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THE IRRIGATION AGE 



section. The townsite will be located 

 at the foot of the Warner mountains, 

 on a mesa sloping toward the east, 

 and will command a splendid view 

 of the entire valley. 



With the recent discovery of water 

 around Hanford, Cal., a large acreage 

 thought to be unproductive will now 

 come under the plow. Artesian wa- 

 ter has been found at no very great 

 depth, generally less than 1,000 feet, 

 and as a result several hundred acres 

 have already been planted to fruit and 

 olive trees while many more acres 

 will be put in this spring. So far, the 

 planting has been mainly of olives, 

 considerable Southern and Eastern 

 capital having been invested. Several 

 peach orchards are also 'being set out 

 by development corporations and oth- 

 ers. Land has suddenly jumped from 

 practically nothing to $200 per acre. 



The Gillette Lemon Company is 

 completing a $17,000 irrigation plant 

 to water its 240-acre lemon orchard, 

 near Porterville, Cal. 



E. T. Earl has purchased for his ranch 

 at Palmdale, Cal., a new 15-inch centri- 

 fugal turbine pump to be installed at a 

 depth of 150 feet, and also a 15-inch 

 pump of the same type to be installed 

 at a depth of 50 feet. William Dillar 

 of Gardena, Cal., has purchased a 50- 

 foot, 12-inch and a 35-foot, 15-inch 

 pump for use on his ranch. They are 

 of the centrifugal turbine type. Both 

 plants were installed by the Layne & 

 Bowler Corporation. 



Oregon 



Plans for the reclamation of 100,- 

 000 acres of arid land on Agency 



Plains, Jefferson county, Oregon, are 

 under way among the 100 settlers of 

 that region. Under the new laws of 

 Oregon governing irrigation districts, 

 these people are preparing to bond 

 their land and be in position to take 

 advantage of whatever state and na- 

 tional aid may come their way. 



Provided mortgages in the sum of 

 $500 can be placed on each property 

 to be settled, H. E. Watson, of Port- 

 land, Ore., believes he can put over a 

 scheme of giving the unemployed a 

 chance to buy their own farms. Wat- 

 son is head of a syndicate that has 

 6,000 acres of raw land in Morrow 

 county, Oregon, two miles back from 

 the Columbia river. The company is 

 now boring wells with a view of se- 

 curing water for irrigation purposes. 

 It is the plan to divide the ranch into 

 40, 20, 10 and 5-acre tracts and sell 

 them on the ten-year installment plan. 

 On each tract the company will build 

 a four-room house, a barn and provide 

 a well on each 40 acres. "I am will- 

 ing," said Mr. Watson, "to put a man 

 without funds on the land and have 

 him work improving other tracts pro- 

 viding we can obtain a $500 loan on 

 each tract so secured. This money 

 would be used by us to keep the man 

 going until he can get returns on his 

 property to pay it off. What work he 

 would do for us would apply as cash 

 toward the purchase of his land. 

 There is nothing of a charitable na- 

 ture about the scheme at all. It is 

 simply a business proposition looking 

 at it from either side." 



With a force of seventy-five men at 

 work on the Bully Creek irrigation 



project- at Vale, Ore., it is expected 

 that the project of building flumes, 

 etc., will be completed in time for 

 delivery of water for the first unit of 

 5,000 acres by this spring. The dam 

 for the undertaking is said to be the 

 highest in Oregon. 



Nevada 



A survey of :;0,000 acres in the Sho- 

 shone reservation, in Nevada, will be 

 made with a view of establishing an 

 extensive irrigation system for the 

 Indians. 



Colorado 



Work on the big irrigation project 

 in the Omer district, near Fowler, 

 Colo., was scheduled to start April 1. 

 The Apishapaw Consolidated Irriga- 

 tion Company controls the project. 

 It is believed that the work on the 

 project will be completed by Sept. 1. 



Texas 



The Reeves County Irrigation Dis- 

 trict No. 1, Saragosa, Texas, embrac- 

 ing a large tract of land, has been 

 formed, and bonds will be issued for 

 constructing reservoirs and installing 

 pumping plants. The directors are 

 W. W. Stewart, T. M. Delaney, A. W. 

 Wigley, C. J. Ferguson and J. F. 

 Meier. 



The Stowell Canal Company, Beau- 

 mont, Texas, has increased its cap- 

 ital stock from $40,000 to $90,000 for 

 the purpose of enlarging its irrigation 

 system. 



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