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;tion Land and Development Company, at Guyser, 

 Lincoln county. Including the above, the govern- 

 ment has withdrawn 106,127 acres in Nevada since 

 February 1st of this year, for reclamation and settle- 

 .ment under the Carey act. 



MONTANA. 



At the next term of the district court, at Bill- 

 .ings, Montana, Judge Pierson will pass on the ques- 

 tion of whether or not the John Home irrigation 

 district as petitioned for by many of the residents 

 in and around Laurel will be organized. The pro- 

 posed irrigation district will reclaim a large amount 

 of valuable land near that place, and it is expected 

 there will be no opposition to the forming of the 

 district. 



The formal completion of the first unit of 8,000 

 acres under the Prickley Pear valley pumping proj- 

 ect of the Montana Reservoir and Irrigation Com- 

 pany was recently announced. Contracts with land 

 owners in the valley near East Helena are now 

 being signed for the reclamation of the second unit 

 of 12,000 acres, and when the project is completed, 

 between 40,000 and 50,000 acres of land will be 

 reclaimed. 



NEW MEXICO. 



Certificate of incorporation has been filed with 

 rthe corporation commission, at Santa Fe, for the 

 Portales Power & Irrigation Company, with princi- 

 pal offices at Portales, Roosevelt county. The capi- 

 tal stock is $300,000, held by the following person? 

 in the following amounts : A. A. Rogers, $299,800 : 

 S. E. Ward, $100; M. W. Peaslee, $100. 



The fourth irrigation well of the Little Vine- 

 yards Company, near Deming, is nearing com- 

 pletion. The standpipe at the headquarters of this 

 company is just about completed and holds 30,000 

 gallons of water, and taken altogether with the 

 three cement drinking pools in the corrals, gives 

 the headquarters a storage capacity of 40,000 gal- 

 lons. This company has just completed seeding 150 

 acres of alfalfa, using oats as a nurse crop. One 

 hundred and twenty-five more acres will be seeded 

 in the next two weeks. 



The planting of cantaloupes and setting out of 

 sweet potato slips kept a large_ share of the interest 

 of the irrigation farmers in Portales, New Mexico 

 territory, during the early half of May. This, with 

 their truck crops, in addition to alalfa are keeping 

 the farmers hard at it these days. This year will 

 see more improvement along permanent lines in 

 Portales valley than during any past years. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Spokane Orchard Homes Company has just 

 finished setting out 15,000 fruit trees on its orch- 

 ard west of Greenacres. In addition, the company 

 is laying five miles of concrete water mains to con- 

 vey water for irrigation, and a domestic water pipe 

 will also be installed. 



At a hearing of a petition of 57 land owners in 

 Grant county, Washington, recently for the forma- 

 tion of the Quincy valley irrigation district, it was 

 decided to name June 7th as the date of an election 

 for the purpose of deciding whether or not such an 

 irrigation district is to be formed. The district is 

 composed of 500,000 acres of irrigable land near 

 Ephrata. The promoters of the Quincy valley irri- 

 gation project hope by getting this district formed 

 to be able to bond the district for $100,000 which 

 will enable necessary surveys and estimates to be 

 made as to the cost 'of getting water on the land. 

 The new project includes a vast acreage in Chelan, 

 Douglas, Grant and Adams counties. 



The heavy snow fall of last winter in the Cas- 

 cade, Blue and Okanogan mountains means that the 

 streams flowing from these mountains will be 

 abundantly supplied with water this summer, and 

 that irrigated districts of the state of Washington 

 will not lack for moisture. At many places the 

 snow fall was the heaviest for any winter in many 

 years. 



The federal government has successfully and 

 satisfactorily completed one irrigation project in the 

 state of Washington it developed at the hearing re- 

 cently before Secretary Lane. When hearing on 

 government work in the state of Washington was 

 begun, Senator Jones said that the water users of 

 the Okanogan project, though invited to send a rep- 

 resentative to Washington, had not done so, as they 

 had no complaints to register. 



United States Reclamation Service is contem- 

 plating raising the Conconully Lake three feet above 

 the high water mark, which will greatly increase 

 the storage capacity. 



Reports from Greenacres state that owing to 

 the high water at Liberty Lake, it has been neces- 

 sary to open the irrigation ditches to prevent the 

 lake from overflowing. This will be good news to 

 the farmers in that locality, as it denotes that there 

 will be plenty of water for irrigation later in the 

 season. . 



The first shipment of freight ever brought into 

 Okanogan county by rail was brought in by the 

 Reclamation Service recently, when four carloads of 

 cement arrived at Riverside to be used in lining the 

 canals of the government's irrigation project in that 

 county. 



The Hanford Irrigation & Power Company, in 

 which former Judge C. H. Hanford, of Seattle, was 

 heavily interested, and from whom the project took 

 its name, has gone into the hands of a receiver. E. 

 F. Benson has been named receiver to take charge 

 of the company and carry out the obligations to the 

 landholders, who have planted crops this year, de- 

 pending upon getting their supply of water from the 

 company's canals. 



The North Coast Irrigation Company is pre- 

 paring to put water on its lands southeast of Ritz- 



