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THE IKEIGATION AGE. 



oline pumping engine, it will supply 

 sufficient water for a large acreage. 



Contract has been awarded under 

 authority of the Secretary of the In- 

 terior to the Hess Flume Company 

 of Denver, Colorado, for furnishing 

 7,357 linear feet of metal flume for 

 use on the projects of the Reclama- 

 tion Service in the Northern Division. 

 The total bid for the material to be 

 furnished was $19,650.42. 



A decision of great importance to 

 ranches in all irrigated districts has 

 been handed down by Judge Cavender 

 in the district court, in which he holds 

 that the mere fact of the use of a 

 ditch for irrigation purposes gives no 

 title to its user. In all irrigated sec- 

 tions in the state ranchers have been 

 proceeding on the theory that when 

 they once established either a waste 

 ditch or a head ditch on anyone's 

 land, they acquired title to the 

 ditch through continued use of 

 it. Judge Cavender held, however, 

 in a case from Fruita of T. A. Top- 

 ham vs. Morgan Williams that no 

 such right existed in law. His opin- 

 ion was that no matter how long a 

 ditch may be used by a farmer, title 

 remains in the original owner, even 

 though permission had been granted 

 for its construction. To obtain title 

 to the ditch a conveyance must be 

 made by deed or by condemnation 

 proceedings, as the courts have held 

 that ditches are real property which 

 must be transferred as is other prop- 

 erty. 



The Twin Lakes irrigation project, 

 one of the largest irrigation enter- 

 prises in the state of Colorado, re- 

 cently passed into the hands of the 

 farmers of the Arkansas Valley. The 

 farmers have acquired control of the 

 Twin lakes stock. There are 56,000 

 acres of land being operated under 

 the project at this time. The Twin 

 Lakes system takes its water largely 

 from Twin Lakes, near Leadville. 

 The water is taken to the Arkansas 

 river and thence transported in the 

 river channel to a diversion canal 

 which starts near Boone. 



MONTANA. 



Articles of incorporation have been 

 filed by the Billings Heights Irriga- 

 tion Company. The office of the com- 

 pany is located at Billings. 



Gen. Chas. S. Warren and other 

 Butte men, who are interested in a 

 Carey act irrigation project in south- 

 eastern Montana, have incorporated 

 the Little Missouri Land and Irri- 

 gation Company with a capitalization 

 of $350,000. It is planned to start 

 work on the project the coming sum- 

 mer, and the first unit, about 6,000 

 acres, will be opened next spring. The 

 lands embraced within the project lie 

 along the west side of the Little Mis- 

 souri river, within the boundaries of 

 Fallen county. The water supply 

 requisite for the reclamation and irri- 

 gation of the lands is obtained from the 

 Little Missouri river and Cottonwood 

 Creek. 



The U. S. Reclamation Service is 



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