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White Salmon rivers, and since the electric com- 

 pany clamed rights on both of these streams, a 

 compromise was effected whereby the irrigation 

 company relinquished all claims to the waters of 

 the Salmon river, and the electric company relin- 

 quished its claims to the waters of the Klickitat 

 river. 



For the purpose of saving the waters of the 

 Wenatchee watershed for the Quincy Valley, $40,- 

 000,000 irrigation project, the senate recently passed 

 a bill reserving them for that purpose. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Messrs. Ed Singley and Frank Hudson are con- 

 structing a dam across the Clear Fork of the Brazos 

 river, four and a half miles south of Rotan, Texas, 

 to impound water with which to irrigate their 

 farms. 



New Orleans, La., advices state that one of the 

 greatest undertakings of the rice industry of that 

 state is the planting of 10,000 acres by the Shell 

 Irrigation Canal Company of Washington, La. The 

 canal company is building an irrigation ditch at a 

 cost of $500,000, which, when completed, will meas- 

 ure 25 miles in length. 



The opening of the Gem tract of land, sixteen 

 miles west of Caldwell, Idaho, is expected to prove 

 one of the most important developments of the 

 year among the state's irrigation projects. Prac- 

 tically all of the land in the tract has been sold and 

 water will be turned on at the earliest possible mo- 

 ment. The water used for the farms will be pumped 

 from the Snake river, and the canal system is said 

 to be very complete. 



The people of Canyon City, Oregon, and vicin- 

 ity are fostering an irrigation project to put water 

 on a tract of 20,000 acres of fertile land lying west 

 of that city. The water supply is to be taken from 

 Upper Canyon creek. 



A bill providing for the creation of a State 

 Reclamation Service, and a bond issue of $20,000,- 

 000 to reclaim arid and semi-arid land, has been 

 introduced in the Arizona legislature by Senator 

 C. B. Wood. Primarily, it is stated, the measure 

 had been introduced for the purpose of providing 

 an irrigation system for the Colorado River Indian 

 Reservation at Parker, Arizona, and if it succeeds 

 in passing this project will undoubtedly be the first 

 to be undertaken by the state. 



The Pierre Valley Irrigation company, with 

 headquarters at Fort Pierre, S. D., has filed articles 

 of incorporation. The company is capitalized at 

 S5,000. The incorporators are J. H. Johnson, H. B. 

 Carnacy and L. B. Johnson, all of Fort Pierre. 



Judge H. C. Bartow of Presho, S. D., and G. G. 

 Inman of Kadoka, S. D., are promoting an irrigation 

 project which, if carried through, will reclaim 8,000,- 

 000 acres of land in their state. It is proposed to 

 dam the Missouri river near Ft. Buford and carry 

 the flood waters through a pipe 12 feet in diameter 

 to Chamberlain to again be emptied into the Mis- 

 souri. The estimated cost of building the pipe line 

 is $80,000,000, and those who are backing the enter- 

 prise are confident that the government will make 

 such an appropriation in view of the large amount 

 of land to be irrigated. 



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Closed Channels Problems. 



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