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THE IEKIGATION AGE. 



OREGON 



Fifteen permits for the construction of reser- 

 voirs in the state of Oregon, at an estimated cost 

 of $1,500,000, were issued by the state engineer 

 during the quarter ending June 30th. In addition, 

 ninety-nine water and power permits were issued. 

 The most important irrigation permits issued dur- 

 ing that quarter were those to C. B. McConnell and 

 Leonard and Emery Cole, of Burns, who contem- 

 plate the irrigation of 5,400 acres of land in Harney 

 and Silver Creek Valleys. 



The throwing open, by the Government, of 

 110,000 acres of land adjacent to Vale to homestead 

 entry, promises to make that city the mecca of 

 homeseekers during the next few months. 



Attorney-General Crawford of Oregon, and 

 Walter Van Winkle, members of the Desert Land 

 Board, are now in the Deschutes Valley. They are 

 contemplating buying a reservoir there to be used 

 for irrigation purposes. 



Alleging the law passed by the recent legisla- 

 ture which amended an old law pertaining to levy- 

 ing assessments in irrigation districts, is unconsti- 

 tutional, J. J. Gibbons recently instituted manda- 

 mus proceedings in the Supreme Court of Oregon 

 to compel the Head River Irrigation Company to 

 levy assignments for this district under the old law. 



Five thousand acres on what is known as Yelm 

 Prairie, will probably be under water for the 1914 

 season. It is reported that work, is progressing 

 favorably on the Yelm Irrigation Company's 

 project. 



Development of a great water power at Bend 

 has been started for the utilization of the water 

 flow from the $150,000 irrigation canal dam erected 

 last year by the Central Oregon Irrigation Com- 

 pany. 



UTAH 



After a trial lasting several days, the jury in 

 the District Court at Ogden, rendered a verdict for 

 the defendant in the case of Lyman Skeen against 

 the Warren Irrigation Company. The controversy 

 involved the use of the Company's canal for convey- 

 ing water from an independent canal to Mr. Skeen's 

 land. The jury decided that Mr. Skeen may use 

 the canal and that he must pay well to the company 

 for said use. 



An irrigation expert from Washington is in 

 Logan, conferring with Prof. W. H. McLaughlin, 

 who has charge of the government work of that 

 kind here. The gentleman is interested in the 

 workings -of co-operative irrigation companies, and' 

 came here to get first-hand information as to the 

 methods employed in the handling of water for irri- 

 gation purposes under the co-operative system. 

 Professor McLaughlin had plenty of information 

 on hand, and he also accompanied him in a tour of 

 inspection of the different canals drawing water 

 from Logan river and other streams in the county. 



Prof. L. A. Merrill, experimental expert for the 

 Salt Lake Route, has returned from Willows, Cali- 

 fornia, where he has been studying the science of 

 irrigation by pumping. 



WASHINGTON 



Three thousand acres of the first unit of the 

 Montana land taken over by the Montana Land and 

 Ranch Company, of Spokane, have already been 

 disposed of at a figure between $75,000 and $100,000. 



A. E. Wieland, of Wenatchee, has been selected 

 by the Great Northern Railway Company to make 

 a survey and estimate of the cost of construction 

 of the east and west Okanogan Valley irrigation 

 district. 



A tract of land comprising 13,000 acres in the 

 Southern Horse Heaven country bordering on the 

 Columbia river, has been sold by the Worchester 

 Fruit Land Company to the Washington Farm 

 Land Company, which in turn has mortgaged the 

 property to the Guaranty Trust Company of New 

 York. 



Work on the installation of the pipe line for the 

 irrigation system for the city of Basco, is progress- 

 ing rapidly. 



Six thousand acres north of Spokane are to be 

 irrigated and put on the market for use of a dairy 

 colony. 



The failure of the reclamation service to co- 

 operate with the state of Washington in the re- 

 survey in the Palouse reclamation project, for 

 which funds were provided by the last legislature 

 of Washington, has been due to the federal govern- 

 ment's failure to take up the matter and co-operate 

 with the state. It is reported that the federal gov- 

 ernment has been waiting a direct invitation to 

 co-operate, and there is now no doubt but that they 

 will receive proper encouragement. 



MONTANA 



In Secretary Lane's visit to Montana an effort 

 will be made to interest him in a proposition for the 

 reclamation of a lot of land known as the Merias 

 diversion canal project. 



The break in the canal of the Bitter Root Val- 

 ley Irrigation Company in the Rock Creek district 

 caused considerable trouble and necessitated cut- 

 ting oft" the water while repairs were being made. 

 It is not known that any crop losses have resulted. 



A severe break occurred recently in the Bil- 

 lings Land and Irrigation Company's ditch near 

 that city, the break being about fifty feet wide. The 

 property loss to the land lying under the ditch 

 amounts to from $20,000 to $30,000. 



People in the northern part of Montana believe 



that Secretary Lane will order work continued on 



the Milk and Sun River irrigation projects. These 



projects, it is thought by the Montana people, will 



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