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St. Claire ditch which will reclaim 

 15,000 acres. One hundred teams now 

 are at work on the new project. It 

 is anticipated that water will be on 

 a portion of the land in time for cul- 

 tivation next spring. 



Kansas 



Farmers of Morton county. Kan., 

 have asked the United States Govern- 

 ment to erect a demonstration plant 

 along the Cimarron river to prove the 

 economy of irrigation with tiling. 

 The federal government has a reser- 

 voir site in Oklahoma and that state 

 is attempting to appropriate sites 

 along the river and threatens the ex- 

 haustion of the water before it 

 reaches the Kansas line, so that if the 

 benefits of sub-irrigation are to be se- 

 cured for Kansas, federal protection 

 of Kansas rights is necessary. The 

 Cimarron has an abundance, and, as 

 the floods of a year and two years ago 

 showed, an excess of water at times 

 for irrigation of large areas of land. 



To make the land of the Arkansas 

 River valley around Arkansas City, 

 Kans.. as valuable as that of the irri- 

 gated lands of California, Colorado or 

 the Rio Grande valley is the purpose 

 of a number of citizens. By March 1 

 about 500 acres of valley land will be 

 under irrigation ditches supplied with 

 water by modern pumping plants 

 from the river bed gravel flow along 

 the banks of the Arkansas river. 



In Arkansas City there is now be- 

 ing installed a complete Skinner sys- 

 tem of overhead or sprinkling irriga- 

 tion by the Henneberry Company 



covering two acres of rich valley land 

 and this tract will be under the man- 

 agement of G. E. Martin, a practical 

 truck gardener and scientific farmer. 

 This plant will operate a series of 

 hot houses in connection with the 

 sprinkler system and will demon- 

 strate the fact that from $2,000 to 

 $3,000 per acre can be made annually 

 on a small truck farm by intensive 

 cultivation. 



The Arkansas City Commercial 

 Club is giving these matters much at- 

 tention, believing that in no other 

 manner can so much substantial good 

 be accomplished for a community and 

 this organization confidently expects 

 to see valley farms susceptible of ir- 

 rigation advance rapidly in price and 

 the agricultural output of such farms 

 increased several hundred per cent. 



Washington 



Work on the White Stone irriga- 

 tion project in Washington will be 

 vigorously pushed forward as soon 

 as weather will permit in the spring. 

 A contract for 1,000,000 feet of flume 

 timber has been let. This will be 

 used in building the flume from Toats 

 Coulee creek to the land that is to be 

 watered under the project. This 

 project includes a large area of fine 

 bench land in the White Stone lake 

 district of moderate elevation and 

 when completed promises to be one 

 of the richest and most attractive ir- 

 rigated districts in Okanogan coun- 

 try. 



terest in the Loon Lake irrigation 

 company by O. L. Olson, secretary of 

 the Arcadia Orchards company, it is 

 believed, means absorption of the 

 holdings of the former company by 

 the latter and the end of litigation 

 pending between the companies. Both 

 have extensive irrigated orchard 

 lands in the vicinity of Deer and 

 Loon lakes in Stevens and Spokane 

 counties, of Washington, and both 

 secure water from Deer lake. A suit 

 is pending in superior court in which 

 the Loon Lake Irrigation Company 

 seeks to quiet title to water rights on 

 Deer lake. The Loon lake company 

 alleges that a contract entered into by 

 it and the Arcadia company has been 

 violated by the latter, and it seeks to 

 have the water rights restored to it. 

 E. H. Becker, president of the Loon 

 lake company, and Evan Morgan, 

 vice-president, have sold their stock, 

 and H. R. Mann secretary-treasurer, 

 is the only officer remaining. 



Foreign 



The Argentine government has ap- 

 proved the plans and estimates for 

 irrigation works in Huillapina and 

 Capayan in the Province of Catamar- 

 ca. Approximately 500,000 acres will 

 be included in the project. 



The purchase of the controlling in- 



Five acres of tea will be planted this 

 fall at Bentz, near Oroville, Cal., by 

 Tyson Lockerman. A portion of the 

 plants will be set out on non-irrigated 

 land to determine whether the tea 

 can be grown without irrigation. 



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