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principal offices in Pueblo. The company is incor- 

 porated for 100,000 shares of stock of the par value 

 of $1. 



Alilton Smith, attorney for the Denver Reser- 

 voir and Irrigation Company, has received a tele- 

 gram from Paris to the effect that a French com- 

 pany will put up the necessary money for the 

 completion of the irrigation system. The Denver 

 Reservoir and Irrigation Company is one of the 

 largest in the West. 



The officers of the Central Colorado Power 

 Company are in a quandary as to how to obey 

 an order recently given them by the Interior De- 

 partment, which told them to remove the Shoshone 

 power plant tunnel off the government domain. The 

 company, in order to build its power plant at 

 Shoshone, diverted the waters of the Grand river 

 around a mountain side through a tunnel and then 

 dropped them down a vertical tunnel. The tunnel 

 through the mountain is on government land. The 

 government and the company has had some trouble 

 over rentals, and the government has now ordered 

 the removal of the tunnel. 



It is reported that a firm of New York bankers 

 are investigating the Greeley-Poudre irrigation 

 district with a view to financing and completing it 

 at once. This project embraces 125,000 acres of 

 the most fertile land in the northern part of the 

 state. The failure of the Denver Reservoir and 

 Irrigation Company temporarily embarrassed the 

 sale of its bonds. The interest has been defaulted 

 on one issue of $2,500,000 of bonds. The entire 

 bond issue originally authorized by the company, 

 in which D. A. Camfield of Greeley was extensively 

 interested, amounted to $5,100,000. 



Word recently received from the bondholders' 

 committee of the Pueblo-Rocky Ford Irrigation 

 Company authorized Receiver Devine to expend 

 $50,000 in completing the system in a thorough 

 manner so that water can be run on the lands for 

 all time. This action by the bondholders is most 

 creditable and should be evidence that this large 

 body of land is going to be irrigated and in time 

 brought under intensive cultivation. 



MONTANA. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized 

 the Reclamation Service to award the following 

 contracts for the construction of about forty-six 

 miles of the Vandalia south canal of the Milk river 

 irrigation project : To J. E. Hilton of Billings, 

 Montana, schedules 1 and 3, involving the excava- 

 tion of approximately 583,550 cubic yards of mate- 

 rial, contract price $118,150; to Charles Wilhite 

 of Boise, Idaho, schedule 2, involving the excava- 

 tion of about 302,550 cubic yards of material, 

 contract price $51,700. The work is situated on 

 the south side of Milk river, adjacent to the main 

 line of the Great Northern Railway, and is in the 

 vicinity of Vandalia, Tampico, Glasgow and Nashua, 

 Montana. 



A petition has been filed with the clerk of the 

 District Court with a request that the "Hysham 

 Irrigation District" be organized under the Montana 

 laws. The petition recites that there is approxi- 

 mately 6,000 acres of land lying south of Hysham 

 which may be irrigated from the Yellowstone river. 

 It is the intention to take the water from the river 



at a point west of Hysham by means of a pumping 

 plant or other means of lifting the water. The 

 petition is signed by a large number of landholders 

 and will be heard by the District Court at Forsyth 

 in the near future. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by 

 the Miles City Canal and Irrigating Company. 

 Capital stock of the company is fixed at $100,000. 

 The principal office of the company, of which W. 

 B. Jordan is president and J. B. Collins secretary, 

 is located at Miles City. 



A petition has been filed in the District Court 

 by H. D. Kremer, signed by a majority of the 

 landowners, asking for the creation of the "Gallatin 

 Irrigation District." If the district is created, it 

 is proposed to have the water on the fields in 1914. 

 The ditch would transform 2,964 acres of land on 

 the bench south of Three Forks and Willow creek 

 between the Madison river and Willow creek from 

 desert and grazing land into a fertile grain pro- 

 ducing section. 



The Yellowstone Valley Colonization Company 

 has filed articles of incorporation and the company- 

 will sell land and enter into many other enterprises. 

 The principal place of business is the city of For- 

 syth and the term of the incorporation is forty 

 years. The directors are George Heaton, R. W. 

 Heaton and James Denegre of St. Paul, Minnesota ; 

 James D. Conners of Dubuque, Iowa; J. H. Foster, 

 William Wratten, G. R. Huntington, J'. T. Gillick 

 and W. E. Baird of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 

 capital stock of the company is $1,000,000, with 

 $480,000 actually subscribed. 



The electrical pumping plant of the Prickly 

 Pear irrigation project at Helena was started Feb- 

 ruary 2, and water turned into the ditches for the 

 first time. The machinery performed perfectly and 

 to the entire satisfaction of the engineers having 

 the equipment in charge. The plant will be oper- 

 ated until every part has been given a thorough 

 test, and will then be closed down until May 1, 

 when it will go into regular service delivering water 

 during the irrigation season. The entire construc- 

 tion, including twenty-six miles of main ditches, 

 flumes, intakes, pumping plants and distributing 

 system, was completed within seven months from 

 the time work was started. 



P. E. Newcomb of Billings, representing East- 

 ern capital, has purchased the bond issue of $100,000 

 of the Lockwood irrigation project, and he also 

 has the contract for the construction of the system. 

 The plant is to be complete and thoroughly up-to- 

 date in every respect and is to be completed by 

 July 1, 1913. The system will consist of a pump 

 house, located on the Yellowstone river east of 

 Billings, from which the water will be raised to 

 two ditches, one of which will be at an elevation 

 of about 60 feet and the other to about 100 feet. 

 The land to be put under the ditch by this system 

 comprises some of the richest land in the. state of 

 Montana and all lies within six miles of Billings 

 on what has been known as "Poverty Flat." 



UTAH 



Samuel O. Lowe of Summit has filed a petition 

 with the state engineer for water right to irrigate 

 40 acres of land in Iron county. 



