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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



IDAHO ON IRRIGATION LEGISLATION 



(Continued from page 55) 



the power to fix the duty of water from year to year 

 in the respective irrigation districts of the state, and 

 in conformity with the general laws of usage. 



"The commission, in its recommendations to 

 the governor, suggested that such a board be cre- 

 ated, and that it be composed of three members. 

 A board of this kind should be non-partisan and 

 men selected upon it should be experienced in the 

 problems of Irrigation. 



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The necessity of taking care of the seepage 

 water in irrigated lands is a problem that faces all 

 irrigators throughout the West. The popular but 

 misleading idea that the mere bringing of water to 

 the land is all that is necessary to effect transforma- 

 tion from desert to crops was long ago dispelled 

 by the fact that hundreds of of thousands of acres 

 have been made useless by seepage, and it has been 

 demonstrated that irrigated tracts must be provided 



Wyoming 



At the annual meeting of the Wa- 

 ter Users' Association on the Sho- 

 shone project, at Powell, President 

 Dowling reported that the govern- 

 ment had turned down the proposition 

 for a legal water users' association. 

 Letters from the interior department 

 were read which stated in effect that 

 the interior department was compelled 

 to recognize any association of water 

 users under the reclamation project 

 law whether legally organized or 

 otherwise. Directors for the year 

 are Mr. Dowling, president; I. E. 

 Ferguson, secretary-treasurer; F. R. 

 Griffith, D. L. Heaston, Abbot Wil- 

 liams, G. C. Dillavan, Dr. M. D. Bar- 

 ney. 



Thirteen thousand acres of rich 

 land in the Goshen Hole country is 

 now being placed under irrigation by 

 the Hawkes Springs Development 

 Company. The project is to be en- 

 larged later. 



Thousands of Wyoming farmers 

 living on irrigated government lands 

 will be forced to pay taxes on the 

 equity in their holdings, if the next 

 legislature enacts the law that was 

 recommended by the county assessors 

 of the state. 



California 



There is much discussion of the 

 advisability of forming a Kings river 

 water storage district in Central Cal- 

 ifornia. 



The Modesto irrigation district has 

 offered the use of its main canal 

 southeast of Oakdale to the Water- 

 ford Irrigation District for the sum 

 of $275,000. 



The Oakdale Irrigation District is 

 planning extensive development and 

 on January 27 contracts were let for 

 improvements aggregating $100,000. 



The University of California is con- 

 ducting extensive experiments in al- 

 kali reclamation on the Kearney ranch 

 near Fresno. 



Whether or not the Kings river 

 waste water 600,000 acre feet per 

 vear shall be conserved was placed 

 ^nuarely up to the irrigationists and 

 property owners in a big mass meet- 

 ing held in Fresno late in January. 

 At this meeting action will be decided 

 upon whether or not there shall be 

 an organization for the building of 

 the $6,000,000 reservoir system at Pine 

 Flats and Mill Creek. One million 

 acres are affected. After a year's 

 work the issue has come to a crisis. 



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