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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



BRIEF NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



Montana 



Preliminary surveys in the Big 

 Horn Canyon Irrigation & Power 

 Company's project near Hardin, Mont., 

 have been completed. These surveys 

 show that the fall of the Big Horn 

 river through the canyon is 405 feet in 

 a distance of 49 l /2 miles of canyon 

 and it will be necessary to plan for 

 the construction of a dam 415 feet in 

 height in order to procure the benefit 

 of all the fall and the storage. A site 

 has been selected in the mouth of the 

 canyon for such a structure which 

 measures "about 90 feet across the 

 river at water level and 1,000 feet 

 across at an elevation above the water 

 of 415 feet. 



The Tongue River Land & Live- 

 stock Company will irrigate 6,000 

 acres of the 23,000-acre Clarke ranch, 

 45 miles from Miles City, Mont. The 

 dam will be of concrete, 300 feet long, 

 outside of the abutments, eight feet 

 high and will weigh 711J4 tons. Its 

 base will be 13 feet wide and will rest 

 on bedrock. It will back the waters 

 of the river up probably a mile and a 

 half. The abutments on each side will 

 be six feet higher than the dam 

 proper. 



A syndicate of Montana and Illinois 

 men has purchased the property of 

 the Beaverhead Ranch Company near 

 Dillon, Mont., and will colonize it. 

 The property includes 12,000 acres of 

 irrigated land and an irrigation sys- 

 tem with a chain of seven lakes and 

 numerous canals, ditches and streams. 

 It is the intention of the company to 



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cut the vast tract of land into small 

 tracts ranging from 40 acres up and 

 to colonize it. 



The Kalispell (Mont.) chamber of 

 commerce for some time has been in- 

 vestigating the proposition of small 

 pumping irrigating plants on farms. 

 There is a large acreage of land in 

 Flathead valley, particularly in the 

 river bottoms, where there is an abun- 

 dance of water equally distributed 

 over the land at a depth of from 10 

 to 15 feet. 



Work has commenced on the exca- 

 vation and construction of the Little 

 Missouri River Irrigation Company's 

 project in Fallen, Mont. The con- 

 tract has been let to a firm of Glas- 

 gow contractors and includes the 

 building of the big reservoir a few 

 miles north of Alzada as well as the 

 excavation of the main ditch and lat- 



erals. The new project will irrigate 

 about 30,000 acres of Little Missouri 

 bottom which is among the best land 

 in the eastern part of Montana. 



New Mexico 



Denver capitalists have raised $400,- 

 000 to construct the first unit of the 

 Eagle's Nest irrigation project in Col- 

 fax county, N. M., together with the 

 dam in the Cimarr.on canyon. 



Colorado 



Properties valued at $3,000,000, 

 owned heretofore by the Pueblo- 

 Rocky Ford Irrigation Company, 

 passed into the hands of the Chicago 

 Title & Trust Company as trustees 

 for owners of bonds by the issuance' 

 of a decree by Federal Judge Robert 

 E. Lewis. The affairs of the company 

 have been in the hands of receivers, 

 and the stipulations filed, praying for 

 the foreclosure in August. 1913, 



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 delivers 1,000 gallons of water 

 per minute to the 80 acres irri- 

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