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BRIEF NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



Kansas 



Members of the Kansas state board 

 of irrigation have announced that they 

 would sink a deep water well at Good- 

 land, Sherman county, where the state 

 will locate an irrigation demonstra- 

 tion station. It will probably be nec- 

 essary to go more than 100 feet for 

 water and the irrigation plant will 

 cost $3,000 to $3,500. The new Good- 

 land well is the fifth to be sunk by the 

 state since the creation of the state 

 commission. Irrigation plants have 

 been established near Dighton, Leoti, 

 Tribune and in Wallace county. It is 

 probable that the Goodland well will 

 be the last work of the present com- 

 mission, which steps out of office on 

 July 1 to give way to a state commis- 

 sioner appointed by the governor. 



ture irrigation pumps. It has erected 

 a demonstration plant and begun op- 

 erations. Samuel Yaggy is in charge. 



California 



The Sacramento Valley Land & 

 Water Company, with a capital stock 

 of $6,000,000, has filed its articles of 

 incorporation at Fairfield, Solano 

 county. The purpose of the corpo- 

 ration is to develop and carry out a 

 vast irrigation system in Solano and 

 Yolo counties. 



Tibbits-Pacific Company of San Fran- 

 cisco for $71,155, the lowest of the 

 six bids. Attorney Le Hane, sup- 

 ported by representatives of the Wa- 

 ter Users' Association, appeared at 

 the morning session and made formal 

 protest to letting the contract for con- 

 struction of these fills, with a capacity 

 of 2,000 second feet instead of 1,200 

 second feet, as planned before the 

 voting of the $610,000 bond issue sev- 

 eral months ago. 



An irrigation survey of Norton, De- 

 catur, Thomas and Sherman counties, 

 Kansas, is being made by H. B. 

 Walker, state irrigation engineer in 

 the agricultural college. Mr. Walker 

 is visiting two farms each day, learn- 

 ing the irrigation conditions and fur- 

 nishing definite irrigation projects. 



The Southern Lassen Irrigation As- 

 sociation of Calneva, Cal., has been 

 organized for the reclamation of a 

 vast tract that will eventually com- 

 prise 300,000 acres of land, most of 

 which is in a valley bordered on the 

 east by the Nevada state line. Perma- 

 nent organization of the association 

 has been effected this week and Leon- 

 ard Dozier chosen as president, with 

 John Mauk, secretary. 



E. T. Earl has purchased for his 

 ranch at Palmdale, Calif., a new 15- 

 inch centrifugal 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. 



The Syracuse Pump & Manufactur- 

 ing Company, Syracuse, Kan., has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $30.000 by E. E. Helfrith, Samuel 

 Yaggy and H. Helfrich, to manufac- 



Despite a letter of protest filed by 

 Attorney W. C. Le Hane, threatening 

 court procedure to secure invalida- 

 tion and cancellation of the action, the 

 board of. directors of the bodesto ir- 

 rigation district of California, has let 

 the contract for the construction of 

 the Rairden and Slater fills on the 

 main canal near La Grande to the 



The Santa Ana Valley Irrigation 

 Company of California has just con- 

 tracted for a 400-foot well, 26 inches 

 in diameter, pump to have a capacity 

 of 3,000 gallons of water per minute. 

 The contract was let to the Layne & 

 Bowler Corporation of Los Angeles. 



The general land office has ap- 

 proved all plants of irrigation compa- 

 nies in the Imperial valley of Cali- 

 fornia with the exception of the North 

 Alamo and the Mount Signal Water 

 Companies, approval of these compa- 

 nies having been deferred, and Impe- 



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