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California 



Surveys of the Southern Lassen Ir- 

 rigation Project of California have 

 been completed. The civil engineer 

 in charge, William L. Wales, has 

 submitted a full report, showing that 

 the project is feasible and that the 

 cost of bringing the water to the land 

 and irrigating it will be between $33 

 and $35 an acre. 



The district will include 22,500 



Farmers in the West Side Irriga- 

 tion District, near Stockton, Cal., will 

 vote on a proposed irrigation system 

 Oct. 16. The cost of the works is 

 estimated at a total of $285,000, 

 amounting to $24.78 an acre on the 

 gross area of the district. 



Without dissenting votes the prop- 

 erty owners of the Deer Creek dis- 

 trict near Porterville, Cal., have ap- 

 proved of the plans for the organiza- 

 tion of a district, to water about 

 15,000 acres of the finest foothill citrus 

 lands, at a cost of more than $1.000,- 

 000. Stephen E. Kieffer of San Fran- 

 cisco is the consulting engineer. 



Announcement has been made by 

 the Great Western Power Company 

 of Orovile, Cal., that the construction 

 of the second unit of its canal will 

 be started this fall. The rights of 

 way have been secured. With the 

 completion of the second unit over 

 150.000 acres of land will be placed 

 under water. A large part of the 

 land lies in the heart of the rice belt. 

 The third unit will take the canal to 

 the Sacramento river. Rights of way 

 are being secured for a canal 150 feet 

 in width. 



Contract for construction of a con- 

 crete flume across Dry Creek on the 

 main canal of the Modesto Irrigation 

 District of California, 730 feet long 

 with a capacity of 1,200 second feet 

 of water, has been let to Ernest 

 Green of Modesto at a bid of $60.- 

 602. 05. 



Colorado 



The Mutual Carey Irrigation Com- 

 pany, in which every settler will be 

 a stockholder, has taken over the 

 Smith Canon project in Colorado, 

 which the Valley Investment Com- 

 pany was forced to abandon after 

 holding the tract seven years and do- 

 ing much work on it. 



A Mountain rat put the Federal 

 project around Grand Junction, Colo., 

 out of business for several hours re- 

 cently. He tangled himself up in the 

 machinery at the dam. 



Utah 



Contracts. totaling $76,000 and cov- 

 ering the construction of a dam, 

 reservoir, power plant and main ir- 

 rigation ditch for a big 10,000-acre 

 project on the Idaho-Wyoming line 

 have been let by a party of Salt Lake 

 .and Ogden capitalists. The com- 



pany is known as the Grand Canyon 

 Canal and Power Company. It has 

 been working on plans for the proj- 

 ect for the last two years. Work will 

 be begun in this month and rushed 

 to an early completion. 



Nebraska 



One land owner has no right to ap- 

 propriate the acreage of a neighbor 

 under the law of eminent domain, 

 where the purpose in view is purely 

 a private one, according to- the decision 



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 details. 



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