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THE IREIGATION AGE. 



BRIEF NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



Colorado. 



The 1,800-foot siphon of the Oxford 

 Farmers Ditch Company near Fowler, 

 Colo., has been completed. The huge 

 pipe was constructed at a cost of $22,- 

 000, and will replace the company's 

 old flume which has been in service 

 for many years. The corporation was 

 organized in 1887 as the Fowler Col- 

 ony Company, and has been one of 

 the oldest and best reclamation proj- 

 ects in the state. The present corpora- 

 tion, the Oxford Farmers' Ditch Com- 

 pany, was organized by those whose 

 lands were embraced in the project. 

 The company, which then had thirty- 

 five stockholders, has grown until its 

 list now numbers 150. The ditch itself, 

 which is thirteen miles in length, cost 

 $36,000, and is accounted one of the 

 best canals in the Arkansas valley 

 country. 



Dry land farmers east of Loveland, 

 Colo., are negotiating for the purchase 

 of Boyd Lake, one of the largest bod- 

 ies of water in the northern part of 

 the state. If the deal is closed it will 

 mean that thousands of acres of dry 

 land will be brought under irrigation. 

 Dry land is at present averaging the 

 farmers more than thirty bushels of 

 wheat to the acre. With this same 

 land under water supply, it is estimat- 

 ed the yield would be increased to fifty 

 bushels. It is considered certain that 

 the district would be converted into 

 the best producing land in northern 

 Colorado. The water would have to 

 be pumped to the high land. This can 

 be done at small cost. 



The irrigation project started by 

 the late Senator G. W. Swink, who 

 planned to put 25,000 acres on Otero 

 county, Colo., under water, is to be 

 completed at once, according to an 

 agreement between the Swink heirs 

 and the stockholders of the Swink 

 Ditch and Reservoir Co. The project 

 will cost $1,000,000. 



The consolidation of the Omar and 

 Van Sykes irrigation projects in Pu- 

 eblo and Otero counties, Colo., has 

 been effected. The new company will 



be known as the Apishapa Consoli- 

 dated Irrigation Company. The Omar 

 irrigation district 20 miles south of 

 Fowler is dissolved as a result of the 

 consolidation. The value of the prop- 

 erties involved is estimated to be 

 about $1,000,000. The project will irri- 

 gate 50,000 acres of land and will con- 

 struct an immense reservoir to take 

 care of the flood waters and the water 

 rights on the Apishapa owned by the 

 company. A $375,000 contract for this 

 reservoir has been let. The land to be 

 irrigated is located south of Fowler 

 and is largely in Otero county with 

 some tracts in Pueblo county. Sev- 

 eral hundred farmers own land under 

 the proposed ditches of the company. 



cattle interests, has completed the 

 construction of a private piece of re- 

 clamation work of considerable pro- 

 portions. By the erection of a dam 

 280 feet long and 50 feet high across 

 the mouth of a draw he has provided 

 a reservoir holding water to supply 

 .'(00 acres. 



Montana. 



S. W. Bent, one of the large ranch 

 owners on Sage creek, near Bridger, 

 Mont., who has extensive sheep and 



Charging that they procured dummy 

 entrymen to file on public lands in 

 the Bitter Root valley, Ravalli county, 

 Mont., which afterwards were deeded 

 to the Bitter Root Valley Irrigation 

 Company, the United States has filed 

 suit against Walter I. Moody, Freder- 

 ick D. Nichols, Harrison S. Lord and 

 Robert A. O'Hara, officers of the 

 company. The complainant asks that 

 patents to the land be cancelled, in so 

 far as they do not act upon innocent 

 purchasers. 



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