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Valley, the scene recently was impressive when the 

 first water was turned into the new east side of 

 the high line canal. 



use, in a section of northern Colorado that hereto- 

 fore was not reached by the company's service. 



COLORADO 



The Timber Land and Irrigation Company re- 

 cently completed a deal whereby they have taken 

 the George Paul Orchard Company for a figure that 

 reaches almost $100,000. This body of land con- 

 tains 22,000 acres in orchard. 



According to those interested, there has never 

 been an irrigation season in the Arkansas valley 

 when so much water has been lost by evaporation 

 as during the present growing period. Every ef- 

 fort is being made by the farmers to conserve the 

 water. The fact that many of them through experi- 

 ence have learned to use less water than formerly 

 has been beneficial during this crisis. 



Tests at the State Capitol School at Fort Col- 

 lins on special soil irrigation are proving to be so 

 very successful that the present mode of irrigation 

 will meet with a complete revolution. The work 

 being done at the college is on a small scale but the 

 results are surprising to those that have it in charge. 



Shallow pumping is one of the biggest factors 

 in the development of arid areas of eastern Colo- 

 rado. 



Through the award of contracts for several 

 thousand feet of motion picture films, it became 

 known recently that the United States government 

 is engaged in the moving picture business on a 

 large scale. The enterprise is being carried on by 

 the reclamation service in its camps in the west, a 

 number of which have been established owing to 

 the prosecution of great reclamation projects and 

 other engineering work. The "movies" furnish 

 their part in the general scheme to keep the work- 

 men and their families, who are isolated from the 

 balance of the world, contented and happy. 



Henry L. Doherty, a famous banker of the east, 

 has been making a general tour of Colorado and 

 other western states studying conditions so that he 

 may judge fairly of the merits of the various proj- 

 ects which may be placed before him for invest- 

 ment. 



A. L. Dotson of Nepesta, general manager of 

 the Dotson Irrigation System in eastern Pueblo 

 county, stated recently that the work has just been 

 finished on the construction of the gates at the Chi 

 Chosta reservoir, of the system, southeast of 

 Nepesta. 



Dal DeWesse, the hustling irrigator of Canon 

 City at a banquet held in that city recently, attacked 

 the Denver papers seriously and unmercifully ; 

 scored them for the amount of space given to 

 criminal news and the lack of space given to 

 reclamation and general development news. He 

 was inclined to think that the Denver daily news- 

 papers are responsible for the tide of immigration 

 going through the state to points further west. 



Reclaiming arid lands in northern Colorado by 

 means of irrigation pumping plants tapping the 

 underflow, is to be one of the vigorous policies of 

 the reorganized Northern Colorado Power Com- 

 pany. Lines will be put up for the delivery of 

 power for operating pumps, and for general family 



The Canon City country has been fortunate re- 

 cently in getting splendid rains which have ma- 

 terially aided in bringing out the crops. This is 

 particularly true throughout the Wet Mountain 

 Valley district, where two and one-half or three 

 inches fell recently and wet the earth to a depth 

 of several inches. It was a great blessing, as the 

 ground had become dry and hard and needed the 

 moisture badly. 



E. B. Wheeler, manager of the Bitter Root 

 ranch in the Huerfano valley, about twenty miles 

 from Pueblo, states that in his opinion the outlook 

 for the bumper crop in that section of the state is 

 very bright. 



A substitute for alfalfa that will prove a boon 

 to the entire state, especially to the dry ranchers, 

 has been found in winter vetch, which is not only 

 the equal to alfalfa in nutritive qualities but re- 

 quires less attention and yields more bountifully. 



The gigantic Uncompahgre valley irrigation 

 project in Montrose county was delayed at one point 

 in its construction by the refusal of A. E. Buddecke, 

 a farmer, to sell a strip of land 10 by 50 feet cross- 

 ing the canal, to the government. Condemnation 

 proceedings were filed in the United States District 

 Court. 



' The Secretary of the Interior has let a contract 

 in the sum of $109,668 to the Reynolds-Ely Con- 

 struction Company of Salt Lake City, for excava- 

 tion work on the Grand Valley irrigation project on 

 the western slope. The contract covers part of the 

 construction of a canal, which, with its laterals, will 

 add about 80,000 acres to the irrigated area of the 

 Grand valley. The division is five miles long and 

 is east of Palisade. 



The diversion of water from the western slope 

 to the watershed of Southern Colorado for irriga- 

 tion of land near Denver may develop into an inter- 

 state dispute. For many years there has been a 

 controversy between water users of the west slope 

 and the Henrylyn project near Denver over the 

 head waters of the Grand river. The Henrylyn 

 people propose to construct a tunnel through the 

 Rocky Mountains for the transfer of the water. 



One of the largest irrigation projects ever car- 

 ried out in Colorado, providing for the watering 

 of 200,000 acres of land in Moffat and Routt coun- 

 ties, which will be of much direct benefit to Denver, 

 i;-. to be put through by the Elk River Irrigation and 

 Construction Company. 



