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of the largest projects attempted in that country for 

 some time past. 



The bill of Senator Larkins to repeal the section 

 of the irrigation district law which prevents the 

 condemnation of mining rights or property by an 

 irrigation district, which was defeated recently, 

 was reconsidered recently on motion of Senator 

 Kehoe. An agreement was reached with the Sen- 

 ators representing the mining counties, whereby 

 the bill is to be amended so that it will protect from 

 condemnation by irrigation districts water rights 

 and ditches used for mining purposes, but will make 

 it possible for districts to condemn property needed 

 for reservoir sites. 



Senator Larkins offered the amendment agreed 

 upon, and it was adopted, and the bill will be re- 

 printed and then come up again for passage. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Information from Ballinger, Texas, states that 

 C. H. Alexander of the Colorado River Power Com- 



pany, a company with $12,000,000 capital, has made 

 the Business League a proposition to build the big 

 dam across the Colorado River near that place and 

 put in the big irrigation project that was started 

 there last fall. Mr. Alexander spent several days in 

 Ballinger with his engineer going over the field and 

 pronounced it one of the most favorable irrigation 

 propositions in Texas. It is proposed to build a 

 dam that will store water for irrigating about 75,000 

 acres of land, and the project will cost in the neigh- 

 borhood of $1,000,000. The local committee is push- 

 ing the proposition and the chairman of the com- 

 mittee says that actual work will begin at an early 

 date. 



The State Irrigation committee was in Sharon 

 Springs, Kansas, last week and picked on a location 

 southeast of town as a possible location for a demon- 

 stration well for deep irrigation. The county surveyor 

 is surveying for the high point to sink a test well and 

 when the well is drilled the well will be logged and a 

 report made to the commission , 



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