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and sub-laterals, Flathead federal ir- 

 rigation project, Montana, to Wilson 

 Bros., of Poison, Mont. The contract 

 price is $16,423.50. The contract in- 

 volves the construction of about 10 

 miles of laterals and appurtenant 

 structures embracing 43,000 cubic 

 yards of excavation, 140 cubic yards 

 of concrete, 430 square yards of pav- 

 ing, the placing of 9,800 pounds of 

 steel and about 32,000 feet (B. M.) of 

 lumber. 



The Carey land board of Montana 

 has granted the Billings Land & Irri- 

 gation Company until December 10, 

 1916, to bring the remaining acres, 

 which it has under contract on the 

 Billings bench, under the ditch. The 

 extension was granted on the report 

 of George R. Davies, assistant secre- 

 tary of the board. It was shown in 

 the report that the settlers, organized 

 as the Billings Bench Water Users' 

 Association, have arranged for the 

 $40,000 necessary to enlarge the canals 

 and bring under ditch some 27,000 

 acres of land. At present, the report 

 says, there are about 16,000 acres un- 

 der ditch, including some needed land 

 outside of the project proper. 



The engineering work done on the 

 project of the Big Horn Canyon Irri- 

 gation and Power Company, south- 

 west of Hardin, Mont, has received 

 the approval of the chief of construc- 

 tion of the federal reclamation serv- 

 ice, S. B. Williamson, of Denver. The 

 company expects to start work on the 

 project as soon as it can be financed. 

 By a dam 400 feet high, the company 

 proposes to supply water to 100,000 

 acres of land, part of which are now 

 within the limits of the Crow Indian 

 reservation. 



Washington 



Announcement was made by the 

 Cascade irrigation district, around 

 Ellensburg, Wash., which assumed 

 the bonded obligation of the old Cas- 

 cade Canal Company about two years 

 ago, that $75,000 in bonds, which 

 were issued by the old company in 

 1904. were retired Dec. 1. 



New Mexico 



A settlement with the creditors of 

 the defunct French Land & Irrigation 

 Company, which concern started the 

 Antelope Valley irrigation project, 

 around Springer, N. M., enters into 

 the plans for the completion of the 

 system by the sale of $325,000 worth 

 of bonds. Kelly & Kelly, of Kan- 

 sas City, are the prospective pur- 

 chases of these bonds. The irriga- 

 tion system is at present in the hands 

 of a receiver. The irrigable lands now 

 form an irrigation district and the 

 bonds have been voted by the land 

 owners within this district. In order 

 to complete the system, which at 

 present consists of two reservoirs 

 with a combined capacity of H,000 

 acre feet, canals, flumes, syphons and 

 waterways, the owners of land within 

 the district have agreed to place a lien 

 upon their lands to be covered by 

 $400,000 in bonds. 



California 



The embargo on California irriga- 

 tion bonds, which has lessened their 

 value as bank securities, will be lifted 

 soon, according to a promise made to 

 P. H. Griffin, of the Oakdale Irriga- 

 tion district, by State Treasurer 

 Friend Richardson. Hitherto, irriga- 

 tion bonds have not been accepted as 

 security for state deposits, and when 

 the districts attempted to sell the 

 bonds to the banks, they were con- 

 fronted with their unavailability for 

 use for loans from the state treas- 

 ury. 



Patrick Calhoun, Thornwell Mullally, 

 William M. Abbott, Paul S. Foster, 

 A. J. Rich, John Farrish, George 

 Cameron, Peter Cook, W. B. Coffey, 

 J. H. Peterson and W. E. Telfer. The 

 Solano Irrigated Farms has no longer 

 a legal existence as a corporation, 

 having forfeited its rights as such by 

 failing to pay the license tax required 

 by law to the state of California. 



Californians were led to believe 

 that the stockholders of the United 

 Railroads of San Francisco would 

 finance the Solano Irrigated Farms 

 project by a motion made in the su- 

 perior court in the case of Edward 

 Lewis against the corporation to 

 change the title of the defendants 

 from the Solano Irrigated Farms to 

 the original owners and incorporators. 



The Kuhn Irrigation Project, in the 

 Sacramento valley of California, 

 through Receiver William F. Fowler, 

 has petitioned the United States Dis- 

 trict Court for an order restraining 

 the State Railroad Commission from 

 putting into effect the new rate sched- 

 ule the railroad commission compiled 

 last June, and which was to have 

 gone into effect Nov. 19. The prin- 

 cipal features of the schedule are a 

 rate of $2 per acre for irrigating ordi- 

 nary crops and $7 per acre for irri- 

 gating rice crops. The receiver says 

 the rates are far too low, that they 

 are confiscatory, and that the com- 



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