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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



the State and the Department of the Interior, the 

 sum of $100,000 equally divided has been appro- 

 priated for the necessary investigations and sur- 

 veys which are now in progress. Under the deter- 

 mination of the engineers that the proposed project 

 is feasible and presents no insuperable legal ob- 

 stacles, Secretary Lane has agreed to ask the Presi- 

 dent of the United States to set aside from the 

 fund a sum not to exceed $450,000 which with the 

 appropriation of a like sum from Oregon is to be 

 used by the Reclamation Service to develop the 

 whole project. 



TEXAS. 



A syndicate of St. Louis men which includes 

 H. P. Milliard, George D. Barnard, Lloyd Schock, 

 George T. Sands, and several other's, is preparing 

 to colonize with farmers a tract of 60,000 acres of 

 land which they own, situated near Harlingen. 



, Articles of incorporation have been filed by the 

 Winter Garden Irrigation Company; capital stock, 

 $100,000; principal office, San Antonio. 



C. E. Spath is putting in an extensive irrigation 

 plant on his land nine miles west of Stanton. He 

 has a well that will pump perhaps 1,500 gallons of 

 water per minute with a depth of only about 15 feet, 

 and he hopes to have some of this land under irri- 

 gation this season. 



J. W. Malone of Decatur, Texas, has purchased 

 30,000 acres of land in Kinney county, near Fort 

 Clarke. Mr. Malone will install an irrigation plant 

 and put in small farms. The Losmoras river runs 

 through a part of the property. 



UTAH. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized the 

 Reclamation Service to award contract to the Utah 

 Coal Sales Agency, Salt Lake City, Utah, for 5,000 

 tons of "Hiawatha" coal for use in connection with 

 the work of construction of the Arrowrock dam, 

 Boise irrigation project, Idaho, for one year from the 

 date of contract. The total cost is $5.95 per ton de- 

 livered. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized 

 the Reclamation Service to approve a contract with 

 C. F. Dixbn, of Payson, Utah, for hauling general 

 freight in connection with the construction of the 

 Strawberry Valley irrigation project in that state. 

 The contract calls for the hauling of not to exceed 

 a total of 700 tons at $11 per ton. 



WYOMING. 



Upon request by the president of the Water 

 Users' Associations the Secretary of the Interior 

 has issued an order that in view of the exceptional 

 requirements regarding operation and maintenance 

 payments during the current year on the North 

 Platte irrigation project, Nebraska- Wyoming, due 

 to the postponment of payments in former years, 

 water will be delivered during the current irriga- 

 tion season without immediate payment of the 

 charges due for operation and maintenance. On 



account of this postponment, however, there shall 

 be an increase as suggested by the association, in 

 the charges of one cent per acre for each month 

 which elapses in whole or in part from July 21, 

 1913, to the date of payment. This additional 

 charge shall be separately added to each portion of 

 an installment for operation and maintenance re- 

 maining unpaid on and after July 21, 1913, so that 

 those who owe portions of installments for O. & 

 M. for two years will be required to add to the 

 amount of two cents per acre per month or fraction 

 of a month. 



WASHINGTON 



Approximately 45.000 acres of desirable irri- 

 gated land in Washington will be offered for a long 

 time lease or sale by the interior office at Washing- 

 ton. These lands have good water rights, and are 

 located in a fertile portion of the state. 



The Secretary of the Interior has approved a 

 contract between the United States and the State of 

 Washington for co-operation between the state and 

 the government in making surveys and investiga- 

 tions estimates to determine the feasibility of the 

 Palouse irrigation project. 



The contract provides that surveys and investi- 

 gations shall be made following the general plan 

 of operation agreed upon between the Governor of 

 the state and the Reclamation Service, that all field 

 notes, original plans and other data shall be filed 

 with the U. S. Reclamation Service, a copy being 

 furnished the state if application therefor is made, 

 conclusions and recommendations to be agreed 

 upon jointly by the Governor and the officers of the 

 Service having jurisdiction, or in the event of fail- 

 ure to agree, that each shall submit separate con- 

 clusions and recommendations to be embodied in 

 the report and published. In carrying out the work 

 under the contract, one-half the expense shall be 

 borne by the state and the other half by the United 

 States, the total expense of each not to exceed 

 $10,000. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized 

 the Reclamation Service to award contract to the 

 Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory for inspection and 

 testing work for the ensuing three years. The 

 amount of work to be performed under the contract 

 cannot be determined in advance, as inspection de- 

 pends entirely upon the amount of machinery and 

 material subject to inspection required as the needs 

 of the Service develop. 



The Buffalo, N. Y., Park Department, under the 

 direction of a city forester, has been for several 

 years setting out young trees on new streets, a score 

 of streets being attended to each spring and fall. 

 This summer being unusually dry, the trees set out 

 in the last two or three years were observed to be 

 in poor condition, and owners of premises have been 

 advised to give the trees plenty of water. 



The park department has gangs of men on the 

 streets, attending to trees in front of vacant lots. 

 One man with a soil fork loosens the soil about the 



