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THE IEKIGATION AGE. 



charge. The project contemplates the construction 

 of a dam 150 feet high across Canyon Creek, a few 

 miles above Canyon City. Enough water can be 

 stored in this reservoir to supply 20,000 acres of 

 bench land. The estimated cost of the project is 

 $400,000. 



W. L. Benlam, of Salem, Oregon, has secured a 

 permit from the State Engineer's office to appropri- 

 ate the waters of the North Santian River for the irri- 

 gation of 6,940 acres of land near Stayton. The 

 water will be diverted from the river in section 10, 

 township 9 south, range 1 west. 



Water was turned into the main canal of the 

 Klamath irrigation project in April. Some of the 

 farmers in the Bohemian colony in the extreme 

 south of Klamath county requested water. Usually 

 the water is not turned in until the middle or latter 

 part of May. Iron screens have been placed at the 

 intake of the canal so that hereafter no fish will be 

 carried out into the irrigation ditches. 



IDAHO. 



Traders' or farmers' days was inaugurated in 

 Gooding, Idaho, recently, the purpose being to buy, 

 sell, swap, trade and enjoy a general jollification. 

 Several hundred farmers attended and the day was 

 a success, although not so many were present as 

 expected, due to the fact that the farmers are busy 

 irrigating their crops, less rain than usual this 

 Spring making the ground very dry and in need -of 

 moisture. Foot races for fat men, boys and girls and 

 a free-for-all were on the program, the merchants 

 offering prizes for the swift of foot, as well as for 

 the best bread and cake makers. The proposition 

 takes well with the merchants, and, another farmers' 

 day will be held in June, the plan being to have one 

 each month. 



Senator Myers, chairman of the committee on 

 irrigation, has assured Senator Borah, of Idaho, that 

 he will call a meeting of the irrigation committee 

 with a view of taking up at once the measures which 

 have been introduced by Senator Borah, providing 

 for an extension for the homesteader to make his 

 payments on reclamation projects, and also for the 

 increase of $30,000,000 to the reclamation fund. 

 These two matters are now pending before Senator 

 Myers' committee, and will be taken up when the 

 first meeting is called. 



Idaho is proud of the United States census fig- 

 ures as they speak of the work in that country being 

 well done, and are in other particulars astonishing. 

 Among other features is the fact that there has been 

 an increase of 76.3 per cent in ten years in the 

 number of farms, and an increase of 96.6 per cent in 

 the acreage of improved lands, while the advance in 

 the value of land shows the astonishing figure of 

 519.8 per cent, while only 9.9 per cent of her land 

 area is now in farms, and only 2.7 per cent of the 

 total land area is under irrigation. 



The State Board of Idaho recently agreed to ac- 

 cept the proposal of the backers of the Tom Keeting 



irrigation project, composed Qf 15,000 acres located 

 in Lemhi county, to extend the time for payments to 

 be made by settlers one year longer than the original 

 contracts called for. 



Mr. I. W. Arthur Kelly, special land settlement 

 commissioner for the government of Victoria, Aus- 

 tralia, has been visiting the irrigated district of Idaho, 

 at the same time giving illustrated lectures on his 

 own country, and showing the irrigation projects 

 which are being opened up there for settlement. 



The Bray Lake Reservoir & Canal Company 

 has a new irrigation project to be launched in south- 

 ern Idaho this year. This company has been in- 

 corporated with $50,000, with five directors Charles 

 B. Adams. J. R. Butler, Andres Hess, Albert Cron- 

 berg, and Harry McGraw, all citizens of Bliss, 

 Idaho. 



Maney Bros. Construction Company, of Boise, 

 Idaho, have been granted the Carey act segregation 

 by the State Land Board for reclaiming 40,000 acres 

 of rich land in Jordan Valley, lying immediately 

 south of the town of Jordan Valley, and extending 

 to the Owyhee River. A storage reservoir is to be 

 constructed, the waters for which will be secured 

 from Jordan Creek, Jack Creek and several other 

 streams in that vicinity. 



NEVADA. 



Humboldt county, Nevada, with 16,000 square 

 miles of territory, offers many inducements to the 

 prospective settler. The easterner can scarcely con- 

 ceive of the immense size of this county. There are 

 many states in the east whose area is less than that 

 of Humboldt county. The distance from north to 

 south is almost 150 miles, while from east to west 

 it is more than 125 miles. The mountain ranges 

 traverse the county with a north and south trend 

 which are said to be filled with precious metals, as 

 well as the baser ores. The valleys of this county 

 are well watered by numerous springs, streams, and 

 rivers, the Humboldt being one of the largest water 

 courses in Nevada, and the water of this stream is 

 now being extensively utilized for irrigation as well 

 as power. 



Recently one of the most important events in 

 the history of Lovelock valley, Nevada, has taken 

 place without ceremony. The waters stored in the 

 great reservoir, by Messrs. Pitt and Taylor, above 

 Humboldt House, were released in the Humboldt 

 River for the first time, two-thirds of the water be- 

 ing used in the Lovelock valley this season for irri- 

 gation purposes, being drawn from the storage sup- 

 ply which is calculated to double the acreage under 

 cultivation in that valley. The project is the largest 

 private irrigation development in the state, $400,000 

 has been expended by Messrs. Pitt and Taylor in 

 building this reservoir which impounds water that 

 has heretofore gone to waste. 



The Register of Deeds, at Carson, Nevada, has 

 received notice from Washington of the approval of 

 the withdrawal of 29,000 acres of the Nevada Irriga- 



