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THE IKRIGATION AGE. 



More than a mile of this has been 

 encountered. Another peculiar thing 

 regarding the formation is the fact 

 that it seems to stand on its side and 

 leans from north to south while all 

 the other formations of shale and 

 sandstone found in Colorado run 

 from west to east. All the ditch men 

 are taking samples of the formation 

 as a curiosity. 



Washington 



A decree giving the Dexter-Horton 

 Trust and Savings Bank of Seattle 

 judgment for $346,025 and the Ameri- 

 can Power and Light Company judg- 

 ment for $497,945 against the Hanford 

 Irrigation and Power Company has 

 been filed in the United States dis- 

 trict court at North Yakima, Wash. 

 It establishes the mortgage given 

 Dec. 31, 1906, by the Hanford com- 

 pany to the bank as a first lien and 

 in default of immediate payment of 

 the amount of the judgment it calls 

 for the sale under the direction of the 

 company's receiver, E. F. Benson, of 

 all the company's mortgaged property. 

 Included in the property to be sold 

 is the land and power plant at Priest 

 Rapids; the pumping plant site at 

 Coyote Rapids; the main irrigation 

 canal and six laterals, including the 

 White Bluffs pipe line; property in 

 Yakima county; lands under the irri- 

 gation project; a half interest in the 

 Todd & Cover lands between Hanford 

 and Priest Rapids; the townsite of 

 Hanford and miscellaneous property 

 there, including the Planters' Hotel; 

 the Hanford-Priest Rapids 66,000 volt 

 transmission line, the Coyote stub line 

 and the telephone system used in op- 

 erating them; the Coyote Rapids 

 pumping station and the Hanford sub- 

 station; all title of the Hanford com- 

 pany to a long list of lands, whether 

 in the form of contracts, notes and 

 mortgages, and all property of the 

 company of every kind. The court 

 decrees that the receiver shall sell the 

 property all in one parcel for not less 

 than $380,000. 



The Washington Irrigation Insti- 

 tute will meet at North Yakima, Dec. 

 16, 17 and 18. 



A 950 gallon per minute pumping 

 plant has been completed near Quin- 

 cy, Wash. The engine is 80 horse- 

 power and pumps from a well which 

 it is thought encounters a subterranean 

 body of water which is supposed to 

 underlie a portion of the Quincy coun- 

 try. The plant is on the Wenatchee 

 Apple Land Company's tract a mile 

 east of Quincy and the cost was $20,- 

 000. The plant is designed to water 

 the 520-acre orchard tract of this 

 company, of which R. H. Kipp of 

 Spokane is the president and man- 

 ager. 



Feasible but prohibitive in cost, is 

 the report of a board of managers 

 appointed to review the resurvey of 

 the Palouse irrigation project in 

 Washington, made by Engineer E. 

 McCulloh of the Reclamation Serv- 

 ice. Nine reservoir sites were exam- 

 ined and all but three rejected, Rock 

 Lake and Washtucna in Washington 



and Potlach in Idaho. Using all 

 three reservoirs, the board places the 

 cost of irrigating 73,500 acres at $102 

 per acre. 



Plans are a-foot for the irrigation 

 of the "prairies" around Tacoma, 

 Wash., using water from the Puyal- 

 lup River. 



The Cascade irrigation district near 

 Ellensburg, Wash., has arranged for 

 the sale of $100,000 worth of bonds, 

 sufficient to replace every foot of 

 wooden flume with new steel flume, 

 and it was announced that the work 

 would be done between now and the 

 first of April, totaling approximately 

 $138,000. The Hess Flume Company 

 of Denver, which furnished approxi- 

 mately $50,000 worth of flume last 

 year to this district, is to furnish 

 approximately as much more under a 

 new contract just signed and take 

 bonds in payment. The Coast Cul- 

 vert and Flume Company of Port- 

 land is also furnishing 9,000 feet of 

 flume and taking bonds in payment. 

 The Cascade irrigation district orig- 

 inally voted a bond issue of $700.000 

 to cover the cost of erecting new steel 

 flume to replace all the old wooden 

 flumes, the digging of the tunnel, the 

 widening of the ditch and the taking 

 over of the capital stock of the old 

 Cascade Canal Company. The tun- 

 nel was completed last spring at a 

 cost of $30,000 and 6,700 feet of flume 

 were put in. With the 18,000 feet con- 

 tracted for the flume will be taken 

 care of and the only other work nec- 

 essary will be the widening of the 

 ditch. More than $80,000 has already 

 been spent. The water right comes 

 from the government. 



William Young of Victoria, provin- 

 cial water rights commissioner; W. 

 M. Reed and S. H. McCrory of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, engineers for the gov- 

 ernment of the United States, have 

 been appointed by their respective 

 governments to work in conjunction 

 on plans to reclaim large areas of 

 land along the Kootenay River, both 

 in the United States and Canada, 

 which has been urged. Considerable 

 work has, according to Mr. Young, 

 already been done on the other side 

 of the line. 



Florida 



W. C. Thomas has installed a 

 Campbell irrigation system on five 

 acres of his large farm near Elfers, 

 Fla. 



Mexico 



Development of the San Carlos 

 ranch in the state of Coahuila, Mex- 

 ico, is about to be resumed after a 

 lapse of four years. The ranch is 

 located south of Del Rio and Eagle 

 Pass and embraces 500,000 acres. 

 About 30,000 acres are ready for irri- 

 gation and the irrigation plant will 

 allow a total of 85,000 acres to be 

 watered. This plant was installed 

 four years ago at a cost of $2,000.000. 

 The property is owned by Gen. Gon- 

 zales Trevino. 



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