THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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NEWS NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



OF THE COUNTRY 



Arizona 



Irrigation companies are hereafter 

 to be considered as public service cor- 

 porations and must give service to all 

 applicants under the regulation, as 

 prescribed by the state corporation 

 commission, according to a derision 

 handed down by a state supreme 

 court in the case of the San Carlos 

 Canal & Irrigating Company. 



Candidates for the next state legis- 

 lature will be pledged to vote for a 

 state water law according to a num- 

 ber of prominent irrigationists. A 

 bill providing for an irrigation com- 

 mission consisting of the governor, 

 corporation commission and state en- 

 gineer was defeated at the last ses- 

 sion. 



California 



The plan to make the Orland 

 project the site of the federal settle- 

 ment project and try-out of rural 

 credits seems likely to be realized in 

 the near future. At a conference held 

 a few weeks ago in Sacramento with 

 Governor .Johnson, the plan wc-.s ex- 

 plained by Dr. Mead to the governor, 

 the university president and farm 

 school head. 



The trustees of the Sunnyside Wa- 

 ter Users' Association have fixed the 

 maintenance rate for the coming sea- 

 son at 80 cents for the first two acre 

 feet, 25 cents for the third and 60 

 cnts for the fourth, and all over that 

 80 cents. 



The way for the beginning of the 

 construction of the system of the An- 

 derson-Cottonwood irrigation district 

 is now clear, as Stephen G. Roycroft, 

 president of the board of directors, 

 has obtained the approval of the state 

 board. 



Residents of Fairbanks and vicinity 

 have decided to organize a Wright 

 irrigation district. Carmichael Colo- 

 nies, Fairoaks, Orangevale, Citrus 

 Heights. Cardwell and Rosedale dis- 

 tricts will be asked to join, forming 

 one large district, but if the other dis- 

 tricts can not see their way to en- 

 listing in the movement, Fairoaks will 

 probably form a district of its own. 



The State Water Commission has 

 notified the trustees of the Madera Ir- 

 rigation Bureau that the application of 

 the Panoche Water Company for 1,000 

 cubic feet of San Toaiuin river water 

 was filed by E. F. Treadwell, attor- 

 ney for Miller & Lux, last summer. A 

 bearing on the same, at which pro- 

 testants may appear, will be held in 

 the near future. 



Sufficient names have been obtained 

 to the petition asking an election on 

 the organization of the Thermalito 

 irrigation district, according to the 

 .\nnou"cement made by the executive 

 committee and the petition will be 

 presented to the board at the March 

 meeting. The district, as outlined. 



includes 6000 acres of land, or over 

 six times as much acreage as is now 

 devoted to productive uses in Ther- 

 malito. 



Guy C. Earl, attorney of San Fran- 

 cisco, brother of E. T. Earl, owner of 

 me i os Angeles Express-Tribune, has 

 recently had a 16-inch well drilled on 

 his ranch at Palmdale. He has in- 

 stalled a Layne & Bowler turbine cen- 

 trifugal pump in the well, due, no 

 doubt, to the very satisfactory results 

 obtained with this same make of 

 pump on his brother's ranch at Palm- 

 dale. 



Federal ludge Oscar E. Trippit of 

 Los Angeles and his brother-in-law, 

 Clay Larimor of North Dakota, have 

 recently had a thousand foot well 

 drilled on their ranch southeast of 

 Los Angeles, formerly a part of the 

 Tweedy Ranch. A new Layne and 

 Bowler turbine centrifugal pump has 

 been installed and the owners are 

 very much pleased with the results 

 obtained. This tract is leased to truck 

 growers and makes a valuable addi- 

 ion to the city's vegetable supply. 

 The large pump installed was manu- 

 factured in Los Angeles. 



The water will be delivered to a canal 

 ten miles long and distributed by 

 means of laterals. 



Under foreclosure granted the 

 bondholders of the Kuhn syndicate 

 by P. decree issued in the federal court 

 in San Francisco, the real and per- 

 sonal property of the Sacramento 

 Valley Irrigation Company, except 

 the water system, was sold on Feb. 

 5 at noon, by public auction in Wil- 

 lows. 



The decree of foreclosure called for 

 $12,000,000, of which a mortgage for 

 $5,000,000 was on the real and per- 

 sonal property and $7,000,000 on the 

 bonds, stocks and mortgages of the 

 company. Attorney George R. Free- 

 man for the bondholders bid in the 

 property of the company for $1,631,- 

 663, and bonds, stocks and mortgages 

 for $720,000. 



Provision for the exemption of the 

 irrigation from the foreclosure sale 

 was made in the decree of the federal 

 court on condition it would be pur- 

 r>"sed bv the water users. If not, it 

 will revert to the bondholders. But 

 as the terms for the purchase of the 

 irrigation system are easy and the 

 price reasonable, it will be bought by 

 the water users. 



The \tascadero Water Company, 

 San Luis, Obsipo county, has applied 

 for thirty cub-'c feet per second from 

 the Salwas river. Its project repre- 

 sents a prospective expenditure of 

 $750,000. 



The Cheney Slough Irrigation Com- 

 pany has asked permission to appro- 

 rint e S 000 miners' inches of water 

 from the main Sacramento river for 

 the irrigation of about 10,000 acres 

 in Colusa county on the old Jimmino 

 Rancho. A large pumping system, 

 consisting of three units, is proposed 

 as the means for diverting the water. 



Colorado 



An extensive investigation into ir- 

 rigation matters will be made this 

 year by the state of Colorado and the 

 United States government, through 

 the experimental department of the 

 Colorado Agricultural college to de- 

 termine the "duty" of water. The 

 project to be carried under the fed- 

 eral fund available to the college will 

 be the investigation of the Poudre 

 river irrigation system. Director C. 

 P. Gillette of the experiment station, 

 and V. M. Cone, the government ex- 

 pert in irrigation investigations, will 

 have charge of the work. Half a 

 dozen r^en will be used in gathering 

 facts. The purpose of this investiga- 

 tion work is to determine the amount 

 of water which comes down the river, 

 how much of it goes into the ditches, 

 how far it goes and how many acres 

 of land the water irrigates. Taking 

 the ratings at various times of the 

 day at many headgates will keep these 

 men busy while the experiment is in 

 progress. 



Montana 



A body blow has been dealt the 

 Sun river irrigation project in an or- 

 der just received from the secretary 

 of the interior designating 125,000 

 acres on the Teton slope open under 

 the enlarged homestead act! 



The designation is effective March 

 10, 1916, and is a reversal of the de- 

 cision of the geological survey by the 

 secretary of the interior. 



The land thrown open is in the vi- 

 cinity of Dutton, and is understood 

 to mean that 400,000 acres more on 

 the Teton slope under the Sun river 

 irr'Qration project will be designated 

 under the enlarged homestead act in 

 the near future, which would mean 

 a body blow to the Sun river irriga- 

 tion project. 



New Mexico 



S. S. Carroll, chief hydrographer 

 of the state engineer's office, is in 

 Luna county to inspect the wells put 

 down by the Rio Mimbres Irrigation 

 Company and determine what amount 

 of land can be irrigated with the water 

 they produce. The inspection was 

 ordered by Judge Colin Neblett of Sil- 

 ver City. 



Nebraska 



The Alliance land office, in a circu- 

 lar just issued, announces the open- 

 ing for entry of 4,000 acres of irri- 

 gated lands through that office on 

 March 24. It had previously been 

 published that the opening would in- 

 clude 14,000 acres. The land, in units 

 of from forty to 160 acres, is situated 

 from eight to twelve miles northwest 

 of Bayard and from six to eight miles 

 northeast of Minatare. 



