THE IKRIGATION AGE. 



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Reclamation Notes 



course of the Kings river and the formation of a permanent 

 channel, 800 feet in width, extending to the point where 

 the Kings river flows into the San Joaquin. 



ARIZONA. 



After eight years in the reclamation service in the 

 Salt River project as assistant irrigation manager of the 

 South Side unit, Jas. E. Sprague has resigned to enter 

 private business. 



Project Engineer Francis L. Sellow of the U. S. 

 Reclamation Service has received notice that $370,000 has 

 been set aside in Washington for river front protection 

 work, in addition to other allotments which have been 

 made for the Yuma project. 



CALIFORNIA. 



Notice of appropriation of 60,000 miners' inches of 

 water of the Sacramento river, to be taken out above Mid- 

 dle Creek, near Redding, gives outline of an irrigation 

 system to water 235,000 acres in Shasta, Tehama and 

 Glenn counties including all the territory between the 

 foothills and the Sacramento river. It is proposed to 

 divert the water to Stony creek, in Glenn county, by 

 means of a canal 40 feet wide at the top, 20 feet wide at 

 the bottom and 9 feet deep. Geo. L. Hoxie, a wealthy 

 resident of Fresno county, is behind the plan. 



It is reported that private capital is planning to take 

 over the government's proposed reservoir and irriga- 

 tion project on the Pit river, in Lassen and Shasta coun- 

 ties. A reservoir to save the water for irrigation and the 

 production of electrical power is reported part of the proj- 

 ect. 



C. H. Horsley of the Waterford irrigation district has 

 made filing on 250 second feet of the flow of the Tuolumne 

 river and on two points of diversion, one at the La Grange 

 dam of the Modesto-Turlock districts, and the other at 

 a point several miles above, which is now being considered 

 by the districts for the building of what is known as 

 "Dam No. 2." Previous to beginning the organization of 

 the Waterford district, about two years ago, filing was 

 made on these same points and the same amount of water 

 by J. L. Prouty, now president of the board of directors 

 of the district. Mr. Prouty has willed his filings to the 

 district. The district includes about 22,000 acres of land 

 lying on the north side of the Tuolumne and east of the 

 Modesto district. 



Articles of incorporation have Ibeen filed 'by the 

 Thermal Water Company; capitalization $50,000. The 

 principal place of business is San Francisco. The com- 

 pany is organized for the purpose of acquiring water 

 rights, buying and selling land, etc., in Tulare county, 

 the water to be sold exclusively to stockholders of the 

 concern. Among the prominent men back of the under- 

 taking are S. E. Keiffer and E. M. Dygert of Berkeley; 

 H. L. Harhl of Palo Alto; C. S. Gilman of Oakland, and 

 L. F. Laverty of Los Angeles. 



Two of the largest irrigation pumping plants to be 

 installed in California recently are under construction in 

 the Woodville district for H. G. and Samuel Vincent, 

 pioneer alfalfa and stock men of that section. Two res- 

 ervoirs have been constructed, one covering 2 acres and 

 the other \ l / 2 acres of ground. They plan to irrigate a 

 half-section of alfalfa from these outfits. 



The state reclamation board at Sacramento has ap- 

 proved the maps, contours and estimates for the reclama- 

 tion of 100,000 acres along the Kings river, in Fresno 

 county. This project, which involves an expenditure of 

 only $250.000. will add in value and productiveness more 

 than $15.000.000 to 100.000 acres of rich bottom land in 

 the San Joaquin valley. These lands during a short period 

 of the year have been flooded heretofore, resulting in a 

 great loss of crop. The proposed project contemplates 

 the elimination of the crooked, shallow and irregular 



The secretary of the interior has withdrawn from all 

 forms of disposition under the public land laws 111,360 

 acres of land in connection with the Iron Canyon irriga- 

 tion project. The lands are withdrawn temporarily pend- 

 ing investigation of the project, which is being carried on 

 under cooperative arrangements by the United States gov- 

 ernment and the state of California. 



The Patterson Ranch Company has been granted a 

 petition for the formation of a reclamation district near 

 Patterson along the west side of the San Joaquin river. 

 The proposed district will comprise about 1,400 acres of 

 land lying in the river bottom. A portion of the river 

 bottom has been reclaimed. Outside of the river bottom 

 land included in this ranch practically the entire property 

 has been disposed of to settlers and is now being highly 

 improved for intensified farming. 



COLORADO. 



Thousands of acres of the school lands of Colorado 

 that have been tied up for years, yielding no revenue to 

 the school fund and absolutely unproductive, will be 

 brought into production and added to the revenue yielders 

 of the state as a result of the precedent established by the 

 state board of land commissioners recently in canceling 

 a gift of 640 acres, made in 1889, to promoters incor- 

 porated as the Naturita Ditch company. The action of 

 the board in forcing the cancellation of the Naturita lease, 

 while it affects directly only 640 acres, will result in the 

 unlocking of 10,000 acres to which the Naturita tract is 

 the key. The company that obtained the lease made no 

 attempt to perfect the irrigation project and subsequently 

 turned the lease over to the San Miguel Development 

 Company, headed by Bulkeley Wells of Denver and 

 Chaloner B. Schley and Duncan Chisholm of Colorado 

 Springs. This company claims they have spent $200,000 

 in the district, but they have not fulfilled the agreement 

 with the state and have not supplied water to those who 

 had the right to expect it. The settlers have now de- 

 cided to build their own irrigation system. 



Work will commence soon on the enlargement of 

 Lake Henry, three miles north of Sugar City, which has 

 been much needed to supply water enough to irrigate the 

 land now under the ditches. By enlarging this lake the 

 farmers will more than double the acreage the coming 

 year. 



The Water Users' Association and a number of land 

 owners from the Palisade section held a meeting recently 

 and a committee was appointed, consisting of W. Harri- 

 son, A. E. Johnson and Howard G. Fletcher, to confer 

 with the directors of the Price and Stub ditches over 

 water rights from the Grand Valley irrigation project, 

 sufficient to water 2,000 acres. 



Arthur and Potter and Clark and Hasselman of Pueblo 

 have been awarded the contract for the construction of 

 the reservoirs to -be built for the irrigation of the Lewis 

 tract in Crowley county, recently purchased by the Cudahy 

 estate of Chicago. The contract price for this work is 

 reported to be $25,000. 



Some 16,000 acres of land will be placed under irriga- 

 tion this spring twenty-four miles from Fort Morgan by 

 the San Arroya Irrigation district, which has recently 

 completed its reservoir. The reservoir covers 373 acres 

 and will contain 22,000 acre feet of water. The district 

 has secured a right of easement from the state land board 

 to the land covered by the reservoir. The board allowed 

 the district to have the land at the minimum price of $3.50 

 per acre. 



Tentative withdrawal of 10,213 acres of land in Moffat 

 and Routt counties has been made by the state land 

 board on application of H. A. True, Jr., engineer of the 

 Wyoming land board, who is interested in a Carey Act 



