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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



April, according to State Engineer 

 Johnson. 



Texas 



A special meeting was held by the 

 Texas Board of Enginers at Bay City 

 on Nov. 3 for the purpose of hearing 

 rice growers and irrigators on a prop- 

 osition for the use of more water from 

 the lower Colorado river in irriga- 

 tion. 



Donna Irrigation District No. 1, of 

 Hidalgo county, Texas, has prepared 

 to build eleven miles of main canal, 

 twenty-three miles of laterals and will 

 install a large pump and engine. The 

 system will irrigate 40,000 acres and 

 will cost about $215,000. The district 

 recently voted a $750,000 bond issue. 



Foreclosure of $150,000 bonds of 

 the Harlingen Land & Water Com- 

 pany of Texas is asked in a suit filed 

 in the eightieth district court by H. 

 Masterson of Houston and E. F. and 

 W. J. Madden of Hays City, Kan. 

 The foreclosure is asked against 12,- 

 100 acres of land in Hidalgo county, 

 which, it is claimed, is security for the 

 bonds. 



The defendant company defaulted 

 in the interest payments on the bonds 

 in September, 1914, according to the 

 petition. Should the land not bring 

 $150,000 at public sale, the plaintiffs 

 ask execution against some of the de- 

 fendant company's property at Har- 

 lington. 



Some claim of title to the land is 

 also being made by the Bankers Trust 

 Company and also the Rio Grande 

 Valley Company. Plaintiffs ask that 

 their claim be given priority. 



Preliminary work and surveys are 

 completed for the construction of a 

 system to irrigate 100,000 to 150,000 

 acres in the Colorado river valley of 

 Texas around Ballinger. 



Wyoming 



The Hawk Springs Development 

 Company has signed a contract with 

 the State of Wyoming to irrigate 10,- 

 000 acres under the Carey act in Go- 

 shen county. 



Final abandonment of the plan to 

 take up the work which has been 

 started by the old Wyoming Central 

 Irrigation project in reclaiming by 

 units of 20,000 acres each fully 250,000 

 acres of land in the vicinity of River- 

 ton was announced before the state 

 land board. The statement that there 

 would be no further attempt to finance 

 a company to continue the work was 

 made by former Governor Bryant B. 

 Brooks of Casper, Mayor J. A. Del- 

 felder of Riverton. P. J. O'Connor of 

 Casper, and John Morton of Douglas. 

 Too rigid restrictions on the part of 

 the federal government were the rea- 

 sons assigned by the Wyoming' cap- 

 italists for giving up the work. 



no shortage of water in the Colorado 

 river and that if managed properly 

 it will furnish, in addition to the 

 amount it is producing, enough to 

 irrigate the 200,000 acres the company 

 is planning to put under irrigation. 



he will be required to pay for his wa- 

 ter at the rates fixed by the railroad 

 commission instead of the terms fixed 

 in his water right contract. 



Waste lands around San Diego, Cal., 

 owned by the city, may be developed 

 by irrigation. It is planned to lease 

 the 8,000 or more acres in small 

 tracts to citizens and such a plan, it 

 is figured, will net the city from $100,- 

 000 to $200,000 in annual rental, as 

 well as providing good homes for 

 many of the poorer citizens. 



Farmers around Tracy, Cal., are or- 

 ganizing an irrigation district to water 

 11,500 acres at a cost of $28,500. 



Reclamation of 60,000 acres of land 

 in Riverside county, Cal., forty miles 

 north of Blythe, by irrigation, is pro- 

 posed by a company of which J. E. 

 Ludy, of Blythe, is chief engineer. 



Settlers on the Sacramento Valley 

 Irrigation Company's project, owning 

 water stock in the Sacramento Valley 

 Canal Company, subsidiary of the irri- 

 gation concern, will hold stock in a 

 public service and not a mutual com- 

 pany when the affairs of the irrigation 

 company are readjusted following the 

 disposal of the property at the com- 

 ing foreclosure sale. Under the pro- 

 posed settlement each settler on the 

 project will stand in exactly the same 

 position as if the Sacramento Valley 

 Irrigation Company had carried out 

 its contract of purchase except that 



For the purpose of teaching prac- 

 tical irrigation and the care of pump- 

 ing machinery, the Inglewopd (Cal.) 

 Union High School has just pur- 

 chased a turbine centrifugal pump 

 from the Layne & Bowler Corpora- 

 tion of Los Angeles. 



Montana 



The Spokane & Eastern Trust 

 Company and Ferris & Hardgrove, 

 investment bankers, have just com- 

 pleted arrangements to take over 

 jointly $130,000 of 6 per cent bonds 

 of the Glen Lake irrigated project on 

 Tobacco Plains, Mont. The bonds 

 will run for twenty-five years and will 



California 



C. D. Frisby, chief engineer of the 

 Laguno Water Company, operating in 

 the Imperial valley of California, is 

 preparing data to show that there is 



When writing 



Dependable Power 

 for Irrigation 



When you buy an engine for irrigation pumping look first to 

 the quality. Dependability is the all-important consideration. You can't 

 afford to risk failure of your pumping outfit at the critical time. It will 

 cost you less in the long run to pay what a good engine is worth. 



LAUSON AND 



Kerosene 



FROST KING 



Engines 



are particularly well adapted for irrigation pumping because of their absolute re- 

 liability. "Lauson" Engines are built up to a standard, not down to a price. Have 

 more drop forged and case hardened parts than any other engine on the market 

 and will run as true after five years use as when new. 



By using a carburetor of special design, ordinary kerosene distillate is used, 

 securing the full rated H. P. as with gasoline. The Cold Process type of. carbu- 

 retor is used because it is cleaner and more efficient than the oil heating system 

 used by others. , 



For continuous, heavy work there is no engine on the market today that equals 

 the Lauson. We'll be glad to submit proof without obligating you in any way. 



THE JOHN LAUSON MFG. CO. 



68 Monroe Street, 



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NEW HOLSTEIN, WIS. 



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