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IOWA IRRIGATION IS SUCCESS 



Professor Emery of the Iowa State Agricul- 

 tural college at Ames is investigating the irriga- 

 tion experiment of Charles Callahan of Red Oak, la. 

 Callahan installed a pump on the bank of the Nish- 

 nabotna river and ran a pipe line to his fields, 

 where he did his irrigating work. He used this 

 scheme to carry his market garden crops over the 

 dry periods, and it worked so well that he is plan- 

 ning to install a larger pump and place more land 

 under irrigation. 



Irrigation in Montgomery county, la., is some- 

 thing new. Ames college is much interested in the 

 experiment and has asked Mr. Callahan to keep 

 careful data on his experiments. 



Last year the plan was used mostly on vege- 

 tables, but there is no reason why the same plan 

 would not work as well on corn, potatoes and other 

 field crops, after the plant is once installed, Mr. 

 Callahan savs. 



ASK BLACK CANYON REPORT 



The committee on irrigation of the House of 

 Representatives has asked the Reclamation Service 

 to prepare a report on the Black Canyon Irrigation 

 District of Idaho land project and to report on the 

 amount of money necessary to complete the surveys 

 of that project, taking into consideration the sur- 

 veys already made by the Reclamation Service and 

 those made by the district itself. Upon the result 

 of this survey and final estimate will depend the 

 action of the Secretary of the Interior looking ulti- 

 mately to the construction of this project by the 

 Reclamation Service. The Black Canyon district 

 is the disowned "Payette" sister of the Payette- 

 Boise project, now known as the Boise Federal 

 project. If constructed, thousands of settlers who 

 have waited many years for the government to act, 

 will be benefited. Many of them have been brought 

 to the verge of poverty by their long wait. 



ATTACK IRRIGATION BOARD 



The irrigation committee of the lower house 

 of the Kansas legislature wants to abolish the state 

 board of irrigation. 



It has passed a bill which not only does away 

 with the board, but provides for the abandonment 

 of the present plan of irrigation work. The mat- 



ter is to be turned over to the state board of ad- 

 ministration and carried on under its direction in 

 connection with the engineering department of 

 State Agricultural college at Manhattan. All land 

 deeded to the state for the purposes of the board of 

 irrigation is to be deeded back to the counties or 

 individuals. The revblving fund of the department 

 is to be returned to the general revenue fund of the 

 state. 



Pending the sale of the property the irrigation 

 work is to be carried on by the irrigation engineer, 

 who shall have charge of the operation of irrigation 

 plants 



PROBE SACRAMENTO COMPANY 



A complete investigation into the stock trans- 

 actions and other financial operations of the Sacra- 

 mento Valley Irrigation Company will result from 

 the petition of owners of land in Glenn county ad- 

 jacent to the company's holdings, which is now 

 before State Railroad Commission of California. 



The land owners have asked the Commission 

 to order the irrigation company to furnish them 

 with water, but the company claims it is not a pub- 

 lic service corporation and that such an order will 

 detract from the selling power of their lands. 



Mr. J. W. 



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 Kan., writes: 



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This flow of water is pumped by Mr. Lough's 

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