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THE IKRIGATION AGE. 



Pueblo has filed a map of the Pumpkin Hollow reser- 

 voir to be constructed northwest of that city with the 

 county clerk. The reservoir will have a capacity of 

 107,750,150 cubic feet of water and a dam 65 feet 

 high is to be constructed. The water supply will be 

 derived from Pumpkin Hollow and Turkey Creek. 



IDAHO. 



A $600,000 decision involving liens and mortgages 

 on the Big Lost River irrigation project located in 

 south central Idaho has been handed down by Judge 

 Frank S. Dietrich of the federal court, in which he 

 gives the Corey Bros. Construction Company of Salt 

 Lake City the full amount of damages asked. The 

 case was bitterly contested in the federal court for 

 several years. Corey Bros, claimed $600,000 due 

 under contract from the irrigation company for the 

 construction of the irrigation project. Their suit in- 

 volved the trustees, bond houses and mortgage holders. 

 The Big Lost River Irrigation Company became finan- 

 cially embarrassed but contested the claim of the con- 

 tractors. 



Work for the year has been suspended on the 

 Keating irrigation project in Lemhi county which is 

 being developed by Butte, Mont., capital. The irri- 

 gation system has been completed for 5,000 acres, and 

 the state officers of Idaho desire the company to place 

 the lands to be reclaimed on the market. The Keating 

 project is unlike any other Carey Act land enterprise 

 in that none of the lands included within the district 

 have been offered for sale, it being the policy of the 

 company to withhold the lands until water can be 

 turned upon them. Chas. Beebe of Butte, Mont., is 

 president of the Keating Company, and W. J. Irvine 

 of Three Forks, Mont., is general manager. 



A verdict was given in the federal court at Boise 

 recently in favor of the Twin Falls Canal Compam 

 against the Twin Falls Land and Water Company for 

 $33,000 damages, alleged to have been suffered by 

 the plaintiff through the defendant turning over the 

 canal system to settlers. The case has attracted wide 

 attention and the result will be important to other 

 Carey Act projects. The case was brought upon" 

 claimed damages resulting from the construction of 

 wooden headgates and weirs in the main, high and low 

 line canals and on account of defective construction 

 of the Point Spillway. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized the 

 Reclamation Service to accept the proposal of the 

 Ogden Portland Cement Company of Ogden, Utah, 

 for furnishing 130,000 barrels of cement for use on 

 the Arrowrock dam, Boise irrigation project. The 

 contract price is 99 cents per barrel, f. o. b. cars at 

 Bakers, Utah. The engineers are also authorized to 

 enter into negotiations for proposals for an additional 

 130,000 barrels. 



C. B. Hurtt, of Boise, is authority for the state- 

 ment that capital has been procured to complete the 

 Big Lost River irrigation project which embraces an 

 immense tract of land. Work on the project was 

 stopped two years ago following the failure of the 

 Trowbridge-Niver Company of Chicago, who were 

 handling the bonds of the company. 



The Secretary of the Interior has approved form 

 of contract, subject to the acceptance by the board of 

 directors of the Payette-Boise Water User's Associa- 



tion, and subject to certain conditions, with the Hill 

 crest irrigation district, providing for the carrying of 

 water to irrigate 3,000 acres of land through the main 

 canal of the Boise irrigation project. For this service 

 the sum of $35,000 in ten annual installments of $3,500 

 each, and also pay to the United States in advance 

 $600 per year as the proportionate share of the opera- 

 tion and maintenance charge of the project against the 

 district on account of the use of that portion of the 

 canal through which water will be carried for it. The 

 maximum amount of water to be carried is fixed at 

 30 second-feet, and embraces certain water rights now 

 appurtenant to lands which have become worthless for 

 irrigation and of which the district is to secure pos- 

 session and transfer the lands in question. In the 

 event of their inability to secure possession and trans- 

 fer of such right, the Secretary of the Interior is given 

 power under the contract to cancel the agreement all 

 moneys paid prior to such cancellation to be forfeited 

 to the United States, and the government to be under 

 no further obligation on account of the contract. 



OREGON. 



For the purpose of reclaiming over 20.000 acres 

 of land near Klamath Falls, the Horsefly Irrigation 

 Company has filed papers to organize the land into an 

 irrigation district. The company plans to bond the 

 district for $775,000 and will erect a large reservoir 

 and dam. 



Land owners east of and adjacent to the town of 

 Echo have formed an irrigation district which will 

 embrace 50,000 acres of land, the greater part of which 

 is already under cultivation, now being used for dry- 

 land wheat growing. The district will be .known as 

 the Paradise Irrigation District. The directors of the 

 district are as follows : A. B. Thompson, Frank Sloan, 

 Joe Conley, W. M. Slusher and Jas. Hoskins. 



Construction work has been begun on the Lamber- 

 son reservoir of the Bully Creek irrigation project 

 which is to reclaim 40,000 acres of land surrounding 

 the town of Vale. The contract for the construction 

 of the project has been awarded to Maney Bros., of 

 Boise, Idaho. This enterprise was promoted by Judge 

 G. E. Davis and John Rigby of Vale, and involves 

 an expenditure of $1,500,CKXX 



H. M. Teel, a senior in the civil engineering de- 

 partment of the Oregon Agricultural College, has been 

 selected by the Hinkle Irrigation Company to take 

 complete charge of the locating and laying out of their 

 irrigating plant of something over 100 miles in length, 

 the estimated cost of which is $700,000. The tract 

 to be reclaimed embraces 20,000 acres of land lying 

 in the western part of.Umatille county. Water for 

 irrigation purposes will be taken from Camas Creek. 



The state of Oregon is now building, under the 

 Carey Act, a dam and reservoir twenty-two miles 

 north of Lakeview and an equal distance south of 

 Paisley, Lake county, on the Chewaucan River, in the 

 Fremont National Forest. The dam will be approxi- 

 mately 267 feet long on top and 35 feet at the bottom, 

 80 feet high from the bed of the river, 22 feet wide 

 at the top and 390 feet wide at the bottom. It will 

 be of rock construction, containing a solid concrete 

 core wall five feet thick at the bottom and three feet 

 thick at the top, the cement work being carried down 

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