THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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Reclamation Notes 



CALIFORNIA. 



A. J. Rich, of San Francisco, representing the 

 Solano Irrigated Farms, has recently purchased 

 two more big tracts which will be added to their 

 holdings. This added acreage gives the Solano 

 Irrigated Farms a tract of more than; 100,000 acres. 

 The entire tract is being placed under irrigation. 



Notice of an appropriation of 3,000 inches from 

 the Feather river has been filed by J. C. Martin, Jr., 

 of San Francisco. The notice states that the water 

 is to be used for irrigation purposes, and will be 

 diverted from Feather river by a pumping plant. 

 The point of diversion is on the river four miles be- 

 low Oroville. The appropriation when fully utilized 

 will irrigate 15,000 acres lying in the Oroville orange 

 and olive district. 



It is estimated that at least 4,000 acres will be 

 planted to alfalfa in the Modesto irrigation district 

 this spring. The new Oakdale irrigation district 

 canals will not be completed and ready for water 

 for three months, but the farmers are planning for 

 the reception of the water and will have their fields 

 in good shape when the water is turned on. 



Fourteen hundred acres of land adjoining the 

 city of Palo Alto has been purchased by a party of 

 Spokane (Wash.) capitalists. The purchasers in- 



clude D. K. McDonald and G. E. Snyder, both of 

 Spokane, who plan to subdivide the tract for 

 suburban homes. A pipe system of irrigation" will 

 be installed so that each five-acre tract will be irri- 

 gated. 



The last section of the great irrigation system 

 of the Consolidated Reservoir & Power Company, 

 which is bringing the Whitewater River into land 

 surrounding the towm of Banning, is rapidly near- 

 ing completion. 



Seventy-two thousand acres of land surround- 

 ing Riverbank, in Stanislaus county, has recently 

 been placed under irrigation. The system is mod- 

 eled after the big irrigation plants at Modesto and 

 Turlock. The Oakdale irrigation district is to fur- 

 nish million's of gallons of water to irrigate the 

 Riverbank irrigated farms and other lands ad- 

 joining. 



Superior Judge Arnot of El Dorado, recently 

 rendered a supplementary decision in favor of the 

 plaintiffs in the case of Byington et al. vs. the Sac- 

 ramento Valley Irrigation Company. The opinion 

 holds that an act of Congress gave each power un- 

 der the old Central Canal a right to water and that 

 the irrigation company has no right to charge for 

 water rights in selling the land. As to the alleged 

 threat of the irrigation company not to construct 

 its system south into the plaintiffs' lands, the deci- 

 sion holds that failure to do so will be a violation 

 of the company's charter. The court also holds 

 that the plaintiffs are entitled to a share of the 



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