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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



BRIEF NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



California 



More than fifty wells for irrigation 

 purposes have been sunk recently in 

 the district around the new town of 

 Orange Cove, Cal. An abundance of 

 water is being produced by the wells. 



$800,000, has been incorporated to 

 develop a large tract of land in the 

 Pariso valley, around Newberry, Cal. 

 The directors are James O. Parker, 

 Frank B. Apperson and Frank O. Lit- 

 tle. 



Ranchers of Villa Park and El 

 Modena, Cal., through their water 

 companies, the Serrano Water Com- 

 pany and the John T. Carpenter Wa- 

 ter Company, have launched a project 

 for building a $200,000 dam across the 

 bottom of the Santiago Canyon for 

 the purpose of impounding irrigation 

 water. 



The Pariso Valley Land & Irriga- 

 tion Company, with a capital stock of 



J. E. Law and W. F. Johnson of Los 

 Angeles, Cal., have purchased 31,000 

 acres of land and will install pumping 

 plants to irrigate it. 



The Shasta County Promotion & 

 Development Association will com- 

 plete the Pit River irrigation project. 

 Arrangements will be made at once 

 for a survey for a distributing sys- 

 tem to cover at least 600,000 acres in 

 Shasta county and the Sacramento 

 Valley in California. 



An application has been filed with 

 the California state railroad commis- 

 sion for permission to issue $750,000 

 in bonds as the initial step in the 

 plans of the Modoc County Irriga- 

 tion Company. The new company has 

 acquired the rights of the Surprise 

 Valley Water Company, expects to 

 pay off the $85,000 obligation of that 

 company and then construct a system 

 for bringing' water to the ten by fifty- 

 mile basin in Surprise valley. The 

 water rights permit the diversion of 

 a supply from Cowhead lake, which is 

 fed from the timbered slopes of the 

 Warner mountains on the west of the 

 valley. The estimated cost of con- 

 struction is $1,000,000. A. T. Cur- 

 rier is president of the Modoc County 

 Irrigation Company and T. B. Wilde 



REVIVING IRRIGATION BONDS 



(Continued from Page 236.) 



born, matured, managed, fostered and used by the 

 local citizenship and not forced upon them against 

 their consent for consent is the basis of security 

 which is to be enforced by taxation as in this case 

 it must be. Sound political wisdom dictates such a 

 plan. But likewise sound practical wisdom dictates 

 that there should be two names on the paper that 

 of the local community and that of the State. The 

 name of the community will be on it, of course. 



How shall we obtain the name of the State, 

 without pledging its credit? 



In this way : Every local security, when once 

 issued, shall be registered by the State Auditor and 

 certified under the great seal of the State, "This 

 Bond is secured by taxation," and thereafter it shall 

 be incontestable for any cause and the State shall 

 levy, collect and disburse the local tax necessary to 

 pay promptly the interest and principal of the bonds 

 at maturity. 



In this way the security is removed from the 

 realm of local influences, economic or political, and 

 taken out of the domain of legal or accidental mis- 

 fortune while at the same time it is safely 

 grounded upon the pledge and the power of State 

 taxation, which is all it would have, if it were is- 

 sued by the State as its own. 



This simple plan requires no constitutional 

 changes, no harmonizing of local differences and 

 involvss no financial liability on the part of the 

 State, while it satisfies completely the just demands 

 of the security holder, and at the same time saves 

 and stimulates the political self-respect of the com- 

 munity, benefited by the improvement. It gives 

 it the right to choose its destiny, its project, and to 

 wisely safeguard its practical operation, for which 

 it is best qualified. 



By the adoption of this plan the last condition 

 of financial success will be complied with, and then 

 we can turn our thoughts to Congressional legisla- 

 tion, with the hearty and enthusiastic co-operation 

 of the intelligent farmers and financiers of the East 

 behind us. With these assured, how can we fail? 



W. Scott Mathews, of the Illinois Food Com- 

 mission and his assistant, John B. Newman are pre- 

 paring a bulletin on eggs. 



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