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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



BRIEF NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



California 



A bid of $530,010 for the $585.000 

 worth of bonds unsold from the recent 

 issue of $610,000 by the Modesto irriga- 

 tion district of California has been 

 accepted by the directors of the dis- 

 trict. The bid was submitted by E. 

 H. Rollins & Sons of San Francisco. 

 The price accepted is 90.6 cents on the 

 dollar, which the directors considered 

 advantageous, in view of the condition 

 of the money market at this time. 

 Payments, according to the bid, will 

 be made as follows: February 15, 

 1915, $50,000, and $50,000 on the 15th 

 of each month for the six months fol- 

 lowing. This issue of bonds, amount- 

 ing to $610,000, was voted by the ir- 

 rigators less than a year ago, the 

 money being necessary for the perma- 

 nent improvement of the upper works 

 of the system. 



Rapid progress is being made in 

 the $250,000 irrigation district project 

 around Meridan, Cal. The founda- 

 tion for the pumping plant is finished 

 and the pumps will soon be installed. 

 Three pumps, one 15-inch, one 30 

 and one forty, will be used. Two mo- 

 tors, one of 250-horsepower and the 

 other of 300-horsepower, will operate 

 the pumps. They will send water 

 through more than forty miles of 

 ditches. When the project is com- 

 pleted it will mean that one of the 

 largest areas in northern Sutter 

 county will be opened to cultivation. 

 The climate has always been favora- 

 ble, but the land, owing to its location, 

 has always been either flooded with 

 water or too dry. 



A project is under way to bring a 

 very large part of the land in Honey 

 Lake valley of California under irri- 

 gation. The main canal will start 

 from near Susanville, will be six miles 

 in length and will cost about $75,000. 

 There will be sixty miles of laterals 

 to serve consumers. 



H. H. Henderson, engineer in chief 

 for the Anderson-Cottonwood irriga- 

 tion district around Anderson, Cal., 

 has submitted his general report to 

 the board of directors. The district, 

 he finds, includes 32,000 acres of land. 

 His estimate of cost, which includes 

 all the preliminary expenses, the cost 

 of rights of way and the best type of 

 construction, is $350,000. 



Work is progressing on the im- 

 provement of a 480-acre tract of land 

 at Rameriz, Cal. The first twelve 

 wells have just been completed at a 

 depth of sixty-five feet. The wells will 

 range in depth from sixty to eighty 

 feet and will be equipped with elec- 

 trically-driven newest type pumping 

 plants. The water supply, which is 

 derived from the underground flow 

 of the Yuba and Feather rivers, is 

 practically inexhaustible. The lift is 

 less than fifteen feet, which insures 

 water at a minimum pumping cost. 



A convention of the Irrigation Dis- 

 tricts' Association of California re- 

 cently adopted a resolution favoring 

 legislation that will prevent the ex- 

 clusion of lands from irrigation dis- 

 tricts on the ground that such lands 

 are not available for agricultural pur- 

 poses. This action was taken as a re- 

 sult of suits now pending whereby 

 the Southern Pacific Company is at- 

 tempting to have its rights of way ex- 

 cluded from the Oakdale and South 

 San Joaquin districts. 



are under way in Shasta valley, and 

 plans are being made for the appro- 

 priation of 35,000 inches of water from 

 available sources for the irrigation of 

 an immense tract in the southern part 

 of the valley. Water for irrigation 

 purposes is available from Shasta 

 river. Little Shasta creek and Willow 

 creek. 



A syndicate of Boston capitalists 

 has begun development work on an 

 irrigation system for an 8000-acre 

 tract lying north of Montague, Cal. 

 The land will be subdivided into 

 farms, ranging from forty to sixty 

 acres in size, and sold to settlers. Two 

 other projects, involving 28,000 acres, 



Receiver E. C. Phoenix of the 

 American River Irrigation Company 

 of California is considering applying 

 to the state railroad commission for 

 permission to raise its irrigation rates 

 which at present are $3 to $4 per acre. 

 The present rates are said to be in- 

 sufficient to assure profitable opera- 

 tion of the system. 



Colusa, Cal., advices report that R. 

 E. Blevins, J. F. Mallon and Will Har- 



Pumping'24hoiirsaday 

 for weeks at a time 



is the service this Fairbanks- 

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 Arkansas rice field during irri- 

 gation season. Such reliability 

 is necessary to protect your 

 irrigated crops. A Fairbanks- 

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