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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Idaho. 



Jesse S. Richards was successful in 

 a suit in Pocatello, Idaho, for recov- 

 ery of damages in the amount of 

 $9,200 against an irrigation company 

 for non-delivery of water. A great 

 many points were involved in the 

 case, and it was preferred against the 

 Portneuf-Marsh Valley Irrigation 

 company. The jury returned a ver- 

 dict awarding Richards $6,640. 



North Dakota. 



Practically every farmer under the 

 Federal pumping project at Willis- 

 ton, N. D., has used water exten- 

 sively this year. This is the first 

 season that the plant has been oper- 

 ated to capacity. 



South Dakota. 



An old engine from a Missouri 

 river steamer is now the backbone of 

 an irrigation plant at Forest City, S. 

 D. It is pumping water from the Mis- 

 souri river for hundreds of acres of 

 land. 



Colorado. 



Water is now being brought over 

 the divide in Colorado for irrigation 

 purposes. It is coming from the west 

 slope through the $1,000,000 tunnel of 

 the Greeley-Poudre irrigation dis- 

 trict. The system when completed, 

 will put water on 125,000 acres of 

 land in the vicinity of Greeley and 

 Purcell, Colo., and will cost approxi- 

 mately $5,000,000. 



All the water now being brought 

 through the tunnel is in litigation be- 

 fore the United States Supreme 

 court in the Colorado- Wyoming suit. 



The tunnel is more than two miles 

 long and takes water from the Lara- 

 mie river into the Cache La Poudre 

 and then through a system of canals. 



Morgan county, Colo., irrigation 

 systems were able to draw their 

 water directly from the South Platte 

 river during August. This is the first 

 time this has occurred in thirty 

 years. 



The Jackson lake reservoir, holding 

 1.500,000,000 cubic feet of water, has 

 not been touched, and the big Empire 

 reservoir has run water only two 

 days. 



J. K. Samples, water commissioner, 

 s~ys that when the irrigation season 

 closes Jackson lake will be full and 

 other reservoirs more than half full 

 for use in 1915. A dry winter would 

 have little effect on crop prospects 

 for next year, say experts. 



It is estimated that 100,000 acre feet 

 of water is now stored in the various 

 reservoirs in the Arkansas River val- 

 ley. This means good crops in that 

 section next year, as the amount of 

 stored water is sufficient when added 

 to the natural flow of the river, to 

 water the 600.000 acres under irriga- 

 tion in the valley, allowing three feet 

 to the acre. 



The Water Supply & Storage com- 

 pany of Fort Collins, Colo., has filed 

 an application for permission to 

 change the storage of water in the 

 reservoir known as Lone Pond, from 

 that lake to the Black Hollow reser- 

 voir, further east on the company's 



Irrigated Lands 

 in the West 



Offer Attractive Opportunity 

 To the Man Who f^noivs How 



There has been an unusual 

 revival of interest, during the 

 past few months, in the irri- 

 gated lands of our Western 

 states. 



This increase has been brought about 

 not because of the economic revolution 

 which has engulfed the old world 

 though that is a good reason for invest- 

 ing surplus money in rich farm lands 

 but because the keen American farmer 

 is beginning to see that the irrigated 

 valleys of the West offer certain profit 

 and perfect security. 



The Colonization Department of the Santa Fe 

 Railway was organized for the sole purpose of 

 giving those looking for homes in the Southwest 

 and California facilities for investigating the 

 sections that interest them. Our data has 

 grown in volume, until today we are in position 

 to give definite information about every part of 

 the Southwest and California served by Santa 

 Fe lines. This service is free. 



C. L. SEAGRAVES, 



General Colonization Agent 



A. T. & S. F. Ry., 1100 Railway Exchange 

 Chicago 



