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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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be investigated in a short time by the secretary, 

 personally. 



Director Newell of the reclamation service, re- 

 cently called for bids for constructing laterals and 

 waste water ditches on the second unit of the Dod- 

 son North Canal, Milk River projects, involving 

 300,000 cubic yards of excavation, 1,200 yards rein- 

 forced concrete placing, 100,000 pounds of steel re- 

 inforcement and 140,000 feet of wooden structures. 



Prickley Pear Valley, it is stated, looks better 

 than ever before since its development as an agri- 

 cultural district. This season has been a most 

 favorable one for all the crops, there having been 

 such an abundance of precipitation that even those 

 ranches under irrigation ditches have had little need 

 to turn on the water. 



Gregg Brothers, who own 12,000 acres of land 

 at Gage, a few miles east of Roundup, in the Mus- 

 selshell Valley, have been at Roundup recently in 

 connection with an irrigation project, which, if 

 carried out, will add immensely to the value of 

 land in the Musselshell Valley between Ryegate 

 and Melstone. 



WYOMING 



Congressman Mondell has introduced a bill for 

 a grazing homestead and for supplemental grazing 

 entries of from 640 to 1,280 acres. Under this law 

 the Secretary of the Interior will be authorized, on 

 application or otherwise, to designate lands not con- 

 taining merchantable timber, non-irrigable, and 

 chiefly valuable for grazing, as grazing homestead 

 lands, and to fix, according to the character of the 

 lands designated, the area of an entry, which shall 

 not be less than 640 acres nor more than 1,280 acres. 

 Any qualified homestead entry man may make 

 entry on these lands and secure title upon compli- 

 ance with the homestead laws ; but in lieu of proof 

 of cultivation he may submit proof of improvement 

 tending to increase the value of the lands for agri- 

 cultural or grazing purposes to the extent of not 

 less than $1.25 per acre. 



Surveyors employed by Kendrick & Day, a firm 

 representing a French syndicate which proposes to 

 construct the irrigation system which Joy Morton's 

 Wyoming Central Corporation failed to construct 

 after several years of dickering, are now running 

 the survey for a railroad from the head gate of the 

 main canal of the system from Riverton to Sho- 

 shoni. Here the line is intended to afford a direct 

 outlet for the crops raised on the 300,000 acres 

 which can be reclaimed. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



A company was recently formed of capitalists 

 of San Francisco and Oakland to finance a big irri- 

 gation project in the Humboldt Valley in Nevada. 



tion experiments, as the samples of gravel removed 

 from the test well and sent to the secretary of the 

 Irrigation Commission has been considered favor- 

 ably. 



The power of the sun for pumping water for 

 irrigation is shortly to be tried out near Cairo, 

 Egypt, under the direction of Frank Shuman, an 

 American. A 100-horsepower plant has been con- 

 structed, and the engineer hopes to have it in opera- 

 tion by the first of July. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized 

 the Director of the Reclamation Service to execute 

 contract with the Reynolds Ely Construction Com- 

 pany of Springville, Utah, for the excavation of the 

 Canyon Division Main Canal, Grand Valley irriga- 

 tion project, Colorado. The division is five miles 

 in length and its construction involves the excava- 

 tion of 365,000 cubic yards of material. The con- 

 tract price is $109,568, subject to a possible reduc- 

 tion to $108,488, if a certain alternative is accepted, 

 the choice of alternative methods depending upon 

 the execution of a pending contract between the 

 United States and the Rio Grande Junction Rail- 

 road Company. The canal is located between two 

 and seven miles northeast of Palisade, Colorado. 



It looks as though Lane county, Kansas, will 

 get a part of the $125,000 appropriated for irriga- 



Tulane University. Very flattering offers were 

 made W. B. Gregory, Professor of hydraulic engi- 

 neering, by the deans of the Colleges of Engineering 

 of the Universities of Illinois and of Texas. One 

 offered the chair of the department of experimental- 

 mechanical engineering and the other the chair of the 

 department of heat engineering. After a personal in- 

 vestigation, Prof. Gregory has determined to remain 

 with Tulane. 



The College of Technology of Tulane, although 

 but 19 years of age, has turned out a remarkable 

 number of high-grade men considering the smallness 

 of its graduating classes. There is, for instance, W. 

 M. White, head of the hydraulic department of Allis- 

 Chalmers Company and designer of some of the most 

 powerful turbine motors in the world ; Brunswick 

 Sharp, of Norris Pump Company, designer of the 

 10,500 horsepower turbine motors used at Keokuk. 

 Iowa, and in the various plants of the Alabama Power 

 Company ; St. John Chilton, head of the American 

 Trading Company in Yokohama ; Adair Monroe, vice- 

 president of the Dyer Sugar Machinery Manufactur- 

 ing Company ; A. B. Wood, designer of the largest 

 centrifugal pump in the world ; C. C. Cromwell, in 

 charge of Las Delicias, the finest and ultimately to be 

 the largest sugar house in the world, and a huge num- 

 ber of others. 



Part of the technical faculty is engaged in pro- 

 fessional work this summer. Prof. Gregory is look- 

 ing after a number of drainage propositions and is 

 doing some experimental work for the government. 

 Prof. Labouisse is designing a 13-story building and 

 Prof. Derickson is checking the design of the steel 

 framework. Prof. Metz of the chemical department 

 is engaged on milk and other investigations for the 

 city. The department of industrial chemistry will 

 be put under Prof. C. S. Williamson, who will come 

 to Tulane in October. 



