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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



cost between $50,000 and $100,000. 

 The stock will be subscribed by the 

 farmers. 



Texas 



Farmers around Denna, Tex., have 

 voted to organize an irrigation dis- 

 trict embracing 40,000 acres. 



Terms for the purchase of the San 

 Benito canal system by an irrigation 

 district proposed to be formed on the 

 San Benito tract, fixing the purchase 

 price at $350,000 in irrigation district 

 bonds, at par, have been agreed upon 

 by Thomas N. Dysart of St. Louis, 

 representing the bondholders of the 

 San Benito Land and Water Com- 

 pany, and the committee representing 

 residents of the San Benito tract. 

 The farmers will give the bondholders 

 $500,000 in bonds and in addition to 

 the project will receive $150,000 in 

 cash to be used in betterments. 



A. W. Jones and E. W. Jones, Del 

 Rio, Tex., will install a pumping plant 

 to irrigate 150 acres of land. 



The Gravity Irrigation Association 

 of the Lower Rio Grande valley of 

 Texas is urging Congress to provide 

 funds for the establishment of a grav- 

 ity irrigation system in the lower Rio 

 Grande valley. Branch associations 

 have been formed in fourteen towns 

 in the valley. The association is 

 pledged to these measures: 



The building of a gravity canal to 

 irrigate all available lands possible 

 in Cameron, Hidalgo and Starr coun- 

 ties. 



To secure the passage of the Shep- 

 pard resolution appropriating $50,000 

 for a survey of the Rio Grande from 

 its mouth to Fort Quitman for the 

 location of reservoir sites for the 

 storing of storm and flood waters for 

 irrigation purposes. 



To secure a treaty with Mexico pro- 

 viding for the partition and equitable 

 distribution of the waters of the Rio 

 Grande, the declaring of the Rio 

 Grande a non-navigable stream, as 

 well as providing dams and reservoirs 

 for the storing of storm and flood 

 waters thereof for irrigation purposes. 



To secure, if possible, federal aid in 

 this enterprise, and in the event of 

 failure to secure such aid, the forma- 

 tion of a gigantic irrigation district, 

 covering the lands sought to be so 

 irrigated so as to carry out the ob- 

 jects and purposes of the organiza- 

 tion. 



Washington 



An adverse report has been made 

 by the United States government on 

 the proposed Glade high line canal, 

 which contemplated the reclamation 

 of 50,000 acres in Franklin county, 

 Washington. 



The report shatters the hopes of a 

 number of desert land entrymen with 

 claims it was hoped might be watered 

 by these ditches. Annual proofs of 

 expenditures by entrymen for nearly 

 four years, based upon payments 

 made to the Glade company, have 

 been practically nullified. The gen- 

 eral plan of the Glade company was 

 to take water from the Columbia 



about twelve miles northwest of 

 Pasco, to cover with ditches some 50,- 

 000 acres. The status of the Glade 

 company has been in doubt since 1911, 

 but in the meantime the company, 

 under the management of Albert S. 

 Byres, has collected thousands of dol- 

 lars from entrymen. 



organized with a paid-up stock of $40,- 

 000 by John Ross, W. B. Wuth, R. 

 H. Nicholson, W. D. Graver and G. 

 H. Taylor. John J. Ruskin is the at- 

 torney. 



The Highland Water Users' Asso- 

 ciation, Kennewick, Wash., has been 



The sale of the assets of the Han- 

 ford Irrigation Company of North Ya- 

 kima, Wash., has been set by Judge 

 Frank H. Rudkin of the federal court 

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