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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



west of Poison and 6 to 8 miles west 

 of Ronan. The bids will be opened at 

 St. Ignatius May 25. The bids cover 

 excavation, concrete work, lumber and 

 steel. 



New Mexico 



The water line in the big Elephant 

 Butte reservoir has reached the 100- 

 foot mark and almost 650,000 acre feet 

 of water is stored for irrigation pur- 

 poses for the present season. 



The flume and canal being con- 

 structed by the Llano Irrigation Com- 

 pany at Questa is. well under way. A 

 large force of men, with teams, are 

 rapidly putting the canal in shape. 

 Work on the flumes, which aggregate 

 about four thousand feet in length, is 

 under the direct supervision of 

 Charles E. Palmer, of Red River. The 

 canal, flumes, etc., are being construct- 

 ed by citizens of Questa for the pur- 

 pose of irrigating about three thou- 

 sand acres of land lying between 

 Questa and Cerro. This tract is a por- 

 tion of the 30,000 acres of state land 

 which was to have been irrigated un- 

 der the "Sunshine Valley" project. 

 The land was purchased from the state 

 last October by settlers living in the 

 vicinity of Questa. The waters to be 

 used in the irrigation of this project 

 will be stored and diverted from the 

 Cabresta lake and creeks. 



Oregon 



The proposal to organize an irriga- 

 tion district for the reclamation of 

 about 16,000 acres of land in the Squaw 

 creek section of Crook county failed 

 to carry last week. According to J. 

 W. Brewer, secretary of the Oregon 

 Development Bureau of the Portland 

 Chamber of Commerce, who went to 

 aid in the formation of the district, 

 the heavy adverse vote was due to the 

 objection of land owners to the pro- 

 posed boundaries of the district and 

 to the belief that there would be in- 

 sufficient water for the reclamation of 

 all of the tract. It is likely that a new 

 petition will be circulated, eliminating 

 some of the dry homesteads, and that 

 the next vote will be favorable to the 

 creation of the district. 



Information has been received that 

 the financing of the Teel irrigation 

 project was completed here yesterday 

 when directors of the district awarded 

 $1,100,000 6 per cent construction 

 bonds to Henry J. Kaiser, the highest 

 bidder. 



The Teel project embraces 20,000 

 acres adjacent to Echo. Water will 

 be taken from John Day watershed. 

 Mr. Kaiser is president of the Kaiser 

 construction Company, Vancouver, B. 

 C., with a Portland office at 1118 

 Northwestern Bank building. 



Texas 



W. L. Rockwell, of San Antonio, of 

 the federal bureau of irrigation, an- 

 nounces that the department will de- 

 tail an expert to the Plainview shal- 

 low water belt for three months 

 during the summer to make a com- 

 plete survey of the irrigation proposi- 

 tion at Plainview. 



Washington 



A meeting of Horse Heaven people 

 was held at Prosser May 6 to consider 

 calling an election to vote bonds for 

 the construction of an irrigation sys- 

 tem. Judge Carroll B. Graves, chief 

 counsel, and L. 'M. Rice, chief engi- 

 neer, of the Kilckitat Irrigation & 

 Power Company, who made surveys, 

 were present. A district of more than 

 half a million acres is already organ- 

 ized, and if thought opportune the di- 

 rectors will call tne election at the ear- 

 liest date. 



The public service commission in 

 an opinion handed down recently 

 holds unreasonable and unjust a 

 charge of $7 per acre for water for 

 irrigation purposes, which has been 

 the rate of the Consumers' Ditch Com- 

 pany, successor of the Hanford irri- 

 gation project in Franklin county. The 

 new rate is fixed at $4.66 per acre and 

 is based on the consideration of a fair 

 return, the maintenance charges, fixed 

 charges and cost of pumping being 

 three items figured in. 



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