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CAN USE WATER WHEN NEEDED 



Holders of first water decrees are entitled to 

 water for irrigation at any time of the year they 

 need it. This is the substance of a decision by the 

 Colorado Supreme court in the case of Charles W. 

 Comstock, state engineer, versus the Laramie & 

 Weld Reservoir Company. About five years ago 

 the company brought suit against Comstock and 

 holders of first decrees, asking the court to establish 

 an irrigation season with an arrangement by which 

 reservoir companies could fill their reservoirs be- 

 tween October 1 and April 15. The lower court 

 created such a season, fixing the dates from Octo- 

 ber 15 to April 15. 



The Supreme court reversed the finding of the 

 lower court and declared that the proposition that 

 there is a season for direct irrigation is funda- 

 mentally wrong and in conflict with the provision 

 of the state constitution to the effect that every 

 natural stream within the boundaries of Colorado 



not heretofore appropriated is free to the public, 

 with no restrictions as to season whatsoever. 



USE PRIMER AS TEXT BOOK 



Editor of THE IRRIGATION AGE : 



The Primer of Irrigation is a very fine little 

 work and I get a great deal of practical information 

 out of it. I would advise some of the farmers in 

 the humid districts to also read it as it has its prac- 

 tical application to both the arid and the humid dis- 

 tricts. A very fine work, easily understood and 

 would make a fine text book in the agricultural 

 schools. W. S. CRAIG, 



President Citizens National Bank, Navasota, Tex. 



Two sons of Julian Uribe, vice-president of the 

 Columbian house of representatives, are to be em- 

 ployed in the Reclamation Service to gather ex- 

 perience for building irrigation projects in their 

 own country. 



IRRIGATION NOTES 



(Continued from Page 94) 

 for January 23. E. F. Benson, re- 

 ceiver, will conduct the sale, which 

 under the terms of Judge Rudkin's 

 decree, must bring at least $380,000, 

 with at least $45,000 in cash, to cover 

 the outstanding receiver's certificates, 

 attorney fees and costs. The balance 

 may be in bonds of the company. The 

 sale is expected to satisfy judgments 

 secured by the American Power and 

 Light Company totaling $497,945, and 

 by the Dexter-Horton bank, totaling 

 $332,150. 



New Mexico 



The San Simon valley, situated in 

 southwestern New Mexico and south- 

 eastern Arizona, near the Mexican 

 border, is to be reclaimed by a reser- 

 voir system of irrigation. Two creeks 

 are to be dammed. The project is 

 being promoted by J. B. Blake and 

 J. Q. Johnson of Lordsburg, who re- 

 port they have the money to go ahead 

 with the scheme. The total cost will 

 be approximately $1,000,000 and 40,- 

 000 acres will be reclaimed. 



Arizona 



The Alfalfa Farms Company, an In- 

 diana corporation, has taken hold of 

 the reclamation of 7,000 acres of land 

 in Lonseome valley by means of wa- 

 ter to be impounded in Granite creek 

 dam six miles northeast of Prescott. 

 Ariz. One hundred men are at work 

 on the dam. 



S. H. Woodruff, Los Angeles, Cal., 

 and associates, are having surveys 

 made and plans drawn for a system of 

 irrigation for 20,000 acres in Arizona. 

 A pumping plant will be installed. 



Colorado 



Articles of incorporation have been 

 filed by the Arkansas Valley Land and 

 Investment Company of Pueblo, Colo. 

 The company is incorporated for 

 $400,000. It will construct the Arkan- 

 sas valley ditch, the headgate of which 

 is just atxJve Boone. The officers of 

 the company are Henry A. Morris, 

 Frank Taylor and Samuel Robinson. 

 They and" R. W. Corwin and D. B. 

 Wiley are the directors. 



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