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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



trons living at a distance from its 

 main power line to make contracts for 

 three years, in an order issued yester- 

 day by the Kansas public utilities 

 commission. Patrons along the 

 power line will be allowed to purchase 

 "juice" by making a contract for one 

 year with the company. 



Washington 



C. H. Swigart, former supervising 

 engineer of the Reclamation Service, 

 presented to the Washington Irriga- 

 tion Institute some figures on the pro- 

 posed Northern Pacific high line pro- 

 ject. The high-line canal, as sur- 

 veyed, would leave the Yakima river 

 at Roza and extend along the south 

 slope of the Rattlesnake Hills, above 

 the Sunnyside Canal, carrying 2,200 

 second-feet. It would reclaim about 

 192,000 acres, now worth $2.50 an acre 

 for grazing alone, and would raise 

 the value $100 to $200 an acre. The 

 divisions of this land were given as 

 follows: Moxee, 20,900 acres; Zillah, 

 22,500; Sunnyside, 27,200; Prosser, 

 34,100; Benton, 10,600; Cold Creek, 

 39,000, Kennewick, 38,000. 



With the Yelm irrigation project 

 two-thirds completed, the work is far 

 enough along so that 3,000 acres will 

 be under irrigation this summer. The 

 water will be turned on the prairie 

 when needed as the season advances, 

 in June, July and August. A grand 

 onep'ng will be held in April when all 

 the Tacoma clubs will be invited to 

 see what has been done by the farmer. 



By a majority of three to one the 

 property owners under the Happy 

 Home irrigation project voted to form 

 a district and build an irrigation ditch 

 from the forks of the Dungeness river 

 to the east line of Clallam county, a 

 distance of thirteen miles, to irriga- 

 gate over 14,000 acres, much of which 

 is worthless without water. 



The estimated cost of the improve- 

 ment is over $100,000 and a contract 

 for the construction of the ditch will 

 be let in March. Otto Sindars, Otto 

 Sporceen and George Gedelman were 

 elected directors. 



Wyoming 



The Shoshone Project Water Users 

 have asked the secretary of the in- 

 terior to issue an order reducing all 

 operation and maintenance charges 

 for 1915 to a maximum basis of $1.00 

 per acre, leaving all charges under 

 $1.00 unchanged. This can be done, 

 it was shown, because during the sea- 

 son of 1915 operation and mainten- 

 ance produced a trifle more than 

 $23,000, which is $3,000 in excess of 

 its cost to operate and maintain the 

 system. 



The directors of the Anderson- 

 Cottonwood Irrigation District have 

 offered for sale the first instalment of 

 the $480,000 district bonds voted for 

 the construction of the system. The 

 bonds will bear 6 per cent interest. 



The El Centre Irrigation District 

 has agreed to sell to the mutual wa- 

 ter companies of the Imperial valley 

 fifty miles of canals belonging to the 

 California Development Company 

 Whose irrigation system will soon be 



sold at public auction. This district 

 intends to bid it in. This means that 

 the thirteen mutual water companies 

 whose future seemed doubtful will 

 survive. 



The directors of the Cheney Slough 

 Irrigation District have awarded con- 

 tracts for the construction of the 

 main ditch from the Sacramento river 

 to Cheney Slough, a distance of two 

 mites and a half, laterals, drain 

 ditches, pumps and motors. Excava- 

 tion is to be finished in forty days. 



Announcement is made by the U. S. 

 Reclamation Service that measure- 

 ments made on December 31 last, 

 show there is now in storage behind 

 the Elephant Butte dam enough wa- 

 ter to irrigate for one year all the 

 land in the lower Rio Grande valley 

 now under cultivation. The measure- 

 ments place the exact amount of wa- 

 ter at 361,563 acres feet, or enough 

 to cover that number of acres to a 

 depth of one foot. 



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