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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



NEWS NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



OF THE COUNTRY 



Arizona 



At the meeting of the state board of 

 trade, held in Phoenix May 17, a re- 

 port was made by Andrew Kimball, 

 chairman of the committee on ex- 

 hibits for the dry farming and irri- 

 gation congresses, to be held early in 

 October of this year in El Paso, Tex. 



Through the board of trade the 

 chairman urges action upon the part 

 of other members of the committee, 

 the county fair commissioners, and 

 the various chambers of commerce 

 throughout the state to cooperate 

 with this committee in collecting and 

 assembling the choicest products of 

 their various counties and districts. 



All correspondence regarding this 

 should come to John F. Myers, sec- 

 rectary of the Arizona State Board of 

 Trade, Tucson, Ariz. 



California 



Legal representatives of more than 

 a score of irrigation companies have 

 filed formal protest in the courts 

 against the purpose of the Lindsay- 

 Strathmore irrigation district officials 

 to drive a series of deep wells along 

 the banks of the Kaweah and St. 

 Johns rivers for the purpose of de- 

 veloping water sufficient to irrigate 

 15,000 acres of citrus land south of 

 Exeter. 



Organization of the Cosumnes irri- 

 gation district, of which E. I. Walker 

 is manager, containing 40,000 acres, 

 locatedjifteen miles southeast of Sac- 

 ramento between Dry creek and the 

 CoSumnes river, has been completed. 



The Cape Horn tunnel, which will 

 furnish water to 10,000 acres of land 

 in the Oakdale irrigation district, was 

 completed recently by James Willi- 

 son. The contract price for the work 

 was $58,000, and the tunnel is about a 

 mile and a half long. It will furnish 

 water to part of the famous Orange 

 Blossom district and will eliminate 

 miles and miles of open ditches, which 

 have been causing much trouble and 

 expense in the past. 



The directors of the Anderson-Cot- 

 tonwood irrigation district have let 

 the contract for furnishing all the 

 metal for flumes needed iji the con- 

 struction of the system to a San Fran- 

 cisco firm for $20,000. The contract 

 for all the fence crossings was 

 awarded to F. H. Neilson of Orland. 



Bids for the construction of the 

 metal flumes, the Anderson concrete 

 drop and all the siphons were re- 

 jected. New bids will be advertised 

 for. It is expected that the siphons, 

 including the siphon across the Sacra- 

 mento river to Churn creek bottom on 

 the east side, will cost close to $65,000. 



Property owners of Fair Oaks col- 

 ony have set about to establish a 

 Wright irrigation district, comprising 

 3,500 acres, and including Fair Oaks 

 tract, Fair Oaks townsite, Fair Oaks 



Park and Fair Oaks addition. The 

 committee, which will circulate peti- 

 tions for presentation to the board of 

 supervisors next month, asking that a 

 special election be called for the pur- 

 pose of forming a district, is com- 

 posed of R. A. Rose, Dr. R. N. Bram- 

 hall, J. E. Adams, D. E. Mack and Dr. 

 George Bell. It is proposed to have 

 the petitions ready for the next meet- 

 ing of the supervisors in June. 



The committee named at a recent 

 meeting of Kings county irrigation- 

 ists met May 27 in order to deter- 

 mine the boundaries of the district 

 for the conservation of Kings river 

 waters. G. B. Chinn and W. L. Scally 

 officiated as chairman and secretary, 

 respectively. 



Proposed irrigation projects em- 

 bracing 200,000 acres of land in Mo- 

 doc and Lassen counties were con- 

 sidered by Secretary Roscoe J. An- 

 derson and Dr. W. B. Mason of Duns- 

 muir, director of the Northern Cali- 

 fornia Counties' Association, in a 

 1.000-mile tour of those counties. 

 The inspection of these propositions 

 was made on the invitation of offi- 

 cials of the two counties. 



Plans for a large irrigation project 

 in Tehama county have been revealed 

 in the application of E. G. Hopson 

 and A. L. Conrad of Red Bluff to the 

 State Water Commission for 130 sec- 

 ond-feet of water from Red Bank 

 creek. The plan includes a proposed 

 concrete dam, 130 feet high, 400 feet 

 on the top and 60 feet at the base, 

 capable of impounding 30,000 acre- 

 feet of water. The development will 

 cost approximately $400,000, and it is 

 expected that the water will irrigate 

 15,000 acres. 



The Superior California Lands 

 Company will soon begin the work 

 of sinking test wells for the purpose 

 of demonstrating the existence of an 

 adequate water supply for the irriga- 

 tion of the proposed Jacinto irrigation 

 district, which is to include .about 

 20,000 acres of land at the north end 

 of the Sacramento valley irrigation 

 project. 



In anticipation for a heavy demand 

 for laborers in Imperial Valley, due to 

 harvest of cotton next fall, as well as 

 important construction work soon to 

 be under way, a fund has been raised 

 to bring in a necessary number of 

 men to the valley. The Imperial ir- 

 rigation district and Lower California 

 Cotton Growers' Association have 

 combined to provide $10,000 for this 

 purpose. San Diego and Los Angeles 

 are to be searched for laborers. 



Organization work will be begun 

 this week on the plans for the forma- 

 tion of a consolidated irrigation dis- 

 trict to include lands of the Fresno, 

 Consolidated, Alta, Laguna, Kings 



and Tulare Lake districts, with the 

 purpose of constructing a new sys- 

 tem to handle water from Kings river 

 at a total estimated cost of $6,000,000. 

 Included in the various districts are 

 1,119,000 acres of land. 



The first unit of the big canal of 

 the Western Canal Company is now 

 filled with water from the Feather 

 river. The work of enlarging the 

 intake has been completed, and a 

 couple of weeks ago water was turned 

 into the ditch from the Feather. 



Word has been received from Co- 

 lusa that the Cheney Slough Irriga- 

 tion Project has been completed. 

 The 300-horsepower pump at the 

 Mitchell place was tried out and 4,000 

 gallons of water a minute pumped 

 from the Sacramento river into the 

 large canal for distribution of 20,000 

 acres planted to rice and orchards. 



A letter received from Oroville states 

 that following the decision of the su- 

 pervisors to authorize the formation 

 of the proposed Thermalito Irrigation 

 district, the board passed a resolution 

 calling for an election on June 14. to 

 be held "for the purposes of deter- 

 mining whether the district shall be 

 organized as an irrigation district and 

 also to elect a board of directors con- 

 sisting of three members. The proj- 

 ect will be divided into three divi- 

 sions. One director to be elected 

 from each division. 



In commemoration of the opening 

 of the big Glen Lake irrigation proj- 

 ect and the completion of the $200,000 

 mill at Eureka June 8, 9, and 10 will 

 hold what promises to be the biggest 

 celebration in its history. 



Nebraska 



Talk of secession of five western 

 counties of Nebraska on the ground 

 that the eastern part of the state is 

 not in sympathy with the west in the 

 fight for water rights on the irrigation 

 projects, is brought to Lincoln by a 

 local attorney who has been inter- 

 ested in various water right cases. 



The counties are Scott's Bluff, Ban- 

 ner, Kimball, Merrill and Cheyenne. 



The territory involved is about 137 

 by 105 miles, and embraces 14,315 

 square miles, or about one-seventh of 

 the area of Wyoming. 



Those working for secession cla'im 

 that Nebraska is unwilling or unable 

 to provide satisfactory irrigation laws, 

 so that they can get the best benefit 

 of the federal government's big North 

 Platte irrigation project. 



Federal action, with a ratification 

 by the states involved, would be 

 necessary to put the matter through. 



New Mexico 



The work of repairing some small 

 locks on the McMillan dam, a unit 



