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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



The California & Arizona Land Company, 

 whose main office is in Los Angeles, is planning 

 to develop water on a large tract of land near 

 Monolith. 



A. G. Chatom and H. A. Dunn of Turlock have 

 been awarded the contract for the construction of 

 an irrigation system at Brentwood, in Contra Costa 

 county, which will cost approximately $200,000 and 

 will be similar to the system so successfully in- 

 stalled and now in operation at Patterson, Stanis- 

 laus county. It is expected that the project will 

 be completed within a year. 



The Railroad Commission has rendered a deci- 

 sion granting the application of the Moulton Irri- 

 gated Lands Company for authority to issue bonds 

 in the sum of $250,000. The company owns lands 

 and a water system in Colusa, Glenn and Sutter 

 counties. 



The Turlock Irrigation District has filed con- 

 demnation proceedings in the Superior Court against 

 the Louis Hickman corporation, which owns lands 

 in the vicinity of Denair. The district has planned 

 for a canal connecting the high line canal with the 

 Turlock main canal, and a part of the rights of 

 way sought are over the Hickman lands. In the 

 complaint it is set forth that the district has offered 

 the owners of the Hickman lands a reasonable 

 sum, but the offer has been refused. Therefore, 

 the district asks that there shall be an assessment 

 of the value of the land and condemnation of that 

 portion needed for rights of way. 



The Solano Irrigated Farms have filed articles 

 of incorporation. The life of the corporation is 

 fixed at fifty years and the capital stock is $7,500,- 

 000, divided into 75,000 shares of a par value of 

 $100 each. Of the capital stock, $2,000,000 is pre- 

 ferred. The company is the outgrowth of recent 

 purchases by San Francisco and Eastern capitalists 

 in Solano county, and more than 100,000 acres of 

 land will be developed by this company. The in- 

 corporators and directors are Frederick Stencil, A. 

 von Bortsel, E. Salomon, Oscar Samuels, "William 

 Coates, William P. Dixey, B. Harcourt, W. P. 

 Taylor, Jr., and E. Soderstrand, all of San Fran- 

 cisco. The principal office of the company is 

 located in San Francisco. 



An irrigation company which plans to bring 

 water to 2,000 acres of land in the Carpinteria 

 district has been formed in Carpinteria, the project 

 being to construct a reservoir in the hills, half a 

 mile from the Casitas road. The first cost will 

 be about $40,000. Four hundred acres have been 

 purchased in the canyon above the Webster place. 

 A dam will be built half a mile above the S. I. 

 Jamison ranch, and the water will be brought down 

 in iron and concrete pipes 16 inches in diameter! 

 From the mouth of the canyon the laterals will 

 extend in either direction and supply water to that 

 entire section of the valley. There has been 360 

 acres contracted for so far. Those interested in 

 the pfoject are C. B. Franklin, John Bailard, S. E. 



Beckstead, B. Bailard and Ed. Bailard, all of Car- 

 pinteria. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by 

 the Jamison Land & Water Company, capital stock 

 52,300; principal place of business, Colusa; object, 

 to buy, sell and irrigate land. The incorporators 

 are J. L. Mendenhall, I. P. Iverson, Ross Nissen, 

 N. Mortenson and Charles Keane. 



Ground has been broken near Brentwood for 

 the irrigation system of the Balfour-Guthrie Com- 

 pany, covering 12,000 acres of land. The contract 

 for the main ditch has been awarded to Edward 

 Malley of San Francisco. The estimated cost of 

 the system is $500,000. 



COLORADO. 



The Grand Valley Water Users' Association, 

 at a recent meeting, voted to issue $15,000 in bonds 

 to take up all debts of the corporation and get its 

 affairs in shape for the completion of the High 

 Line canal. This is the company that has the 

 contract with the government for the land to be 

 watered by the $5,000,000 canal. 



The Las Animas Irrigated Land Company, 

 which has recently been incorporated, has secured 

 a tract of land and will sink twenty wells, install 

 pumping plants to be run with electricity, and in 

 forty-acre tracts place this land in the hands of 

 actual farmers. 



Three hundred and sixty thousand acres of land 

 in Southwestern Colorado and upwards of 100,000 

 in Southeastern Utah will be brought under culti- 

 vation through the signing of contracts by Henry 

 L. Doherty & Company of New York for the 

 underwriting of between $6,000,000 and $8,000,000 

 of bonds, the proceeds of which will be utilized 

 in the construction of a large irrigation system. 

 Settlement will be made under the Carey Act, and 

 the water will cost between $25 and $30 per acre. 

 Two years will be required to complete the work. 

 Water will be taken from the Dolores river at a 

 point about twelve miles below the town of Dolores, 

 in Dolores county, and will be carried into Monte- 

 zuma county. To impound the water a dam 239 

 feet high will be built, making a lake that will 

 extend to within a mile of the town of Dolores. 

 To get the water into the main canal a tunnel 

 7,009 feet long will be constructed. Application 

 for the segregation of the land was made before 

 the state land board some months ago by Senator 

 West of Durango and Frank E Gove, former 

 senator from Denver, representing the promotion 

 syndicate, and was immediately granted when the 

 feasibility of the project was shown. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by 

 the Russell & Thatcher Ditch and Reservoir Com- 

 pany. The company is incorporated for $10,000, 

 divided into shares of $10 each. The place of busi- 

 ness will be in Pueblo. The object of the company 

 is to maintain and construct reservoirs, laterals, 

 dams and canals and flumes for water storage for 

 irrigation and domestic purposes; also to purchase 

 live stock to stock the land to be irrigated. The 

 headgates of the main canal, which will be 23,000 

 feet long, will be on the Huerfano river. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by 

 the Rocky Mountain Development Company, with 



