THE IEKIGATION AGE. 



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NEW MEXICO 



The Mimbres Valley Alfalfa Farming Com- 

 pany have recently purchased 12 American pumps, 

 ranging in capacity from 1,000 to 1,800 gallons per 

 minute, all of the turbine type. They have also pur- 

 chased another tractor, a 25-45 horsepower Rum- 

 eley. 



Willow Creek which were quite serious earlier in 

 the season. 



Assistant state engineer of Carroll, has been 

 testing irrigation wells on the Miesse tract recently. 



The heaviest rain in Mimbres Valley for five 

 years fell about July 15th. The gage at the South- 

 ern Pacific station showed almost a two-inch rain- 

 fall, and the downpour was general, according to 

 other reports from that county. The farmers were 

 lucky in that the rain just followed the second cut- 

 ting of alfalfa, which had been baled, marketed or 

 stored. 



Henry Jacobs, a former Iowa and Idaho 

 farmer, after two years' experience in the Mimbres 

 Valley, developing farming property, has begun to 

 develop a third farm about seven miles west of 

 Deming. He has 120 acres of this quarter section 

 cleared and about half of it plowed, leveled and 

 ready for water. He is sinking, by a novel method. 

 an irrigation well which will deliver, when com- 

 pleted, 800 gallons of water per minute. He is sink- 

 ing this well by means of a bucket pump, and is 

 now down 81 feet, with a six-foot pit, and has a 

 drilled hole in the bottom of the pit to a depth of 

 200 feet. 



A report is in circulation that the famous La 

 Cueva ranch properties in Moro county have been 

 sold to a Chicago capitalist. 



Much interest was manifested in Albuquerque 

 recently when it became known that the Garcia, 

 near that city, one of the finest garden tracts in that 

 section, was to be placed on the market. The Gar- 

 cia tract has been cultivated for years, and has 

 water rights on one of the oldest canals. 



The Weeks law of March 1, 1911, providing for 

 the acquisition of lands in the Appalachians, pro- 

 vides that five per cent of moneys received from 

 each national forest into which the lands acquired 

 are divided, be turned over to the state for its pub- 

 lic schools and roads. New Mexico and Arizona, 

 besides the sums before mentioned, are entitled to 

 approximately 11 per cent of the gross receipts of 

 all national forests in those states in return for the 

 state school sections within national forests. This 

 provision is embodied in the act of June 20, 1910, 

 authorizing the admission of the two new states. 



OREGON. 



There is more development in Malheur County 

 in eastern Oregon than in almost any other por- 

 tion of the State, said State Engineer John H. 

 Lewis, who returned recently from a visit to that 

 County; he 'investigated a number of irrigation proj- 

 ects and also looked into the water troubles on 



It is estimated by Henry Waldo Cole, member 

 of the Portland Realty Board, that 6,000,000 acres 

 of irrigable land in Oregon, worth when in full pro- 

 ductiveness more than $1,000,000,000, practically will 

 require al'l of the available surface flowing waters 

 of the State, lying within the arid regions, to con- 

 summate the beneficent purpose of making all of 

 these waste places productive. 



Work will be continued by the United States 

 Reclamation Service this summer at Benham Falls, 

 20 miles south of Bend, Ore., for the purpose of 

 determining the practicability of constructing a big 

 dam there for irrigation purposes. 



The Curtis Stock and Grain Farm, situated 

 across the Columbia River from The Dalles, Ore., 

 was sold at sheriff's sale at Goldendale recently to 

 satisfy a mortgage of $66,656 given by the Citizens' 

 Trust Company of Seattle to Mr. Curtis at the time 

 the property was purchased from him for $100,000, 

 two years ago. 



With $155,000 available since the recent ap- 

 propriation by Congress, The Modoc irrigation 

 project on the Klamath Indian reservation will be 

 pushed to completion. About $20,000 has already 

 been expended on the work and the plan for its 

 completion has been improved. 



The county commissioners of Klickitat County 

 have granted the petition of 50 land owners in the 

 Camas prairie section of the State of Washington, 

 in western Klickitat, for the establishment of an 

 irrigation district under the State law. The boun- 

 daries have been defined and an election ordered 

 which will soon be held. 



The United States Reclamation Service is using 

 galvanized iron pipe to carry its laterals across 

 country roads. The largest pipe of the kind ever 

 used in the Klamath Falls country was placed there 

 recently. The pipe is 5 feet in diameter and 90 

 feet long; it weighs 4 tons and required two flat 

 cars for its transport. 



UTAH. 



That the farms and orchards of Millard County, 

 Utah, in the neighborhood of. Hinckley, will not 

 become a part of the desert was the determination 

 of an enthusiastic meeting in Hinckley recently, at 

 which more than 100 farmers considered the advisa- 

 bility of draining the land of the alkali that has 

 appeared during the last few years. 



H. Bullen has filed suit in the district court 

 at Logan, Utah, against the Logan-Northfield Irri- 

 gation Company to recover damages in the sum of 

 $500, and also to enjoin the company from further 

 interference with his premises. The canal borders 

 upon Mr. Bullen's property and he recently walled 

 up the ditch with rock, which the canal people tore 

 out, alleging that the stone was on their property. 



