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diverting water from Levining Creek 

 to irrigate 20,000 acres of land in the 

 Mono Basin, high up in the Sierras. 

 Construction work on this project is 

 expected to begin next spring. On 

 Russ Creek, a stream also running 

 from the Sierras into Mono Lake, and 

 not far from Levining Creek, Los 

 Angeles capitalists have started a 

 project for the purpose of irrigating 

 land in the Mono Basin. The canal 

 from Russ Creek will run around the 

 lake in one direction, while the Levin- 

 ing Canal will form a half circle 

 around the lake in the other direction. 

 There are 100,000 acres in the Mono 

 Basin susceptible of irrigation from 

 these two projects. 



Water users in California Reclama- 

 tion District No. 1606 around San Joa- 

 quin, Cal., voted Nov. 5 on a proposed 

 issue of $600,000 worth of 6 per cent 

 bonds. 



Blaine & Bowen of Tulare, Cal.. 

 have just completed installing 2,000 

 feet of 12-inch concrete irrigation pipe 

 in an alfalfa field on their ranch. It 

 has been tested out and found to 

 work in good shape. A little later 

 800 feet more of the pipe will be laid 

 in an orchard, and still later other 

 fields will be irrigated by the same 

 system. Water is supplied by a 5-inch 

 pump driven by electricity. 



Reclamation District No. 70, Merid- 

 ian, Cal., has placed a contract with 

 the Yuba Construction Company, 

 Marysville, for a 40-inch pump of 50,- 



000 gallons per minute capacity, and 

 with Fairbanks, Morse & Co. for a 

 300-horsepower motor. 



Much interest is being manifested 

 in the irrigation plant on the J. E. 

 Cain place, south of College City, 

 Cal. This is the first large pumping 

 plant to be installed in the district, 

 and its success was a matter of doubt. 

 At the present time a flow of 800 gal- 

 lons per minute is being secured, and 

 this can be increased when occasion 

 demands. This one pumping plant 

 has been the means of turning a half 

 section grain ranch of small returns 

 into a big paying dairy proposition. 



Idaho 



The Snake River Irrigation Com- 

 pany, Ltd., of Ada, Idaho, has practi- 

 cally completed its project. The com- 

 pany takes 200 second feet of water 

 from the Snake River. 



The North Lake Canal Company, 

 Roberts, Idaho, has filed articles of 

 incorporation and will irrigate a tract 

 of 30,000 acres, installing a pumping 

 plant. Bids for machinery required 

 will be called for soon. 



Colorado 



It is announced by Attorney T. H. 

 Devine, receiver for the Pueblo-Rocky 

 Ford Irrigation Company of Colo- 

 rado, that the new company which 

 has purchased the project will form 

 a corporation as soon as the sale 

 made by Samuel D. Trimble, master 



in chancery, is approved by the fed- 

 eral court. The new company will 

 probably incorporate for $1,000,000 

 an'd will have ample funds to com- 

 plete the project and colonize the 

 land. 



The legal tangle that has delayed 

 the completion of the irrigation proj- 

 ect planned and partially completed 

 by Senator George W. Swink, pioneer 

 of Otero county, Colorado, has been 

 straightened out by a compromise set- 

 tlement made outside of court, and 

 work of completing the project will 

 start early this month. On Nov. 3 a 

 meeting of stockholders of the Swink 

 Ditch and Reservoir Company was 

 held at Rocky Ford to elect officers. 

 Mr. Swink died in 1910 without see- 

 ing the completion of the big irriga- 

 tion project which bears his name, but 

 in his will he left a proviso that before 

 his heirs should divide his estate 

 worth probably $1,000,000, the project 

 which had been his dream for years 

 should be completed with the funds 

 of his estate. The project covers 18,- 

 000 acrs. 



C. B. Sherwood, a Rocky Ford, 

 Colo., irrigation contractor, has en- 

 countered a remarkable soil formation 

 near Meredith Lake. It is a forma- 

 tion of sandy doby and mica, which, 

 in some manner, has become cemented 

 together to such an extent that it is 

 almost impossible for a dredge to 

 work it. After it is taken from the 

 ground and is exposed to the air for 

 a few days it crumbles to pieces. 



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