THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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URGE STATE TAX FOR OREGON IRRIGATION 



THE Oregon Irrigation Congress, which met re- 

 cently in Portland, Ore., took a number of im- 

 portant steps to further irrigation in that state. 



Officers were selected as follows : President, 

 Asa B. Thompson, Echo (re-elected) ; secretary, 

 Fred N. Wallace, Laidlaw (re-elected) ; first vice- 

 president, J. W. Brewer, Redmond (re-elected) ; 

 second vice-president, John Rigby, Vale ; third 

 vice-president, A. M. Crawford, Salem. 



Following is the substance of the resolutions 

 which were adopted : 



Legislation urged to levy one-half mill tax on 

 all property in state for irrigation development. 



Constitutional amendment giving state au- 

 thority to issue bonds for irrigation development 

 is recommended. 



Legislature asked to memorialize congress, 

 urging law permitting all natural federal resources 

 within the state to be used for sole purpose of rais- 

 ing funds to co-operate on dollar-for-dollar basis 

 with the state in developing these resources. 



Federal government urged to give Oregon its 

 just share of reclamation fund. 



Federal government urged to guarantee bonds 

 of accredited irrigation districts. 



Policy of national secretary of agriculture en- 

 abling counties to collect money from federal gov- 

 ernment with natural resources as security in- 

 dorsed. 



Federal reclamation service asked to give state 

 free use of its maps, data, water measurements and 

 other statistical information. 



Legislature asked to extend payment periods 

 for Tumalo settlers. 



Recommendations of Secretary Lane, of the 

 Interior Department, for uniform irrigation laws in 

 various states approved. 



Irrigation bonds urged as proper subject of 

 investment for state funds. 



Irrigation districts should be given self-govern- 

 ment powers similar to those of municipal corpora- 

 tions. 



Amendment to state law giving corporations 

 holding title to land within districts right to vote 

 on district affairs. 



Repeal of law fixing tax on water power filings 

 urged. 



Law recommended giving irrigation districts 

 right to sell surplus water power. 



Drainage code asked from legislature. 



Federal rural credit banking law recommended 

 with centralized national banks as basis of system. 



State and federal government urged to co- 

 operate in investigating following proposed irriga- 

 tion projects and printing reports on same: Lower 

 desert project, Tygh Valley-Wamic project, penin- 

 sula district between Deschutes and Crooked rivers, 

 Harney valley districts of 250,000 acres, Silver 

 Creek project of 50,000 acres, Malheur warm 

 springs reservoir project, Dead Ox Flat district, 

 Ochoco and other districts. 



Legislation making possible early completion 

 of North canal unit of central Oregon project urged. 



Action upon North and West sides units of 

 Deschutes project invited. 



NEBRASKA FARMERS TO IRRIGATE VALLEY 



FARMERS in the Lodge Pole valley, Cheyenne 

 county, Nebraska, have organized an irrigation 

 association with the following officers : 



A. G. Newmann, Chappell, president. 



Chas. High, Potter, first vice-president. 



Fred Likmkuhl, Lodge Pole, second vice-presi- 

 dent. 



H. F. Doran, Sidney, treasurer. 



R. A. Blake, Sidney, secretary. 



The farmers are determined to raise the value 

 and producing power of their lands by irrigation, 

 and at their first meeting proved a most attentive 

 lot of listeners to the experts who addressed them. 

 W. V. Hoagland, father of much of Nebraska's 

 irrigation legislation and former state senator; H. 

 C. Dieson, a government engineer, and Everett B. 

 Murray, a prominent engineer of Kansas City, Mo., 

 were among the speakers. 



The total amount of land contained in the 

 Lodge Pole valley amounts to approximately 100,- 

 000 acres. Lodge Pole Creek, which runs down 

 the center of this valley, is a small stream carrying 

 little water, and by throwing dams across it, it is 

 only possible to obtain sufficient water to irrigate 

 comparatively small tracts of land immediately ad- 

 jacent to the creek. It has, however, been clearly 

 demonstrated as to just what this land will do if 



properly irrigated, and the results are not only sur- 

 prising, but extremely gratifying. 



Land which by dry farming methods will raise 

 but one ton of alfalfa to the acre and give but two 

 cuttings a year, will raise three or four tons to the 

 acre and cut from three to four times a year. Land 

 now selling for from $20 to $30 an acre could be 

 increased in value, by the expenditure of from $15 

 to $20 an acre for irrigation, to from $80 to $100 

 an acre as a reasonable selling price. 



The proposition of irrigating this valley is a 

 thoroughly practical and an economical one. There 

 is an inexhaustible supply of sub-surface water 

 which ranges from 25 to 40 feet below the surface 

 of the ground in the valley. 



GOULDS MAKE NEW PUMP 



The Goulds Manufacturing Company of Seneca 

 Falls, N. Y., has just completed a pamphlet de- 

 scribing their new Multi-stage Centrifugal Pumps. 

 These pumps are designed for installation where 

 the head is greater than can be dealt with efficiently 

 by a single stage pump. Bulletin No. 119, another 

 Gould booklet, just of? the press, is a decidedly 

 valuable document for those interested in centrifu- 

 gal pumps. 



