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BRIEF NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



Arkansas 



The largest irrigation plant in Ar- 

 kansas, and what is believed to be the 

 largest in the rice fields, is being op- 

 erated by Prang & Tindall at Crock- 

 ett's Bluff. The water is pumped di- 

 rect from the White river, and is 

 conducted through the fields in canals. 

 The pump is throwing 12,500 gallons 

 per minute, and is irrigating 1,000 

 acres of rice, with water to spare. 



Machinery is being installed, which 

 will double the capacity of the plant. 

 Additional canals will be dug so that 

 by another season not less than 2,000 

 acres of rice will be watered from this 

 pumping station. The water is lifted 

 35 feet from the river to the head 

 of the canal. 



Illinois 



J. C. Summers, an enterprising 

 farmer of Bath township, in Mason 

 county, Illinois, has commenced an 

 irrigation project, embracing an area 

 of about 1,000 acres of land. He is 

 damming up a dredge ditch on the 

 land. He will also put in a 12-inch 

 pump. 



The promoters of an irrigation plant 

 on the Douglass farm west of Mar- 

 seilles, 111., contemplate branching out 

 into an extensive business should their 

 present experiment prove successful. 

 They have in view the erection of a 

 large canning factory and are assured 

 of the capital with which to build it. 



The irrigating system, which is an 

 overhead pipe line covers 22 acres. 

 The water is pumped from the Illinois 

 river. 



The promoters of the project, 

 Messrs. Gebbard and Clark of Men- 

 dota, 111., say they have no doubt 

 about the sprinkler system doing what 

 is expected of it, and they will raise 

 all kinds of garden truck and fruit. 



California 



John P. Ryan, who is fathering an 

 irrigation project of 25,000 acres 

 around Willows, Cal., has announced 

 he proposes to ask the United States 

 government to enter into a water ex- 

 change agreement, whereby the pro- 

 posed project would get water from 

 the East Park reservior of the Or- 

 land Federal Irrigation project. 



In return for this water, Ryan will 

 pour into the government project 

 ditches the flow of Briscoe creek and 

 that part of Stony creek between the 

 government reservior and a point six 

 miles or so north of the town of Elk 

 creek. 



The lone Valley Development As- 

 sociation of California, is fathering the 

 organization of a big irrigation project 

 in the lone Valley. 



in Stanislaus county, California, as a 

 result of a tentative agreement, by 

 which the Waterford Irrigation dis- 

 trict, taking in land between Water- 

 ford and Oakdale, will get water from 

 the Modesto Irrigation district. The 

 Waterford district was organized sev- 

 eral years ago to put water on 20,000 

 acres of land, part of which has since 

 been withdrawn. The water is to be 

 taken from the Toulumne river, the 

 Waterford district having secured wa- 

 ter rights some time ago. All the 

 preliminary surveys have been made, 

 to take the water from the river di- 

 rect, but this would be a much more 

 expensive proposition than to tap the 

 canal of the Modesto Irrigation dis- 

 trict, or to build a joint canal which 

 would water both districts. 



The Oakdale irrigation district of 

 California, will offer for sale $400,000 

 worth of bonds this month. The 

 money will be used for completing 

 and extending the district's irrigation 

 system. 



In a friendly suit filed by the Equit- 

 able Trust company as trustees for 

 other companies, William F. Fowler 

 has been appointed receiver for the 

 Sacramento Valley Irrigation Com- 

 pany and the Sacramento Valley 

 West Side Canal Company of Cali- 

 fornia, by Judge Van Fleet, United 

 States district judge. Fowler's bonds 

 are $40,000. 



Both companies are subsidiaries of 

 the California-Idaho Company, con- 

 trolled by the Kuhn interests of Pitts- 

 burgh. 



Fowler was general manager of the 

 Sacramento Valley Irrigation Com- 

 pany with headquarters at Willows, 

 Glenn county. He says the proceed- 

 ings were instituted to protect the in- 

 terests of the bondholders, who took 

 over the two companies April 1, 1914, 

 when the interest on the bonds was 

 defaulted and to legalize their action 

 in taking posession of the property. 



Oregon 



The Department of the Interior, has 

 approved for patent 11,135 acres of 

 land in Oregon, reclaimed by the Cen- 

 tral Oregon Irrigation Company. 



Nearly fifteen thousand acres more 

 land will be brought under irrigation 



According to a report today by En- 

 gineer John S. Young to State En- 

 gineer Lewis, there are between 10,- 

 000 and 15,000 irrigable acres in the 

 proposed Suttles Lake Irrigation dis- 

 trict and the project is entirely feasi- 

 ble. The district is located at Grand- 

 view, Jefferson county, and water for 

 it can be obtained from Suttles lake, 

 Blue lake and Clear creek. This wa- 

 ter must be carried a distance of 25 

 miles, and will be good for domestic 

 as well as irrigation purposes. The 

 engineer estimates that cost of com- 

 pleting the project would be $517,500. 



The settlers will form an irrigation 

 district and propose to proceed with 

 the improvement themselves. 



Rogue River Valley, Oregon, set- 

 tlers have completed an organization 

 to obtain an irrigation system. It is 

 believed that Seattle capital will con- 

 struct an irrigation system in the val- 

 ley if sufficient acreage can be se- 

 cured. It is proposed to utilize the 

 waters of Big Butte creek for the 

 system. 



Arizona 



The directors of the Hassayama Al- 

 falfa Farms Company, has closed a 

 contract with the firm of Many Bros., 



HE attention of 

 our readers is 

 directed to the 

 numerous pre- 

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 this issue. We will pre- 

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