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THE IEKIGATION AGE. 



BRIEF NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



Oregon 



State Engineer John H. Lewis of 

 Oregon, has prepared a statement 

 showing that he issued a total of 173 

 permits for the appropriation of wa- 

 ter during the quarter ending Sept. 

 30, 1914. The permits give the cost 

 of the proposed works as approxi- 

 mately $3,000,000 and involve the con- 

 struction of 230 miles of canal lines, 

 the developing of 30,460 horsepower, 

 and the irrigation of 13,100 acres. 



The Modoc Point irrigation project, 

 which will irrigate about 6,500 acres 

 of land in the Klamath Indian reser- 

 vation in Oregon, is about completed. 



Steps toward irrigation in the 

 Rogue River Valley, Oregon, entail- 

 ing an expenditure of more than two 

 million dollars by the Roguelands 

 company, will soon be taken. A cam- 

 paign will be launched to secure sign- 

 ers to twenty-year contracts among 

 the land owners. All portions of the 

 valley north of Talent will be cov- 

 ered. The contract will provide a 

 water right at $50 an acre and an an- 

 nual maintenance fee of $2.50 per 



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acre, the land owner being given from 

 three to five years to make the first 

 payment, the payments to extend over 

 a period of twenty years. 



An offer to the Central Oregon Ir- 

 rigation Company to sell its North 

 Canal project to the state and federal 

 governments for $135,000 was made 

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 which referred it to the Secretary of 

 the Interior for investigation. Engi- 

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 project for $300,000. 



site Company dam on the Chewau- 

 can River in Oregon. This tunnel is 

 about 300 feet in length, and is 

 through solid rock. The contract calls 

 for immediate construction and for 

 completion this winter. 



The irrigation project at Drewsey, 

 Ore., under the supervision of Edwin 

 Johnson, civil engineer of Vale, is 

 Hearing completion. The ditch will 

 carry water for 2,400 acres. 



The Berney Construction Company 

 of Lakeview, Ore., has been awarded 

 the contract for the construction of 

 the tunnel at the Northwest Town- 



The advance report of the Recla- 

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 the state of Oregon, on the proposed 

 new west side unit of the Deschutes 

 River project, has been made public. 

 The proposed project is located north 

 of the Tumalo project, now Hearing 

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 15,630 acres. The area included is 



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