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centage of the acreage included in the 

 pumping projects. 



As a result, according to the peti- 

 tion of the power company, only 

 about fifteen hundred acres were cul- 

 tivated during 1913 and 1914. The 

 company, therefore, asked to be per- 

 mitted to put into effect a flat rate 

 for pumping purposes. 



Montana 



Plans for the turning of Rollings 

 lake, three miles north of Billings, 

 Mont., into a reservior that will as- 

 sure a reserve supply of irrigating 

 water to hundreds of settlers in a 

 2,000-acre tract east of the lake are 

 under consideration. 



The first unit of the irrigation plant 

 of the Little Missouri Irrigation Com- 

 pany, located in Fallon county, will 

 be finished this spring, and will irri- 

 gate 8,000 acres of land, according to 

 Attorney E. S. Booth. Mr. Booth 

 says the plant will, when complete, 

 irrigate upwards of 25,000 acres. The 

 land is about 100 miles from a rail- 

 road at present, but a railroad through 

 it is one of the probabilities of the 

 near future. The company was or- 

 ganized by Butte men. 



Nebraska 



Refund bonds in the sum of $50,000, 

 to take up an original debt of $22,000 

 due the estate of D. W. O. Rogers of 

 Omaha, and incurred in 1895, have 

 been issued by the Alfalfa Irrigation 

 district of Keith county, Neb. The 

 refund was resorted to by members of 

 the district only after a long fight 

 made upon the validity of the bonds, 

 the same being carried through state 

 and federal courts. The courts finally 

 held the bonds to be good. The Al- 

 falfa irrigation district was the first 

 organized in the state. The project 

 was never a success. No levy was 

 made for either interest or principal, 

 and during the score of years that has 

 elapsed the debt has increased almost 

 one and a half times. There are about 

 4,100 acres in the district and the 

 bonds will make a mortgage upon the 

 land amounting to about $12 or $13 

 an acre. The land is divided between 

 only about eleven holders. Over 1,000 

 acres of the district are not actually 

 subject to irrigation and arrangements 

 are being made to release this land 

 on the payment of about $6,000. 



Florida 



Theodore Strawn, of De Land, Fla., 

 is installing a turbo-irrigation sys- 

 tem on his land at Island Grove, Fla. 



Colorado 



A celebration on the occasion of 

 the opening of the big project of the 

 Fort Lyon Canal Company is being 

 planned for July 4, 1915, at Lamar, 

 Colo. For three and one-half years 

 the work on the project has been 

 going on. Day and night a dredge 

 has been operating. To date it has 

 removed 3,271,537 cubic yards of dirt. 

 That has been done at an actual cost 

 of operation and maintenance of 3.17 

 cents per cubic yard, according to 

 President D. B. Nowels. 



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