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MONTANA. 



Two thousand additional acres of what has 

 hitherto been classed as dry land will be brought 

 under irrigation by enlargement of the Cove ditch. 

 Work will begin at the close of the irrigating season 

 in September and water will be supplied early next 

 year. The Cove ditch is the highest in the valley 

 and already carries a high volume of water, >;11 of 

 which is now used. The additional acreage will be 

 watered by means of pumps, as it is located too 

 high for the gravity system. 



Fire did considerable damage to the big ditch 

 of the Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Company re- 

 cently ; more than 300 feet of flume and a 25-foot 

 trestle upon which it rested were completely de-< 

 stroyed. The flume is located southeast of the city 

 of Skalkaho. A large force of men were put to work 

 immediately restoring the flume, and irrigating 

 work was only delayed for a few days. 



Actual work has been commenced on the Black 

 Irrigation Project, which embraces a large body of 

 land lying near Whitefish. This ditch has been 

 talked of for several years and with its realization 

 the people look for an increase in business and con- 

 tinued prosperity. 



NEW MEXICO. 



Word comes to us that the Camfield irrigation 

 project on the Las Vegas land grant is to be com- 

 pleted. Lloyd Sigler, vice-president and general 

 manager of the National Trust & Savings Company 

 of Salt Lake City, Utah, has signed a contract for 

 the construction of the partially built system. His 

 company expects to begin in the immediate future 



the completion of the dam, which has been lying in 

 a half-finished condition for the past 18 months. 

 It is the intention to have the reservoir filled and 

 begin the irrigation of the tract of land lying near 

 it early in the summer of 1914. The Trust company, 

 in payment for the construction of the irrigation 

 system, is to receive 8,000 acres of grant land irrig- 

 able from the big dam. This, together with the 

 4,500 acres belonging to private interests, will make 

 an irrigable tract of 12,500 acres. The Salt Lake 

 City corporation has announced through Mr. Sigler 

 that it will make reasonable terms -with persons de- 

 siring to purchase water. The price will be $50.00 

 per acre for perpetual water rights. Payments will 

 be allowed to cover ten years. It is estimated that 

 it will cost $500,000 to complete the project. 



C. E. Hicks is installing a large irrigation well 

 on his desert claim six miles south of Deming. 



The Phelps-Dodge Company, of Dawson, has 

 planned the reclamation of an immense area of land 

 in the vicinity of Dawson by means of a reservoir 

 and a system of canals and ditches. Thomas Mur- 

 phy, of Raton, has been awarded the contract for 

 the work, amounting to $350,000. 

 UTAH. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by 

 the Sandy Irrigation Company ; capital stock, $20,- 

 000; principal office of the company at Sandy. 



The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company is preparing 

 to reclaim 10,000 acres of land in the Bear River 

 Valley near Brigham. It is said that the company 

 has ample water to cover this acreage, besides the vast 

 territory now irrigated from the Bear River canals. 



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