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Ian have made a deal with the Cali- 

 fornia-Idaho Land Company, an ad- 

 junct of the Sacramento Valley Irri- 

 gation Company, to give Colusa 

 count}- the largest rice field in the 

 West. The deal, which has been pend- 

 ing for some time, covers 4,000 acres, 

 eight miles northwest of Colusa. 



Planning to irrigate by gravity a 

 large section of hitherto uncultivated 

 land, the Mount Signal Water Com- 

 pany soon will begin construction 

 on a new canal system around Dixie- 

 land, Cal. Surveys for the new sys- 

 tem already have been made and ca- 

 nal lines adopted. Dixieland, which is 

 on the main line of the San Diego & 

 Arizona railway, is in the heart of the 

 section which will be opened up by 

 the new svstem. 



Miller & Lux holdings in Kings and 

 Kern counties, California, as well as 

 tracts of the Carmel Cattle Company, 

 owned by Miller & Lux, are to be 

 reclaimed after half a century of use 

 as range lands. Thousands of fertile 

 acres in the Hanford and Coalinga 

 districts and in Kern county will be 

 irrigated, developed and placed on the 

 market by the Kern Valley Reclama- 

 tion Company, capitalized at $340,- 

 881.60, fully paid in. It is stated that 

 the new company expects to develop 

 water over the entire tract, large stor- 

 age reservoirs are to be built, distri- 

 bution systems constructed and the 

 entire holding, aggregating 30,000 

 acres, will be placed under water and 

 made productive. Directors of the 

 company are J. L. Nickel of San Fran- 

 cisco, P. H. Clarke of Los Angeles, 

 W. L. Mitchell of Alameda, David 

 Brown of Alameda and C. Z. Merritt 

 of Oakland. 



Pumping plants to irrigate 15,000 

 acres west and southwest of Chico, 

 Cal.. will be installed on the banks 

 of the Sacramento river on the big 

 Phelan ranch, two miles west of 

 Chico. D. J. Murphy, superintendent 

 of the ranch, has announced the rice 

 growing experiment on forty acres of 

 the ranch a success and says that the 

 proposed pumping plant will irrigate 

 considerable more than the 3,000 acres 

 which Phelan will plant to rice next 

 year. 



There is a new irrigation project 

 under way near Susanville, Cal., that 

 will cost approximately $75,000. The 

 headwords of the new system will be 

 the dam just south of Susanville. The 

 water will be carried in a main canal 

 as far south as Johnstonville. The 

 main canal will be about six miles in 

 length and there will be approxi- 

 mately sixty miles of laterals. The 

 preliminary surveys have been made 

 and contracts representing several 

 thousand acres of land have been 

 signed. It is expected that the sys- 

 tem will be supplying a goodly por- 

 tion of the land by early spring. 



Scott McArthur is the leading 

 spirit in the enterprise. 



ranch. He recently completed a fine 

 irrigation system, having laid 2,000 

 feet of cement pipe over the orchards. 

 Besides this there is considerable dis- 

 tance where a cement ditch is laid. 



Utah 



State Engineer W. D. Beers of Utah 

 is urging the appointment of a com- 

 mission composed of representatives 

 from varied interests and professions 



which have to deal with water in its 

 manifold uses, to study conditions and 

 make recommendations to the incom- 

 ing legislature. He says titles to land 

 at present are reasonably secure, 

 but titles to water are indefinite and 

 insecure. 



Farmers around Lewiston, Utah, 

 are planning the installation of a 

 pumping plant to lift water from the 

 Bear river. The irrigation system will 



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