THE IREIGATION AGE. 



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Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by Com- 

 monwealth Land and Irrigation Company of Los An- 

 geles, Cal. The company has a capital stock of $500,- 

 000. Messrs. J. F. Riddle, V. Merx, G. A. LeDoux, 

 P. P. Myhand and R. H. Mullineaux are the incor- 

 porators. 



One of the largest developments planned for the 

 Woodville section, and which is to be undertaken by 

 Porterville capitalists, is the establishment of a 400- 

 acre alfalfa farm near that city. Work is already un- 

 der way and the entire 400 acres will be seeded to 

 alfalfa during the coming year. Plans have been ac- 

 cepted for a central irrigating plant and water is al- 

 ready being developed. Two 7-inch centrifugal pumps 

 and two 20-horsepower motors will be installed for 

 watering the crop. 



A warning has been issued by W. H. Holabird, 

 as receiver of the California Development Company, 

 ag'ainst persons putting up money for locations or 

 filings on desert lands in the Imperial valley, lying 

 west of the West Side Main canal. Beyond that line, 

 he states, he believes no water will be delivered. He 

 further states that there are thousands of acres of land 

 in the Imperial valley that can be irrigated by gravity 

 water. These desert lands that will come under irri- 

 gation in the near future lie under the East High Line 

 canal, now being constructed by Imperial Water Com- 

 pany No. 5, whose office is at Holtville, Cal. 



A unique irrigation system is being installed for 

 the Worth Water Company, formerly known as the 

 Loma Linde, which will serve a number of orange 

 growers near Porterville. Four wells have been driven, 

 with a combined production of 70 inches of water. 

 They are connected with a tunnel sixteen feet below 

 the surface of the ground. A central centrifugal pump 

 will take the water from the four wells and run it 

 into a surface reservoir. From this reservoir two 8x10 

 triplex pumps will force the water through 4,900 feet 

 of pipe to the foothills back of the orchards, where 

 the central distribution tanks have been placed nearly 

 200 feet above the pumps. The cost of the system is 

 approximately $10,000. 



J. E. O'Donnell and M. B. O'Farrell of Los An- 

 geles, will drill six wells at once on their land on the 

 Palomares ranch near Oceanside. 



The Kern County Land Company of Bakersfield 

 will prepare 700 acres of land at Shafter, eighteen 

 miles from Bakersfield, for sub-division and sale. A 

 number of wells will be put down and electricity will 

 be used for pumping. A townsite will be laid out. 



A Los Angeles syndicate, composed of Messrs. 

 Edward M. Fowler, W. H. Hollingsworth, James H. 

 Wagner and Robt. Marsh, is preparing to establish 

 an irrigation system upon several large tracts of land 

 in the Linda Vista mesa, north of Mission Valley, 

 aggregating 10,000 acres. It is planned to put down 

 a number of artesian wells to secure water for irriga- 

 tion. 



Suit to recover lands granted by congress in 

 March, 1901, to the Pine Valley Consolidated Com- 



pany, for reservoir and irrigation purposes, has been 

 filed by the U. S. government. The government 

 charges that the company has not carried out the 

 terms of the grant. 



At a cost of approximately $350.000, the Fontana 

 Company of Los Angeles, has completed what is said 

 to be one of the finest and most comprehensive irri- 

 gation systems in the entire Southwest. The system 

 waters about 4,000 acres of land lying adjacent to the 

 town of Rialto. The water developed from the flow 

 of Lytle creek is valued by experts at $1,000,000 and 

 is declared to be more than ample to irrigate the tract. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the 

 Montalvo Mutual Water Company of San Buena- 

 ventura, Cal. The capital stock of the company is 

 given as $40,000. George Cook and J. C. Daly of 

 Ventura, E. S. Hall of Nordhoff, W. W. Steele of 

 Montalvo and R. B. Haydock of Oxnard are the in- 

 corporators. 



The diverting dam at Willow Bar, built by the 

 Oakdale and South San Joaquin districts for turning 

 the water of the Stanislaus river on the plains around 

 Oakdale, making that town the center of 300,000 acres 

 of irrigated land, has been completed. This clam is 80 

 feet high, 300 feet ft. wide and is built of reinforced 

 concrete. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the 

 Oro Loma Irrigated Farms. Capital stock of the 

 company is given as $10,000; subscribed, $30; shares, 

 $10 each. Directors of the new company are W. M. 

 Sims, J. W. Marshall and L. R. Young. The principal 

 office of the company is at San Francisco. 



Churn Creek valley, situated in Shasta county, 

 lying about halfway between Redding and Anderson, 

 will be irrigated next season, by a canal eight feet 

 deep. The valley contains about 3,800 acres of fertile 

 land. The plan is to have a pumping plant at an in- 

 take in the Sacramento which raises the water to a 

 point that will cover the entire valley. 



The city of Santa Paula has filed a complaint 

 against the Santa Clara Water and Irrigating Com- 

 pany, and against the Interurban Land Company. 

 These two corporations are engaged in the irrigation 

 business and carry water through the city of Santa 

 Paul in an open ditch. The city authorities complain 

 that the ditch is unhealthful, and ask that the compa- 

 nies be compelled to carry the water through the 

 city of Santa Paula in submerged pipes. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the 

 Rush Creek Mutual Ditch Company of Los Angeles, 

 Capital stock of the company is placed at $30,000. 

 Messrs. O. Oliver, F. D. Hager, W. D. Hager, E. D. 

 Silent and A. H. Swallow are the incorporators. 



E. C. Sterling of Los Angeles, has acquired con- 

 trolling interest in the Fullerton Domestic Water Com- 

 pany of Fullerton, Cal., and will make extensive im- 

 provements in the plant, including a large cement 

 reservoir, new iron pipe mains, etc. 



The Claremont Domestic Water Company of 

 Claremont, has filed articles of incorporation, with a 

 capital stock of $100,000. L. N. Smith, G. S. Sum- 

 mer, E. C. Norton, F. N. Thomas and L. T. Gillett 

 are the incorporators. 



A contract for the making of 30 miles of 16-inch 

 steel irrigation pipe has been given the Western Pipe 



