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by the substation will be used almost entirely in run- 

 ning motors for pumping plants, and contracts are being 

 signed up as fast as the company agent can reach the 

 farmers. There will be at least twenty pumping plants 

 installed in this section this year, and half a dozen that 

 have already been in operation with gasoline engines as 

 the motive power will be changed into electric current. 

 The location of the substation will bring many more 

 acres of land under irrigation than has been farmed here- 

 tofore. 



The state land board has completed its docket of 

 Carey act hearings. Beginning March 16, it will con- 

 duct hearings of companies operating under the Carey 

 act. Companies that do not show financial ability to 

 put water on the land will have their right canceled and 

 the land will be turned over to the settlers to permit 

 them to irrigate with their own resources. The dates of 

 the hearings are as follows: March 16, Routt County 

 Development Company; March 17, Great Northern Irri- 

 gation and Power Company; March 18, Colorado Land 

 and Water Supply Company; March 19, Dolores Irriga- 

 tion Company; March 20, Two Buttes Irrigation and 

 Reservoir Company; March 21, Tolltec Canal Company 

 and Stark-Haggerdorn Irrigation Company, March 23, 

 White Rivers Trappers, Lake and Routt County Irrigation 

 Company, Colorado Southern Irrigation Company; March 



24, Pueblo and Northeastern Irrigation Company; March 



25, Valley Investment Company and Jackson County 

 Land and Irrigation Company. The land board issued 

 this ultimatum following investigations by Register Vol- 

 ney T. Hoggatt, who discovered that thousands of acres 

 of the best land in the state are and have been for years 

 held by big corporations for speculation. Many of these 

 have not fulfilled their contracts and are making no effort 

 to do so. 



The Tucker ranch, on the St. Charles river, six 'miles 

 southwest of Pueblo, has been sold by the Standard Loan 

 and Realty Company to J. I. Mihoover for a considera- 

 tion of $8,000. The ranch comprises 160 acres of land and 

 is one of the pioneer ranches on the St. Charles. The 

 new owner will make many improvements on the ranch, 

 including extensions of the irrigation ditches. 



Some intricate questions of law are involved in a 

 petition filed recently in the district court, representative 

 of a fight between two of the large irrigation enter- 

 prises operating near Pueblo. The outcome means much 

 to the owners of 50,000 acres of land under the Twin 

 Lakes and Lake Merideth reservoir projects. These two 

 concerns, together with the Colorado canal, which are 

 under the same ownership, obtained a temporary restrain- 

 ing order from Judge Rizer in the district court, to pre- 

 vent the defendant company, the Fort Lyons Canal Com- 

 pany, from usurping their water rights in Lake Merideth. 



Under authority of the Secretary of the Interior, 

 contract has been awarded for furnishing roller dams to 

 constitute a movable crest for the Grand river dam of 

 the Grand Valley irrigation project, Colorado. The appa- 

 ratus includes one steel roller 60 feet in length and six 

 rollers 70 feet in length, complete with all operating 

 devices except electric motors, the total cost being $27,846 

 f. o. b. Antwerp. The roller dams covered by the patents 

 under which this apparatus is to be manufactured are of 

 the most satisfactory type available for movable crests 

 of the length required in this case. 



In 1912 a similar contract was executed for the manu- 

 facture of a roller weir for the diversion dam of the 

 Boise project, Idaho, and the apparatus furnished has in 

 every way met the expectations of the enginers and has 

 given excellent service. 



IDAHO. 



That there is no cause for alarm regarding the condition 

 of the Chesterfield dam of the Portneuf-March Irrigation 

 Company, located about forty miles east of Pocatello, is 

 indicated by a report recently issued by the state engi- 

 neer of Idaho, a project engineer and an engineer of the 

 railroad company. The investigation of the dam's con- 

 dition followed a published report of rumors to the effect 

 that the dam was in unsafe condition and that farmers 



on the project were prepared to leave at a moment's 

 notice, in case the dam broke. The engineers' report 

 states that the investigation showed that there is no cause 

 in any way for alarm as to the safety of the dam, and 

 that the construction of the dam was handled in a first- 

 class manner. 



The Idaho Irrigation Company has filed suit against 

 Adolph Pew and H. E. Cornell, settlers on land which 

 is under the Big Wood river ditch, in which the plaintiff 

 seeks to foreclose on the property now owned by Cornell, 

 because of failure of Pew and Cornell to make any pay- 

 ments on stock subscribed in the Big Wood River Reser- 

 voir and Canal Company. 



The A. H. Sonner Company, Ltd., has been organized 

 at Bellevue, to conduct a general livestock, farming and 

 irrigation business. A. H. Sonner and Rosa Sonner and 

 J. G. Hedrick are the directors for the first year. The 

 capital stock of the company is placed at $25,000, in 

 shares of $25 each. 



MONTANA. 



The Secretary of the Interior has awarded contract 

 to the Lehigh Portland Cement Company of Chicago, 

 111., for 13,000 barrels of Portland cement, at $1 per 

 barrel, f. o. b. cars Mason City, Iowa. This cement is 

 for use on the Fort Creek irrigation project and on 

 the distribution system of the Milk River project in 

 Montana. 



With the purpose of carrying on the business of the 

 farmers in general, especially with reference to their 

 relation with the United States government, farmers en 

 the Huntley project have organized the Huntley Water 

 Users' Organization. It has power to practically conduct 

 all the business of the farmers. It is incorporated for 

 forty years at a capitalization of $40,000. 



Directors of the Flatwillow Creek project, north of 

 Billings, have almost completed arrangements and work 

 will be started in the spring. This project will be built 

 under the Carey act and will include 20,000 acres. Water 

 for irrigation will be stored in Pike creek, about two 

 miles from Flatwillow creek, from which it is taken. 

 A dam 50 feet high will be built across the smaller creek, 

 and during the high waters in the spring the water will 

 be diverted into Pike creek by means of a canal. One 

 railroad has already surveyed through the project and 

 another has secured right of way practically through and 

 has its line surveyed part way. 



The Hayden Bros, of Portland, Ore., have been 

 awarded the contract for constructing the Pishkun reser- 

 voir supply canal and the Sun River slope canal on the 

 Sun River irrigation project, at a contract price of 

 $242,973. Work is to be done on the north side of Sun 

 river, from twenty-five to seventy miles west of Great 

 Falls, near the Sun river branch of the Great Northern 

 railroad. 



The Reclamation Service is asking for proposals for 

 the construction of a portion of the St. Mary canal, St. 

 Mary storage unit, Milk River irrigation project, Mon- 

 tana. The work includes about 560,000 cubic yards of 

 excavation, 7,750 cubic yards of concrete, 13,000 square 

 yards of paving, 700 cubic yards of riprap and 8,500 cubic 

 yards of puddling; the placing of about 485,000 pounds 

 of steel reinforcement bars and 293,000 feet, board meas- 

 ure, of lumber in wooden structures, and the erection of 

 about 105,000 pounds of miscellaneous metalwork. The 

 work is situated in the Blackfoot Indian reservation, about 

 forty miles northwest of Browning, Mont. 



The bids will be opened at 2 o'clock p. m., April 15, 

 1914, at the office of the Reclamation Service, Great Falls, 

 Mont. 



The Reclamation Service is asking for proposals for 

 earthwork and tunnel, Pablo canals, in connection with 

 the Flathead irrigation project in Montana. The work 

 is located about six miles southwest of Poison, Mont., 

 and involves about 3,400 cubic yards of open-cut excava- 

 tion and about 520 linear feet of tunnel. 



Bids will be opened at 2 o'clock p. m., March 20, 



