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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



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COLORADO. 



The Stewart Investment Company has pur- 

 chased from the Twin Lakes Land and Water Com- 

 pany rights to cover 1,280 acres of land south of 

 Yuma and just west of Ordway, for a consideration 

 of $38,000. The land to be watered is being cut up 

 into small tracts. 



H. O. Moulton, of Pueblo, has purchased 240 

 acres of land known as the Grove ranch, lying di- 

 rectly east of Rye. The purchase includes ample 

 water rights for irrigation. 



The reclamation of 25,000 acres of land in Jack- 

 son County, by the expenditure of $200,000 in water- 

 ing the tract, has been undertaken by a group of 

 Colorado men. The Jackson County Land and Ir- 

 rigation Company, incorporated some months ago 

 and financed by Denver capitalists, is behind the 

 project. The land lies east of Walden. Water will 

 be taken from Michigan creek, a tributary of the 

 North Platte river. Two main ditches about 30 

 miles in length will be constructed. The incorpora- 

 tors of the company are James P. Miller, a banker of 

 Lafayette, Colorado, president; Judge John Barnd, 

 of Lafayette, secretary, and Wm. C. Mosman, of 

 Walden. 



The Federal government has placed an order 

 in connection with the waters of the Gunnison tun- 

 nel, which may work a hardship on a number of land 

 owners. The order is that no Gunnison waters shall 

 be supplied to land whose owners have not sub- 

 scribed all of their land to the project. In other 

 words, no one will get water for part of his land. 

 He must put it all under the project. 



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The Henry L. Doherty Company, owners of the 

 Redlands Irrigation & Power Company, of Grand 

 Junction, are planting 600 acres of wheat to demon- 

 strate that wheat raising and diversified farming 

 can be successfully carried on in that section. The 

 Doherty people (large New York bankers), have 

 spent thousands of dollars improving the Redlands 

 irrigation system. They intend to construct a sys- 

 tem of highways on the Redlands and to furnish the 

 ranchers with electric lights from the surplus gene- 

 rated at the power plant. 



Charles W. Martin, president of the Pueblo 

 Water Supply & Power Company, has through the 

 attorney for the corporation, filed with the county 

 clerk an amended map of the company's pipe line 

 and reservoirs. This is what is kncHpti as the Foun- 

 tain Underflow Company. The fiij?|t filing of the 

 campany states the desire and objegfrto be to bring 

 water to Pueblo for domestic use. ~-^In the amend- 

 ment recently filed it is stated that the object of the 

 company is to pipe water to Pueblo and adjacent 

 territory for domestic and irrigation purposes: 



IDAHO. 



The Arrowrock dam, now being built, will be 

 351 feet high the highest in the world. It will 

 cover one acre of foundation and will contain 500,- 

 000 cubic yards of material. Its purpose is to store 

 water to supplement the present supply available 

 for irrigation of about 250,000 acres of valuable 

 land in the vicinity of Boise, Idaho. 



After ten years of persistency that has finally 

 overcome numerous defeats and distressing dis- 

 couragements, the settlers of the Gem Irrigation 

 District, embracing 30,000 acres on the banks of the 

 Snake river, 14 miles south of Caldwell, have out- 

 lived the adversities and on May 4, the water was 

 turned into the great canals ; and the big pumps op- 

 erated by electricity power, will raise the water to 

 a height of 30 feet and onto the lands of the district. 

 Eleven years ago the first homesteader settled on 

 the tract of land then known as Crescent Valley, and 

 the following year W. H. Schenck, a local engineer, 

 laid out a plan for the irrigation of the valley by 

 pumping water from the Snake river, but his plan 

 was thwarted by the government having taken the 

 land under the Payett-Boise irrigation project. Later 

 the government found the tract impracticable for 

 the project and it was released. Bonds were finally 

 voted and were a drug on the market until in 1911, 

 Messrs. Smith, Carey and Chase, of Toronto, Can- 

 ada, took over the bonds and contracted with the 

 directors of the district to build the canals and install 

 the pumping plant.' 



Permission has been granted the Twin Falls- 

 Shoshone Canal Company by the state land board 

 to sell water rights to the settlers on their project 

 in the Shoshone basin. The company was organized 

 and constructed its canal system and had the water 

 ready for delivery before it was realized that the 

 right to sell water to settlers had to be obtained. 

 Upon the report of state engineer King the state 

 board decided that the grant to sell the water should 

 be given. The company was organized and financed 

 by W. H. Long, F. L. Diffendaffer and J. E. Landis, 

 and approximately $70,000 was spent in opening the 

 project. The tract to be irrigated embraces 3,500 

 acres and lies 30 miles southeast of Twin Falls. 



