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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



WASHINGTON. 



Following the decision of Comptroller of the Treasury 

 Downey that the reclamation service can not use United 

 States funds for the resurvey of the Palouse irrigation 

 project in Washington and accept repayment in part from 

 the state of Washington, #new form of contract is being 

 drawn to avoid delay in work. 



The new contract is to follow the form already ap- 

 proved for the East Umatilla project made with the 

 state of Oregon, and Acting Director Davis said today he 

 hopes for a satisfactory conclusion within a few days. 



vember 1, 191J, and waived all fines, fees and costs for 

 restoring the severed pipes. 



"Secretary of the Interior Lane must have decided 

 that the water rights of the Indians on the Yakima reser- 

 vation is a matter for judicial settlement and to go ahead 

 in spite of the fact that the matter is before Congress 

 now," said United States Senator Jones, after receiving 

 from Secretary Lane a telegram confirming the news dis- 

 patch that he had asked the judicial department to begin 

 such a suit. 



"The secretary does not need to threaten suit to bring 

 about a compromise. It is all in his hands. He repre- 

 sents the Indians and the reclamation service. If he will 

 say what he wants and what he thinks ought to be done 

 I will get behind. If it meets the approval of the con- 

 gressional committee, I have no doubt of its passage." 



United States Senator Brady of Idaho has given a 

 mortgage of $275,000 to the Zion Savings and Trust Bank 

 of Salt Lake to secure a loan of that amount, the mort- 

 gage covering practically all his personal property in this 

 state, valued at several times that sum. The mortgage is 

 made of record in the county and in several other coun- 

 ties in this state, including Kootenai, where Senator Brady 

 has property. 



The greatest part of the loan is believed to have gone 

 into the former Great Western Beet Sugar Company's 

 irrigation project at Mountain Home, after Senator Brady 

 purchased it from the receiver. He is rapidly developing 

 it into a high state of efficiency, reclaiming about 70,000- 

 acres of rich sage brush land. The loan is also probably 

 for developing other large business enterprises the junior 

 senator has in this state. 



The mortgage covers the American Falls electric light 

 plant at American Falls, the Mountain Home project, se- 

 curities held by Senator Brady in a local newspaper, local 

 bank stock and other property. 



The hearing before State Public Service Commis- 

 sioner Arthur A. Lewis of Washington, in the complaint 

 of Pinecroft ranchers against the Pinecroft Orchard Com- 

 pany, involving a water supply for the Pinecroft district, 

 was terminated yesterday by a mutually satisfactory com- 

 promise, after the statements of both sides had been heard. 



Mr. and Mrs. James Strang, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. 

 Briggs, Mrs. J. J. Kelly, J. A. Woodbury, Mr. and Mrs. W. 

 A. Reeves and O. U. Adams were the complainants. 



The company agreed to make all water connections 

 between its mains and users' mains free of charge by No- 



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Governor Ernest Lister is now in central Washington 

 making an inspection of the Quincy Valley irrigation proj- 

 ect as provided for by a measure passed by the last :-e>- 

 sion of the legislature and to which was attached a ref- 

 erendum clause that brings the bill before the people at 

 the next general election one year from November. The 

 governor is accompanied by State Geologist Henry Lan- 

 des, who is to be a member of the board that will be 

 appointed by the governor under the law if it is adopted 

 by the people next fall. 



The Secretary of the Interior has directed the rec- 

 lamation service to prepare a form of excess land con- 

 tract and trust 'deed to submit to certain landowners on 

 the Sunnyside unit of the Yakima irrigation project in 

 Washington. 



The land affected lies above the gravity canals sys- 

 tem and can be irrigated only by the installation of pump- 

 ing plants to be located along the main canal. In order 

 to insure an early subdivision and sale to bona fide set- 

 tlers of all holdings in excess of 40 acres, a contract is to 

 be entered into between the government and the land- 

 holders, under the terms of which the government will 

 have power to force such subdivision and proposal. 



Almost thirteen years of agitation are at an end and 

 the reclamation of Sumas prairie is in sight if present 

 indications of activity may be taken as conclusive. The 

 L. M. Rice Company of Seattle, which has the contract 

 for dyking the Fraser river, has called for bids on a sub- 

 contract for dredging. If any of these bids are accepted, 

 work, it is stated, will begin as soon as dredges can be 

 placed on the land and in the streams. 



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