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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



1914, at the office of the Reclamation Service, St. Ignatius, 

 Mont. 



NEW MEXICO. 



A survey of the water resources of the lower Mimbres 

 valley is under way by Professor Fayette Jones, president 

 of the New Mexico School of Mines at Sorocco, who has 

 been at Columbus, Luna county, making a preliminary 

 geological reconnaissance, with a view of determining 

 why irrigation water is more difficult to secure by pump- 

 ing near Columbus than in the upper valley around 

 Deming. 



The Pajarita irrigation project has been given an 

 extension of time for its completion. This extension has 

 revived interest in the project which will do much for the 

 farmers in Quay county. 



Lester Gordon has just finished sinking an irrigation 

 well for T. H. Lyons, who owns a large piece of land 

 near Buckhorn. The well is 125 feet deep, 2 feet in diam- 

 eter, and the water stands within 8 feet of the top. The 

 pump is a turbine with a capacity of 2,500 gallons per 

 minute. Motive power is a steam tractor of 110 horse- 

 power. 



TEXAS. 



During the year 1913 there were fifty large irrigation 

 wells put down in the Plainview territory, and with the 

 number already contracted for and in contemplation, 

 more than one hundred will be put down during the 

 present year. 



Albert V. Leonard, settlement agent of the United 

 States Reclamation Service, has been appealed to by 

 George R. L Baron of El Paso, to aid in a campaign to 

 encourage residents of Chicago to move to the acres of 

 privately owned land which will be improved by the Rio 

 Grande project when the Eagle dam is completed. 



The Lone Star Canal Company is preparing to build 

 an irrigation canal in Chambers county, six miles in 

 length, which will irrigate 4,000 acres of land, which will 

 be planted to rice. The office of the company is located 

 at Beaumont. 



The Southern Land Company, with offices at Browns- 

 ville, has purchased 10,000 acres of property near Browns- 

 ville for a consideration of more than $900,000. The 

 tract will be known as the Tacoma lands and will be cut 

 up into small farms and colonized. The company is 

 planning to sink several wells for irrigation purposes on 

 the property, and will make other improvements. 



UTAH. 



Attorneys for the Provo Reservoir Company have 

 filed suit against the cities of Provo and Heber, the 

 towns of Midway and Charleston, about forty canal com- 

 panies and corporations, including the Utah Light and 

 Power Company and other interests holding power sites 

 along the river, and about a thousand individuals. The 

 outcome of the suit will affect the distribution of water 

 along the entire Provo river system and may determine 

 what is meant by "the beneficial use of water." The 

 suit does not expressly ask that the court limit the use 

 of water from the river to its beneficial use or set the 

 duty of water on land in this section, but by complaining 

 against wasteful diversion of waters and pointing out its 

 effect in injuring the reservoir company and preventing 

 development of other arid tracts, this matter is put before 

 the courts. The prayer for relief carries requests which 

 are aimed to enable the court to pass directly or indirectly 

 n this matter. The suit is regarded as one of the most 

 important filed in the history of this country. Two de- 

 crees have been entered by the courts of this district 

 settling rights along the river, but the injection of the 

 reservoir system into the situation, it is claimed, has upset 

 the entire basis of settlement, and the effect will be to 

 throw open some question or other with regard to almost 

 all, if not all, riparian rights in the section. 



Hydrographic surveys, by means of which water for 

 irrigation purposes will be exactly measured, will be set 



up in the Sevier river at several points between the river's 

 source in Piute county and Sevier lake, near Delta. The 

 work of installing the surveys will begin immediately. 

 It was contemplated installing the surveys several months 

 ago, but not until recently, however, was a satisfactory 

 arrangement reached regarding the financing of the work. 

 The cost of setting up the surveys will amount to sev- 

 eral thousand do lars. Half of this amount will be con- 

 tributed by the state and half by those who will use 

 the water for irrigation. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Esca- 

 lanta Development Company. The purpose of the com- 

 pany is to redeem a large acreage in Iron county. The 

 company is capitalized at $1,000,000, with shares at $100 

 each. The company has headquarters at Lund, Utah. 

 The assets of the company consist of nine certificates of 

 application for water. These certificates are valued at 

 $1,000,000. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Secretary of the Interior has awarded contract 

 to the Inland Portland Cement Company of Spokane 

 for furnishing 10,000 barrels of cement, at 98 cents per 

 barrel, f. o. b. cars Metaline Falls, Wash. This cement 

 is for use on the Okanogan project in Washington and 

 the St. Mary storage unit of the Milk River project in 

 Montana. 



The receiver's sale of the canal and all assets of the 

 Union Gap Irrigation Company to the Union Gap Water 

 Users' Association for the sum of $1,250 has been con- 

 firmed by the Supreme Court and the receiver discharged. 

 This action closes the affairs of a company whose original 

 stockholders became rich through the selling of 4,000 

 acres of land with water rights, but from whose assets 

 creditors with claims aggregating more than $120,000 

 cannot now collect a cent. The farmers, in order to 

 secure water for the irrigation of their lands, formed an 

 association and purchased the canal at a nominal figure. 

 Its operation will cost three times the amount which, 

 under the terms of the land contracts, can be collected 

 from the land owners for maintenance, and within a few 

 years upwards of $100,000 will have been expended for 

 permanent improvements. 



FOREIGN. 



China has named a special commission to arrange 

 with the American Red Cross and the State Department 

 details of a project for the reclamation from floods of 

 the River Hwai valley, which will involve an expenditure 

 of $20,000,000. 



Surveys have been made by the Russian government 

 for a canal to irrigate an area of 177,660 acres of land 

 on the right bank of the Kur river, near Karkar-tchaya, 

 on the edge of the Milsk steppe. 



PORTABLE FOLDING STEEL DAM 



We show herewith half-tone of a portable fold- 

 ing steel dam which is light, durable, simple in 



construction, easy 

 to operate and can 

 be quickly ad- 

 justed to any ditch 

 narrower than the 

 dam. 



The inventor, 

 who is a practical 

 irrigator, states 

 that it will pro- 

 tect ditch banks 

 and fields, as well 

 as save water, time, labor and money. For further 

 information concerning this device write W. A. 

 Linkletter, inventor and manufacturer, Boulder, 

 Colorado. 



