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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



The Cochise County Damsite and Irrigation 

 Company, composed of Los Angeles and Douglas 

 individuals, and capitalized at $3,000,000, has se- 

 cured control of the water rights in Rucker Canyon 

 in the Chiricahua Mountains for an irrigation 

 project which will serve water and render fertile at 

 all seasons a tract of several thousand acres in the 

 Sulphur Springs Valley. 



D. W. Hall of the Arizona Irrigated Land Com- 

 pany reports May as having been a very active 

 month with his company, which recently took over 

 the Avondale Ranch and Irrigation system near 

 Avondale, in the Agua Fria section. 



WASHINGTON 



Labor is scarce in the Yakima Valley in Wash- 

 ington. Not only is the fact showing to the detri- 

 ment of reclamation work at the storage reservoir 

 operations at Lakes Keechelds and Kaches, but also 

 in connection with ditch work and other construc- 

 tion nearer the city. 



Apprehensive that Government work might be 

 withdrawn from Montana, a delegation of citizens 

 of that state called upon Secretary Lane recently 

 to urge him to continue the projects. There is a 

 probability that work in the four projects in Mon- 

 tana will be carried out as planned. 



With the decision of Secretary Lane recently 

 on the Moses Lake desert land litigation, a number 

 of Tacomans had their title to $2,000,000 worth of 

 land situated 40 miles southeast of Wenatchee made 

 binding. The decision affects 32,000 acres of land, 

 said to be worth in the aggregate $3,200,000. 



WYOMING 



Senator Warren has been notified by the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior that the reclamation service has 

 been given authority to furnish water users on the 

 Shoshone irrigation project, Wyoming, water in 

 excess of two acre feet without payment for such 

 excess supply. 



The prospects are good that Johnson Lake, cov- 

 ering 700 acres near Casper, Wyo., will this summer 

 be utilized for irrigation and other purposes. 



In the Laramie Valley, Wyo., farmers are 

 facing another of those troublesome questions that 

 arise in irrigation districts. Speaking of the con- 

 tract submitted to the water users the Laramie 

 Republican says : "In the contract referred to there 

 is a provision withholding title from the water 

 buyers for a period of 49 years. It is the under- 

 standing of this paper that it has been the general 

 policy in such cases to turn over irrigation works 

 to the settlers after a certain per cent of the rights 

 have been disposed of generally about 90 per- 

 cent no matter what period of time has elapsed." 



C. C. Carlisle, receiver of the North Platte 

 Land and Irrigation Company, is making arrange- 

 ments to repair the ditches, etc., of the company's 

 system in the Platte Valley near Douglas. 



NEW MEXICO 



E. S. Dean of the City of Mexico, and formerly 

 superintendent of the Excelsior Manufacturing 

 Company, employing some 300 men in Mexico, lo- 

 cated near Deming last year and has been farming 

 there ever since. He was fortunate enough to clear 

 $110 per acre on a three-acre field of cantaloupes. 

 He irrigated these with a small 2-horsepower gaso- 

 line engine. 



The man who said "It can't be done" in con- 

 nection with the irrigation project completed south 

 and east of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has certainly 

 been caught up with. Our old friend, Jay Turley, 

 associated with a man named Anson A. Avery, have 

 finally come into their reward. Recently the valve 

 of the Arroyo Hondo dam was opened, and there 

 are wonderful possibilities under the project. 



The rapid reclamation of 100,000 acres of fer- 

 tile land in the Estancia Valley east of Santa Fe, 

 and of 20,000 acres above the gravity irrigation level 

 along the Rio Grande north of Santa Fe, is already 

 well under way as a result of the issuing by the 

 state engineer recently of a water permit to the 

 State Light and Power Company to generate hydro 

 electric power at White Rock Canyon in the Rid 

 Grande, 45 miles north of Santa Fe. 



State Engineer James A. French spent some 

 time recently at the Rio Mimbres irrigation plant 

 near Deming, looking over the company's reclama- 

 tion work. 



The rains of the past few days are excellent 

 arguments in favor of irrigation in San Miguel 

 county, New Mexico. The river is running bank 

 full and is pouring water into Lake Isabelle, one 

 of the big reservoirs on the J. D. Hand project. 



The La Plata Land and Irrigation Company 

 was sold at Aztec, New Mexico, recently by Henry 

 Van Schaack, trustee in bankruptcy. The pur- 

 chasers were represented by W. C. Henry of Den- 

 ver, and Attorney Arthur Ponsford appeared for 

 the lien claimants. The land sold embraces 7,000 

 acres located in La Plata precinct. 



Robert L. Cooper, civil engineer, was recently 

 at Lake Sharette, near Springfield, New Mexico, to 

 look over the proposed irrigation project to be put 

 in there under the Carey act. 



MONTANA 



The St. Ignatius Post explains a threatened 

 cave-in at the North Pablo Dam of the reclamation 

 project located near Poison aS follows: "Large 

 cavities in the bottom of the North Pablo dam oc- 

 curred last week, according to reports from reclama- 



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