THE I K K I G A T I N AGE. 



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Work on an irrigation project which will reclaim 

 14,000 acres of desert land has been commenced by the 

 Sam Farmer Escalante Irrigation Company of Den- 

 ver. The lands which the company will reclaim 

 lie south and west of Delta in Delta and Montrose 

 counties. The $200,000 necessary to install reservoirs 

 and canals has been raised by W. L. Rucker of Denver, 

 who has had charge of the financing of the company 

 since its inception last May. The money was obtained 

 by the sale of bonds in New York and other eastern 

 points. Twenty-five miles of main line canal will be 

 necessary to carry the water from the reservoirs which 

 are to be built on the Escalante river and Cottonwood 

 creek to the land which is to be watered. Three reser- 

 voirs in all will be built, the cost of which will be 

 $150,000. The Orman Construction Company of 

 Pueblo has been awarded contract for construction of 

 the project, and work will be rushed to completion. 



Construction work on the Dolores irrigation 

 project which will reclaim 350,000 acres of land in 

 Montezuma county, will be begun within the next two 

 months. W. M. Strong, a construction irrigation 

 engineer, who is to be the resident-representative of 

 Mr. Fred L. Lucas, of New York City, who has under- 

 taken to finance the project, has arrived at Durango, 

 which will be his headquarters until the project is 

 completed. 



Dr. John Gould, J. Albert Wright and Frank 

 White, officers and organizers of the Riverside Land 

 and Irrigation Company of Denver, who were con- 

 victed in September, 1911, of using the mails to de- 

 fraud, have been sentenced to fifteen months in the 



federal prison at Leavens worth, Kansas. The defend- 

 ants were also ordered to pay the cost of the proceed- 

 ings besides being fined $100. One charge in brief is 

 that they sold a duck pond as a big irrigation reservoir. 



Fire caused by a "sulphur smudge" damaged the 

 irrigation plant of the Foote Great Northern Company 

 on Dry Fork near Meeker recently. Valuable maps 

 and charts of the company were destroyed. 



Secretary Fisher turned the first shovelful of dirt 

 on the $4,000,000 government Grande Valley irriga- 

 tion project late in October. Excavation work has 

 been started on tunnel No. 3 near Cameo in the canyon 

 above Palisade. The project is planned to utilize 'the 

 waters of the Grand River in reclaiming and making 

 fertile 53,000 acres of land in the heart of Colorado's 

 fruit belt. The land will be disposed of direct by the 

 government in 40 and 80-acre homesteads which may 

 be purchased with the water rights on periods ranging 

 from five to ten years. 



The affairs of the Orlando Reservoir and Irriga- 

 tion Company, the lands of which lie in the southern 

 part of Pueblo county and in northern Huerfano 

 county, have been placed in the hands of a receiver. 

 Recently the Scandia Irrigation district was created in 

 that section and took in the reservoir site owned by 

 the Orlando company. It is alleged by stockholders 

 that incompetency on the part of the management of 

 the company has caused its insolvency. Nothing can 

 be done with the irrigating district until a title to the 

 reservoir site can be secured. The project will irri- 

 gate 7,000 acres of land when completed. 



The Pueblo Land and Irrigation Company of 



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 With a BUCKEYE OPEN DITCHER 



<I This illustration shows the Buckeye 

 Open Ditcher in actual operation in the 

 Everglades of Florida, where it has already 

 reclaimed vast tracts of waste land at a 

 great saving in cost over hand labor. 



1 The Buckeye has enabled contractors 

 and land owners to cut their reclamation 

 costs down to the minimum because it 

 does the work better, faster and cheaper 

 than the obsolete hand labor method. 



It is a machine that is built to handle 

 the most difficult kind of reclamation 

 and irrigation work. It is equipped with 

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 the softest and soggiest kind of ground. 



<I The Buckeye is made in a number of 

 sizes, cutting ditches from 2}4 to 12 feet 

 at the top. It digs every ditch uniform 

 size and perfect to grade. 



Write today for catalog No. 26 



It explains in detail the simplicity, effici- 

 ency and economy of the Buckeye. 



The Buckeye Traction Ditcher Co., Findlay, Ohio 



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