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BRIEF NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



South Dakota 



An irrigation project along Spring 

 creek, near Rapid City, S. D., is being 

 organized. The storage dam and res- 

 ervoir will be about eight miles south 

 of Rapid City and will hold about 13,- 

 000 acre feet of water or enough to 

 irrigate about 12,000 acres, allowing a 

 foot to the acre. The main canal will 

 be about 28 miles in length and the 

 water will be conveyed to the reser- 

 voir through about two miles of con- 

 crete lined ditch which will prevent 

 waste through seepage. The esti- 

 mated cost is $30 per acre or about 

 $360,000 for the project with opera- 

 tion and maintenance is expected to 

 be at 50 cents per acre. 



Utah 



Directors of the Davis & Weber 

 Counties Canal Company, which fur- 

 nishes water for thousands of acres of 

 lands south and west of Ogden, Utah, 

 have forwarded the contract to the 

 Utah Construction Company for the 

 building of an immense concrete dam 

 in East Creek canyon, through which 

 the amount of conserved water sup- 

 ply for irrigation will be doubled. The 

 dam will cost about $150,000. 



rigation Company, operating between 

 Twenty-first and Seventh East streets 

 and Thirteenth and Fifteenth South 

 streets in Salt Lake City, Utah, for 

 putting in wood stave piping to take 

 place of the main canal, for irrigation 

 and culinary purposes, if plans now 

 being made are carried out. The 

 purpose of the proposed new line is 

 to save the water now lost through 

 seepage and evaporation. 



rich land on the peninsula between 

 the Willamette and McKenzie rivers. 



Colorado 



An attempt will be made to adjust 

 out of court differences between credi- 

 tors of the Denver Reservoir & Irri- 

 gation Company of Colorado and the 

 Chicago Title & Trust Company, 

 which acted as trustee, and receiver, 

 appointed by the federal court. Dur- 

 ing the receivership, and trusteeship 

 it is charged the debts of the com- 

 pany increased from $4,000,000 to 

 $7,000,000. R. M. Quigley, chairman 

 of the committee, declared that, fol- 

 lowing a conference with officials of 

 the Chicago Title & Trust Company, 

 it was decided to resort to the courts 

 only if no other settlement can be ef- 

 fected. 



Bonds in the amount of $25.000 will 

 be issued by the Lower Mill Creek Ir- 



Oregon 



Eugene, Ore., men are planning to 

 drain and irrigate 10,000 acres of the 



The Western Land & Irrigation 

 Company, of Hermiston, Ore., has 

 tiled application with the state engi- 

 neer for permission to construct two 

 reservoirs to store 14,350 acre feet of 

 water of the Umatilla river, the water 

 stored to be used as a supplemental 

 supply for the reclamation of 15,576 

 acres of land. The cost of the work 

 is to be $370,000. 



California 



The California supreme court has 

 ruled that the Sacramento Valley 

 West Side Canal Company is a public 

 service corporation and must serve 

 all lands within the old Central irri- 

 gation district without the preliminary 

 purchase of water rights. 



Attorney Charles L. Donohoe, who 

 is one of the big land owners affected, 

 said in regard to the decision: "By the 

 terms of this decision the canal com- 

 pan3' cannot sell water outside of the 

 156,000 acres in the old irrigation dis- 

 trict until all needs within it have 

 been supplied. 



"Neither will the company be able 

 to furnish water to 50,000 acres of its 

 own lands outside of the district un- 

 til requirements within have been met. 



"The Mills Orchard project, west of 



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