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THE IKRIGATION AGE. 



raise the water level thirty feet. The two Sherburne 

 lakes will be raised seventy-five feet. 



From the reservoirs the water will be carried through 

 a canal into the North Fork river and thence into the 

 Milk river, a distance of 200 miles. The work will re- 

 quire at least two years for its completion. 



The United States reclamation service will start ship- 

 ments of cement to be used at the various reclamation 

 projects next week and Montana cement will be used in 

 all the Montana projects according to instructions of 

 Supervising Engineer H. N. Savage, in Great Falls. The 

 Trident Cement Company of Three Forks has been given 

 a contract to start the shipment of 1,600 carloads of 

 cement for use on the Huntley project, the Milk rivet 

 project, the Flathead project and the Sun river project. 

 The cement to be used on the latter project will not be 

 started in large quantities yet because of the fact the work 

 has not reached a stage when it is needed in large quan- 

 tities. 



A correspondent in Bozeman states that three real 

 estate transfers, involved a total of $114,000, were announced 

 recently by the Buell Land Company, as having been just com- 

 pleted. Edward A. Knowles ,a Gallatin Valley farmer, who 

 came to the valley, it is said, only ten years ago, with a capital 

 of $300, purchased the 3,280 acre ranch of the Avalanche 

 Land Company, on the Missouri river bench, near Helena. 

 D. H. Patterson and Benton Norris of Boseman, bought 

 640 acres on the Spokane bench near Hauser lake, ad- 

 joining a former purchase of 800 acres. A. Schlechten 

 bought 480 acres in the same tract. Both the last pur- 

 chases are under second unit of the Montana Reservoir 

 and Irrigation Company's Helena valley irrigation proj- 

 ect. The average price of the lands involved in these 

 sales is $26 per acre, and most of the land is under irri- 

 gation. 



NEW MEXICO. 



The Roswell Irrigated Land and Orchard Company, a 

 Maine corporation, has entered the state, and has notified 

 the state corporation commission that A. Seagrist, of 

 Roswell is the agent for the concern. It is a $400,000 

 corporation with $35,000 paid in. 



Sir L. M. Cockrell, representing English capitalists, 

 and who is a member of the select Isthmian club, Picca- 

 dilly, London, -has recently been looking into conditions 

 in the Mimbres valley and making exhaustive research in 

 the interest of himself and other capitalists. After seeing 

 the big irrigation pumps at work, noting the mammoth 

 crops and climatic conditions, he expressed himself as 

 being very much pleased with the country, and agreed 

 with Colonel Roosevelt that it is truly a marvelous region 

 just coming into its own. Sir Cockrell was accompanied 

 by C. H. Kearney, of San Antonio, Texas. 



A. G. Spalding, of Point Loma, Cal., the multi-million- 

 aire sporting goods man, and head of the Rio Mimbres 

 Irrigation Company, has been at Deming conferring with 

 General Manager Bickford and Colonization Agent E. P. 

 York, who are developing the first 5,000 acre unit of their 

 100,000 acre tract northwest of Deming. The company 

 will .build an ideal village at Spalding. 



OREGON. 



A co-operative scheme for the development of the 

 Willamette Valley in particular, but a movement that is 

 certain to be of much benefit to the entire State of Ore- 

 gon has been started. 



President Strahorn, of the Willamette Valley line, 

 has undertaken to finance an investigation of the various 

 organizations and institutions of the states of Washington 

 and California, through which the farmer and producer 

 find markets for the products of the soil. 



It is believed that methods will be found in use in 

 adjoining states that may be adopted to the communities 

 of Oregon to accomplish a profitable use of those products 

 which are now allowed to waste and by which process 

 hundreds of thousands of dollars are lost to the farmers 

 of Oregon each season. 



The investigation is in charge of Mark Woodruff, 

 publicity agent for the Portland, Eugene & Eastern Rail- 



way Company, who has gone to Tacoma and Puyallup, 

 Wash. At the latter place, Senator W. H. Paulhamus 

 will be interviewed as to the methods used in organizing 

 the co-operative association, which has brought much 

 profit to the growers of that section. Individuals will be 

 hunted up to find out exactly in what degree they have 

 profited or lost by the establishment of marketing or- 

 ganizations, and the truth will be told concerning or- 

 ganizations that have failed. 



UTAH. 



A movement is on foot in the state of Nevada to 

 utilize the surplus waters of the Humboldt river for irri- 

 gation and power developments. The Humboldt river 

 is one of the unique rivers of the arid west, and condi- 

 tions along it are in a large measure parallel to those of 

 the Sevier river in Utah. By constructing storage reser- 

 voirs on the headwater streams of the river system and 

 securing the return waters from irrigation, a vast amount 

 of arid lands can be cultivated, thereby making additional 

 homes for several thousand people. 



J. R. Murdock, head of the Utah Lake Irrigation 

 Company, recently addressed the Utah Electric Club on 

 "The Use of Electricity in the Reclamation of Arid 

 Lands." The meeting was attended by a good represen- 

 tation of the Electric Club. 



In his address Mr. Murdock called attention to the 

 increased transportation facilities to the southern part of 

 Utah county, because of the interurban line soon to be 

 completed, and suggested that therefore Salt Lakers could 

 easily and profitably become farmers in that part of the 

 state. He mentioned the vast amount of reclamation work 

 now being done by means of electric power and said that 

 that power could be used to raise water to such a level as 

 would largely increase the irrigated area of the Utah and 

 Salt Lake valleys. Club members showed great interest 

 in the address, as they were made aware of the possibili- 

 ties for local widening of their field of achievement. 



Notice has been received .by the state land board of 

 Utah from the Government land office of approval of the 

 state's temporary withdrawal of 124,000 acres of the land 

 under the Carey Act for the Deseret Irrigation Company. 

 The land is near the Millard-Juab county line, a short dis- 

 tance from Lynn. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Secretary of the Interior has announced a draw- 

 ing for valuable farms under the Sunnyside unit of the 

 Yakima irrigation project, Washington, applications for 

 which may be filed on November 21, 1913. 



All applications must be accompanied by payment of 

 the first installment of the water right charges for build- 

 ing, operation and maintenance, amounting to $6.15 per 

 acre of irrigable land included in the farm unit selected, 

 plus the land office fees and commissions. Full informa- 

 tion and copies of the public notice may be obtained at 

 the local land offices and at the office of the reclamation 

 service at North Yakima, Wash. 



A Bellingham paper says : The drouth which has pre- 

 vailed in many parts of the east this season has caused 

 a large demand on the Department of Agriculture for in- 

 formation as to the cost and possibilities of irrigation. 

 The irrigation investigations of the office of experiment 

 stations employs two men in the east, whose time is de- 

 voted to advising farmers and truckers as to the kind of 

 equipment needed, the cost of installation and operation, 

 and the methods of applying water to crops. 



The supreme court has sent back for modification the 

 case of Carl A. Sanders and wife against Charles Bull 

 and others, appellants. The decision directs that testi- 

 mony be taken relative to the land being irrigated by 

 the waters of Wilson and Nanum creeks and also in re- 

 gard to riparian right claims of the different parties and 

 that then the waters of the two streams be apportioned 

 among the different contestants all of whom live in the 

 Kittitas valley, Washington. The case was appealed from 

 the Kittitas county superior court. 



