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tion. Ninety per cent of the land to be reclaimed 

 is owned by the government. 



A private irrigation system in northern Washoe 

 county, Nevada, which is owned largely by Capt. E. 

 W. Johnston of Seattle, Washington, is being rap- 

 idly brought to completion. A tunnel has been run 

 1,300 feet to tap Massacre, Middle and Western 

 lakes, which will be drawn into a reservoir contain- 

 ing 200,000 acre feet. Captain Johnston expects to 

 reclaim 125,000 acres of land. The estimated cost of 

 the project is $200,000. 



The State Engineer's department of South Da- 

 kota has granted a permit to John A. Brown of 

 Westover, S. D., to take water from White river for 

 the irrigation of 600 acres on that stream. 



State Engineer Trench of New Mexico has un- 

 der consideration the granting of a water franchise 

 to a Denver firm for 145,000 acre feet of the water 

 of the Canadian river. The company has made 

 several surveys of the dam site, laterals and grades, 

 and it is stated that if the right is granted work on 

 the construction of the main canal will be com- 

 menced not later than January, 1913. This will, if 

 consummated, bring under irrigation some of the 

 richest land in Quay county. Engineers of the 

 company are now making final surveys and esti- 

 mates. 



An experiment in practical irrigation in a tract 

 of land near Wichita, Kansas, is to be undertaken 

 next year by several men of that section. A tract 

 of land of suitable .size to make a fair experiment 

 will be procured and a small Dumping plant in- 



stalled. John Eerriter, C. I. Reed and other promin- 

 nent men of Wichita are back of the scheme. These 

 gentlemen have made a special study of irrigation 

 and while the land in that vicinity is producing good 

 crops it is their belief that with irrigation the land 

 can be made to produce from fifty to one. hundred 

 per cent more than it now produces.' The experi- 

 ment will be watched with interest by farmers in 

 that section. 



For the purpose of irrigating lands in the west, 

 the Montana Water Power Company of Trenton, 

 New Jersey, has filed articles of incorporation. The 

 capital stock of the company is $3,500,000, and the 

 incorporatdrs are Henry F. Kroyer, New York City ; 

 Geo. H. Burt, Roselle, New Jersey, and C. Norman 

 Foy of Chicago, 111. 



O. L. Wilson, manager of the French Creek 

 Irrigation and Development Company, has filed 

 bond and contract with the State Land Board at 

 Cheyenne, Wyoming, to commence work on the 

 15th of April, 1913. This company has a large proj- 

 ect and Mr. Wilson states that there were ready 

 to start work this fall but that, in view of the fact 

 that it has gotten so late that will put the matter off 

 until spring. 



Dr. J. B. Perrin, of Williams, Ariz., and Dr. Mil- 

 ton McWhorten, of Oakland, CaL, are planning the 

 construction of a large irrigation district to serve 

 10,000 acres of land which they own, situated west 

 of Tucson. 



Representatives of Colorado capitalists who are 

 planning an immense reclamation project in San 

 Juan county, Utah, waited upon the state land board 



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<I The Buckeye has enabled contractors 

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