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pany cannot possibly operate at a 

 profit if these rates go into effect. 

 Subsidiary companies, including the 

 Sacramento West Side Canal Com- 

 pany and the Sacramento Valley Irri- 

 gation Company, are parties to the 

 action. 



Texas 



The Texas Land and Development 

 Company has renewed work in the 

 irrigation district around Plainview 

 and will begin at once the improving 

 of seven irrigation farms, which have 

 recently been contracted for by farm- 

 ers from the north and central west. 

 Irrigation plants, homes, barns and 

 orchards will be put on these places 

 and lots arranged for carrying a large 

 number of hogs. 



Motion to dismiss the receiver of 

 the San Antonio Land and Irrigation 

 Company, Limited, was filed in the 

 Fifty-seventh District Court at San 

 Antonio, Texas, recently by Harry W. 

 Preston, of London, England, and 

 Sawyer Atkin. The proposed rehabil- 

 itation of the company is given as the 

 reason for the motion. On Aug. 31, 

 J.914, S. J. Brooks was appointed re- 

 ceiver of the land company on the 

 petition of Mr. Preston and others, 

 bondholders and stockholders. In the 

 motion to discharge the receiver it is 

 alleged practically all the parties in- 

 terested as stockholders and bond- 

 holders are desirous of settling all 

 differences between them and avoid- 

 ing further litigation; that the prop- 

 erty may go back to the company and 

 be operated by it under the control 

 of its board of directors. 



Colorado 



Contract has been awarded to Men- 

 denhall, Bird & Co., of Springville. 

 Utah, for the construction of sched- 

 ules 1 and 2, Ironstone Canal, Un- 

 compahgre Valley federal irrigation 

 project, Colorado. The work involves 

 the excavation of 108,100 cubic yards 

 of material and 25,000 cubic yards of 

 overhaul. Contract price, $30,006,50. 

 Schedules 3, 4 and 5 of this work 

 were awarded to C. B. Sherwood, of 

 Rockyford, Colorado. These sched- 

 ules call for the excavation of 101,- 

 100 cubic yards of material and 22,000 

 cubic yards of overhall. Contract 

 price, $16.681.50. The work is located 

 in the vicinity of Olathe, Colorado. 



The Secretary of the Interior has 

 authorized the Reclamation Service 

 to execute the following contracts for 

 earthwork on the main canal and lat- 

 erals, Grand Valley Irrigation Proj- 

 ect, Colorado: Schedules 1 to 8, 

 Reynolds Ely Construction Co., of 

 Springville, Utah; estimated cost, $28.- 

 584.50: Schedule 9, Henry Wilson, 

 Carl Hicks and N. H. Wilson, Fruita, 

 Colorado, $3,323.50; schedule 10, C. S. 

 Kirkendall and John E. Nelson, 

 Fruita, Colorado, $2,801.80; schedule 

 11, Sam Kloczko, Loma, Colorado, 

 $1,649; schedule 12, J. M. Groesbeck. 

 Springville, Utah, $2,937.50; schedule 

 13, James O'Bryan, Fruita, Colorado, 

 $2,364.50; schedule 14, J. W. Collier, 

 Grand Junction, Colorado, $1,323; 



schedule 15, Wade Collier, Grand 

 Junction, Colorado, $1,420; schedule 

 16, Chas. E. Litz, Loma, Colorado, 



$1,578. 



Wyoming 



Contract has been awarded to 

 Threet Bros. & Jolley, of Lovall, 

 Wyoming, for schedules 1 and 3, first 

 unit Frannie Division, Shoshone fed- 



eral irrigation project, Wyoming. The 

 work involves the excavation of 357,- 

 000 cubic yards of material and 117,- 

 000 cubic yards of overhaul. The 

 contract price is $78,760. R. M. Lynn, 

 of Lovell, Wyoming, secured contract 

 for schedule 2, involving 186,000 cubic 

 yards of excavation and 25,000 cubic 

 yards of overhaul. Contract price, 

 $27,076. 



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