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BRIEF NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



California 



The new owners of the Citizens Water Company of 

 San Jacinto are making plans for extensive improvements 

 to their plant. The system will be extended to irrigate 

 several hundred acres of additional land and much work 

 will be done in the way of water development at the 

 Cienega, the source of the company's principal water sup- 

 ply. Improvements and expansion plans contemplated 

 will mean the expenditure of $100,000 or more during the 

 current year. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Auto- 

 matic Irrigating Machine Company, Inc., with a capital 

 stock of $250,000, of which sum $500 has been paid in. The 

 life of the corporation is fifty years. The office of the 

 company is located at Oroville. 



The jury in the case of S. E. Foster vs. Turlock Irri- 

 gation District, in which the plaintiff sought damages of 

 $1,000 from the district on the ground that he suffered 

 the loss of his wheat crop because denied his pro-rata of 

 water last spring, returned a verdict in favor of the irriga- 

 tion district. The case was one of most importance as 

 a decision against the district would have materially 

 changed the water distribution in both the Modesto and 

 Turlock districts. 



All attachments filed against the property of the So- 

 lano Irrigated Farms have been lifted through the efforts 

 of Patrick Calhoun, of San Francisco. Claims aggregating 

 more than $50,000 have thus been taken care of and the 

 way paved for the continuance of the immense work 

 started last year, but brought to a sudden termination 

 when subscriptions to stock failed to materialize. 



Work on the 14-inch well on the F. M. Hudelson ranch 

 west of Hughson is being rapidly pushed to completion. 

 This well will be developed to deliver 1,000 gallons or more 

 per minute. The water wil be used for irrigating the 

 45-acre nursery of Campin & Hobart, which will be set 

 out this spring. 



The U. S. Reclamation Service is asking for proposals 

 for building and structures of the East Park Feed Canal 

 in Colusa County, near Stonyford in connection with the 

 Orland irrigation project. The work involves about 6,000 

 cubic yards of excavation; 4,000 cubic yards of concrete, 

 the placing of about 49,300 pounds of reinforcing steel and 

 14,150 pounds of metal work and gate fixtures, and the 

 placing in structures of about 30,500 feet B. M. of lumber. 

 Bids will be opened at two o'clock p. m. April 21, at the 

 office of the Reclamation Service at Orland. 



Colorado 



Bids for the excavation of 1,500,00ft cubic yards of 

 dirt in the thirty miles of High Line canal in the Grand 

 Valley project have been asked for by Project Engineer 

 J. H. Miner. The bids will be opened at the office of the 

 Reclamation Service in Grand Junction on May 1. This 

 is the largest excavation the Reclamation Service has or- 

 dered in any of its projects in seven years. More than 

 1,000 men will be employed. 



Colorado's irrigation projects are doing well. Last 

 year Colorado's yield of agricultural products was esti- 

 mated to be worth $80,000,000, and this year, with new 

 land under irrigation, the total is estimated at $100,000,000. 

 The supply of water for irrigation purposes is more ample 

 this year than it has ever been before. 



This is the third year that the Riverside Irrigation 

 Project has been in active operation. Thus far there has 

 been plenty of water for all farmers who have plowed up 

 their lands. There are at present about 5,000 acres under 

 cultivation. The entire area under the ditches amounts to 

 30,000 acres. The project is safeguarded by the great 

 Riverside reservoir, which holds 40,000 acre-feet of water 

 when full. At the present time there are 30,000 acre-feet 

 of water in the reservoir, and the spring run-off will in- 

 crease this amount. 



result of damage done to his crops when Benj. Raggio 

 interfered with a 41-inch flow of water on his property. 

 The case was the first of three that have been filed against 

 Raggio. He is accused of having stopped the flow of 150 

 inches of water on the Cassinnelli ranch as a result of 

 which the ground was flooded to a depth of several inches 

 and the crops were damaged. 



Fifteen thousand acres of land in Spring Valley near 

 Ely are to be reclaimed by means of water supplied by a 

 hydro-electric plant. Judge Benjamin W. Coleman of Ely 

 is at the head of the enterprise. Right to use the water of 

 Cleve Creek has been granted Judge Colman by the state 

 engineer. Since securing the right he has had a pre- 

 liminary survey made, which shows that water can be con- 

 veyed through a ditch for a distance of two miles where a 

 200-foot fall can be obtained. It is proposed to build a 

 power plant here where 300 horsepower can be generated 

 at a small cost. The cost of the plant is estimated at 

 $150,000. 



Charges of unlawfully disposing of lands and water 

 rights and of unlawfully obtaining property and large sums 

 of money from homesteaders are contained in reports 

 forwarded to the general land office by the commission of 

 industry, agriculture and irrigation having charge of Carey 

 Act projects in the state of Nevada, in relation to the oper- 

 ation of the Nevada Land, Water & Power Company and 

 the First Mortgage & Real Estate Company, doing busi- 

 ness in Los Angeles and San Diego, Cal. The companies' 

 operations have been carried on outside the jurisdiction of 

 the Nevada authorities, and for this reason the cases have 

 been called to the attention of the federal authorities. The 

 Carey Act withdrawal in question consists of 25,000 acres 

 of land near Moapa, Nev. 



Texas 



The Llano River Irrigation & Milling Company of 

 Junction, Kimble county, has filed with the state board of 

 water engineers a certificate of appropriation of the waters 

 of the Llano river for the irrigation of 10,000 acres of 

 land in Kimble county. 



Alexander Boynton has closed a contract with Kilgore 

 & Stott of Uvadle, Texas, for the construction of a dam 

 across the Nueces river near Crystal City and an irriga- 

 tion system to cost about $200,000. The dam will form a 

 lake seventeen miles long, with an average depth of thirty- 

 five feet. Seven miles of canals will be built. These will 

 have an average depth of five feet and be eight feet in 

 width at the bottom. About 2,000 acres of land have 

 already been cleared and will be placed under irrigation 

 as soon as the reservoir is completed. 



A petition to create an irrigation district at Harlingen 

 has been filed in the County Court at Brownsville. The 

 farmers at Harlingen have decided to take over the hold- 

 ings and system of the Harlingen Land & Water Com- 

 pany. The consideration is said to be $400,000. Under the 

 new district 40,000 acres will be taken in. 



Nevada 



Judgment in the sum of $2,100 was awarded Pietro 

 Cassinnelli in the district court at Reno recently as the 



Utah 



Articles of incorporation have been filed with the 

 county clerk by the Down Ditch Water Company of 

 .Huntsville. The company is incorporated to conduct a 

 general irrigation business. Under the articles of incor- 

 poration the company will be permitted to build dams, 

 reservoirs and irrigation ditches, and to supply water for 

 domestic purposes. 



At the recent annual meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Kaysville Irrigation Company, the proposition of build- 

 ing a reservoir to store enough water to furnish two irri- 

 gating streams for 45 days was passed upon favorably. 

 The project will cost approximately $25,000. The site of 

 the reservoir will be on Simmons' ranch a mile northeast 

 of Kaysville. The plan for financing the undertaking calls 

 for the sale of 495 shares of stock in the company at the 

 par value of $25 per share, and the converting of 30 shares 

 of secondary stock into primary shares at $22.50 a share. 



With the completion of the Uba dam on the Sevier 

 river, 70,000 acres in eastern Millard county will be 



