THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



343 



line. Nearly all the irrigation com- 

 panies on the Poudre are made de- 

 fendants. The purpose of the pro- 

 posed change is not stated in the 

 complaint. 



Tentative plans for the reclama- 

 tion of 500,000 acres of seepage lands 

 in the San Luis valley in Colorado, 

 have been made, according to Gover- 

 nor Ammons. The state is to have 

 the co-operation of the federal gov- 

 ernment and owners of large tracts 

 in the basin. The reclamation of the 

 lands will not only double the present 

 enormous crops of the valley but may 

 solve the estrangement between the 

 government and the state over the 

 uses of the water rights of the Rio 

 Grande, according to Governor Am- 

 mons. 



Arizona. 



John S. Williams and other Bisbee, 

 Ariz., men are planning the irrigation 

 of 1,500 acres of land southeast of 

 Casa Grande. They will install a 

 pumping plant. Water is obtained in 

 this district at from 50 to 60 feet. 



New Mexico. 



The Urton Lake, Land & Water 

 company will construct water storage 

 dams and pumping plants near Fort 

 Sumner, N. M., at a cost of about 

 $1,775,000 for the purpose of reclaim- 

 ing about 80,000 acres of land. M. A. 

 Otero is president of the company. 



Texas. 



C. F. Siegel of Sweeney, Texas, is 

 installing a sub-irrigation system on 

 his lands. He is laying tile in the 

 same manner as does the Illinois 

 farmer for drainage and believes it 

 will serve him for both irrigation and 

 drainage. 



The Bedell Moore estate is plan- 

 ning to install a $16,000 irrigation 

 plant on the Rio Grande between 

 Eagle Pass and Del Rio, Tex. 



Land owners in the Harlingen dis- 

 trict near Brownsville, Texas, have 

 voted in favor of issuing bonds to the 

 amount of $750,000 for a public irri- 

 gation enterprise. The issue is for 

 the purpose of purchasing the present 

 canal system of the Harlingen Land 

 and Water company at a cost of 

 $350.000. The balance will be used 

 in improving and extending this 

 system. 



A receiver has been appointed for 

 the San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf 

 railroad and for the Medina Irrigation 

 company. Bonds of the companies 

 aggregating $2,750,000 are held by the 

 Bankers' Trust company of St. Louis. 



Permit has been granted by the 

 Texas Board of Water Engineers to 

 the Brazos River Irrigation company 

 for a project in Jones county to irri- 

 gate 10.200 acres, the water to be 

 taken from the Clear Fork of the 

 Brazos river and Bitter creek. 



The permit calls for the use of 

 eighty cubic feet per second directly 

 from Clear Fork and for the storage 

 and diversion of 1,000 acre feet ner 

 annum from the same stream. The 

 storage and diversion of 21,430 acre 



feet per annum from Bitter creek, a 

 tributary of Clear Fork, is also pro- 

 vided. The estimated cost of the 

 project is $22.5,000. 



J. M. Thomas of Dallas is head of 

 the irrigation company. 



Montana. 



Twelve thousand acres on the Pipc^ 

 stone bench, 25 miles east of Butte, 

 Mont., have been brought under irri- 

 gation. Water is taken from Pipe- 

 stone creek and a reservoir with a 

 drainage water shed of 26 square 

 miles in the heart of the Montana 

 Rockies. 



Work on the Flathead Indian 

 project in Northwestern Montana is 

 being resumed. Congress having ap- 

 propriated $200,000 to continue the 

 work. 



About 25 desert entrymen around 

 Lewistown. Mont., have combined to 



create a water supply for 10,000 acres 

 of land. The main canal is well un- 

 derway. 



Signatures covering 2,000 acres 

 have been obtained from farmers 

 whose land lies under what is known 

 as the "high line ditch" at Buffalo 

 Rapids, Mont., for the purpose of cre- 

 ating an irrigation district. 



The Bass Creek Lake Dam com- 

 pany, located near Missoula, Mont., 

 has authorized an extension of the 

 present dam to double its capacity. 

 The lake at present covers 100 acres 

 and the dam is 10 feet high. 



The Yellowstone river is the lowest 

 in years and at many places the irri- 

 gation ditch intakes are above the 

 stream, so that pumping stations 

 have had to be installed. The present 

 (Continued on page 344.) 



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