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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Company, contractors of Klamath 

 Falls, Oregon, to construct a large 

 ditch ten miles long, with laterals 

 running the entire length of its large 

 holdings in Butte Creek Valley. 



One of the largest irrigation sys- 

 tems in Lassen county is now under 

 way by the Eagle and Honey Lake 

 Exploration Company, which plans to 

 store sufficient water to irrigate 160,- 

 000 acres of land. The project is in 

 charge of Colonel Carl J. Young. It 

 is proposed to construct three dams 

 for the conservation of the run-off of 

 the watershed, and this will be dis- 

 tributed to users by means of three 

 ditch lines. 



The surveys made by the engineers 

 of the Oakdale and South San Joaquin 

 irrigation districts for reservoirs have 

 been completed and will be presented 

 for consideration of the boards at 

 their meeting in January. These sur- 

 veys are to be used in working out 

 the reservoir system to supply water 

 for the months of October and Sep- 

 tember, when the natural flow of the 

 river is low. 



The third annual convention of the 

 Inland Waterways Association of 

 California will be held at the Palace 

 hotel, San Francisco, February 21-23. 



Colorado 



The big dam, sixty feet high, at 

 Paradox is completed and settled so 

 that leakage is impossible. The new 

 reservoir will store water for eight 

 thousand, five hundred acres of land, 

 counting one acre foot to irrigate an 

 acre of land. Another and yet larger 

 reservoir is yet to be constructed, 

 which will probably take water to 

 Hast Paradox. 



The affairs of the Standley Lake 

 project near Denver are still in a tur- 

 moil and are no nearer solution than 

 they ever were. The project went 

 into the hands of a receiver in 1910 

 and the expense has amounted to 

 $1,500,000. Under a reorganization 

 formulated in 1912 and made opera- 

 tive August 12, 1913, the Chicago 

 Title & Trust Company undertook a 

 plan to refund and then finally to 

 discharge all the debts. In the more 

 than two years that have elapsed 

 since that time the plan has been car- 

 ried out only to the extent of induc- 

 ing creditors to waive their claims in 

 return for various forms of question- 

 able notes and certificates. Now the 

 company is asking the court for an 

 order to make a loan of $226,088.64, a 

 prior lien over all other debts previ- 

 ously incurred by itself, the various 

 receivers of the irrigation company. 

 The Antero project which was get- 

 ting along all right until the City of 

 Denver recently purchased its reser- 

 voir in the South Park, together with 

 the old English Highline canal for 

 $1,250,000, but the money has not yet 

 been turned over and there is some 

 hitch in the deal. 



According to the Gunnison News- 

 Champion an irrigation proposition 

 has developed near the head waters of 

 the Gunnison river which will have 



more or less effect on the flow of the 

 Gunnison tunnel. It seems that farm- 

 ers in Saguache county have con- 

 structed an irrigation project with the 

 idea of diverting the waters of Coche- 

 topa creek to the other side of the di- 

 vide. As these waters heretofore 

 found their way into the Gunnison 

 river the Gunnison paper claims that 

 the flow of the Gunnison will be les- 

 sened to that extent, which it is said 

 will be five feet. 



The Reclamation Service is asking 

 for proposals for the construction of 

 about nine and one-half miles of the 

 Peach Valley Lateral, Uncompahgrc 

 Valley Irrigation Project, Colorado. 

 The work lies in the vicinity of Aus- 

 tin, and involves the excavation of 

 about 56,200 cubic yards of material 

 in open cut. The bids will be opened 

 on January 18, 1916, at the office of 

 the Reclamation Service, Montrose, 

 Colorado. 



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