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THE IREIGATION AGE. 



Angeles. W. M. Campbell, A. I. Newton, J. D. 

 Carlisle, C. C. Brinkley and W. A. Geller are the in- 

 corporators. 



Hugh Blair, a retired banker of Detroit, Mich., 

 has purchased 4,000 acres north and eas-t of Dinuba, 

 and will subdivide the property, putting a well on 

 each 20-acre tract. C. F. DeWitt Company, of Los 

 Angeles, will handle the sale of the subdivision. 



A. L. Cowell of Modesto, has been hired by the 

 Modesto Irrigation District at a salary of $300 per 

 month to supervise legislation in the coming session 

 of the Legislature, which pertains to irrigation. 



Permission to issue bonds in the sum of $10,- 

 000,000 was granted the Southern California Utili- 

 ties Company by the railroad commission early this 

 month. The issue is desired for the purpose of de- 

 veloping a land and irrigation system embracing 

 30,000 acres of land in Riverside county. The scheme 

 provides for the purchase of the Ramona Power and 

 Irrigation company for $350,000, the Lake Hemet 

 Water Company, the Fairview Land and Water 

 Company, the Hemet Town Water Company, and 

 the Hemet Land Company for $1,417,992, and the 

 construction and development of an irrigation sys- 

 tem and power plant for $4,117,000. It is under- 

 stood that English capitalists have agreed to pur- 

 chase the bonds. 



A deal which involved $1,500,000 as an initial 

 expenditure for the land and will mean the reclama- 

 tion of 60.000 acres of overflowed territory at the 

 cost of $4,000,000 was closed recently in Sacramento. 

 The purchasers are Chicago capitalists, represented 

 by R. J. Dunham and advised by W. E. Gerber, 

 president of the California National Bank of Sacra- 

 mento. 



COLORADO. 



Upon application of the City Trust Company ot 

 Chicago, and Harrison Riley, trustee, a receiver has 

 been appointed for the Pueblo-Rocky Ford Irriga- 

 tion Company. The petition states that the com- 

 pany, which has control of 20,000 acres of land in 

 the Arkansas Valley, defaulted in the payment of in- 

 terest on the loan of $2,000.000 on July "l, 1912, and 

 has not been able to pay. The petition for a receiver 

 charges that the property has not been properly 

 managed but does not accuse the officers of criminal 

 wrongdoing. It is stated that unless the receiver 

 takes hold further depreciation will follow. 



Under the High Line canal tracts as small as 

 twentv acres will be apportioned to homesteaders, 

 according to statement of F. D. Pyle of the Reclama- 

 tion Service, who has been at Grand Junction re- 

 cently studying the soil under the project with a 

 view to determining the unit of acreage for home- 

 stead purposes. Work on the canal has been com- 

 menced. The government has available for this 

 project $1,800,000 and this sum will put the tunnel 

 a long way toward completion. According to Mr. 

 Pyle, the unit of homesteads under the local project 

 will not exceed forty acres, as an average. The posi- 

 tion taken by the government is that the cost of 

 the project is such that 160 acres would be too great 

 a burden for the homesteader, while past experience 

 in the valley has demonstrated that ten or even five 

 acres are sufficient for the support of an ordinary 



family, and there is no intention on the part of the 

 government to permit" any one to take up land for 

 speculative purposes. Those people who originally 

 filed on 160 acres of land under this project will be 

 required by the government to deed back 120 acres 

 for settlement by other persons. However, the orig- 

 inal homesteaders will be given the opportunity to 

 make choice of the land they desire to hold. 



The Florida Mesa Land and Development Com- 

 pany, financed by eastern capital and represented in 

 the state of Colorado by W. L. Rucker, a contract- 

 ing banker of Denver, has taken over the holdings 

 of the Pioneer Construction Company, the outstand- 

 ing bonds alone amounting to $403,000, which now 

 stands as a lien against every farmer in that district, 

 and they are offering to pay 50 cents on the dollar 

 for the warrants issued by the Pioneer Company. 

 The system as planned on the Florida mesa near 

 Durango will be sufficient to provide water for 

 12,000 acres of land. 



A splendid flow of artesian water has been en- 

 countered in the artesian well which the Morrissey 

 brothers are drilling on their ranch near Florence. 

 The new well is said to be discharging 3 l / 2 cubic 

 feet of water per second, which is sufficient to irri- 

 gate 1,000 acres of land. Water was struck at a 

 depth of 800 feet. 



OREGON. 



The Horse Fly irrigation district of Klamath 

 county has voted to issue $785,000 in bonds for con- 

 struction of an irrigation project. 



Construction work has been commenced on the 

 dam for the Lamberson reservoir of the Bully, Creek 

 irrigation project, which is to water 40,000 acres~of 

 rich bench and valley land surrounding the city 

 of Vale. Work has been started on the 400-foot 

 tunnel which is to be located on the north side of 

 the dam. The Lamberson reservoir will store 75.000 

 acre-feet of flood waters. It is understood that the 

 project will be completed within two years. Over 

 15,000 of the 40,000 which are to be reclaimed are 

 already contracted to be supplied with water at the 

 rate of $80 per acre. 



Ninety days' extension of time has been granted 

 the Central Oregon Irrigation Company on their 

 contract with the state for the construction of the 

 North Canal. The contract was to expire January 

 1, 1913, but the company asked for six months' ex- 

 tension. The Desert Land Board granted only 

 ninety days. 



County treasurer P. W. Halliday of Vale, has 

 been elected president of the Nevada Ditch Associa- 

 tion, which is composed of ranchers between Vale 

 and Ontario. The Nevada irrigation ditch covers 

 6.000 acres of fine affalfa land. 



Good progress has been made on the reclama- 

 tion work begun this fall. The work now in prog- 

 ress will carry water to approximately 6.000 acres. 

 Most of this land is in the Poe Valley from 13 to 

 20 miles from Klamath Falls. A narrow strip of 

 land along the east side of Stukel mountain will get 

 water from the Griffith lateral, which latter is sup- 

 plied with water from the large horseshoe dam on 

 Lost river. All of the work will be completed 

 early next fall. 



