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pumps capable of watering 160 acres each. Capacity of 

 each pump, 2,500 gallons per minute. Mr. Lombard and 

 Mr. Ellison went to Kansas City this week to purchase 

 the machinery. This ranch lies south of the river across 

 from Kendall. 



Wichita, Arkansas City, Hutchinson. Muskogee, Tulsa 

 and other towns of the lower Arkansas Valley have 

 gained in the formation of an Arkansas Valley irrigation 

 association. Delegates from each of these cities met in 

 Arkansas City recently to organize. 



Wichita was represented by the following men who 

 have either tried irrigation by the pump system or have 

 made a study of the question: Schuyler Jones, C. S. Drake, 

 Harry W. Stanley, T. H. Nimon and R. H. Faxon. 



The establishment of several irrigation plants in the 

 lower Arkansas Valley during the last two or three years 

 has opened new possibilities to farmers who own lands 

 within the underflow district of the valley. It is believed 

 by those who have already put in pumping plants that 

 thousands of them will be established within the next few 

 years. The meeting at Arkansas City was for the purpose 

 of stimulating work in the direction of irrigation and 

 intensive farming. 



MONTANA. 



The reclamation service is asking for proposals for 

 the construction work on the Pishkun reservoir supply 

 canal and Sun river slope canal on the Sun river irriga- 

 tion project. The work to be done is on the north side 

 of the Sun river from 25 to 75 miles west of Great Falls. 



The Sun River valley in Montana is now entering 

 upon an era of electrical development which is to hasten 

 the occupation of one of the government's huge irrigation 

 projects. 



Seventy miles of transmission line have been built, 

 extending from the Rainbow falls hydro-electric plant of 

 the Great Falls Power Company on the Missouri river 

 westerly through the entire length of the valley to the 

 base of the mountains where the principal diversion dam 

 is now under construction across Sun River. The elec- 

 trical energy, transmitted at a voltage of 110,000, is 

 stepped down at three transformer stations, from which 

 it will be distributed to the principal features of the work. 

 It is now being used at the Sun river diversion dam oper- 

 ating pumps and air compressors, concrete mixers, der- 

 ricks, and in lighting the construction camp and the site 

 of the work. The government is constructing a distribu- 

 tion transmission line along the Pishkun reservoir and the 

 Sun river slope canals, a distance of 4 miles. 



Philip Mockel, who ranks as one of the largest indi- 

 vidual farmers in Broadwater county, was over from his 

 Warm Spring creek ranch the first of the week. Mr. 

 Mockel. who is farming upwards of 1,200 acres of grain, 

 both irrigated and dry land, has several hundred acres of 

 alfalfa and feeds hundreds of head of stock, both cattle 

 and hogs. He has a large ranch home with all modern 

 conveniences, including a gas lighting system, water sys- 

 tem and plumbing. Although himself and family live 12 

 miles from a railroad, Mr. Mockel believes in living. 

 Townsend (Mont.) Star. 



Missoula county has decided to quit building plank 

 bridges over irrigation ditches where they cross the pub- 

 lic highways. Steel bridges will be used from now on, with 

 concrete abutments. These structures are sairl to be 

 practically indestructible, while the county has had to 

 replace the wooden bridges every few years. 



Supervising Engineer Savage has recently completed 

 a tour of the reclamation work in progress in northern 

 Montana and repo-ts excellent conditions. The work will 

 be continued this season as long as the frost will permit. 



If the Sun river irrigation project is carried out in 

 its entirety there will be P.0.000 country people within a 

 radius of .">0 miles of Great Falls in twelve yea-s. 



direct all \vork of the reclamation service. If Mr. O'Don- 

 nell accepts he will be made irrigation manager. 



NEW MEXICO. 



The Hope Community Irrigation Company filed a 

 dissolution notice with the State Corporation Commission. 

 This company organized about two years ago, but never 

 commenced business. 



Agua Xegra grant, in Guadalupe county, recently 

 changed hands at a price said to be in the neighborhood 

 of $50,000, J. O. Janes of Janes. Tex., being the purchaser, 

 who will stock it with graded cattle and may place a por- 

 tion under irrigation. 



Secretary of the Interior Lane is enthusiastic for the 

 development of the western states and says that ten mil- 

 lion dollars a year can be used to advantage in irrigation 

 and drainage projects during the next ten years. 



It is fortunate for the country that we have a man 

 like Mr. Lane, who understands the West and the needs of 

 the whole country, at the head of the department which 

 must deal with the public land problems. It is equally 

 fortunate for the country that Mr. Lane has for his first 

 assistant Hon. A. A. Jones, of New Mexico, who has put 

 in most of his life studying the very questions with which 

 the department must deal. 



Properly handled, Secretary Lane is of opinion that 

 enough land, now vacant in the western states, can be 

 reclaimed to supply the grain and meat demands of the 

 country. 



OREGON. 



Regarding a Washington dispatch in The Orcgonian 

 that Secretary of the Interior Lane favored state and fed- 

 eral co-operation in Carey irrigation projects, Governor 

 West sent the Secretary the following telegram: 



"Dispatch reports your favoring state and federal co- 

 operation completion Carey act projects. Wish to con- 

 gratulate you upon your stand. Oregon so anxious to com- 

 plete these projects has declared willingness to go it alone 

 till federal aid arrives. Our efforts meeting with success. 

 Our showing will go far to support your contention." 



It is probable that the Governor will communicate 

 further with the Secretary of the Interior in regard to 

 the proposition of state and federal co-operation. 



During the past quarter 150 permits for the appropri- 

 ation of water have been issued by the state engineer, of 

 which number eleven are for the construction of reser- 

 voirs. According to these permits it is proposed to irri- 

 gate 18,690 acres, develop 21,716 horsepower, as well as 

 for municipal and domestic purposes. 



The construction of the works described in these per- 

 mits would cost approximately $2,300,000, of which amount 

 $550,000 is estimated the cost of constructing reservoirs. 



Settlers on the Tumalo irrigation project in Crook 

 county will be relieved of water payments to the amount 



T. D. O'Donnell of Billings has been asked by Secre- 

 tnrv of the Interior Lane to accept a membership on the 

 reclamation commission of five, which will supervise and 



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Address DANIEL GELDER, 



Care Irrigation Age 



