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cost about twice as much as a ditch, 

 but the water will always be under 

 control and will never run to waste. 



The work of sinking fifty artesian 

 wells in Las Vegas valley, Nev., the 

 water from which will be conserved 

 in large reservoirs and devoted to the 

 irrigation of between 10,000 and 15,0(10 

 acres of land, has been commenced by 

 the South Nevada Land and Develop- 

 ment Company. Eleven miles of main 

 canals and thirty miles of laterals will 

 be constructed to carry the water from 

 reservoirs to the land. The company 

 is backed by English and Scotch cap- 

 italists. 



Washington 



Water Users under the High Line 

 ditch in the Wenatchee valley, Wash., 

 have decided to take over the project. 

 An irrigation district will be formed. 

 It is planned to issue bonds to cover 

 tin- present expenses and to retire 

 them through process of sinking fund 

 accumulation extending over a period 

 of twenty years. President W. T. 

 Clark of the Wenatchee Canal Com- 

 pany made known his inability longer 

 to maintain the ditch which will neces- 

 sitate an expenditure of possibly $75,- 

 000 prior to the season of 1915. The 

 Water Users must assume an indebt- 

 edness of $100,000 in taking over the 

 ditch. 



Engineer E. McCulloh, who has 

 been engaged for several months in 

 directing re-survey of the proposed 

 Palouse irrigation project in eastern 

 Washington, the expense of which has 

 been borne equally by the United 

 States Reclamation Service and the 

 state of Washington, has completed 

 his field work. "There is no question 

 that there is a feasible irrigation proj- 

 ect on the Palouse," says Mr. McCul- 

 loh, "but I am not prepared to say yet 

 whether or not the cost of develop- 

 ing it will be greater than the value 

 of the land developed. That can only 

 be determined when we shall have 

 completed our figures from the data 

 we have obtained." 



Oregon 



The Modoc irrigation project in 

 Oregon will be completed this fall. 

 Ten miles of the main canals and ten 

 miles of laterals are completed with 

 the exception of a few minor connect- 

 ing gaps. These are rapidly being put 

 in. Work of building the dam across 

 Sprague river is progressing nicely. 

 The project, when completed, will 

 water 8,200 acres of land. 



Utah 



Large crops of virtually every sort 

 of grain, grass and vegetables, indige- 

 nous to Utah may be raised in the 

 vicinity of Nada, Utah. This has been 

 demonstrated by the experimental 

 farm at that place, says L. M. Winsor, 

 irrigation expert for the Utah Agri- 

 cultural College. ' "Water is being 

 pumped from near the surface for ir- 

 rigation purposes," said Mr. Winsor. 

 ''demonstrating that the water, lying 

 near the surface, can be raised with 

 but little cost and trouble. This fact 

 will do much to attract settlers to this 

 rich, arable land." 



Contract has been let by the New- 

 castle Land & Irrigation Company for 

 construction work on the company's 

 Newcastle project in the Pine valley 

 mountains of Utah. The contract 

 price is about $40,000. 



Arizona 



A plan to. harness the water power 

 of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, util- 

 izing the power generated for the 

 reclamation of the arid territory of 

 Arizona, has been presented to the 

 Department of the Interior by Ralph 

 Cameron. The plan embraces an ex- 



penditure of $50,000,000 to generate 

 200,000 horsepower, which will irrigate 

 2,500,000 acres of land now useless for 

 agricultural purposes. The power is 

 to be distributed over the land for 

 pumping purposes, as it has been dem- 

 onstrated that there is an abundance 

 of underlying water. The best engi- 

 eers in the United States have ap- 

 proved the plan of the hydro-electric 

 project and its success seems assured. 



Kansas 



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 Haskell county, near Sublette, Kans., 



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