THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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complainants and their predecessors acquired title to 

 the land surrounding the lake, there had been no ob- 

 struction at the outlet, except for a short time in 

 1907, when complainants consented to a temporary 

 interruption of the natural flow of the water at that 

 point, defendants' right of re-entry was barred by ad- 

 verse possession. Thomas v. Spencer. Supreme 

 Court of Washington. 125 Pacific 361. 



RESTRAINING STATE ENGINEER. 



A petition for an injunction, the purpose of which 

 is to restrain action by the state engineer and an ap- 

 plicant for water rights on a certain stream until a 

 hydrographic survey could be made and the rights of 

 all claimants determined, and which shows that peti- 

 tioners had previous to the date of the filing of the 

 application duly and lawfully appropriated to a bene- 

 ficial use all of the waters of the said stream, but that 

 no hydrographic survey nor judicial determination of 

 their rights had ever been made, and which pleads 

 that to allow the prayer of the applicant would be 

 to destroy a long established irrigation system erected 

 at a cost of $50,000, and that the applicant was not 

 in good faith seeking such water rights for the pur- 

 pose of putting the water applied for to a beneficial 

 use, but merely for speculative purposes, states a 

 cause of action ; nor is the said petition vulnerable to 

 a charge of either misjoinder of parties or improper 

 joinder of causes of action because there is joined 

 therein all of the parties claiming a right in and to 

 the water along with the state engineer, and the relief 

 asked against the latter is different from that de- 

 manded against' his codefendant, the purpose shown 

 being to hold the entire matter in statu quo until a 

 survey and adjudication could be made, as required 

 by the statute. Gay v. Hicks, et al. Supreme Court 

 of Oklahoma. 124" Pacific 1077. 



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and oats to the acre, and like yields of all other 

 kinds of farm products. European countries are 

 doing it. Why not America? They see a time 

 when farmers and farmers' wives and their children 

 will think more and work less. Every bushel raised 

 means just that much profit, and the profits of the 

 farm promote commerce and industry. 



Were every acre of ground in America made to 

 produce all that it is capable of producing, the 

 wealth of America would be more than doubled. 

 The United States government, the agricultural col- 

 leges, the railroads, the bankers, the grain men, the 

 I. H. C. Service Bureau, the agricultural and coun- 

 try press, and other organizations have done much 

 in education and farm development. But the Ser- 

 vice Bureau and Professor Holden are now going 

 forward with plans which seek to co-operate with 

 all other plans, and at the same time they are push- 

 ing out along individual service lines all their own. 



After a period of good work in Michigan Ag- 

 ricultural College, better work at Illinois, and great 

 work at Iowa, Professor Holden now enters upon a 

 world's work. While in future Professor Holden 

 will designate Chicago as home, he says he is not 

 leavine Iowa he merely is carrying Iowa to the 

 rest of the world. 



CALIFORNIA. 



The surplus water from the Tuolumne river, 

 which is allowed the Modesto irrigation district, and' 

 such as is not needed at this time, has been turned 

 into the main reservoir in the upper part of the dis- 

 trict. The main reservoir was completed a year 

 ago, and was built for the purpose of saving water 

 during the winter to be used in the summer when 

 the river fails to fill the irrigating canals. By this 

 method the period of irrigation has been lengthened 

 to a considerable extent. 



George Davis, who owns a ranch near Vaca- 

 ville, has completed a five-foot concrete darn across 

 L'latis Creek, the object of which is to raise the water 

 level for the purpose of sub-irrigation. A reservoir, 

 having a capacity of 10,000 gallons, has also been 

 constructed on the ranch. 



T. K. Beard, of Modesto, has been awarded con- 

 tract for the construction of a dam and outlet gate 

 to impound water for late irrigation in the Morley 

 lakes east of Hickman. The contract was awarded 

 by the directors of the Turlock Irrigation District 

 and calls for work to be completed by January 15, 

 1913 ; The contract price for the work'is $25,000. 



The Sweetwater Company of San Diego county, 

 has applied for permission to increase its rates for 

 water. The application states that the company is 

 now serving 4,047 acres of land with water. The 

 company protests especially against its acre irriga- 

 tion rate of a little over $7" per acre for citrus 

 orchard purposes. The company asks that this rate 

 be raised to 7 cents per 1,000 gallons. 



The water users of the Hickman ditch, east of 

 Hughson, have perfected a local irrigation organiza- 

 tion for the purpose of better taking up any griev- 

 ance or question concerning the welfare of their dis- 

 trict with the irrigation board. 



The El Casco Land Company, composed of 

 Redlands and Los Angeles men, which owns about 

 4.000 acres -in the San Timoteo canyon, has started 

 work on developing enough water on the ranch to 

 place the entire acreage under cultivation. An old 

 well, sunk to a depth of 60 feet, will be cleaned 

 out and sunk until a heavy flow is procured. Other 

 wells will be bored and it is believed enough water 

 can be procured in this way to irrigate the entire 

 ranch. 



An irrigation system is to be installed on the 

 Fresno State Normal grounds. A pumping plant, 

 according to specifications received at the school 

 recently, will be erected to the rear of the site of the 

 main building of the school which will supply the 

 necessary water for irrigation purposes. Bids are 

 to be asked for in the near future for the installation 

 of the proposed irrigation system. According to the 

 present plans, pipes will be laid from the pump to 

 different portions of the ground. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the 

 Yucalpa Triple Falls Mutual Water Company. The 

 principal office of the company is located in Los 



