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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Reclamation Notes 



ARIZONA. 



George H. Smalley, a business man of Pheonix, Ariz., 

 has been telling Western newspaper men that before long 

 the farmers in the Salt River valley will be raising large 

 quantities of cotton. He states that 3,500 acres of land 

 have already been planted with Egyptian cotton seed in 

 an effort to see if cotton can be raised in that state, and 

 from the present outlook it appears as though an en- 

 couraging crop will be reached when the time for pick- 

 ing arrives. 



Andrew Kimball, president of the St. Joseph stake 

 of the Mormon church, who resides at Thatcher, Ariz., 

 stated recently that the present year has been one of 

 prosperity for his state. Mr. Kimball is chairman of 

 the Arizona commission of agriculture and horticulture 

 and is at the present time at Tulsa, Okla., where he is 

 attending the meeting of the International Dry Farm Con- 

 gress. Mr. Kimball was one of the first Mormons to 

 locate in Arizona and has been very successful in all 

 his undertakings. He is a leader in the Mormon Church 

 and is considered one of the best organizers and coloniza- 

 tion men in the church. 



C. M. Wells, special representative of the United 

 States Land Office at Washington, has been in Arizona 

 and made a thorough examination of the San Carlos dam 

 and the Casa Grande Valley's irrigation project. Mr. 

 Wells has made a careful study of the watersheds, dam 

 sites and the diversion dam sites, the lands to be irrigated, 

 the work of constructing a canal by the Casa Grande 

 Water Users Association, into which the flood waters will 

 be diverted prior to the construction of the San Carlos 

 dam. 



The manager of the Cuyamaca water system has issued 

 orders that no more water be used for irrigation purposes. 

 There is a shortage of water in Cuyamaca Lake and 

 suffering would result, it is feared, if the supply becomes 

 much lower, hence the irrigationist will have to go with- 

 out for the time being. 



The third load of irrigation plants delivered since 

 the first of the year for Valley Oaks, Cal., was recently 

 received by Stine and Kendrick. These plants driven 

 by electric motors are the centrifugal pump type with 

 a capacity of 24,000 gallons an hour. About fifty plants 

 have already been intsalled in this new farm land sub- 

 division which joins Gait. 



CALIFORNIA. 



Congressman Raker, of California, recently took up 

 a plan for a new California reclamation project with 

 Secretary Lane and the Acting Secretary Davis of the 

 Reclamation Service. The proposed project is located 

 near Montague, Siskiyou county, and when in operation 

 will irrigate 100,000 acres of semi-arid land. The plan 

 has been favorably recommended by Supervising Engineer 

 E. G. Hobson, and the Montague Commercial Club is 

 pushing the project. Mr. Raker has been advised by the 

 Interior Department and Reclamation Service that they 

 are agreeable to the project, but the Reclamation Service 

 has not the necessary funds at this time. Mr. Raker will 

 endeavor to get the necessary appropriation at the Decem- 

 ber session of Congress. 



The States of the West in which are located some of 

 the largest Carey Act and private irrigation projects in 

 the world in which are millions of acres of land awaiting 

 the fructifying influence of the hand of the reclamer, are 

 particularly interested in the irrigation exhibit at the San 

 Diego Exposition. A reclamation section will be a fea- 

 ture at the exposition. As land has been allotted for this 

 exhibit, the Association is ready to do its full share in 

 co-operation in order that the reclamation section shall 

 be the one and only great exhibit of history. 



Colonel W. H. Holabird, receiver of the California 

 Development Company, returned to Los Angeles recently 

 from Calexico, where he has teen personally superintend- 

 ing the work being done by the Irrigation Company, and 

 announced plans for extensive work of development on 

 the great project to meet the increasing demands of the 

 Imperial Valley district. The latest contemplated work 

 of improvement is the building of a great dam over the 

 New River in Mexican territory were the Encena flume 

 carrying the supply of water from the main canal to the 

 west side main crosses the great canyon. The estimated 

 cost of the project is $50,000, and Colonel Holabird 

 states that he intends to go before the court and ask 

 for an order, in the near future, permitting this expen- 

 diture. 



H. H. Whitmore, formerly secretary of the Madera 

 County Chamber of Commerce, visited San Francisco re- 

 cently from El Centro Imperial Valley, where he is 

 establishing an up-to-date scientific dairy. He is in part- 

 nership with a gentleman of the name of Stearns of New 

 York City. 



One of the largest agricultural projects of the Clovis, 

 Cal., district is the International Land Company. This 

 concern superintended by W. T. Hamilton, introduced the 

 proper cultivation of the fig industry. The consulting 

 expert, George C. Roeding, is well known through that 

 valley where stretching away through the foot hill belt, 

 5,920 acres flourish with figs, oranges and grapes. This 

 land receives its irrigation through the pumping system. 

 All this section is in the foot hill district and above the 

 irrigation canal. 



Secretary Lane has authorized the Reclamation Serv- 

 ice to execute a contract with the Iron Canon Irrigation 

 Association under which the Government will make sur- 

 veys and a preliminary investigation to determine the 

 feasibility of the project and prepare designs and es- 

 timates of cost. The lands embraced within the project 

 are mainly below Red Bluff. 



J. B. Hill is carrying on an experiment in the reclama- 

 tion by drainage of alkali land lying near Fresno. He 

 believes that the reclaiming of this character of land will 

 be a success, and he bases his opinion on former efforts 

 along that line. 



W. E. Bush & Company have been awarded the con- 

 tract for the colonization of the Kuhn, California, proj- 

 ect, a tract of land consisting of 400 square miles or 

 260,000 acres of farm land in the north part of the Sacra- 

 mento Valley. 



An important business deal has been consummated 

 whereby F. A. Cleveland becomes an equal partner with 

 C. W. Gates in the development of 6,000 acres of lake land 

 southwest of Corcoran, Cal. 



The University of California has announced the es- 

 tablishment of a new Division of Rural Institutions. This 

 new department will study and aid all the rural forces 

 which have for their aim the making of life in the open 

 country successful and satisfactory. 



Elwood Mead has been calle^ to the headship of this 

 new division. He was formerly chief of the United States 

 Bureau of Irrigation Investigations. He is now in Aus- 

 tralia where, as chairman of the Rivers and Water Sup- 

 ply Commission of the state of Victoria and chief en- 

 gineer thereof, he has demonstrated his high qualities of 

 statesmanship. His work in the University of California 

 will be to deal with questions of farm credits, irrigation 

 and drainage institutions, co-operation, and all the varied 

 political, economic, educational, social and religious in- 

 stitutions which affect rural life. 



The establishment of this professorship of rural in- 

 stitutions was forecasted by Dean Thomas F. Hunt when 

 he announced recently that the College of Agriculture 

 of the university was ready to co-operate with any agency, 

 federal, state or private, which had for its main purpose 

 the creation of a successful family life. 



