THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



An irrigation project, embracing thousands of 

 acres of rich soil in and around the town of Brent- 

 \vood has been inaugurated by the Balfour-Guthrie 

 Company of San Francisco and London, England. 

 This company recently purchased 12,000 acres and 

 has instituted one of the most complete irrigation 

 systems in the west. Water for irrigation pur- 

 poses will be taken from Indiam Creek. 



Work on the construction of a dam to form a 

 reservoir that will furnish 500,000 miners' inches 

 of water for irrigation purposes will be commenced 

 early this spring. About $250,000 will be required 

 to build the dam alone. The dam will be built at 

 Becker's Ford, about two miles from Somerset, and 

 will impound the waters of the Middle Fork and 

 Cosurrmes rivers. It is intended to furnish water 

 for irrigation to the farmers of Sacramento, Amador 

 and El Dorado counties. 



At a recent meeting held at Waterforcl, four- 

 teen miles west of Modesto, it was decided that pre- 

 liminary plans should be made at once for the for- 

 mation of an irrigation district to water approxi- 

 mately 20,000 acres of land. The proposed new 

 district borders the Modesto irrigation! district on 

 the east and contains land that will be highly pro- 

 ductive under irrigation. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the 



Graham Mutual Water Company, with capitaliza- 

 tion of $750,000. Principal office of the company is 

 located in Los Angeles. Among those interested 

 in the project are Benj. F. Graham, Donald Barber, 

 J A. Phillips, F. H. Edwards, and J. M. O'Brien, 

 all of Los Angeles, Cal. 



A concern known as the Miramonte Apple 

 Land Company of Los Angeles, has purchased a 

 large tract of apple land in the mountains near 

 Squaw Valley. The company has filed articles of 

 incorporation, with a capital stock of $100,000. The 

 object of the incorporation is to reclaim many acres 

 of mountain land which is known to be suitable for 

 raising fine apples. 



T. G. Patton, of Placerville; O. Scribner, of 

 San Francisco, and Senator C. B. Mills, of Sacra- 

 mento, have completed plans for a great irrigation 

 project. They have laid out a system of reservoir 

 sites. The cost of the project is approximately 

 $10,000,000. 



COLORADO. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized 

 the Reclamation Service to approve contract for the 

 purchase of the irrigation system of the Eckerly 

 Canal Company in connection with the Uncom- 

 pahgre Valley irrigation project. This is in ac- 

 cordance with the plan to unify, as far as possible, 

 all the irrigation works within the limits of the 

 Uncompahgre Valley project, and in consideration 

 of the transfer of the works to the government the 

 United States will give certain designated ten-acre 

 tracts 126 in all a credit of $100 each on the 

 building charges of the project. 



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Wherever'big reclamation 

 andirrigation projects are 

 being carried on you will 

 find the Buckeye Open 

 Ditcher playing an im- 

 portant part doing the 

 work of a gang of 100 to 

 150 laborers and keeping 

 costs and expenses down 

 to the minimum. 



This machine is doing 

 wonderful reclamation 

 work in the South and 

 South-West. Vast tracts 

 of land that were consid- 

 ered worthless have been 

 made fertile, productive 

 and valuable with the help 

 of the Buckeye Open 

 Ditcher. It is provided 

 with broad, apron trac- 

 tions which carry it over 

 ground too wet and soft 

 to support even a team 

 and empty wagon. 



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