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charged mismanagement. The total 

 indebtedness proved was $2.544,000. 

 The company owned about 500 acres 

 of land in the 'Arkansas valley with 

 irrigation improvements, ditches, 

 dams and water rights. 



Texas 



A deal has just been closed and 

 signed by the Donna, Tex., farmers, 

 the La Blanca Agricultural Company, 

 Beemer, Snyder & McDowell, b"y 

 which an irrigation district of 40.000 

 acres is to be formed, $800,000 worth 

 of 5 per cent bonds, running forty 

 years, to be issued, and the present 

 canal system is to be taken over, re- 

 constructed and extended. This will 

 settle the water question at Donna 

 and make the Donna proposition one 

 of the best, if not the best, proposi- 

 tion in the lower Rio Grande valley. 



Farmers around Harlingen, Tex., 

 have voted in favor of a $750,000 bond 

 issue to construct an irrigation proj- 

 ect. 



The state board of water engineers 

 has granted a permit to the Brazos 

 River Irrigation Company of Dallas 

 to appropriate sufficient water from 

 the Brazos river and Bitter creek, a 

 tributary of that stream in Jones 

 county, to irrigate 10,200 acres of 

 land. This company is to operate an 

 irrigation plant to cost about $225,- 

 000. 



Kansas 



It cost 9 cents an acre to put water 

 on the Fort Lamed ranch in Pawnee 

 county. Kan., this year. E. E. Frizell 

 says that it cost 15 cents an hour for 

 fuel oil and 3 cents an hour for lu- 

 bricating oil, and in an hour two acres 

 can be covered with from four to six 

 inches of water. This is a consider- 

 able reduction from last year, when it 

 cost about 21 cents an hour, making 

 the cost per acre \Q l / 2 cents. The dif- 

 fernce was in the cost of the fuel oil. 

 Mr. Frizell says that one-fourth of 

 the land in Pawnee county can be ir- 

 rigated for 9 cents an acre. The Fort 

 Lamed land is being irrigated with 

 water from the Pawnee river. He says 

 that there are 125,000 acres in the 

 valleys underlaid by sheet water at 

 a dentil of from 10 to 25 feet, and that 

 all of this land can be irrigated cheap- 

 ly by pumping. 



The pump of the Fort Lamed ranch 

 produces 3,600 gallons a minute. There 

 are now twelve irrigation plants, wa- 

 tering 1.500 acres, in Pawnee county. 



Wheat grown this year under irri- 

 gation in Kearney county. Kan., 

 showed some very fine yields. A. B. 

 Downing, of the Deerfield district, 

 from 400 acres threshed 10.000 bush- 

 els. The American Sugar Beet Com- 

 pany harvested nearly 40,000 bushels. 



Oregon 



It is considered probable that the 

 Tumalo irrigation project in eastern 

 Oregon will be extended, taking in an 

 additional 10,000 acres, Governor 

 West having taken the matter up 

 with government officials in the U. 



S. Reclamation Service. The plan of 

 the executive is to use the $450,000 

 allotted to Oregon by the secretary 

 of the interior for cooperative work 

 for carrying out of the proposed ex- 

 tension. A large amount of this 

 money has been put into the Tumalo 

 project. 



"The $450,000 allotted to Oregon by 

 the secretary of the interior for coop- 

 erative work will be lost to the state 

 unless tied up before the first of the 

 year," said the governor. "It is hoped 



to see this money applied to either 

 completing the Central Oregon Irri- 

 gation Company's project or extend- 

 ing the Tumalo project. If applied to 

 the Tumalo project it would mean the 

 government's taking up the work 

 where the state will leave off Novem- 

 ber 1, and extending it so as to place 

 water upon 16,000 additional acres and 

 at a probable cost of about $40 per 

 acre. The government's report will 

 be awaited with interest." 



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