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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Elwood Mead and Frank B. Adams, 

 irrigation experts , have completed 

 their survey of the great Ayer hold- 

 ings in Nevada and Yuba counties, 

 Cal., and soon will proceed to Bos- 

 ton to lay their report before C. F. 

 Ayer, the owner. .It is authoritatively 

 stated that both Adams and Mead 

 are enthusiastic over the project and 

 will strongly recommend that the 

 project be taken up. It is also stated 

 that Ayer is waiting only a favor- 

 able report to order the beginning of 

 operations, which will involve the ex- 

 penditure of over a million dollars. 



Work on the Lake Cpwhead irri- 

 gation and power project in California, 

 will be commenced this month, ac- 

 cording to an announcement by 

 Charles A. Gardner and Engineer 

 Durst, who claim the company has 

 about $600,000 with which to begin 

 work on the project that will fur- 

 nish water to a large area in Surprise 

 Valley, Modoc county. 



Settlers in the Sacramento Valley 

 Irrigation Company's project in 

 Glenn and Colusa counties, California, 

 have organized to protect their in- 

 terests in a suit brought by the Equi- 

 table Trust Company of New York, 

 to foreclose a mortgage on the project 

 of $7,000,000. The settlers claim that 

 the company charged them $75 an 

 acre when they bought their land 

 for'a water right. Later the Supreme 

 Court decided the company was a 

 public service corporation and could 

 not legally sell a water right, but 

 must furnish water to all comers. 

 The settlers now want this money 

 returned, or its amount stricken from 

 their contracts. They believe they 

 must act before the great mortgage is 

 foreclosed, or they will be too late. 



Texas 



Asking foreclosure of $350,000 bonds 

 out of an original issue of $1,050,000, 

 the St. Louis Union Trust Company 

 and Thomas N. Dysart, trustee, have 

 'Sled an amended petition in the 

 United States court at Houston, 

 Texas, in the receivership case of the 

 San Benito Land and Water Com- 

 pany. If Judge Waller T. Burns or- 

 ders the foreclosure the plaintiffs will 

 come into possession of the great ir- 

 rigating system at San Benito, which 

 includes 37 miles of canals and 100 

 miles of laterals. On the application 

 of these plaintiffs the San Benito 

 Land and Water Company was 

 thrown into the hands of receivers 

 July 31, 1913. At the time of the 

 receivership the company's affairs in- 

 volved more than $2,000,000. Failure 

 of crops was given as the cause of 

 the receivership. Assets exceeded 

 liabilities by $1,000,000, it was said. 

 So extensive are the irrigation facili- 

 ties of the company at San Benito, 

 that a number of persons owning ad- 

 joining property are circulating peti- 

 tions to form an irrigation district 

 under the laws of Texas. By fore- 

 closing on the mortgages and getting 

 possession tff the irrigation facilities 

 the plaintiffs expect to sell their 

 rights to the proposed irrigation dis- 

 trict and thereby realize on their 



bonds. There are 52,000 acres in- 

 volved in the irrigation enterprise, 

 besides 16,000 acres of the San Ben- 

 ito Irrigation Company. 



The Grand Falls (Texas) Irriga- 

 tion district, is preparing to issue- 

 $150,000 in bonds for development 



work. 



Nevada 



A splendid work has been taken 

 up by the University of Nevada, 



which will prove of invaluable serv- 

 ice to ranchers and prospective irri- 

 gators in all parts of the state. A 

 department has been organized to 

 develop and test out water wells in 

 different localities and to assist 

 ranchers in producing water in the 

 cheapest and most efficient manner. 

 The University has just ordered two 

 new centrifugal turbine pumps from 

 the Layne & Bowler Corporation. 



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