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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



rial North Side Water Company, on 

 which adverse action was taken. This 

 action will have the effect of imme- 

 diately releasing desert land claims 

 to a number of settlers in the Impe- 

 rial valley, who have brought rinal 

 proof up to the point of establishing 

 satisfactory evidence of irrigation, and 

 practically clears the title to their 

 land. 



John P. Ryan has announced pre- 

 liminary plans for irrigating !.'.".. (inn 

 acres in the foothills west of Wil- 

 lows, Calif., with water from Stony 

 Creek. Ryan states plenty of water 

 is available and there is good fruit and 

 alfalfa land in the tract in Question. 



Iowa 



Charles Callahan and John Alarlin 

 have installed an irrigation plant for 

 truck gardening near Red Oaks, la. 

 The equipment includes an eight- 

 horsepower engine and three-inch cen- 

 trifugal pump at the river, and a flume 

 1,515 feet long to the point where the 

 water is allowed to flow on the gar- 

 den. The flume is over 13 feet high at 

 the pump, so the water has to be 

 raised about 23 or 24 feet from the 

 river before it gets to the waterway. 

 When the water empties out of the 

 flume at the garden it is directed to 

 any desired place by means of ditches. 



Muscatine, la., officials have asked 

 the extension department of the Iowa 

 state university to aid them in irri- 

 gation experiments in the Cedar river 

 country near Muscatine. The peculiar 

 nature of the soil is such that crops 

 planted there are in danger of drought 

 and it is believed that irrigation would 

 convert land of low productivity into 

 veritable garden spots. Soil tests are 

 to be made shortly and it is believed 

 that experiments will establish the ad- 

 vantages of irrigation to the extent 

 that the plan will be adopted by the 

 farmers of that locality. That water- 

 melons and other truck crops could 

 be grown on the sandy soil with profit 

 if the ground was properly watered 

 has long been realized. 



Washington 



The Western Farm Land Company 

 of Chicago, of which George C. Bor- 

 chardt is secretary, has notified the 

 Spokane chamber of commerce that 

 it is preparing to develop a tract of 

 26.000 acres in the vicinity of Kenne- 

 wick, Wash., on the Columbia by put- 

 ting in irrigating wells. 



The F. C. Crowe Irrigation Com- 

 pany, Spokane, Wash., has increased 

 its capital stock from $250,000 to 

 $1,000,000, the increase to be used in 

 installing machinery for the manu- 

 facture of irrigation machinery. 



from the Rogue river by a centrifugal 

 pump driven by an electric motor. It 

 will be forced first to a knoll, and 

 then piped across the valley to a high- 

 line ditch, and from the ditch diverted 

 on the land. The cost of installing the 

 plant will be $5 an acre. A 100-horse- 

 power electric motor and a 12-inch 

 centrifugal pump have been purchased 

 and will be installed prior to June 1. 



Texas 



The Texas Land & Development 

 Company at I'lainview, Texas, will 

 put down 100 irrigation wells on as 

 many farms in the shallow water belt 

 this season. 



Nebraska 



Efforts are under way to obtain 

 state and federal aid for the installa- 

 tion of an experimental well at Ingle- 

 side^ Neb. There is a federal appro- 

 priation of $50,000 for experimental 

 irrigation in western Nebraska, and so 

 an effort will be made to obtain a part 

 of this fund for the Ingleside project. 



The irrigation and drainage division 

 of the department of agriculture will 

 make preparations for an investigation 

 of the feasibility of elevating the wa- 

 ter to the land from the sheet which 

 is known to underlie the Lodge Pole 

 valley of Nebraska, but a few feet be- 

 low the surface. 



The Texas board of water engineers 

 has granted permits to several persons 

 and corporations to appropriate water 

 for irrigation purposes. Those granted 

 permits are: William Biereschwale, 

 Kimble county, to appropriate 70 

 acre-feet of water per year from the 

 Llano river to irrigate 35 acres; Mrs. 

 Ida F. Westervelt, Kimble county, 600 

 acre-feet of water per year from the 

 Llano river to irrigate 300 acres: 

 Austin & Northwestern Railway Com- 

 pany, to appropriate 100,000 gallons 

 per day from the Colorado river for 

 power purposes; to the same company 

 to appropriate 100,000 gallons of wa- 

 ter per day from the San Gabriel river 

 for power purposes; Dr. K. W. Hrown. 

 Orange county, to appropriate 2.577 

 acre-feet of water per year from the 

 Sabine river for the irrigation of l,Tls 

 acres of land. 



Oregon 



The farmers in that portion of 

 Rogue River valley, Oregon, just 

 west of Grants Pass have organized 

 a cooperative irrigation corporation. 

 Owners of approximately 1,000 acres 

 of land have signed up, and nearly 

 two miles of irrigation ditches have 

 been built. The water is to be pumped 



When writing 



International Harvester 

 Engines for Irrigating 



WHEN you put in an irrigating plant 

 of your own, the most important 

 thing to get is an engine that will run 

 your plant at any time you want water. 

 Make the safest selection and buy an I H C 

 oil and gas engine Mogul or Titan. 



An I H C outfit delivers the most power 

 on the smallest fuel consumption. It uses the fuel 

 that is cheapest or most convenient for you to buy. 

 In case of accident you can get repairs in a few 

 hours. 



The same engine may be used for running a saw, 

 cream separator, feed grinder, hay press, or any 

 other machine to which power may be applied. 



I H C engines are made in sizes from 1 to 50-horse 

 power and in styles suitable for every form of 

 irrigating outfit or for general farm work. 



The I H C local dealer near you should be able to 

 show you I H C engines. If he cannot, write us, 

 and we will tell you who handles them. 



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