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Brownsville. The incorporators are Grover C. Singer, 

 Ralph Howard and E. S. Hunt. 



A certificate of dissolution has been filed by the Lake 

 View Irrigation Company of Quanall. 



WASHINGTON 



In order to increase the water supply for the Okano- 

 gan irrigation project, the Secretary of the Interior has 

 approved the recommendation of the Board of Reclama- 

 tion Commissioners that plans be made immediately for 

 the development of power to pump water to about 1,050 

 acres. Power will be developed at two drops in the main 

 canal. The sum of $82,000 has been allotted from the 

 reclamation fund for the work. This plan will reduce 

 the acreage to be served from Salmon river about 11 per 

 cent. In ordinary years it will permit the holding of 2,000 

 to 3,000 acre feet in the reservoirs as a reserve for years 

 of drouth, in addition to the reserve afforded by the 

 original project and by increase in Salmon Lake capacity. 



State Land Commissioner Clark V. Savidge has ex- 

 tended the period during which the waters of the Yakima 

 water shed shall remain withdrawn from general appro- 

 priation, pending the completion of the Yakima reclama- 

 tion project by the federal government. The extension is 

 for two years from December 31, 1913, to which date com- 

 missioner Savidge extended the time last spring, follow- 

 ing the failure of the legislature to act on the application 

 for an extension of time. The first application of the 

 government was made in 1905 pending the determination 

 of the practicability of the project, which will water 

 500.000 acres of land and cost more than $10,000,000 when 

 completed. ' 



Chelan county voters have petitioned for an election 

 for the formation of an irrigation district to include 10,000 

 acres adjacent to Lake Chelan. Half of this land com- 

 prises the Wapato project and it is proposed to extend 

 that system so as to cover 5,000 acres north of the town 

 of Chelan. The cost of the extension is estimated at 

 $390,994. 



Pursuant to the approval by the Secretary of the In- 

 terior of the contract between the State of Washington 

 and the United States providing for the investigation of 

 the Palouse irrigation project, Governor Lister, Mr. E. 

 McCulloh. engineer in the Reclamation Service who will 

 have charge of the work, and Supervising Engineer S. H. 

 Swigart, in charge of the Washington irrigation projects, 

 held a meeting to outline future work and discuss the 

 steps necessary for handling the appropriation provided by 

 the state. 



The entire work of the survey will be under the con- 

 trol of the Reclamation Service. The problem is to find 

 sufficient feasible reservoir sites to impound water for the 

 irrigation of a smaller project than the one originally 

 planned, as the Washtucna Coulee was considered in- 

 feasible by the board of engineers reporting on the Palouse 

 project, and railroad construction has made the site at 

 the diversion point on Palouse river infeasible. 



The Secretary of the Interior has directed the 

 Reclamation Service to prepare a form of Excess Land 

 Contract and Trust Deed, and to submit same to certain 

 land owners on the Sunnyside Unit of the Yakima irriga- 

 tion project in Washington. 



The lands affected lie above the gravity canal system 

 and can be irrigated only by the installation of a number 

 of pumping plants to be located along the main canal. In 

 order to insure an early subdivision and sale to bona fide 

 settlers of all holdings in excess of 40 acres, a contract 

 is to be entered into between the government and the 

 land owners, under the terms of which the government 

 will have power to force such subdivision and disposal. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



More than 100,000 acres of high land in the vicinity 

 of Milner, Jerome and the south side of Twin Falls project 

 in Idaho are to be developed by the Kuhns this year. 

 Jackson lake, Wyoming, will be used as a storage reser- 

 voir and the water supply will be 400.000 acre feet ob- 

 tained from the government. The water will be carried 



about 300 miles down the channel of the Snake river to 

 the point of diversion near Milner. The Kuhns are pay- 

 ing for the dam at Jackson lake, although it is being built 

 under the supervision of the Reclamation Service. It is 

 estimated that the project will supply farms for 1,500 

 families. 



Contract has been awarded to the East Jersey Pipe 

 Company, Xo. 50 Church street, New York City, N. Y., 

 for furnishing lock bar steel pipe for outlet conduits for 

 the Minitare dam, North Platte project, Nebraska. 



The material to be furnished consists of 536 feet of 

 48-inch pipe. The price f. o. b. cars, Patterson, N. J., 

 is $4,288. 



ORGANIZE AT BARSTOW 



Representative business men and farmers from 

 Pecos, Barstow, Big Valley, Grand Falls, Balmo- 

 hea, Midland, Buena Vista and Arno met recently 

 and organized the West Texas Reclamation 

 Association. 



The object of the organization is to secure the 

 services of the United States Reclamation Service 

 in making a topographic and hydrographic survey 

 of the Pecos Valley of Texas and, possibly, of 

 southern New Mexico, as well. This will be done 

 with a view of discovering and exploiting the latent 

 irrigation possibilities of this great valley, locating 

 all feasible reservoir sites, and otherwise throwing 

 open to development between 200,000 and 250,000 

 acres of rich land. 



The association elected the following officers : 



President, George E. Barstow, Barstow ; vice- 

 president, F. W. Johnson, Pecos; secretary, H. B. 

 Link, Pecos ; treasurer, Charles E. Nicholls, Bar- 

 stow. The following were appointed members of 

 the executive board : Burch Carson, Barstow ; Tay- 

 lor Black, Barstow ; Vernon L. Sullivan, Buena 

 Vista; J. H. Boogher, Grandfalls; J. E. Starley, 

 Pecos ; James F. Ross, Pecos ; E. D. Balcom, Bal- 

 morhea ; W. H. Dennis, Buena Vista ; J. L. Farley, 

 Big Valley ; John T. Sweatt, Grandfalls, and S. B. 

 Pugh, Arno. 



ASKS AID FOR THE FLATHEAD 



Congressman Evans of Montana has introduced 

 a bill in the House extending the provisions of the 

 act of June 25, 1910, authorizing the assignment of 

 reclamation homesteads and the act of August 9, 

 1912, authorizing the issuance of patents on recla- 

 mation of homestead entries to lands in the Flat- 

 head project of Montana. 



BUSY IN CASA GRANDE 



The Casa Grande Valley Water Users' Associ- 

 ation of Arizona has- made plans for an earnest cam- 

 paign in Washington to obtain the construction of 

 the San Carlos reservoir. There is said to be vig- 

 orous railroad opposition to this project. There is 

 a great deal of Indian land involved, but settlers 

 declare thousands of acres of homestead lands could 

 also be watered. 



We are short of copies of issues of THE IRRIGA- 

 TION- AGE for September, October, November, De- 

 cember, 1913, and January, 1914. We will pay 10 

 cents per copy for any of these issues. Send to 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE. 30 North Dearborn street.. 

 Chicago. Illinois. 



