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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



that he expected to have it completed 

 within a year. 



At a meeting of the board of direc- 

 tors of the Antelope Valley Irrigation 

 District and the attorneys of Kelly & 

 Kelly, bond buyers of Kansas City, 

 contracts for the sale of $325,000 in 

 bonds were signed. The bond sale 

 was authorized about two years ago 

 by the land owners of the irrigation 

 district, which is commonly known 

 in this section as the French tract, 

 and funds derived from the sale are 

 to be used for the construction of a 

 new reservoir and intake canals, and 

 the enlargement of reservoir No. 2 

 and its outlet canals and laterals. The 

 Southwestern Construction Company 

 has been awarded the contract for the 

 new construction work and will begin 

 work within the next three months; 

 $225,000 in bonds is to be paid for the 

 work. The bond company agreed to 

 accept the remaining $100,000 at par. 

 The funds obtained from this sale will 

 be used for the settlement of the 

 claims of the creditors of the defunct 

 French Land and Irrigation Com- 

 pany, the original promoters of the 

 project. 



Colorado 



Wayne Pierce of Cheyenne has 

 commenced work on the building of 

 what will be known as the Yerba 

 Draw Irrigation Company project, de- 

 signed to water 6,000 acres of arid 

 land in the Crow Creek bottoms west 

 of Grover, Colo. 



The Orchard Mesa project owners 

 have appealed to the government to 

 make it a part of the U. S. High Line 

 project. 



Montana 



The Madison Valley Irrigation Dis- 

 trict, comprising about 3,500 acres of 

 deeded land between Ennis and McAl- 

 lister in Madison county, fifty miles 

 southwest of Bozeman, has been 

 formed, and final survey will be made 

 and rights of way secured within the 

 next few weeks, according to William 

 J. Kremer, engineer in charge of the 

 project, who is in Bozeman from his 

 home at Ennis. Some twenty farm- 

 ers who are to benefit by the system 

 have secured permission from the 

 state to bond their holdings, and with 

 the capital obtained through the sale 

 of bonds will construct the ditches. 

 The total cost of the construction 

 work, which will be of the most per- 

 manent character is estimated at 

 $30,000. 



Nebraska 



Three hundred and twenty-four ap- 

 plications were made for filings on the 

 thirty pieces of irrigated land which 

 were disposed of by lottery at the 

 Alliance land office in April. An aver- 

 age of nearly eleven applications for 

 each tract, however, there were 

 eighty-two filings for one piece and 

 seven which no one seemed to want. 



mouth of the Malheur canyon, seven 

 miles west of Vale, to the Snake river 

 just north of Ontario. 



Arizona 



After several months of most dis- 

 couraging efforts on the part of W. S. 

 Prouty and others to get a meeting of 

 a committee from the various canal 

 interests in the Florence-Casa Grande 

 valley together for a heart-to-heart 

 talk on a get-together proposition in 

 the valley, a meeting was finally ar- 

 ranged. The meeting was well at- 



tended, and as a result of that meet- 

 ing irrigation matters look better in 

 the valley than ever before. Before 

 adjournment was taken the Consoli- 

 dated Florence-Casa Grande Water 

 Company had been organized with a 

 capital stock fixed at $250,000, the pur- 

 pose of the organization being to 

 build a diversion dam on the Gila 

 river and to construct so much of a 

 canal as will divert water to a point 

 accessible to existing canal systems, 

 and to do such other things as the 

 articles of incorporation may provide. 



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An irrigation district is being 

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 35,000 acres of rich farming lands ex- 

 tending in a narrow strip on both 

 sides of the Malheur river from the 



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