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The Goose Lake Valley Irrigation 

 Project in Lake county, Oregon, and 

 Modoc county, California, has been 

 completed. The district includes 50,- 

 000 acres. The storage reservoir is 

 thirty miles in circumference. 



Montana 



A suit has been brought in Hamil- 

 ton, Mont., asking the district court 

 to declare the Bitter Root Valley Irri- 

 gation Company insolvent. 



Boomer & Hughes of Spokane, 

 Wash., have obtained the contract for 

 the construction of the Glen Lake 

 irrigation project in the Tobacco Val- 

 ley of Montana. The main works will 

 cost about $100,000. 



California 



Flat water rates of $2 per acre an- 

 nually for general crops and a special 

 annual rate of $7 for rice lands were 

 decreed by the California state rail- 

 road commission in its revision of the 

 water rates of the Sacramento Valley 

 West Side Canal Company. 



Farmers in the Hot Creek Valley of 

 California had their irrigation project 

 practically wrecked by the hot mud 



poured forth from Mt. Lassen, a vol- 

 cano, which became active recently. 

 Plans are under way to repair the 

 damage. 



Plans for a huge irrigation project, 

 covering 200,000 acres in Amador 

 county, Calif., have been formulated 

 by the lone Valley Development As- 

 sociation. A petition for the organiza- 

 zation of the irrigation district is be- 

 ing circulated. 



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