Citrus Belt Water 

 Company and Independent Water Company, the mat- 

 ter of securing 1,000 inches of acqueduct water for 

 this immediate district was voted upon, and by a 

 unanimous vote they decided to take the amount of 

 water if it could be secured at 2^2 cents per hour-inch. 

 The growers present subscribed for the entire 1,000 

 inches, practically mortgaging their realty holdings to 

 secure the water. 



Plans to extend the present system of wells and 

 pumps used in the Oakland parks for irrigation pur- 

 poses are being considered by the board of park direc- 

 tors. 



The Carnine-Saunders Corporation of Fresno are 

 completing plans for the opening of Bullard Lands 

 Irrigated. The great tract of 7,200 acres has been 

 under preparation for market for about a year. This 

 is one of the most famous ranches in Fresno county 



and the last great one near the city of Fresno. First 

 water rights have been secured for Bullard Lands 

 Irrigated. The Church Canal system will supply water 

 in abundance. The canal company will also have the 

 maintaining of the canals. This is included in the 

 water rate which is only $1 per acre per year. 



Cooz. Bros., of Los Angeles, have recently had a 

 627-foot irrigation well and pumping outfit installed 

 on their ranch east of Cucamonga. The well up to 

 date has cost $5,000 and it is estimated that the pump- 

 ing apparatus will cost in the neighborhood of $600. 

 The shaft in the well reaches down to 346 feet. The 

 well will yield 100 inches of water per minute, and will 

 be used to irrigate orange and lemon orchards. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the 

 Palmdale Water Company ; principal place of business, 

 Los Angeles ; capital stock, $200,000. Incorporators 

 are C. Cate. J. R. Avery, W. C. Fisher, K. E. Bearden 

 and E. Lindsay, all of Los Angeles. 



The city of Riverside has under consideration the 

 irrigation of 5,000 acres of land contiguous to the city. 

 Much of the land is suitable for orange and lemon 

 groves. 



The Concrete Pipe Company of Porterville has 

 been awarded the contract for the installation of a six- 

 mile unit of 10-inch concrete pipe for the Lindsay - 

 Rockford properties in the Lindsay foothills. 



The Modesto irrigation district has appointed 

 Attorney E. R. Jones and Engineer Crow to represent 

 that district at the Hetch Hetchy hearing to be held 

 at Washington, D. C., late this month. These repre- 

 sentatives will voice the claim of the Modesto district 

 to the water in the headwaters of the Tuolumne river 

 as opposed to the claims of San Francisco that the 

 Turlock and Modesto districts are using more water 

 than is necessary. 



The big citrus project that is being launched by 

 the Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company is well 

 under way and fifty acres have already been set to 

 oranges. This one undertaking is to embrace 1,000 

 acres in citrus fruit and is located about eight miles 

 east of the city of Orland. It has been stated that 

 eventually the tract will consist of 3,000 acres. Wells 

 have been driven in Stony Creek as a means of irrigat- 

 ing the grove. An underground system of concrete 

 pipe will be used, some of the largest pipe being 

 eighteen inches in diameter. 



COLORADO. 



The Secretary of the Interior has rejected the 

 bids received on October 21 for the excavation of the 

 extension of the West Canal and laterals of the 

 Uncompahgre irrigation project. The work consists 

 of 17.4 miles of canals and laterals involving about 

 50,000 cubic yards of excavation and 600 linear feet 

 of tunnel. Schedule 2, involving 7,600 cubic yards of 

 excavation and 600 linear feet of tunnel, will be re- 

 advertised ; the remainder will be constructed by gov- 

 ernment forces or under small contracts. 



Contracts have been let to the Midwest Engineer- 

 ing Company of Denver for completion of the Terrace 

 irrigation project in Rio Grande and Conejos counties. 

 The Terrace and Lajara reservoirs are completed, and 

 the contract calls for the construction of laterals and 

 headgates in the distributing system. The project when 

 completed will cost about $500,000. 



