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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



water; that judgment should be entered for them, 

 and that judgment should be entered preventing 

 the company from claiming ownership of water and 

 conveying it to lands outside before the require- 

 ments of the owners are satisfied. 



IDAHO. 



The Secretary of the Interior has issued a pub- 

 lic notice that a pumping plant and a distribution 

 system for the irrigation! of high lands known as 

 the West End Extension of the Gravity Unit 

 of the Minidoka project in Idaho, now un- 

 der construction. It is expected that water will 

 be available for irrigation during a portion of 

 the season of 1913. Water will be furnished on a 

 rental basis upon the completion of the works at 

 75 cents per acre, for the season, payable on De- 

 cember 1, 1913. This rental charge shall not at- 

 tach against such 'of the high lands in this extension 

 as do not receive water in 1913. 



A thorough investigation of the duty of water 

 will be made on the Salmon tract this year, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Don H. Bark, of Boise, government irri- 

 gation expert. In view of the difficulties and prob- 

 lems connected with the use of water on the Salmon 

 tract, it is stated that more extensive work will be 

 done on the tract this year than ever before, and 

 Mr. Bark is authority for the statement that it will 

 be the purpose of himself and associates to very 

 carefully determine the duty of water for the differ- 

 ent types of soil, as well as transmission losses in 

 the canal systems. 



MONTANA. 



The Director of the Reclamation Service is ad- 

 vertising for bids for furnishing five, more or less, 

 70-tom electric power shovels for use on the Milk 

 River and Sun River irrigation projects in Mon- 

 tana. The bids will be opened at the office of the 

 Reclamation Service at Great Falls, Mont., on 

 April 30. 



The Director of the Reclamation Service is ad- 

 vertising for bids for two, more or less, steam 

 shovels for use on the Milk River irrigation project 

 in Montana. The bids will be opened at the office 

 of the Reclamation Service at Babb, Mont., April 28. 



The Director of the Reclamation Service is ask- 

 ing for proposals for the construction of the Pish- 

 kun Reservoir Supply Canal, the Sum River Slope 

 Canal, and Tunnels No. 2 and 3 in connection with 

 the Pishkun Reservoir Supply Canal, in connection 

 with the Sun River irrigation project in Montana. 

 The work involves the excavation of about 2,400,- 

 000 cubic yards of material and the construction of 

 about 3,215 linear feet of concrete lined tunnel. It 

 is located on the. north side of Sun River, 25 to 27 

 miles west of Great Falls. The bids will be opened 

 at the office of the Reclamation Service, Great Falls, 

 Mont., April 30. 



Peter Ivanoff, a contractor of Hamilton, Mont., 

 has been awarded contract by the Bitter Root Val- 

 ley Irrigation Company for the planting of 1.200 

 acres of the company's land east of Florence, to 



apple trees. The holes for the trees will all be dug 

 with dynamite, and Mr. Ivanoff estimates that it 

 will take a carload of explosive to do the work. 

 The use of explosives in digging holes for tree 

 planting has become general throughout the west, 

 having been found the cheapest and quickest 

 method of doing the work. 



Bacoin & Davis of Valier are opening up a large 

 tract of irrigated land near that city, and they have 

 awarded a contract to the Enterprise Sheet Metal 

 Works of Billings for two carloads of steel flume. 

 The contract price is estimated at $10,000. The 

 material will be shipped direct from Billings to 

 where the flume is to be erected and will be manu- 

 factured on the ground. 



The Northern Pacific Railway Company has 

 granted permission to the Lockwood irrigation 

 project promoters to build their pumping plant upon 

 the railroad right of way and to cross the right of 

 way and the tracks with the pipe line. The permit 

 has been in abeyance for some time, but was se- 

 cured without difficulty and no charge is made by 

 the railway company for the rights givem the water 

 company. The new pumping plant which is to 

 house the three mammoth centrifugal pumps is to 

 be built of concrete throughout. The pumps wil! 

 supply 3,000 acres near the town of Billings with 

 water for irrigation. 



The United States has filed a water right with 

 the county clerk of Flathead county for the use of 

 100,000 cubic feet per second of the waters of Flat- 

 head River for use on 50,000 acres of land in town- 

 ships 20, 21, 22 and 23, and also a water right for 

 1,000 cubic feet per second of Big Creek to be used 

 on 30,000 acres of land in townships 20, 21 and 22. 



UTAH. 



At the request of the Deseret Irrigation Com- 

 pany the state land board recently authorized the 

 temporary withdrawal under the Carey act of 120,- 

 000 acres of land in Millard county. The tract is 

 to be reclaimed by a great irrigation) project about 

 to be launched just north of the Delta project in 

 the same county. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed with 

 the county clerk by the Co-op Farm Irrigation 

 Company. The company is capitalized at $10,000, 

 the 500 shares having a par value of $20, and the 

 entire capital stock is paid up, with rights to 1,000 

 inches of water from the south fork of Ogden River. 

 The incorporators, who also constitute the first 

 board of directors, are Geo. McFarland and James 

 Burrows of Ogden, Wm. H. Burrows, David Ran- 

 dall and Isaac Smith of Huntsville. The object of 

 the incorporation is to deal in water rights, con- 

 struct reservoirs and operate power plants. 



Reclamation of 6,000 acres of alkali land on 

 Six-mile ridge, between Salt Lake City and Saltair, 

 is to be undertaken immediately by the State Recla- 

 mation Company of Salt Lake City. 

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