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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



NEWS NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



OF THE COUNTRY 



California 



The Sacramento Valley Irrigation 

 Company has been succeeded by the 

 Superior California Farm Lands Com- 

 pany. 



Practically all irrigation suits 

 brought by the Poplar Irrigation Com- 

 pany against water users taking the:r 

 supply from the Tule river have been 

 settled by arbitration. 



The decision of the Sacramento land 

 office in the Becker's Ford reservoir 

 contest, Patton vs. Walker, was sus- 

 tained in April by Secretary of the 

 Interior Franklin K. Lane, and a right 

 of way for the use of the public land 

 affected granted to E. R. Walker of 

 Sacramento, promoter of the 40,000- 

 acre irrigation project in that coun- 

 try. The decision of the secretary 

 closes the largest case handled by the 

 Sacramento office, for from the sec- 

 retary's ruling there is no appeal. The 

 case has been pending about five years. 



The last construction work on the 

 Glenn county end of the Western 

 canal near Butte City was finished 

 when Harlan & Cameron completed 

 their three-mile contract. Water from 

 the Feather river near Oroville was 

 turned into the big ditch early in April, 

 and it is now available to all the grow- 

 ers on the 7,000-acre rice project. 

 Harlan & Cameron are now moving 

 their outfit into Butte county near 

 Oroville, where they have a contract 

 for moving 20,000 cubic yards of earth 

 from the main canal. 



Governor Hiram W. Johnson has 

 just named A. E. Chandler, Berkeley; 

 D. W. Ross, Willows, and W. P. 

 Boone, Dinuba, as members of the 

 State Irrigation Board. The appoint- 

 ments are in accordance with the Irri- 

 gation Act of the session of 1915. The 

 board will have offices in Sacramento 

 and will co-operate with the State 

 Water Commission. 



Prospects for the taking over of the 

 irrigation system of the Kuhn syndi- 

 cate in Colusa and Glenn counties ap- 

 pears more favorable as time passes. 

 The latest sections to decide to form 

 irrigation districts are Codora and 

 Princeton. At a recent meeting nearly 

 all the land owners present signed a 

 petition asking the board of super- 

 visors to call an election for the or- 

 ganization of the district, which will 

 comprise about 18,000 acres lying un- 

 der the river branch canal. 



An irrigation district of 37,800 acres 

 is under process of organization. The 

 land lies on the north and east side 

 of Honey Lake valley, starting at the 

 confluence of the Susan river and Wil- 

 low creek and stretching in a shoe- 

 string- around the base of the moun- 

 tains on the north side of the valley 

 as far as Skeedaddle creek. 



The government has restored the 

 irrigation system for the agriculturists 

 of the Rincon Indian reservation, 

 northeast of Escondido, beyond what 

 is known as the Valley Center coun- 

 trv. 



It has been announced by Richard 

 White of Chico, attorney for the Par- 

 adise Irrigation District, that a bond 

 election would be called during the 

 late summer to> provide for the con- 

 struction of a reservoir and dam, a 

 distributing plant and ditches for the 

 district. The cost of the entire proj- 

 ect, which ultimately will include two 

 reservoirs, will be about $275,000, but 

 the initial bond issue probably would 

 not exceed $100,000. The district, ac- 

 cording to White, is one of the first 

 to be organized in California where 

 the territory is almost exclusively 

 foothill and horticultural lands. 



Oregon 



The Desert Land Board has notified 

 officials of the Central Oregon Irriga- 

 tion Company that it must not sell 

 water to lands on the project not now 

 obligated to be served under the com- 

 pany's canal unless first a cancellation 

 of an equal amount of irrigable lands 

 for which the canal is now obligated 

 is executed. The board also decided 

 that in view of the present deficiency 

 as shown by the board's investiga- 

 tions, no additional sales will be ap- 

 proved which will increase the liabil- 

 ity of the canal. 



R. W. Rea, hydraulic engineer, of 

 Portland, has been engaged by the 

 Ochoco Irrigation District, in Crook 

 county, to make surveys and prepare 

 plans, specifications and estimates of 

 ' cost of constructing a complete irri- 

 gation system for reclaiming about 



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